My grandmother told us about how the Sanders family, which owned this theater before replacing it with the Sanders in 1928, used to invite children at the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, of which they were members, to the theater for free when she was growing up in the early 1900s.
There is also a story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from September 20, 1915 describing how Rudolph Sanders received a suspended sentences for illegally allowing minors to perform at the Marathon Theater.
His 1959 New York Times obituary, says that Rudolph Sanders was formerly a director of the Independent Theatre Owners Association the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Brooklyn previously owned the Globe and Normandie theaters, neither of which I have been able to find.
Sorry to hear this. It’s always possible that the lease provided for cancellation if the property is sold or that there was some kind of buyout. Unless someone knows for certain, it’s all speculation.
IIRC, the auditorium was demolished and replaced by a technical school (typing? stenography? computers?), not a yeshiva, before it became a public school annex.
My grandmother told us about how the Sanders family, which owned this theater before replacing it with the Sanders in 1928, used to invite children at the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, of which they were members, to the theater for free when she was growing up in the early 1900s.
There is also a story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from September 20, 1915 describing how Rudolph Sanders received a suspended sentences for illegally allowing minors to perform at the Marathon Theater.
His 1959 New York Times obituary, says that Rudolph Sanders was formerly a director of the Independent Theatre Owners Association the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Brooklyn previously owned the Globe and Normandie theaters, neither of which I have been able to find.
Sorry to hear this. It’s always possible that the lease provided for cancellation if the property is sold or that there was some kind of buyout. Unless someone knows for certain, it’s all speculation.
IIRC, the auditorium was demolished and replaced by a technical school (typing? stenography? computers?), not a yeshiva, before it became a public school annex.