The site is now occupied by a towering Edition Hotel,
with a spectacular LED screen in roughly the same spot as the
giant corner billboard that originated with the Mayfair Theatre.
Prior to this, “White Cliffs” had been a critically-acclaimed blockbuster at Radio City Music Hall, so Loew’s showcased the B&W tearjerker as a single feature at slightly increased ticket prices.
Name on marquees and verticals was changed from Metropolitan, but roof sign had been removed except for framework. Current booking was “Canary Murder Case” and stage show, which opened February 7th, 1929. Advertising still stressed that the new Paramount was the former Metropolitan.
Claim that the Grand’s feature films would NEVER be shown in any other theatre in the entire city is baffling, to say the least.
The site is now occupied by a towering Edition Hotel, with a spectacular LED screen in roughly the same spot as the giant corner billboard that originated with the Mayfair Theatre.
Photo of exterior signage can be viewed here
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Average daily attendance during first week was 23,692, which would include adults as well as children for this beloved “family” classic.
Booked with “The Ringer,” a British-made thriller based on a play by Edgar Wallace, which opened at the Cameo on June 1st, 1932.
For this photo, the men and women were arranged in three groups that spell the first name of maestro Grauman.
The opening week gross of $119,006 would be equivalent to about $2.3 million in 2018.
Also the world premiere engagement of MGM’s third “Lassie” vehicle.
Wonder if any future members of Cinema Treasures participated? They’d be in their mid-fifties by now.
Sketch used in trade journal ad by Warner Brothers-First National Pictures.
Paramount’s “Barbed Wire,” a silent melodrama starring Pola Negri, was the feature presentation at the time.
Exterior for this engagement can be viewed here
The loge section at rear had over-sized “Super-Lounger” seats with reclining backs.
Murals on the side walls are shrouded in shadows from the central lighting.
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Prior to this, “White Cliffs” had been a critically-acclaimed blockbuster at Radio City Music Hall, so Loew’s showcased the B&W tearjerker as a single feature at slightly increased ticket prices.
A striped canopy offered shelter from the simulated midnight blue sky of the ceiling.
By this time, the AOM had dropped stage presentations due to the nation’s worsening economic conditions. Reductions of ticket prices would be next.
“The Death of John Dillinger” was painted in 1940, six years after the gangster’s murder in 1934.
The World’s Fair cited in the ad was held in 1893.
With exploitation for “The Wet Parade,” a pre-Code melodrama exposing the gangsterism and political corruption fostered by Prohibition.
Name on marquees and verticals was changed from Metropolitan, but roof sign had been removed except for framework. Current booking was “Canary Murder Case” and stage show, which opened February 7th, 1929. Advertising still stressed that the new Paramount was the former Metropolitan.
Managing director S. Barret McCormick pictured at center.