Savoy Theatre
112 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10120
112 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10120
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Previously operated by: Cinema Circuit Corp.
Architects: Michael Bernstein
Styles: Renaissance Revival
Previous Names: Schley Music Hall
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Built in 1900, off Herald Square, out of three former residences on 33rd Street and 34th Street, Schley’s Music Hall was designed by Michael Bernstein and designed in late-Victorian style, with touches of Neo-Renaissance decor. It seated about 840, on strange folding type-chairs, as well as a pair of small balconies and six sets of boxes on either side of the ornate proscenium arch.
Just a few months after opening, Schley’s Music Hall was under new management and was renamed the Savoy Theatre. Live theatre and variety shows remained on the bill at the Savoy Theatre for just over a dozen years, when the theatre was converted into a movie house. It was last operated by the Cinema Circuit Corp. chain and was closed in early-September 1952 and demolished later that year. It was the last vestige of Herald Square’s days as a theatre district.
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Bryan Krefft
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This ad seems to indicate the Savoy was being run by the same owners that had the New Amsterdam and Astor. Was it Cinema Circuit?
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My great grandmother, Anna Schober Fields, appeared at the Savoy as Mrs. Schultz in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” on September 4, 1904.
The Savoy, circa 1951:
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Nice photos.
The Savoy stopped operating in early September 1952.
According to Our Theatres To-day and Yesterday, a book by Ruth Crosby Dimmick published in 1913, the operator who took over the Savoy Theatre in 1911 and converted it into a movie house was Walter Rosenberg. A few years later, Rosenberg changed his surname to Reade, and he and his son, Walter Reade Jr., went on to build an extensive chain of movie theaters. Rosenberg/Reade was the nephew of Oscar Hammerstein I.