According to the NYT, a man shot himself in the chest here in November 1929 which may have triggered the name change in order to escape the notoriety of the suicide.
Does anyone know anything about the Harlem Orpheum inside the Majestic Hall building? I have found no signs of it ever showing movies nor Vaudeville but it sure looks like it should have.
The commitment to take down the Sixth Avenue El was made in 1924, way before the Music Hall began construction. Portions were already down when the theatre opened but the project was not completed until 1939.
Much of the scrap metal was sold to Japan who then turned it into war materials against us.
City pressure on landlords to double the rent forced the closing of the Avon 42 (live sex shows) and the Avon-At-The-Hudson (X films at the Hudson)to close down in 1975.
The Hudson X movies just moved over to the Henry Miller for several more years.
The Airlines name makes even more sense now. Seating and location all match although the mailing address was once on 42nd street. This theatre opened on October 18, 1940 as the Airlines Newsreel and had the same publicity agent as the Grand central Newsreel inside the terminal.
From 1949 it was a late run double feature house. In February 1951, after the Loew’s 42nd Street (aka Murray Hill) had closed, this became Brandt’s Murray Hill.
Airlines and Murray Hill should be added as aka names.
That sure looks like a theatre, Bway.
The New Progress appears in the Film Daily Yearbook for 1941 but not in 1942.
Opened in 1934 by Wilkast Theatres.
“Forbidden Planet”, first-run, at the Globe.
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The Claremont circa 1913.
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Still listed as open in the 1941 Film Daily Yearbook.
AGR, you are forgetting that in 1963 the Rivoli was a Skouras theatre? Spyro Skouras had controlling interest in Fox and had just left the Presidency.
Whatever you paid in PR, the Rivoli advance went from Fox to Fox.
That article Ed Solero linked on February 17, 2007 says this closed in 1979. Is it possible it was still showing movies then?
Still listed as open in the 1947 Film Daily Yearbook.
According to the NYT, a man shot himself in the chest here in November 1929 which may have triggered the name change in order to escape the notoriety of the suicide.
Listed as open in the 1946 Film Daily Yearbook. Listed as closed in the 1947 edition.
This was already the 79th Street Theatre in 1923.
I suspect this is the same 1928 image from the broken links above.
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Does anyone know anything about the Harlem Orpheum inside the Majestic Hall building? I have found no signs of it ever showing movies nor Vaudeville but it sure looks like it should have.
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The Windsor was already listed in 1923 in a Paramount Week ad.
The Tudor is still listed in the 1953 Film Daily Yearbook.
In 1973 the Cine Malibu was a Walter Reade Theatre.
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That looks great! Perhaps we will finally lift the veil of hypocrisy and start looking at the Burlesque era with a little more clarity.
Does anyone know where the first Roxy was located an whether this was it?
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For comparison, here is the Roxy Twin at 244 West 42nd street.
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This theatre first appears in ads in November 1974. It was twinned at Christmas 1978.
The Cameo opened during Christmas week 1921.
The commitment to take down the Sixth Avenue El was made in 1924, way before the Music Hall began construction. Portions were already down when the theatre opened but the project was not completed until 1939.
Much of the scrap metal was sold to Japan who then turned it into war materials against us.
City pressure on landlords to double the rent forced the closing of the Avon 42 (live sex shows) and the Avon-At-The-Hudson (X films at the Hudson)to close down in 1975.
The Hudson X movies just moved over to the Henry Miller for several more years.
Showing movies as The Palladium in 1975.
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The Airlines name makes even more sense now. Seating and location all match although the mailing address was once on 42nd street. This theatre opened on October 18, 1940 as the Airlines Newsreel and had the same publicity agent as the Grand central Newsreel inside the terminal.
From 1949 it was a late run double feature house. In February 1951, after the Loew’s 42nd Street (aka Murray Hill) had closed, this became Brandt’s Murray Hill.
Airlines and Murray Hill should be added as aka names.
Once the Filmmakers' Cinematheque had to vacate these premises they apparently went into ‘exile’ at other venues.
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