Lenox Little Theatre
52 E. 78th Street,
New York,
NY
10021
52 E. 78th Street,
New York,
NY
10021
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Functions: Housing
Previous Names: Lenox Theatre, Lenox Hill Theatre, Lenox House Theatre, East 78th Street Playhouse
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The Little Lenox Theatre was primarily a live performance space but, through much of the 1930’s, presented matinee movies for children on Fridays and Saturdays.
It was, at various times, also known as the Lenox Theatre (1917-1918), not to be confused with the uptown Lenox Theatre at Lenox Avenue and W. 111th Street, and the Lenox Hill Theatre (1923-1925), not to be confused with the later Lenox Hill Theatre at 331 E. 70th Street. For a brief period, the performance space was known as the East 78th Street Playhouse (1963-1964).
I believe the theatre and the building in which it was situated were part of Finch College, which closed in the mid-1970’s, and that the edifice still stands as a 40-unit cooperative apartment building.
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Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1930 edition as the Little Lenox Theatre with a seating capacity of 251.
This advertised in the NY Times in the early thirties as the LENOX LITTLE THEATRE.
There was a Lenox Theatre showing movies in 1968.
This listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the Lenox House.
The ad from October 7, 1933, recently posted by Tinseltoes would corroborate AlAlvarez’s post above, that the theater was advertised as the Lenox Little Theatre. Is there any confirmation as to whether or not the Little officially came before the Lenox in the theater’s appellation?