Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>This was used seasonally for film presentations in the 1910s.</p>
  • <p>“Every picture a Masterpiece!” (November, 1954)</p>
  • <p>Re-opened as Cinecitta on September 21st, 1939</p>
  • <p>Photo from the Evening Bulletin, January 8, 1915. The Hip would open the following day…to a doomed existence.</p>
  • <p>Opera House on April Fools Day, 2018. Photo from Opera House Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>On November 5, 1969 legendary screen and stage actress Lillian Gish appeared at the Durfee Theatre in Fall River.</p>
  • <p>In 1946 my aunt, Ada Combs of Monett, MO, (in the middle) and friends visited St. Louis and “took in a show,” as she put it, and a street photographer hanging around outside the Fox took their picture after they saw “Make Mine Music.”</p>
  • <p>Original entrance with signage (1918)</p>
  • <p>October 7th, 1940</p>
  • <p>Charles Chaplin’s “A King in New York” played in Canada and elsewhere in 1958, long before it would be finally released in the U.S. in the 1970s. It was his brutal satire on McCarthyism. 10-31-58 ad.</p>
  • <p>4/3/68</p>
  • <p>Jack Hobby goes with a banner at the - then - Victory Theatre in 1932 for “Explorers of the World” playing in Providence.</p>
  • <p>Patriotic front by the Paramount Theatre in Newport circa 1943.</p>
  • <p>In 1896.</p>
  • <p>May 2, 1957.</p>