The architect of the Cameo, Victoria was Alister G. MacDonald. Although the auditorium has been demolished, the frontage and long narrow lobby are still in use today as a pasta restaurant. The facade and foyer of the nearby Metropole Cinema is also a restaurant.
The Culver Theatre is listed in Film Daily Yearbooks that I have from 1930 to 1957, so it certainly operated during these years. A seating capacity is given as 1,445 and the location in some of the editions is given as Gravesend & 18th Ave, but in later editions it is given as the exact address.
Film Daily Yearbooks, 1941, ‘43 and '50 list this as the Beacon Theatre with a seating capacity given as either 787 or 786. Also the address given is 53 Tremont Street.
The Film Daly Yearbook’s 1941, ‘43 and '50 show the owner/operator of the National Theatre to be part of the E.M. Loew’s Theaters Inc. circuit based at 216 Tremont St. Boston.
“The Golden Head” was the first new Cinerama single lens (ie 70mm) production made by Cinerama itself, in collaboration with Hungarofilms, this was originally announced as being titled “Milly Goes To Budapest”. It played at the Royalty with the Cinerama short “Fortress of Peace”.
Films were shown at the Coliseum from the early days when Kinemacolour films and newsreels were shown as part of the variety bill. In March/April 1933 “King King” had a run, followed by the sensational venereal disease drama “Damaged Lives”. It was briefly used a newsreel cinema from late September 1940 during the ‘blitz’ on London.
In June 1961, MGM took over whilst their Empire Theatre, Leicester Square was being re-modelled and the Coliseum screened re-issues of “Gone With the Wind”, “Rope” and a new release “Two Weeks in Another Town” among others, until Cinerama was installed.
Cinerama opened with “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” followed by attractions screened in 70mm Cinerama which included; “Grand Prix”, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World”, “The Magnificent Showman”, “La Fayette”, “The Flaming Years”, “The Bible” and a revival of “Around the World In 80 Days”.
Hi Kev,
Welcome and thanks for the complement, although C.T. is not my web site.
Nice to see another UK enthusiast on here and look forward to future postings from you, although at the moment the ‘add a photo’ link has been taken down.
RAGNER;
Type in ‘Visalia’ in search, highlight the ‘theaters’ button, click on search. The page will come up for some, but then refine your search to ‘cities’ by keeping the name ‘Visalia’ and clicking on cities.. You can also go to Newest Theaters and click on ‘more new theaters’ and you will see the four theatres I just sent in for Visalia.
A report in the Pasadena Star-News March 14 2005 states that the former Cinema 21 ex. Washington Theatre has been purchased and plans have been put forward to renovate the theatre and adjoining appartments. The theatre will be split into two screens seating about 500 and 65 and the plans include a new Starbucks, a Ben and Jerry’s and office space created out of appartments that had been illegally converted from original office space in the mid 1990’s.
The difference of opinion here seems to be that;
Ron is talking about theatres who publish their programmes (usually monthy) on give-away sheets where the daily changes of programme are usually laid out in the form of a daily calendar for the period covered.
MagicLantern; I presume you are talking about the 2005 Landmark Theatres Calendar that was on sale at their theatres, which showed photo’s of various Landmark Theatres month by month for the year.
This opened as the 540 seat 72nd St. Playhouse in 1914 and still had this name in 1930. By 1941 and in the 1943 and 1950 Film Daily Yearbook’s it was known as the Granada Theatre with a seating capacity of 599.
It was last known as the 72nd St. East Theatre and was demolished in 1985.
The State was a conversion of a 1924 built former bank building. The architect of the conversion was Archie G. Parish and he created an 825 seat auditorium that had a free floating screen on the back wall that had concealed coloured lighting behind it. It was equipped for screening 70mm movies with stereo sound.
Originally opened as a local vaudeville theatre, in around 1945 it became a night-club called Slapsie Maxies, named after boxer and B movie star Maxie Rosenblum. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their West Coast debut here.
Eventually (late 1950’s) it converted into a movie theatre, first known as the Capri and later the Riviera screening repertory movies in seasons of off beat independent realeases. In the early 1960’s it was known as the Europa, screening many European art house movies and its next incaration was the Eros, firsrtly playing foreign movies that contain fairly explicit sex scenes, later it became a gay male porno cinema.
Between 1968 and 1977 it changed it’s name to Beverley Cinema and began showing XXX rated adult movies and included nude dancers on stage.
In May 1978, it became the New Beverley Cinema and since then has become the main revival house cinema in Los Angeles.
TJ, The pic works ok for me!
The architect of the Cameo, Victoria was Alister G. MacDonald. Although the auditorium has been demolished, the frontage and long narrow lobby are still in use today as a pasta restaurant. The facade and foyer of the nearby Metropole Cinema is also a restaurant.
The Culver Theatre is listed in Film Daily Yearbooks that I have from 1930 to 1957, so it certainly operated during these years. A seating capacity is given as 1,445 and the location in some of the editions is given as Gravesend & 18th Ave, but in later editions it is given as the exact address.
Film Daily Yearbooks, 1941, ‘43 and '50 list this as the Beacon Theatre with a seating capacity given as either 787 or 786. Also the address given is 53 Tremont Street.
Warren,
I have just notified the web-master’s here of that omission. Although I told them the F.D.Y. 1950 capacity given as 3,583.
The Film Daly Yearbook’s 1941, ‘43 and '50 show the owner/operator of the National Theatre to be part of the E.M. Loew’s Theaters Inc. circuit based at 216 Tremont St. Boston.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 gives a seating capacity of 3,000. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the seating capacity is given as 1,915.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 gives a seating capacity of 588 for the Alamo Theatre.
“The Golden Head” was the first new Cinerama single lens (ie 70mm) production made by Cinerama itself, in collaboration with Hungarofilms, this was originally announced as being titled “Milly Goes To Budapest”. It played at the Royalty with the Cinerama short “Fortress of Peace”.
Films were shown at the Coliseum from the early days when Kinemacolour films and newsreels were shown as part of the variety bill. In March/April 1933 “King King” had a run, followed by the sensational venereal disease drama “Damaged Lives”. It was briefly used a newsreel cinema from late September 1940 during the ‘blitz’ on London.
In June 1961, MGM took over whilst their Empire Theatre, Leicester Square was being re-modelled and the Coliseum screened re-issues of “Gone With the Wind”, “Rope” and a new release “Two Weeks in Another Town” among others, until Cinerama was installed.
Cinerama opened with “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” followed by attractions screened in 70mm Cinerama which included; “Grand Prix”, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World”, “The Magnificent Showman”, “La Fayette”, “The Flaming Years”, “The Bible” and a revival of “Around the World In 80 Days”.
Hi Kev,
Welcome and thanks for the complement, although C.T. is not my web site.
Nice to see another UK enthusiast on here and look forward to future postings from you, although at the moment the ‘add a photo’ link has been taken down.
The 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook gives a seating capacity of 400.
A seating capacity of 500 is given in the 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook.
The Film Daily Yearbook’s, 1941 and 1943 give a seating capacity of 400 for the Liberty Theater. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. seating is given as 600
Seating capacities for the Arnold Theater vary from edition to edition of the Film Daily Yearbook. 1941:400 1943;668 1950;590
RAGNER;
Type in ‘Visalia’ in search, highlight the ‘theaters’ button, click on search. The page will come up for some, but then refine your search to ‘cities’ by keeping the name ‘Visalia’ and clicking on cities.. You can also go to Newest Theaters and click on ‘more new theaters’ and you will see the four theatres I just sent in for Visalia.
RAGNAR;
I have just added all the historic theatres of Visalia.
The architects of the 72nd St. Playhouse were Gronenberg & Leuchtag.
The Warners Downtown Theatre was originally the Pantages Theatre, but this was never Art Deco, more Beaux Art/Greek style.
The Wiltern Theatre was originally the Warner Western Theatre and that was/still is splendid Art Deco styled.
A report in the Pasadena Star-News March 14 2005 states that the former Cinema 21 ex. Washington Theatre has been purchased and plans have been put forward to renovate the theatre and adjoining appartments. The theatre will be split into two screens seating about 500 and 65 and the plans include a new Starbucks, a Ben and Jerry’s and office space created out of appartments that had been illegally converted from original office space in the mid 1990’s.
Cinema 21 has been empty since closing in 1992.
The difference of opinion here seems to be that;
Ron is talking about theatres who publish their programmes (usually monthy) on give-away sheets where the daily changes of programme are usually laid out in the form of a daily calendar for the period covered.
MagicLantern; I presume you are talking about the 2005 Landmark Theatres Calendar that was on sale at their theatres, which showed photo’s of various Landmark Theatres month by month for the year.
This opened as the 540 seat 72nd St. Playhouse in 1914 and still had this name in 1930. By 1941 and in the 1943 and 1950 Film Daily Yearbook’s it was known as the Granada Theatre with a seating capacity of 599.
It was last known as the 72nd St. East Theatre and was demolished in 1985.
The State was a conversion of a 1924 built former bank building. The architect of the conversion was Archie G. Parish and he created an 825 seat auditorium that had a free floating screen on the back wall that had concealed coloured lighting behind it. It was equipped for screening 70mm movies with stereo sound.
It had closed as a movie theatre by 1982.
Originally opened as a local vaudeville theatre, in around 1945 it became a night-club called Slapsie Maxies, named after boxer and B movie star Maxie Rosenblum. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their West Coast debut here.
Eventually (late 1950’s) it converted into a movie theatre, first known as the Capri and later the Riviera screening repertory movies in seasons of off beat independent realeases. In the early 1960’s it was known as the Europa, screening many European art house movies and its next incaration was the Eros, firsrtly playing foreign movies that contain fairly explicit sex scenes, later it became a gay male porno cinema.
Between 1968 and 1977 it changed it’s name to Beverley Cinema and began showing XXX rated adult movies and included nude dancers on stage.
In May 1978, it became the New Beverley Cinema and since then has become the main revival house cinema in Los Angeles.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 gives a seating capacity of 770 for the Regent Theatre.