Joe, thanks for your detailed comment! I don’t think I commented on any page, although I may have put my initial comment in as if it were in reponse to a page. I like Cinema Treasures' website. It’s a great way to focus attention on that wonderful theater. I’ll continue to have delivery. I can always put it on the no delivery list.
Meanwhile, here are two little memories I have of the Fox. When I was a kid, I liked to play tricks on people. I can’t believe I did these things, but I did. And it’s all a part of the history of the theater, too.
(1) My cousin Gail, my aunt, and I went to see “Spartacus” at the Fox. I was a freshman in high school. In one scene, Spartacus and about 6000 other Roman slaves were put to death on crosses that lined the Appian Way. Spartacus’s wife/mate was walking with their baby looking for him. It was very tense. You could hear a pin drop in the theater. And this, please forgive my teenage wildness, is what happened: I whispered loudly to my cousin, “Crucify the brat, too.” She burst into tears, and then into laughter, and then she punched me on the arm.
(2) My brother and I went to see The Tingler, a sci-fi movie. The Fox theater was rigged with a device that caused the seats to rumble at scary parts. I forget the name of this special effect, but it was effective. We were sitting behind two younger kids. In the middle of an especially scary scene, I reached under the seat in front of me and grabbed the one kid by his ankles. He screamed in terror.
I keep getting emails from cinema treasures saying that someone has responded to my comment, but where do I go to read their response? My email address is If anyone can tell me how to do this, I’d appreciate it. You can email me to let me know, or just type a comment in this website, and eventually I’ll see it. Thanks!
FOX THEATER PAINTINGS FOR SALE
I am going to put up for auction on EBAY two paintings that my mother purchased a bunch of years ago from the Fox Theater. I will be selling them as a single lot. They are beautiful period pieces. Please check them out by doing a search on EBAY for FOX THEATER PAINTINGS. Several photographs of the paintings appear on the auction listing. The auction starts at 7:00 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2008, and it ends at 7:00 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2008. It’s a 10-day auction with no reserve. One painting is signed and dated “A. LAMBETH, 1903.”
Here is my previous comment, posted on Cinema Treasures:
I have two paintings by “A. Lambeth” that my mother bought in the 1960s or 1970s from the St. Louis Fox Theater. One shows 2 swans in the foreground, 1 in the midground, and 3 in the background, all floating in a lake, but it isn’t signed. The other shows two storks standing in a pond near some lilypads, and this one is signed “A. Lambeth 1903.” Both of them are in wooden frames measuring about 3' tall by 1' wide. I would be interested in selling them.
I have two paintings by “A. Lambeth” that my mother bought in the 1960s or 1970s from the St. Louis Fox Theater. One shows 2 swans in the foreground, 1 in the midground, and 3 in the background, all floating in a lake, but it isn’t signed. The other shows two storks standing in a pond near some lilypads, and this one is signed “A. Lambeth 1903.” Both of them are in wooden frames measuring about 3' tall by 1' wide. I would be interested in selling them.
Joe, thanks for your detailed comment! I don’t think I commented on any page, although I may have put my initial comment in as if it were in reponse to a page. I like Cinema Treasures' website. It’s a great way to focus attention on that wonderful theater. I’ll continue to have delivery. I can always put it on the no delivery list.
Meanwhile, here are two little memories I have of the Fox. When I was a kid, I liked to play tricks on people. I can’t believe I did these things, but I did. And it’s all a part of the history of the theater, too.
(1) My cousin Gail, my aunt, and I went to see “Spartacus” at the Fox. I was a freshman in high school. In one scene, Spartacus and about 6000 other Roman slaves were put to death on crosses that lined the Appian Way. Spartacus’s wife/mate was walking with their baby looking for him. It was very tense. You could hear a pin drop in the theater. And this, please forgive my teenage wildness, is what happened: I whispered loudly to my cousin, “Crucify the brat, too.” She burst into tears, and then into laughter, and then she punched me on the arm.
(2) My brother and I went to see The Tingler, a sci-fi movie. The Fox theater was rigged with a device that caused the seats to rumble at scary parts. I forget the name of this special effect, but it was effective. We were sitting behind two younger kids. In the middle of an especially scary scene, I reached under the seat in front of me and grabbed the one kid by his ankles. He screamed in terror.
I keep getting emails from cinema treasures saying that someone has responded to my comment, but where do I go to read their response? My email address is If anyone can tell me how to do this, I’d appreciate it. You can email me to let me know, or just type a comment in this website, and eventually I’ll see it. Thanks!
FOX THEATER PAINTINGS FOR SALE
I am going to put up for auction on EBAY two paintings that my mother purchased a bunch of years ago from the Fox Theater. I will be selling them as a single lot. They are beautiful period pieces. Please check them out by doing a search on EBAY for FOX THEATER PAINTINGS. Several photographs of the paintings appear on the auction listing. The auction starts at 7:00 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2008, and it ends at 7:00 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2008. It’s a 10-day auction with no reserve. One painting is signed and dated “A. LAMBETH, 1903.”
Here is my previous comment, posted on Cinema Treasures:
I have two paintings by “A. Lambeth” that my mother bought in the 1960s or 1970s from the St. Louis Fox Theater. One shows 2 swans in the foreground, 1 in the midground, and 3 in the background, all floating in a lake, but it isn’t signed. The other shows two storks standing in a pond near some lilypads, and this one is signed “A. Lambeth 1903.” Both of them are in wooden frames measuring about 3' tall by 1' wide. I would be interested in selling them.
I have two paintings by “A. Lambeth” that my mother bought in the 1960s or 1970s from the St. Louis Fox Theater. One shows 2 swans in the foreground, 1 in the midground, and 3 in the background, all floating in a lake, but it isn’t signed. The other shows two storks standing in a pond near some lilypads, and this one is signed “A. Lambeth 1903.” Both of them are in wooden frames measuring about 3' tall by 1' wide. I would be interested in selling them.