St. James Theatre

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The April 1960 St James curtaining decision was not a local one. Just a few months earlier (25 December 1959) Loew’s corporates had revamped MGM’s flagship New York City house in a similar fashion when 70mm was installed at Thomas W. Lamb’s 1919 movie palace the Capitol. Top left image is the Capitol 1959 proscenium before this curtain ‘modernization’ shown in the main image. (That was followed in 1962 by a total revamp, involving the installation of a wall-to-wall floor to ceiling curved Cinerama screen and curtaining shown top right).