Actually, Ebay has turned out to be the best source! But maybe someone has a collection. I have tried the Museum of the City of NY and the NY Historical Society. I have a relative who knew well and worked with Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, Josiah Zuro, Senia Gluck (Sam Gluck, Senia Gluckoff, Gluck-Sander, and his various names), Felicia Sorel, wife of Gluck, the Serova Dancers, etc, and the others associated with those “prologues”. At one time Charles LeMaire did the dancers costumes.
I don’t know that it was ever a movie house. It must have ben the burlesque where Marilyn Monroe was supposed to have appeared before anyone had ever heard of her.
The El Rey theatre was another that showed this series. I remember standing in line to get in, and Jon Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands joined the line. I believe that was for “The Iceman Cometh”. I think I saw the whole series, but not all at the same theatre.
Yes, but the Theatre also put out a brief, usually one fold program. I have about 20 of them, but want to find copies of many more. By the way, Senia Gluckoff, whom you cite was later known as Gluck-Sandor, a rather important figure in NY Dance world. George Raft once performed the Charleston on the Rivoli stage. Their shows were “high class” for the time. The dancers were often taxied to the Rialto and sometimes the Criterion to do double duty.
Circa 1965, this theatre showed a series of many Great Garbo films; furing the 60’s and 70’s it catered to foreign language films, such as “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” or art films. It was one of the houses used as part of a subscription film series of new films in the early 70’s. The series included films “The Iceman Cometh”, “A Delicate Balance”, others.
Marilyn Monroe is supposed to have appeared at this theatre in the late 1940’s as a chorus girl. The theatre is precisely next door to the Mayan, and while the Mayan showed adult films in the 60’s and later, the Belasco, with the theatre name removed, was a church.
The main comments about this theatre are wrong. It was still showing English language films up to the 70’s. Some films I remember there were “The Legend of Lylah Clare”, “Two Mules for Sister Sara”, “What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice”. It was the Warren that became a Church, before it became a jewelry mart.
In 1964 this theatre was hosting a stage production. I believe it was “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”. I remember that that and “110 in the Dhade” were both “live” in Downtown L.A., one at the Orpheum, and one at the Philharmonic, which became a church, at Olive and 5th St. I may have mixed up which was at which theatre. After that I only remember Spanish language films at the Orpheum.
In between its use as a movie theatre and before it became the jewelry mart, it spent some time as the Church of Compassion (I think that’s it), and in place of WARREN it spelled COMPASSION in giant gold letters. I believe that may have been Rev. Moon’s congregation.
This theatre survived a little past 1963, as it was still in operation in the fall of 1964. I believe Josephine Baker played there at some special prsentation shortly before its demise. I believe “Love Has Many Faces” with Lana Turner played there before it was destroyed and replaced by the ugly parking garage.
When walking past the Paramount one day in 1960, I saw a sign for a special preview. I bought a ticket and sat through whatever was playing, and then the preview came on. It was “Let’s Make Love” with Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand. When exiting the theatre, from the balcony, approaching the giant stairway, I noticed people ahead of me at the top of the stairs were posing for photographs. They turned out to be Shirley MacLaine and Milton Berle.
The Criterion people were going to in the 1950’s was not the otiginal Criterion, but probably the New York theatre renamed. On the same block, but on the southern corner was where the original Criterion was — the one that showed the original The Ten Commandments back in the 1920’s. In the 20’s there were the two theatres on that same block.
Have been through NY Times and Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. I am not interested in the films that played there but rather the performers in the pre-movie shows they put on. Growing up, I heard a great deal about those shows and those theatres as I know someone who was in those shows for almost the whole period of time I stated. Have found quite a bit of info on both theatres (your comments on the Rialto are the acurate ones, Warren), but I am sure there is much more to be found.
Thank you, harwel, for identifing “Adolf” for me. I heard a lot about him, and his techniques.
Actually, Ebay has turned out to be the best source! But maybe someone has a collection. I have tried the Museum of the City of NY and the NY Historical Society. I have a relative who knew well and worked with Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, Josiah Zuro, Senia Gluck (Sam Gluck, Senia Gluckoff, Gluck-Sander, and his various names), Felicia Sorel, wife of Gluck, the Serova Dancers, etc, and the others associated with those “prologues”. At one time Charles LeMaire did the dancers costumes.
I don’t know that it was ever a movie house. It must have ben the burlesque where Marilyn Monroe was supposed to have appeared before anyone had ever heard of her.
The El Rey theatre was another that showed this series. I remember standing in line to get in, and Jon Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands joined the line. I believe that was for “The Iceman Cometh”. I think I saw the whole series, but not all at the same theatre.
Yes, but the Theatre also put out a brief, usually one fold program. I have about 20 of them, but want to find copies of many more. By the way, Senia Gluckoff, whom you cite was later known as Gluck-Sandor, a rather important figure in NY Dance world. George Raft once performed the Charleston on the Rivoli stage. Their shows were “high class” for the time. The dancers were often taxied to the Rialto and sometimes the Criterion to do double duty.
Circa 1965, this theatre showed a series of many Great Garbo films; furing the 60’s and 70’s it catered to foreign language films, such as “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” or art films. It was one of the houses used as part of a subscription film series of new films in the early 70’s. The series included films “The Iceman Cometh”, “A Delicate Balance”, others.
Marilyn Monroe is supposed to have appeared at this theatre in the late 1940’s as a chorus girl. The theatre is precisely next door to the Mayan, and while the Mayan showed adult films in the 60’s and later, the Belasco, with the theatre name removed, was a church.
The main comments about this theatre are wrong. It was still showing English language films up to the 70’s. Some films I remember there were “The Legend of Lylah Clare”, “Two Mules for Sister Sara”, “What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice”. It was the Warren that became a Church, before it became a jewelry mart.
In 1964 this theatre was hosting a stage production. I believe it was “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”. I remember that that and “110 in the Dhade” were both “live” in Downtown L.A., one at the Orpheum, and one at the Philharmonic, which became a church, at Olive and 5th St. I may have mixed up which was at which theatre. After that I only remember Spanish language films at the Orpheum.
In between its use as a movie theatre and before it became the jewelry mart, it spent some time as the Church of Compassion (I think that’s it), and in place of WARREN it spelled COMPASSION in giant gold letters. I believe that may have been Rev. Moon’s congregation.
This theatre survived a little past 1963, as it was still in operation in the fall of 1964. I believe Josephine Baker played there at some special prsentation shortly before its demise. I believe “Love Has Many Faces” with Lana Turner played there before it was destroyed and replaced by the ugly parking garage.
When walking past the Paramount one day in 1960, I saw a sign for a special preview. I bought a ticket and sat through whatever was playing, and then the preview came on. It was “Let’s Make Love” with Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand. When exiting the theatre, from the balcony, approaching the giant stairway, I noticed people ahead of me at the top of the stairs were posing for photographs. They turned out to be Shirley MacLaine and Milton Berle.
The Criterion people were going to in the 1950’s was not the otiginal Criterion, but probably the New York theatre renamed. On the same block, but on the southern corner was where the original Criterion was — the one that showed the original The Ten Commandments back in the 1920’s. In the 20’s there were the two theatres on that same block.
Have been through NY Times and Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. I am not interested in the films that played there but rather the performers in the pre-movie shows they put on. Growing up, I heard a great deal about those shows and those theatres as I know someone who was in those shows for almost the whole period of time I stated. Have found quite a bit of info on both theatres (your comments on the Rialto are the acurate ones, Warren), but I am sure there is much more to be found.
What are the best sources for finding programs from the Rivoli and Rialto theatres (NYC) from their inception through 1928?