I performed at Off the Wall, during “Comedy Clubhouse at Off the Wall” hosted by Ron Lynch, with local theatre legend Dorothy Dwyer and Burlesque Queen Cyndi Freeman.
I went to the Welles' late 1973 Animation festival, which began with THE BETTY BOOP SCANDALS and continued with programs of pre-48 Warner cartoons which were hard to see on local TV then(The 50s Warner cartoons were the ones that were on all the time).
Getting back to Park Sq. Movie House memories, I was at the premiere program of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE and MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE with W.C. Fields, and I subsequently frequented the Park Sq. as an escape from difficult parents, hated elementary school, and the humiliation of being a Bar Mitzvah boy who only looked eight years old.I dreamed of someday mounting stage shows based on the 30s musicals I saw there.Many of those films weren’t on Boston TV at all in the early 70s.I wasn’t there for the AT THE CIRCUS “Two Blind Loves” moment(I’d seen it already at “Good Time Films”), but I do remember loud, wild applause for Sterling Holloway, when he showed up in “Gold Diggers of 1933”-I don’t think that would happen today.
I went there as a really little kid in the late 60s-early 70s. Who Remembers:The Weechi-Wachi springs ad(“Get your souvenir orange today”), those weird Eastern European and Mexican children’s films, “The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters”, “Eyes of Hell”(“The Mask”)with scenes in 3-D, that Herb Alpert style music they always played before the movie…………
So all the PARK SQUARE memories are here! Who remembers seeing THE GANG’S ALL HERE(1943)at Park Sq. The Technicolor made my jaw drop.I looked in vain for more 40s Technicolor, but 3 strip processing was almost obsolete, and soon Fox would destroy it’s masters and replace them with blotchy looking Eastman color versions.
When a few cities in the US were getting MONTY PYTHON on TV but Boston wasn’t(1974), Justin saw to it we could see AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT at the Kenmore Square Movie House, in a print that was a different edit from the version re-issued about six months later.
I frequented the Park Square Cimema(Actually renamed THE PARK SQUARE MOVIEHOUSE by then)in ‘72-'73 when I was 13 and 14.I saw THE GANG’S ALL HERE(1943)in jaw-dropping Technicolor in 1972, and wished that movies could still look like that.I wished my LIFE could like like that!I searched for more 40s Technicolor films like that, but in vain(“Gang’s All Here” was a special Dye Imbibition reprint)-Technicolor printing was close to obsolete, and in a few years Fox would convert all the negatives to splotchy, blotchy Eastmancolor versions and throw the Technicolor originals away!At least they’re Color-TV stations often ran them only in B/W!
I performed at Off the Wall, during “Comedy Clubhouse at Off the Wall” hosted by Ron Lynch, with local theatre legend Dorothy Dwyer and Burlesque Queen Cyndi Freeman.
I went to the Welles' late 1973 Animation festival, which began with THE BETTY BOOP SCANDALS and continued with programs of pre-48 Warner cartoons which were hard to see on local TV then(The 50s Warner cartoons were the ones that were on all the time).
Getting back to Park Sq. Movie House memories, I was at the premiere program of INTERNATIONAL HOUSE and MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE with W.C. Fields, and I subsequently frequented the Park Sq. as an escape from difficult parents, hated elementary school, and the humiliation of being a Bar Mitzvah boy who only looked eight years old.I dreamed of someday mounting stage shows based on the 30s musicals I saw there.Many of those films weren’t on Boston TV at all in the early 70s.I wasn’t there for the AT THE CIRCUS “Two Blind Loves” moment(I’d seen it already at “Good Time Films”), but I do remember loud, wild applause for Sterling Holloway, when he showed up in “Gold Diggers of 1933”-I don’t think that would happen today.
I went there as a really little kid in the late 60s-early 70s. Who Remembers:The Weechi-Wachi springs ad(“Get your souvenir orange today”), those weird Eastern European and Mexican children’s films, “The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters”, “Eyes of Hell”(“The Mask”)with scenes in 3-D, that Herb Alpert style music they always played before the movie…………
So all the PARK SQUARE memories are here! Who remembers seeing THE GANG’S ALL HERE(1943)at Park Sq. The Technicolor made my jaw drop.I looked in vain for more 40s Technicolor, but 3 strip processing was almost obsolete, and soon Fox would destroy it’s masters and replace them with blotchy looking Eastman color versions.
When a few cities in the US were getting MONTY PYTHON on TV but Boston wasn’t(1974), Justin saw to it we could see AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT at the Kenmore Square Movie House, in a print that was a different edit from the version re-issued about six months later.
I frequented the Park Square Cimema(Actually renamed THE PARK SQUARE MOVIEHOUSE by then)in ‘72-'73 when I was 13 and 14.I saw THE GANG’S ALL HERE(1943)in jaw-dropping Technicolor in 1972, and wished that movies could still look like that.I wished my LIFE could like like that!I searched for more 40s Technicolor films like that, but in vain(“Gang’s All Here” was a special Dye Imbibition reprint)-Technicolor printing was close to obsolete, and in a few years Fox would convert all the negatives to splotchy, blotchy Eastmancolor versions and throw the Technicolor originals away!At least they’re Color-TV stations often ran them only in B/W!