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Salvatore Calderone (1876–1929) was an early American movie theater magnate and founder of the Calderone chain of theaters located on Long Island, New York. He was noted as being the "Master Showman of Nassau County." [1]
The Elgin Theater is a former movie theater on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz, invented midnight movie programming for the theater.
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The Embassy Theatre, also known as the Embassy 1 Theatre, is a former movie theater at 1560 Broadway, along Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb , the theater opened in 1925 on the ground floor of 1560 Broadway, the headquarters of the Actors' Equity Association .
In 1881 Tony Pastor took over the lease, renaming the venue Tony Pastor's 14th Street Theatre and making the theatre New York's most famous vaudeville house during the 1880s and 1890s. [16] After Pastor left in 1908 the theatre was renamed the Olympic and became a burlesque house until Tammany Hall was sold in 1928 and demolished in the same year.
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.
The new Lyric's interior retains the proscenium arch from the Apollo, which was expanded significantly when the new theater was built. [36] [48] The proscenium opening in the new theater is 50 ft (15 m) wide, [38] [48] compared to 30 ft (9.1 m) in the old Apollo. [48] The new theater's proscenium measures around 31 ft (9 m) high.
The Capitol Theatre was a movie palace located at 1645 Broadway, just north of Times Square in New York City, across from the Winter Garden Theatre. Designed by theater architect Thomas W. Lamb , the Capitol originally had a seating capacity of 5,230 and opened October 24, 1919.