Playhouse Theatre

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Shimko re-designed the Patio in 1928, adding palm trees, ferns, custom draperies, a pipe organ and painted clouds and stars on the new ceiling. The big night, Oct. 28, included a Pathe newsreel about a German zeppelin’s arrival in New York, the Mack Sennett comedy The Bicycle Flirt, a silent feature called The Four Flusher with George J. Lewis and Marion Nixon, and an introductory program from “the Patio’s eight dancing beauties.”

“The Four Flusher”

The era of “talkies” arrived, and the Patio, like the half-dozen other movie houses in the city, was re-fitted for the new technology. It was briefly known as the Ritz.

In 1935, with the arrival of impresario Raymond Moore (“and his company of Broadway players!”) the theater, following a $12,000 renovation, was re-named the Playhouse. Moore launched a program of live theater on the proscenium stage.