Photos favorited by Gerald A. DeLuca

  • <p>June 22, 1950</p>
  • <p>August 31, 1929. Dog Show. (Providence Journal)</p>
  • <p>May 2, 1940</p>
  • <p>March 23, 1953</p>
  • <p>Shown here in January 1937 as “Gesuzza, la sposa garibaldina.”, made in 1933. Alessandro Blasetti’s film about the creation of Italy.</p>
  • <p>November 20, 1930, with Maria Jacobini. Shot in Italian by Paramount in Paris. Often considered the first Italian talking film.</p>
  • <p>January 20, 1940.</p>
  • <p>German poster for the 1930 German film “Westfront 1918” which played at this theatre in April 1931 as “Comrades of 1918.” Directed by G.W. Pabst.</p>
  • <p>April 20, 1931</p>
  • <p>1931</p>
  • <p>March 15, 1976. Tribute to an esteemed reviewer/critic for The Providence Journal.</p>
  • <p>“The Dream of Butterfly” (Il sogno di Butterfly, Premiere der Butterfly) 1939 poster. Shown here as “Sogno di Butterfly” in 1941 and 1942.</p>
  • <p>April 14, 1931</p>
  • <p>February 18, 1970</p>
  • <p>January 13, 1939</p>
  • <p>February 20, 1916</p>
  • <p>In 1962.</p>
  • <p>Italian poster for the 1947 film shown at the Avon in 1948 as “La Traviata” or “The Lost One”, a rendition of Verdi’s opera. Gino Mattera, a performer in the film, had a RI relative who came to see the movie every day it played here.</p>
  • <p>February 23, 1979</p>
  • <p>1941</p>
  • <p>Its original projection and one of its two owners June Tarrant, taken in 1984.</p>
  • <p>Photographed as the Clapton Cinematograph Theatre in 1916.</p>
  • <p>San Francisco - Painting by Stanton Manolakas (1946-2022) Powell Cinema marquee visible on left.</p>
  • <p>“The Sad Horse”, 1959 film.</p>
  • <p>As a church in 2025. Google image.</p>
  • <p>May 1, 1958</p>