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Nice show. Great color on both.
Hey, perfect aspect ratio!
Grim tragedy!
Google tells me the place is now called Aikenhead Hall.
There was an Italy Cinema in Johnston, RI, USA in the 1960s-1970s. https://www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/6388
There was a Cinema Italia (Italy Cinema) in Johnston, Rhode Island, where I came from. It has a page on Cinema Treasures.
The Avon’s second movie. The first had been “Life and Loves of Beethoven” by Abel Gance. So the first two attractions were French.
Orignally called “They Shall Have Music”.
Can’t read what was playing.
Part of “Hachi” with Richard Gere was also shot here.
A symphony cocert was conducted here by Arturo Toscanini and the La Scala Orchestra of Milan on March 20, 1921. Program of Wagner and Italian pieces.
“Cactus Flower” is a 1969 film.
Before it was cut down and then later restored.
Played also at the Rialto in Woonsocket, the Imperial in Pawtucket, the Myrtle in Johnston.
Mussolini was a very popular guy among numerous (but not all!) Italian immigrants in Rhode Island in the 1920s and 1930s, that is up until the war and Il Duce’s fatal alliance with Hitler.
Films playing on May 11 were “Black Beauty” and “Christopher Strong” (with Katherine Hepburn).
The Imperial had stopped showing movies in 1934. Its demolition would be announced in July 1937.
In Mattapan.
The Rialto would close for good in exactly two months, February 28, 1936.
Providence Journal.
The Rialto closed on February 28, 1936, apparently never to re-open. A notice appeared in the Providence Journal the following day.
This film was banned in Woonsocket RI.
Gas stations are more beautiful than old movie theatres?
The Providence Journal reviewer called it a masterpiece and praised the Majestic management for showing it as a single feature.
This program played in September 1952, not October.
Nice show. Great color on both.
Hey, perfect aspect ratio!
Grim tragedy!
Google tells me the place is now called Aikenhead Hall.
There was an Italy Cinema in Johnston, RI, USA in the 1960s-1970s. https://www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/6388
There was a Cinema Italia (Italy Cinema) in Johnston, Rhode Island, where I came from. It has a page on Cinema Treasures.
The Avon’s second movie. The first had been “Life and Loves of Beethoven” by Abel Gance. So the first two attractions were French.
Orignally called “They Shall Have Music”.
Can’t read what was playing.
Part of “Hachi” with Richard Gere was also shot here.
A symphony cocert was conducted here by Arturo Toscanini and the La Scala Orchestra of Milan on March 20, 1921. Program of Wagner and Italian pieces.
“Cactus Flower” is a 1969 film.
Before it was cut down and then later restored.
Played also at the Rialto in Woonsocket, the Imperial in Pawtucket, the Myrtle in Johnston.
Mussolini was a very popular guy among numerous (but not all!) Italian immigrants in Rhode Island in the 1920s and 1930s, that is up until the war and Il Duce’s fatal alliance with Hitler.
Films playing on May 11 were “Black Beauty” and “Christopher Strong” (with Katherine Hepburn).
The Imperial had stopped showing movies in 1934. Its demolition would be announced in July 1937.
In Mattapan.
The Rialto would close for good in exactly two months, February 28, 1936.
Providence Journal.
The Rialto closed on February 28, 1936, apparently never to re-open. A notice appeared in the Providence Journal the following day.
This film was banned in Woonsocket RI.
Gas stations are more beautiful than old movie theatres?
The Providence Journal reviewer called it a masterpiece and praised the Majestic management for showing it as a single feature.
This program played in September 1952, not October.