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New Europe Theatre
1499 1st Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
1499 1st Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
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The October 9, 1909, issue of The Film Index had this description of the Yorkville Hippodrome Theatre:
stang119, it has to be uploaded for that to happen and only jeffg718 has that right.
jeffg718’s photo should be at the top of this entry. Not some obscure street view. (Too many of these on the site) http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7r9g5/europetheatre/
Before this became the German Tobis Kino it was Das Deutschen Sprecfilm theatre by early 1932. Prior to that it may have even been closed for a few years after a projection booth fire in March of 1929.
I can’t find any record of it ever being called the UFA Cosmopolitan. In fact, the UFA Cosmopolitan from 1923 to 1931 was the International on Columbus Circle.
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Here is a recent photo of the former Europe Theatre. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7r9g5/europetheatre/
Here is a recent photo of the former Europe Theatre. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7r9g5/europetheatre/
Advertised as the 78th Street Playhouse for the run of RESERVE ON FURLOUGH in April 1932.
Listed in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914 – 1915 as the Yorkville Hippodrome, 78th Street, New York, NY.
In the 1926 and 1927 editions of Film Daily Yearbooks it is still listed as the Yorkville Hippodrome, 1499 First Avenue, New York, NY with a seating capacity of 300. In the 1930 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed with the same name and address but the seating capacity is given as 309 and it is ‘Closed’.
The next edition of F.D.Y. that I have (1941) has no theatre listed at this address, however in the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as the Europe Theatre, 1st Avenue with a seating capacity of 309. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. it is still the Europe Theatre, 1499 1st Avenue with a seating capacity of 306. Gone from listings in 1957.