This proved to be the Music Hall’s final Easter holiday presentation of the screen/stage policy that started in 1933. Easter Sunday in 1979 fell on April 15th, more than a month after the engagement started.
“The Promise” received mostly negative reviews, including just two stars (out of a possible four) from the NY Daily News.
For the gala 8:45 PM event, orchestra and loge seats were priced at $2.00, and $1.00 for balcony. Continuous performances at popular prices would prevail thereafter.
By that time, the Paramount was primarily a cinema, with occasional Rock & Roll stage shows. Louis Prima & Keely Smith were stars of a supporting featurette, “The Wildest.”
“All About Eve” never actually played at Loew’s 175th Street. After its Roxy premiere engagement, the 20th-Fox release had its first-run in Washington Heights at the RKO Coliseum, and then went on to other cinemas in the area.
Amusingly, Mae West’s strongest competition at the time was coming from “King Kong,” which had opened the previous day (3/02) at the two new showplaces in Radio City.
Danny Kaye’s feature debut is probably best remembered for a madcap musical number taking place in the crowded grand lobby of a movie palace. Entire scene can be viewed here
Sadly, the Paramount Theatre existed for just under 40 years, closing forever in February, 1966. A souvenir remains in a reasonable facsimile of the original marquee and entrance, now part of the Hard Rock Cafe.
Recruited as a “Goldwyn Girl,” Lucille Ball was making her movie debut, and might well be the one draped across the bottom of the ad. All were scantily garbed as “slave girls,” with long blonde tresses.
The city of Inglewood recently hosted American football’s Super Bowl 2022, in which the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals by a score of 23 to 20.
Sunday newspaper sketch by Al Hirschfeld. The gala event at the Ziegfeld was held on a Sunday night to insure a large turn-out of celebrities from Broadway “legit” where “Cabaret” originated.
World premiere at the Palace Theatre for the first “Tarzan” feature since MGM ended its series and indie producer Sol Lesser took over for distribution by RKO Radio. “Life Begins at 8:30” had previously opened at the Roxy Theatre (with stage show).
In its final years as a cinema, this was known as the Geo. M. Cohan Theatre. The possessive Geo. M. Cohan’s Theatre was used only when Cohan had been actively involved in management.
To qualify for the 1971 Academy Awards, the Universal release had opened a special engagement in Los Angeles on December 22nd at Pacific’s Beverly Hills Theatre, where it was still running.
An outmoded theatre was converted into retail space and later transformed into a modern cinema.
This proved to be the Music Hall’s final Easter holiday presentation of the screen/stage policy that started in 1933. Easter Sunday in 1979 fell on April 15th, more than a month after the engagement started. “The Promise” received mostly negative reviews, including just two stars (out of a possible four) from the NY Daily News.
For the gala 8:45 PM event, orchestra and loge seats were priced at $2.00, and $1.00 for balcony. Continuous performances at popular prices would prevail thereafter.
By that time, the Paramount was primarily a cinema, with occasional Rock & Roll stage shows. Louis Prima & Keely Smith were stars of a supporting featurette, “The Wildest.”
“All About Eve” never actually played at Loew’s 175th Street. After its Roxy premiere engagement, the 20th-Fox release had its first-run in Washington Heights at the RKO Coliseum, and then went on to other cinemas in the area.
Continuous performances started the next day.
Amusingly, Mae West’s strongest competition at the time was coming from “King Kong,” which had opened the previous day (3/02) at the two new showplaces in Radio City.
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From Municipal Tax Photos circa 1940-41.
Burland listed in section with “Adam Had four Sons” as main feature.
Danny Kaye’s feature debut is probably best remembered for a madcap musical number taking place in the crowded grand lobby of a movie palace. Entire scene can be viewed here
Opened a day prior to the Easter Sunday of that year.
First starring role for MGM’s Jackie Jenkins, after scene-stealing moments in “The Human Comedy” and “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes.”
Opened the day before the Halloween of that year.
Sadly, the Paramount Theatre existed for just under 40 years, closing forever in February, 1966. A souvenir remains in a reasonable facsimile of the original marquee and entrance, now part of the Hard Rock Cafe.
Recruited as a “Goldwyn Girl,” Lucille Ball was making her movie debut, and might well be the one draped across the bottom of the ad. All were scantily garbed as “slave girls,” with long blonde tresses.
The city of Inglewood recently hosted American football’s Super Bowl 2022, in which the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals by a score of 23 to 20.
Opened the day prior (Thursday, February 13th, 1941).
Sunday newspaper sketch by Al Hirschfeld. The gala event at the Ziegfeld was held on a Sunday night to insure a large turn-out of celebrities from Broadway “legit” where “Cabaret” originated.
World premiere at the Palace Theatre for the first “Tarzan” feature since MGM ended its series and indie producer Sol Lesser took over for distribution by RKO Radio. “Life Begins at 8:30” had previously opened at the Roxy Theatre (with stage show).
In its final years as a cinema, this was known as the Geo. M. Cohan Theatre. The possessive Geo. M. Cohan’s Theatre was used only when Cohan had been actively involved in management.
To qualify for the 1971 Academy Awards, the Universal release had opened a special engagement in Los Angeles on December 22nd at Pacific’s Beverly Hills Theatre, where it was still running.
I suspect that this was an ad placed by the Interboro Circuit for two of its Brooklyn theatres, and not for the Interboro Theatre in the Bronx.
An area often described in jokes as “Nosebleed Heaven.”
This might have a partial history for presenting “legit” plays during the summer months. Newspaper ad from July 1948 posted in the photos section.