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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Oct 14, 2016 at 8:38 am

Instead of the traditional Thursday, this replacement for the Christmas show opened on a Saturday. The B&W epic, which had already opened to smash business in other major cities, was supported by a new Leonidoff revue entitled “Manhattan Melody.”

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Oct 14, 2016 at 8:29 am

The Christmas holiday presentation ran for two weeks and two days, ending on December 29th, and enabling the Music Hall to boost attendance with an entirely different program for the New Year’s period.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Audubon Theatre on Oct 13, 2016 at 9:15 am

Claimed a “New Look” and a new policy of daily program changes and bargain admission prices.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Loew's Metropolitan Theatre on Oct 13, 2016 at 6:30 am

Lasting for several months, the Golden Jubilee celebration used 1904 as the starting date for Marcus Loew’s showbiz empire under the name of People’s Vaudeville Company.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Paramount Theatre on Oct 12, 2016 at 9:42 am

The Columbus Day holiday attraction for that year.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Cameo Theatre on Oct 12, 2016 at 8:53 am

The cinema was originally called the Opal and opened in 1913, according to Jack Tillmany’s “Theatres of San Francisco,” which gives an address of 3040 Sixteenth Street. No date is given for the name change to Cameo, which closed forever in 1952.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Esquire Theatre on Oct 12, 2016 at 8:15 am

According to the report, the Cameo used the four walls and roof of the former Frolic, but had an entirely new entrance and interior.

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Comfortably Cool commented about RKO Warner Twin Theatre on Oct 11, 2016 at 8:42 am

Stage actor Percy Kilbride repeated a role that he played in the original Broadway play, and stayed on in Hollywood to become a character star as “Pa” Kettle in “The Egg & I” and its spin-off sequels.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Oct 10, 2016 at 1:28 pm

The B&W operetta, with Ilona Massey in her first major screen role, was having its world premiere engagement.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Lyndhurst Theatre on Oct 10, 2016 at 9:41 am

Photo cropped from ad for Mov-Ezy Seating Company. Patriotic banner on rear wall suggests that theatre had recently opened.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Unknown Band Names on Oct 10, 2016 at 9:03 am

Single-named “Tony” at the top would be the band’s leader, Tony Pastor.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Victoria Theatre on Oct 10, 2016 at 8:05 am

Back then, the national holiday honoring Christopher Columbus had a fixed date of October 12th, regardless of what day of the week that it fell on. In 1949, it was on a Wednesday.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Roxy Theatre on Oct 10, 2016 at 7:22 am

The Roxy’s Labor Day holiday presentation for that year.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Unknown band on Oct 9, 2016 at 1:05 pm

Tony Pastor’s Band, one of the most popular of the time, is shown here. The leader’s name is spelled out across the bandstands.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Loew's Capitol Theatre on Oct 8, 2016 at 12:49 pm

This was also the Capitol’s Thanksgiving holiday presentation for that year.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Warrens Theatre on Oct 7, 2016 at 1:22 pm

Temporary streamers above the marquee plugged the current “Moby Dick,” with John Barrymore.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Warners' Theatre on Oct 7, 2016 at 9:32 am

The Technicolor operetta, with a score by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at Warners' Theatre as a reserved-seat roadshow on the night of November 26th, 1930.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Roxy Theatre on Oct 7, 2016 at 8:31 am

To prove to a skeptical TV industry that the public would accept them as a team, Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz put together a stage act, which did a week’s try-out at the Chicago Theatre in that city before the Roxy.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Radio City Music Hall on Oct 6, 2016 at 6:36 am

Ingrid Bergman made her Hollywood debut in the remake of one of her Swedish successes.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Little Picture House on Oct 5, 2016 at 12:57 pm

The Little Picture House first opened to the public on Christmas Day, December 25th, 1929, with a press gala two nights earlier. Two news reports have been uploaded to the Photos Section.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Ziegfeld Theatre on Oct 5, 2016 at 10:23 am

The original 35mm biopic in standard ratio had its world premiere on October 10th, 1946 at Radio City Music Hall, with support from a stage show. See ad posted at RCMH listing on 9/11/2016.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Loew's Pitkin Theatre on Oct 5, 2016 at 8:55 am

All four theatres were presenting stage shows originally packaged for the Capitol Theatre in midtown Manhattan.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Roxy Theatre on Oct 5, 2016 at 7:33 am

The B&W epic had tough sledding against the Technicolor musical, “On the Town” (Gene Kelly-Frank Sinatra), which topped the Christmas holiday package at Radio City Music Hall.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Loew's 46th Street Theatre on Oct 5, 2016 at 7:22 am

The Universal Theatre, as it was originally known, was the first atmospheric designed by John Eberson in the Greater New York area. Two of the later ones, Loew’s Paradise in the Bronx, and Loew’s Valencia in Queens, are now used as churches and seem to be “safe” from demolition.

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Comfortably Cool commented about Capitol Theatre on Oct 4, 2016 at 1:37 pm

Produced in France, the silent B&W epic “Casanova” had key sequences that were hand-colored.