RKO Madison Theatre

Assuming we had the same local population demographics today as we did in ‘43, I wonder how much would be collected for the UN today to resolve its current financial mess.

Shalom, ciao, and excelsior

Thanks, Warren. Did you contribute that week ? If so, how much ?

Final correction:………From the NYT 7/21/1930:

The first of the intact vaudeville programs planned by the RADIO-KEITHS-ORPHEUM Corporation is now at The Madison Theater in Brooklyn The four act unit will play a route of forty weeks to the Pacific Coast and back.

The date of November 24, 1927 makes more sense.

“The Madison Theater in Brooklyn” : The Brooklyn 27 postal zone strikes again !

The date of May 19, 1923 seems odd, in light of the fact that the RKO Madison Theater did not open until the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1927.

From the NYT 5/19/23:

The first of the intact vaudeville programs planned by the RADIO-KEITHS-ORPHEUM Corporation is now at The Madison Theater in Brooklyn The four act unit will play a route of forty weeks to the Pacific Coast and back.

Shalom, ciao, and esxcelsior

how do i do that

BTW, I went to see “Resident Evil: Extinction” over in Rockaway. The premise of that film is so stupid that it could play easily at the Madison, but it boasts some major Hollywood Stars on a medium budget. Too bad most cheapo horror films go straight to DVD, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD as well as on the internet and cable tv rather than the old grindhouse theaters of yore.

Excuse me, Ed, it MAY have, in the A & C film. I’m not sure !

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Hey Pete… Didn’t that also happen in “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” or am I confusing the two films?

Thanks, Ed Solero, for all this information on the Three Stooges. I’m glad you remember Officer Joe Bolton on WPIX. I vaguely remember Eugene McCarthy as either the Grand Marshal or WPIX host of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade. Not to be confused with the US senator and 1968 Democratic presidential candidate aspirant of the same name.

Ed, I remember the 8th Street Playhouse. Andy Warhol’s “Flesh For Frankenstein” in the early 1980’s ? I remember Andy Warhol’s “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” from fall 1974, their forte being gross-out sound effects of loose internal organs squishing around inside abdominal cavities.

My sharpest memory of the early 1980’s 3-d craze was a lobby display in a Times Square movie house for “Friday The 13th Part III in 3-D” to debut on Friday August 13th 1982. That was on Sunday July 4 1982, when three friends of mine and I had gone to see “Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan”.

I suppose the thrill of that was supposed to be the skewers coming out the other side and the flying severed heads appeared to be coming right at you.

The first “Friday The 13th” film debuted on Friday June 13 1980.

I think that A&C title should be “Buck Privates Come Home” – my error.

I was born in 1965 also, but I definitely remember the Stooges shorts being hosted on Officer Joe Bolton on WPIX when I was a wee lad. I’m not sure if Bolton was still filming new introductions or if they were merely recycling older shows from the ‘60’s, but PIX carried those episodes into the early '70’s. I also remember Popeye cartoons introduced by Captain Eugene McCarthy on WNEW-TV.

I also remember that back in the 3-D craze of the early 1980’s, I went to see a 3-D film down at the 8th Street Playhouse (I’m almost positive it was Andy Warhol’s “Flesh for Frankenstien” which would be completely incongruous) and they played a 3-D Woody Woodpecker cartoon as well as a 3-D Three Stooges short! I can’t remember the title… but the Stooges played private detectives and there was a mad scientist and a gorilla (the usual cheap gorilla suit) involved in the action!