Warren;Thanks for the additional information and details on the Metropolis Theatre. It is listed in the 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory, so I presume was screening movies at that time.
saps; The booth is back upstairs now. The area in the rear orchestra downstairs (where the booth was for the last 40+ years) and the remainder of that seating area has now become part of an enlarged lobby and concession stand, achieved by constructing a new inner rear wall to the auditorium.
All seating (originally the capacity was 2,058 in 1927) is on one level. Where the balcony would normally be located is the projection booth in the centre and two provate boxes either side of it.
The slightly smaller (1,771 seat, same architects) Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre along Hollywood Boulevard also had the same seating configuration as the Chinese Theatre.
Film Daily Yearbook’s 1930-1933 and 1949-1955 list a Little Broadway Theatre, 1312 East Broadway, East St. Louis as operating as a Negro theatre with a seating capacity of 600 (in all editions). Could this be the same theatre or one just along the street?
My copies of F.D.Y. 1941 and 1943 editions only show the Broadway Theatre with 465 seats.
Listed in Film Daily Yearbooks 1941, 1943 and 1952 as the Capitol Theatre with a seating capacity of 2,000. Operated by Paramount Pictures Inc through their subsidiary Mullins & Pinanski.
The Regal Cinema opened on 10th October 1932 screening George Arlis and Bette Davis in “The Silent Voice”.
It was given a Grade II Listed status in 2002. It closed on 1st May 2003. Since then, various plans for re-use have been proposed (casino, bowling alley, restaurant, residential and even twin cinemas) nothing has happened to-date (August 2005)
I have references to this being named the Olympia Theatre (could be a typo) operating in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1930-1933 as a Negro theatre with a seating capacity of 500. It’s not listed in copies of F.D.Y. for 1941 or 1943.
The F.D.Y. for 1949-1955 also list it as a Negro theatre same seating capacity but called the Harlem Theatre.
BobT;
The location work done for “The Guru” (2002) UK/France/USA was filmed inside the Thomas Lamb designed Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, Manhattan.
Exterior shots and some scenes in the earlier part of the movie were filmed on location outside and around the RKO Keith’s Richmond Hill, Queens. The marquee was renovated on this theatre by the film production company.
Both theatres are listed on Cinema Treasures.
I love this movie, it’s fun and light hearted and it’s got great shots of the theatres too!
Ron:
I agree that Fairyland Theatre is a much more interesting and historic name for this theatre. The site managers here though prefer to title theatres by their last/latest name or occasionally by the name it held the longest length of time and is most known by.
I think it’s amusing that a theatre named Fairyland and the ‘campyness’ of Disneyland should come together at all in Anaheim, Orange County, given the red-neck reputation that the area has world-wide. lol
The only theatre I have records of in Pixley is the appropriately named Pix Theatre on Front and D Streets (seats 474). Listed in F.D.Y.’s for 1950 and 1952 that I have. Nothing at all for Pixley in my 1941/43 editions. It could have been re-named Corcoran in its later years?
Looking on CinemaTour.com, they show the same (with a small photo) listed as closed and with a sign on front Billar Azteca which could be a bar or retail or storage use?
Listed in Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 edition as the St. Mary Auditorium Theatre (no seating capacity given). Same in the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. but with a seating capacity of 288. Not listed in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y.
Editions of the F.D.Y. 1941 and 1943 list the Rialto Theater as being operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Editions of F.D.Y. 1941 and 1943 list the Carlton Theater as being operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Warren;Thanks for the additional information and details on the Metropolis Theatre. It is listed in the 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory, so I presume was screening movies at that time.
saps; The booth is back upstairs now. The area in the rear orchestra downstairs (where the booth was for the last 40+ years) and the remainder of that seating area has now become part of an enlarged lobby and concession stand, achieved by constructing a new inner rear wall to the auditorium.
All seating (originally the capacity was 2,058 in 1927) is on one level. Where the balcony would normally be located is the projection booth in the centre and two provate boxes either side of it.
The slightly smaller (1,771 seat, same architects) Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre along Hollywood Boulevard also had the same seating configuration as the Chinese Theatre.
I Have reference of a Delora Theatre operating as a Negro theatre in editions of Film Daily Yearbook 1949-1955. No further details given.
Film Daily Yearbook’s 1930-1933 and 1949-1955 list a Little Broadway Theatre, 1312 East Broadway, East St. Louis as operating as a Negro theatre with a seating capacity of 600 (in all editions). Could this be the same theatre or one just along the street?
My copies of F.D.Y. 1941 and 1943 editions only show the Broadway Theatre with 465 seats.
Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1940-1949 as a Negro theatre.
Listed in Film Daily Yearbooks 1941, 1943 and 1952 as the Capitol Theatre with a seating capacity of 2,000. Operated by Paramount Pictures Inc through their subsidiary Mullins & Pinanski.
The Film Daily Yearbook 1941 has it listed as the Roxy Theater.
Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 editions as ‘Closed’, no seating capacity given.
Also listed in F.D.Y. 1941 and 1943 editions as ‘Closed’ 400 seats.
The 1941 F.D.Y. lists the Roosevelt(455 seats). In the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as ‘Closed’ 455 seats.
Film Daily Yearbooks 1941 and 1943 editions list the Grand Theater as open with 500 seats.
The Regal Cinema opened on 10th October 1932 screening George Arlis and Bette Davis in “The Silent Voice”.
It was given a Grade II Listed status in 2002. It closed on 1st May 2003. Since then, various plans for re-use have been proposed (casino, bowling alley, restaurant, residential and even twin cinemas) nothing has happened to-date (August 2005)
I have references to this being named the Olympia Theatre (could be a typo) operating in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1930-1933 as a Negro theatre with a seating capacity of 500. It’s not listed in copies of F.D.Y. for 1941 or 1943.
The F.D.Y. for 1949-1955 also list it as a Negro theatre same seating capacity but called the Harlem Theatre.
Listed as the Esquire Theatre in Film Daily Yearbooks from at least 1941.
The Granada Theater is listed in both the 1941 and 1943 editions of Film Daily Yearbook as ‘Closed’. It is not in the F.D.Y. 1950 edition.
Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook 1941 edition as having a seating capacity of 290.
BobT;
The location work done for “The Guru” (2002) UK/France/USA was filmed inside the Thomas Lamb designed Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, Manhattan.
Exterior shots and some scenes in the earlier part of the movie were filmed on location outside and around the RKO Keith’s Richmond Hill, Queens. The marquee was renovated on this theatre by the film production company.
Both theatres are listed on Cinema Treasures.
I love this movie, it’s fun and light hearted and it’s got great shots of the theatres too!
Film Daily Yearbook’s in the 1940’s give a seating capacity of the Geneva Theatre as 1,862.
Ron:
I agree that Fairyland Theatre is a much more interesting and historic name for this theatre. The site managers here though prefer to title theatres by their last/latest name or occasionally by the name it held the longest length of time and is most known by.
I think it’s amusing that a theatre named Fairyland and the ‘campyness’ of Disneyland should come together at all in Anaheim, Orange County, given the red-neck reputation that the area has world-wide. lol
Listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 as the Moon Theater.
Hooray! In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y it is the New Moon Theater, 529 Main Street, Vincennes, IN
The only theatre I have records of in Pixley is the appropriately named Pix Theatre on Front and D Streets (seats 474). Listed in F.D.Y.’s for 1950 and 1952 that I have. Nothing at all for Pixley in my 1941/43 editions. It could have been re-named Corcoran in its later years?
Looking on CinemaTour.com, they show the same (with a small photo) listed as closed and with a sign on front Billar Azteca which could be a bar or retail or storage use?
Listed in Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 edition as the St. Mary Auditorium Theatre (no seating capacity given). Same in the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. but with a seating capacity of 288. Not listed in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y.