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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 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.
Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." The theater remained open for two years, making it the first permanent movie theater in the world. November 7, 1897 ad for the Vitascope Theater in Buffalo, New York, one of the first theaters created especially to show motion pictures. In its first year there were 200,000 admissions.
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Like so many other theater owners and managers, Calderone was in favor of allowing his theaters to open up for showings on Sunday, which was against the law in New York State in the 1920s. He, along with several other Long Island theater owners, were indicted for breaking the law and showing movies or theatrical performances on a Sunday during ...
The Mark brothers eventually built and operated dozens of theaters in the United States. In 1907, Mark was credited with installing the first church organ to be used for the movies, at Cleveland's Alhambra Theatre. [5] In 1914, Mark Brothers opened the Strand Theatre at 47th Street and Broadway in Times Square, New York City. [6]
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 Rialto Theatre was a movie palace in New York City located at 1481 Broadway, at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street, within the Theater District of Manhattan. The 1,960-seat theater, designed by Rosario Candela, opened on April 21, 1916, on the former site of Oscar Hammerstein 's Vaudeville venue the Victoria Theatre .