The Uptown Theater, Warner Bros, new picture playhouse, located on Connecticut avenue at Newark street, will be dedicated this Thursday evening, October 29, at 8:15 o'clock, according to an announcement made late yesterday by John J. Payette, Warner Bros, gen- eral zone manager.
After 68 years, the Varsity Twin Cinema closed its doors for good yesterday, drawing a modest Sunday audience of theater regulars and foreign-film buffs
Designed by noted architect C.W. Dickey, the Varsity opened in September 1939 as a single-screen cinema featuring the John Wayne movie “Stagecoach.”
During the 1960s and 1970s, the theater served in the daytime as a lecture hall for introductory courses for freshman at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
In the early 1980s, the Varsity was remodeled to the two-screen format it has today, and in February 1988, Consolidated converted the Varsity into an art-house theater.
Going to the Calvert Theatre was alot of fun during my high school years….As one of the “Avenue Boys” we usually spent the day playing ball at Jelleff’s Boys Club just down the street..
One night stands out..when our buddy…nicknamed “Jughead” …..got alittle too loud and rowdy during a ‘62 showing of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence”……and we were asked to leave the premises.
The Washington Post
Date: Oct 29, 1936 (NOT 1933)
The Uptown Theater, Warner Bros, new picture playhouse, located on Connecticut avenue at Newark street, will be dedicated this Thursday evening, October 29, at 8:15 o'clock, according to an announcement made late yesterday by John J. Payette, Warner Bros, gen- eral zone manager.
Monday, June 18, 2007
After 68 years, the Varsity Twin Cinema closed its doors for good yesterday, drawing a modest Sunday audience of theater regulars and foreign-film buffs
Designed by noted architect C.W. Dickey, the Varsity opened in September 1939 as a single-screen cinema featuring the John Wayne movie “Stagecoach.”
During the 1960s and 1970s, the theater served in the daytime as a lecture hall for introductory courses for freshman at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
In the early 1980s, the Varsity was remodeled to the two-screen format it has today, and in February 1988, Consolidated converted the Varsity into an art-house theater.
Going to the Calvert Theatre was alot of fun during my high school years….As one of the “Avenue Boys” we usually spent the day playing ball at Jelleff’s Boys Club just down the street..
One night stands out..when our buddy…nicknamed “Jughead” …..got alittle too loud and rowdy during a ‘62 showing of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence”……and we were asked to leave the premises.