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HarryWelsh on Oct 14, 2004 at 9:48 pm

Bravo! A handsome site. Be proud.

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HarryWelsh commented about RKO Keith's Theatre on Jul 27, 2004 at 5:39 pm

Ron3853, thanks for that listing of films that played the Keith. I saw a number of those UA films there. I worked a few summers in the late 50s and early 60s as a waiter at the old HOT SHOPPES, and would take in a movie on my day off. The Keith was my favorite theatre, maybe because the UA pictures were pretty good too then.

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HarryWelsh commented about Rivoli Theatre on Jul 26, 2004 at 9:15 pm

One tale of some interest. The organist who followed Prof. Firmin Swinnen at the Rivoli around 1923 was Harold Ramsbottom. When Publix under Sam Katz took contol of theatre in 1925 they changed his name to Harold Ramsey.

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HarryWelsh commented about Rivoli Theatre on Jul 26, 2004 at 5:23 pm

Also check the microfilm of the Morning Telegraph. That paper was particularly good covering show business in New York. The Times ads are not particulary informative about the supporting program. They concentrate more on the film. You are right about the dancers. Adolf Bolm was the choregrapher for a few years in the early 20s. The “prologues” ran from 1918 to Dec 1925 when Publix Theatres replaced them with “units.” The units unlike the prologues were not thematically linked to the picture and they traveled from city to city. Notable unit producers were John Murray Anderson and Gus Edwards among others.