The Arnazes did a week’s “try-out” of their new stage act at the Chicago Theatre before taking it to the Roxy in New York, where they hoped to spark interest for teaming them on television.
The national holiday celebrated every November 11th was re-named Veterans Day in 1954. This ad includes the Astor’s spectacular electric sign, which used vivid red, white, and blue coloring.
This was both a screen and stage tribute to the coronation of England’s Queen Elizabeth II in June of that year. The film was the second projected on the Music Hall’s new wide screen, preceded by “Shane.”
With songs by Rodgers & Hart, the B&W comedy marked the “talkie” debut of George M. Cohan in the title role…Belle Baker topped the stage bill in NYC and Fannie Brice in Brooklyn, two of the biggest stars of the time.
The caption to this 1930 trade journal photo says that the Dixie Theatre is operated by Walter Odom and his three sons. “Odom” is near enough to “Odum” to be a misspelling.
The Arnazes did a week’s “try-out” of their new stage act at the Chicago Theatre before taking it to the Roxy in New York, where they hoped to spark interest for teaming them on television.
This was Frank Sinatra’s first Broadway booking at a theatre other than the Paramount, which had been the launching pad for his phenomenal success.
Arrived a day before the national holiday honoring war veterans, which in NYC included a grand parade on Fifth Avenue.
The national holiday celebrated every November 11th was re-named Veterans Day in 1954. This ad includes the Astor’s spectacular electric sign, which used vivid red, white, and blue coloring.
Timed to benefit from the celebration of a national holiday newly re-named Veterans Day, which included a parade on NYC’s Fifth Avenue.
Published on the first Armistice Day since the end of World War Two. The national holiday was re-named Veterans Day in 1954.
Twenty years earlier, Music Hall patrons saw Charles Laughton portray the same regal character in “The Private Life of Henry VIII.”
This was the Paramount’s Memorial Day holiday presentation for that year.
Theatres are listed by area in three columns, starting with Manhattan at the top left.
In this ad, Betty Grable’s form-fitting gown is a modern adaptation of her turn-of-the-century wardrobe in the Technicolor extravaganza.
This was both a screen and stage tribute to the coronation of England’s Queen Elizabeth II in June of that year. The film was the second projected on the Music Hall’s new wide screen, preceded by “Shane.”
One of the last major productions in B&W standard ratio by 20th Century-Fox, which was preparing to launch CinemaScope on the world.
MGM’s “The Feminine Touch” debuted in 1941. The anthology of short stories was published in 2015.
With songs by Rodgers & Hart, the B&W comedy marked the “talkie” debut of George M. Cohan in the title role…Belle Baker topped the stage bill in NYC and Fannie Brice in Brooklyn, two of the biggest stars of the time.
During this period, the Paramount Theatre had suspended stage shows as a Depression measure.
Advertised on November 4th, 1932, the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the USA, to replace the incumbent Herbert Hoover.
I’ve posted an image in the Photos Section which strongly suggests that this was originally called the Dixie Theatre.
A week later, on August 9th, “High Society” opened in NYC at Radio City Music Hall (supported by a stage revue).
Fourteen years had passed since Katharine Hepburn made her Music Hall screen debut in “Christopher Strong.”
The caption to this 1930 trade journal photo says that the Dixie Theatre is operated by Walter Odom and his three sons. “Odom” is near enough to “Odum” to be a misspelling.
The Daily Mirror was a Hearst morning tabloid that had gossip columnist and radio commentator Walter Winchell as its star attraction.
B&W only in those days.
In earlier times, the top balcony of large theatres was often referred to as “nosebleed heaven.”
The Music Hall’s first opening of 1969 followed a hold-over of the 1968 Christmas holiday show, which had “The Impossible Years” on screen.
The bizarre double bill opened at the RKO Prospect and many other neighborhood theatres on November 3rd, 1964.