Savoy Theatre
112 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10120
112 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10120
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Built in 1900, off Herald Square, out of three former residences on 33rd and 34th Streets, Schley’s Music Hall was designed by Michael Bernstein and designed in late Victorian style, with touches of neo-Renaissance decor. It sat about 840, on strange folding type-chairs, as well as a pair of small balconies and six sets of boxes on either side of the ornate proscenium arch.
Just a few months after opening, Schley’s was under new management and was renamed the Savoy Theatre. Live theater and variety shows remained on the bill at the Savoy for just over a dozen years, when the theater was converted into a movie house. It was last operatred by the Cinema Circuit Corp. chain, and was razed in 1952, the last vestige of Herald Square’s days as a theater district.
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A Moller theater organ opus 1702 size 2/7 was installed in the Savoy Theater in 1914.
My great grandmother, Anna Schober Fields, appeared at the Savoy as Mrs. Schultz in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” on September 4, 1904.
Here are new links to images described above on 1/27/06:
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This and a number of other theatres can be seen in the backgrounds of a Thanksgiving Day Parade slide show “Floating Back in Time” at View link
The Savoy, circa 1951:
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Nice photos.
The Savoy stopped operating in early September 1952.
Was this Savoy really considered part of the “garment district?” It was in the heart of one of NYC’s biggest shopping areas, directly opposite Macy’s and flanked by Gimbel’s, Saks 34th Street, and other big stores. If you must place it in a district, it should be “34 Street—Herald Square.”
In this 1929 photo of 34th Street looking west, the Savoy Theatre can be seen on the left side with “Talking Pictures Morning, Afternoon and Evening” on the marquee: lunaimaging
According to Our Theatres To-day and Yesterday, a book by Ruth Crosby Dimmick published in 1913, the operator who took over the Savoy Theatre in 1911 and converted it into a movie house was Walter Rosenberg. A few years later, Rosenberg changed his surname to Reade, and he and his son, Walter Reade Jr., went on to build an extensive chain of movie theaters. Rosenberg/Reade was the nephew of Oscar Hammerstein I.