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This theatre was only a 12 minute walk from the nearby Bushnell Memorial Theatre.
“Park St. Pride Will Open Soon.”
As the Phillips (not Philips) Theatre.
The Loomer Opera House was opened in 1879 and was demolished in 1940. Its address was 751 Main Street.
Here is an interesting website on the history of the Loomer Opera House. https://loomeroperahouse.wordpress.com/
At that time this was the Pastime Theatre.
That second title is actually on YouTube, complete, for speakers of Portuguese who are curious.
In August 2021 the United Theatre re-opened as a multi-use arts facility for film, theatre, music and more. This all follows a multi-million dollar restoration. https://www.unitedtheatre.org/
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
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
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.
This theatre was only a 12 minute walk from the nearby Bushnell Memorial Theatre.
“Park St. Pride Will Open Soon.”
As the Phillips (not Philips) Theatre.
The Loomer Opera House was opened in 1879 and was demolished in 1940. Its address was 751 Main Street.
Here is an interesting website on the history of the Loomer Opera House. https://loomeroperahouse.wordpress.com/
At that time this was the Pastime Theatre.
That second title is actually on YouTube, complete, for speakers of Portuguese who are curious.
In August 2021 the United Theatre re-opened as a multi-use arts facility for film, theatre, music and more. This all follows a multi-million dollar restoration. https://www.unitedtheatre.org/
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.