During its early days in 1958, I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before (and after?) the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
Were the kids served espresso? At that time I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
French films were often shown in this mill-town of French-Canadian ancestry where the language was widely spoken.
“O Violino do João” (1944) and “Maria Papoila” (1937).
And, by popular request, a pro-Mussolini film at the time of the Ethiopian conquest.
Charles Gounod’s “Faust”? Metropolitan Opera HD showing, perhaps.
Also titled “Night of the Quarter Moon.” 1959
Also titled “Night of the Quarter Moon.” 1959
The theatre was then called the Hippodrome.
Lyric and Strand combined? Same building?
THE TRANSGRESSOR: “About Father Conway, a crusading priest, in a world of change. Industrial agitators, politic up-rise, revolutions passing by.”-IMdB
THE TRANSGRESSOR: “About Father Conway, a crusading priest, in a world of change. Industrial agitators, politic up-rise, revolutions passing by.”-IMdB
THE TRANSGRESSOR: “About Father Conway, a crusading priest, in a world of change. Industrial agitators, politic up-rise, revolutions passing by.”-IMdB
Here the Lyric Theatre.
The film on that marquee was “Electra Glide in Blue” with Robert Blake.
The photo on the left was taken in the 1960s. It appeared in the Boston Globe in 2008.
Second theatre in from left.
My photo, such as it is.
I’m assuming the Colonial was also known as the Onset.
The Lyric is third from left.
During its early days in 1958, I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before (and after?) the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
Were the kids served espresso? At that time I remember the Art Cinema serving free espresso before the show, provided by Ekroth Food Service of Warwick.
“White Woman” was a 1933 film. The photo is likely from that year.
In The Woonsocket Call. The films shown that night were “Henry Goes Arizona” with Frank Morgan and “British Intelligence” with Boris Karloff.
In 1980.
Viewable on YouTube, complete, without subtitles.
Can someone (from Stonington maybe) post an interior view of the place?