Rialto Theatre
118 Hudson Street,
Hoboken,
NJ
07030
118 Hudson Street,
Hoboken,
NJ
07030
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Architects: John Bailey McElfatrick
Firms: J. B. McElfatrick and Sons
Previous Names: New Empire Theatre, Bruggemann's Empire Theatre
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The New Empire Theatre was opened on September 8, 1902 as a vaudeville theatre. It was renamed Rialto Theatre on September 3, 1928 with the staging of the comedy-drama “The Barker” performed by the Broadway Players". It had converted to use as a movie theatre by 1950 and closed in 1958.
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Listed in the 1951 FDY at 118 Hudson Street with 750 seats.
See BORN IN A BEER GARDEN (1930) by Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton and Ogden Nash.
This movie theatre is mentioned in a book entitled “The Jimmy Roselli Story”. Jimmy Roselli and Frank Sinatra were from the same town and lived on the same street. Sinatra was 10 years older than Roselli.
From the early 1900s a postcard view of Hudson Street along with the Empire Theatre in Hoboken.
Opened as the Empire Theatre in 1902 with vaudeville, burlesque and stock theatre and later motion pictures. It was renamed the Rialto Theatre in 1928 and closed in 1958.
The Empire Theatre was, “one of the handsomest and costliest and most luxuriously appointed theatres in the state”. It was designed by architects J. B. McElfatrick and Sons, N.Y.
This opened as the Empire theatre on September 8th, 1902 and renamed Rialto on September 3rd, 1928 and closed in 1958. 1902 and 1928 grand opening ads posted.