I remember chaperoning with others a special school screening here in the 1970s of Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth.” La Salle Academy English department. I remember students laughing a lot and being rowdy.
The book “The Lost Villages of Scituate (RI)” by Raymond A. Wolf narrates the history of the post-1915 leveling of several villages for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir which provides water to the Providence metropolitan area. It is in the “Images of America” series.
The theatre has been purchased by Comedy Connection and will be re-opened under the name Uptown Theatre, which it had been given around 1929 until the late 1960s.
As the Stanley.
I loved that entranceway. This was the movie theatre I was taken to at age 5 in 1947 to see my first movie, “Song of the South.”
Year uncertain.
It played well over a year, as I recall.
“Whistle Down the Wind” and One, Two, Three.“ Circa 1962.
“Whistle Down the Wind” and One, Two, Three."
I remember chaperoning with others a special school screening here in the 1970s of Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth.” La Salle Academy English department. I remember students laughing a lot and being rowdy.
This village and others were flooded for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir post-1915.
The book “The Lost Villages of Scituate (RI)” by Raymond A. Wolf narrates the history of the post-1915 leveling of several villages for the construction of the Scituate Reservoir which provides water to the Providence metropolitan area. It is in the “Images of America” series.
The dance hall’s location was on Kent Dam Road, now called Tunk Hill Road.
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”
Four-hour shortened version.
Circa 1973.
Theatre Historical Society of America.
The theatre has been purchased by Comedy Connection and will be re-opened under the name Uptown Theatre, which it had been given around 1929 until the late 1960s.
Opera House, left.
I attended that Italian film.
Great film.
Film buffs: the front of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul appears in the Alain Resnais movie PROVIDENCE.
The Capitol Theatre is on the lower left. You can make out the vertical marquee.
Released 1952.
A 1950 release.
I remember seeing this here as an additional perk when I brought students to New York for the opera in 1973. A real eye-opener.
In the 1920s.
In the 1920s.