The Utopia had no balcony and the Main Street in it’s single screen days required you to walk up one of two staircases to get to the balcony. You might be thinking of the Continental now called the Brandon. Although you had to go up stairs to get to the balcony, you went down stairs from ground level for the orchestra.
The Klansman is the film Richard Burton admitted to having no memory what so ever of making. He was drinking a quart and a half of vodka a day and there was only a 3 hour window a day where he was able to be photographed closeup, too early his shakes were too bad and too late his intoxication was too noticeable. The Fair is doing the same thing as the Cinema Kings Highway, CKH shortened the orchestra, they run regular features on the big screen and in the rest of the orchestra constructed private sex booths. The balcony theatre shows porn on it’s large video screen.
When I was managing theatres we always added an intermission for long films. I never had a complaint. I would screen the movie the night before to find a suitable spot. We then spliced in an intermission snipe. Speaking of sound issues I was in Roosevelt Field one night and the house was pretty full. One whacko complained that the sound was too loud so they lowered itn and it stayed that way, despite many people going out and complaining that you could not hear the film.
This place looks even better then it did when I saw a show there in the 1980’s. Some trivia Marlene Dietrich brought her one woman show here after it was such a smash the year before at the Lunt Fontaine.
This whole place has been bathed in payoffs and scandal for so long. It would not surprise me if most of the Keith’s is still there inside. The trouble is the neighborhood has turned into a nightmare of new construction and you can walk blocks without seeing a sign in English, they don’t want the Keith’s even restored, culture means nothing to foreign business dollars.
The last name of this theatre was Cinema Studio.
In 1948 wasn’t it unusual for a theatre to have no curtains?
The print of Ben Hur had to be the same one the Loew’s Jersey ran last year. The Jersey presented it with the intermission.
The Utopia had no balcony and the Main Street in it’s single screen days required you to walk up one of two staircases to get to the balcony. You might be thinking of the Continental now called the Brandon. Although you had to go up stairs to get to the balcony, you went down stairs from ground level for the orchestra.
If they show the Ben Hur print that they ran at Loew’s Jersey last year it was a good one.
The Klansman is the film Richard Burton admitted to having no memory what so ever of making. He was drinking a quart and a half of vodka a day and there was only a 3 hour window a day where he was able to be photographed closeup, too early his shakes were too bad and too late his intoxication was too noticeable. The Fair is doing the same thing as the Cinema Kings Highway, CKH shortened the orchestra, they run regular features on the big screen and in the rest of the orchestra constructed private sex booths. The balcony theatre shows porn on it’s large video screen.
I am going tonight to see “My Fair Lady”. Do the 35mm prints have the walk in music and intermission?
Does anyone know how the weekday attendance has been?
Oh gosh I did mean to say Mayfair, sorry about that.
When I was managing theatres we always added an intermission for long films. I never had a complaint. I would screen the movie the night before to find a suitable spot. We then spliced in an intermission snipe. Speaking of sound issues I was in Roosevelt Field one night and the house was pretty full. One whacko complained that the sound was too loud so they lowered itn and it stayed that way, despite many people going out and complaining that you could not hear the film.
The Fair and Eagle in Queens run Bollywood.
I hope they don’t close the Tower East.
Another end of an era :(
Sadly someday these places will be remembered as treasures.
This is a damn shame that the theatre business can’t support a place like this in Manhattan.
Am I crazy? I can’t find the list on the Clearview site?
I never liked the Westbury Virgin store, I think it’s being so close to Tower Records in Carle Place hurt it.
I saw the worst a receptionist at a Dr’s office with a tip cup !!!!!
This place looks even better then it did when I saw a show there in the 1980’s. Some trivia Marlene Dietrich brought her one woman show here after it was such a smash the year before at the Lunt Fontaine.
I saw John Stamos here in concert (don’t ask) during his General Hospital period in the 1980’s.
I think the Trans-Lux East was the same way.
I feel bad for any theatre that closes. I’m sure plenty of people considered the Oceanside their neighborhood theatre and miss it.
This whole place has been bathed in payoffs and scandal for so long. It would not surprise me if most of the Keith’s is still there inside. The trouble is the neighborhood has turned into a nightmare of new construction and you can walk blocks without seeing a sign in English, they don’t want the Keith’s even restored, culture means nothing to foreign business dollars.
An ad from 1975 shows this running a triple feature of porn.
I have a 1975 ad for a UA Cinema tri-plex located on South Coast Plaza. Is this the same theatre?