Plans have been completed for the erection of an elaborate theater marquee at the United Artists. This new improvement is to be installed by Friday when Ronald Colman’s new picture, “The Unholy Garden” is scheduled to open.
The new canopy sign will strike a new note in this type of architecture, it is said, being all in one color and being lighted by a combination of neon tubular and flasher incandescents.
Eddie Cantor’s latest comedy, “Palmy Days”, which started its third week at the United Artists yesterday, will have its final showings Thursday.
This is part of an LA Times article dated 7/20/30:
Known in its heyday as a “cradle for actors', the old Morosco Theater, more recently the President, will become a motion-picture playhouse in the next thirty days. The theater, built eighteen years ago for Oliver Morosco, has been leased to Fox West Coast Theaters to become Los Angeles' first newsreel theater. In the next few days, workmen will enter the old building for purposes of refurbishing the interior, perhaps to tear out the old fashioned boxes and to install sound-picture projection equipment.
Under the Fox West Coast regime, it will show only newsreels. Programs will run around fifty minutes and will change as fast as new shots of important international, national and local events arrive. It will bear the title “Newsreel Theater”.
This short film used to precede the features at the Denville in the early 1950s. The theater can be seen in the last fifteen seconds or so, if you want to fast forward through the rest of it: http://tinyurl.com/aks6co
CHICAGO-Irving Cooper’s Mayfair, 300-seat house on the southwest side, and Schoenstadt’s Pix on the south side have both been closed for the remainder of the summer.
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.-The Valley, closed for renovation, is slated to reopen around August 15. Approximately $10,000 is being spent for interior and exterior improvements. George Denby is manager.
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF.-The Golden State circuit opened its new 1,100 seat Del Mar Theater here August 1 as the 96th house to become part of the chain. Glenn Caldwell is the manager.
LEOMINSTER, MASS.-The Metropolitan Theater is undergoing a facelifting. Ray M. Butterfield, manager of this town’s one remaining film theater, said that improvements would include a new marquee, restroom updating, painting, redecoration and a general housecleaning.
LOS ANGELES-A reduced admission price of $1.50 per carload has been adopted by Pacific Drive-In Theaters in several of its area drive-ins. The policy, an effort to deal with product shortage and a reported slump in ozoner attendance, was tested at the Floral in East L.A. and has been newly inaugurated at the Sepulveda, Long Beach, Azusa and Gage. Circuit officials anticipate higher weekly grosses for the individual operations in reducing the prices to carloads.
WEST WARWICK, R.I.-The former Palace Theater on Washington Street, Arctic, closed as a motion picture house more than two years ago, has been purchased by Harry Erinakes and his wife Irene. Erinakes owns and operates the Hilltop Drive-In and the Lonsdale Drive-In, in addition to the Redwood Bowling Alley on Crawford Street in Arctic. He has not announced his plans for the new property.
There are modern buildings on all four corners of North 12th and P, so I doubt if this theater is still standing.
This was in Boxoffice magazine back in August 1962:
LINCOLN-Bert Cheever, Nebraska Theater manager, has to give top rating to the live drama enacted just doors away over his current film, “Bon Voyage”, on the night of August 11.
The real-life drama climaxed in the shooting and death of an ex-convict, Joe Cline, after he tried to rob the Acme Liquor store just west a few doors and across busy O Street from the State Theater. The death dealing shot was fired by liquor store owner George Christopulos as the former convict was leaving the store with more than $100. He had ignored the store owner’s warning to stop.
This article was in Boxoffice magazine in August 1962:
MINNEAPOLIS-The first completely new theater to be beuilt here in 11 years, the Cooper, showplace of Cinerama, was opened to the public August 9 with “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” following a series of international premieres. The Cooper is an exact replica of the original built in Denver, which was designed specifically for Cinerama.
A walnut-paneled foyer of 3,000 square feet is decorated in black brick with bittersweet (burnt orange) upholstery fabric and a skyblue acoustic plaster ceiling. A circle pattern is also carried out in the carpeting.
Total seating in the theater, which cost $1,000,000, is 808, 146 of which are on the mezzanine. The screen is the largest ever installed-35 feet high with a 105-foot-wide side curve. The screen end of the theater is about a third of the total circumference of the circle, so that a full 180-degree picture could be shown if it ever were produced.
Senator and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey and trustees of the Cooper Foundation of Lincoln, Neb. entertained at a dinner on the 8th at the Radisson Hotel, and were hosts at the grand opening of the theater that night.
SYRACUSE, IND.-Business has been “very good”, according to Max L. Patterson, since he reopened the Pickwick Theater on August 4. Patterson has also started a program to redecorate the Pickwick, which he has leased from the Glazier Bros., owners of the Pickwick block.
Patterson also operates the Boice Theater in Warsaw. He has been in motion picture exhibition for 16 years.
This was in the LA Times on October 24, 1931:
Plans have been completed for the erection of an elaborate theater marquee at the United Artists. This new improvement is to be installed by Friday when Ronald Colman’s new picture, “The Unholy Garden” is scheduled to open.
The new canopy sign will strike a new note in this type of architecture, it is said, being all in one color and being lighted by a combination of neon tubular and flasher incandescents.
Eddie Cantor’s latest comedy, “Palmy Days”, which started its third week at the United Artists yesterday, will have its final showings Thursday.
This is part of an LA Times article dated 7/20/30:
Known in its heyday as a “cradle for actors', the old Morosco Theater, more recently the President, will become a motion-picture playhouse in the next thirty days. The theater, built eighteen years ago for Oliver Morosco, has been leased to Fox West Coast Theaters to become Los Angeles' first newsreel theater. In the next few days, workmen will enter the old building for purposes of refurbishing the interior, perhaps to tear out the old fashioned boxes and to install sound-picture projection equipment.
Under the Fox West Coast regime, it will show only newsreels. Programs will run around fifty minutes and will change as fast as new shots of important international, national and local events arrive. It will bear the title “Newsreel Theater”.
Adios:
http://tinyurl.com/ah23dn
Some locals suggest new names for the Garden, from an article of April 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/b62c32
Here is some recent news about the marquee:
http://www.sacbee.com/345/story/1578496.html
Here is a photo, circa 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/acc6sw
This short film used to precede the features at the Denville in the early 1950s. The theater can be seen in the last fifteen seconds or so, if you want to fast forward through the rest of it:
http://tinyurl.com/aks6co
Opening was in July 1969, according to ads in the Northwest Arkansas Times. It was a Commonwealth theater at that time.
Per drive-ins.com, the theater has been razed and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Status should be closed/demolished.
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/art62dr
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1941:
CHICAGO-Irving Cooper’s Mayfair, 300-seat house on the southwest side, and Schoenstadt’s Pix on the south side have both been closed for the remainder of the summer.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1941:
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.-The Valley, closed for renovation, is slated to reopen around August 15. Approximately $10,000 is being spent for interior and exterior improvements. George Denby is manager.
This is from Boxoffice magazine, 8/2/41:
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF.-The Golden State circuit opened its new 1,100 seat Del Mar Theater here August 1 as the 96th house to become part of the chain. Glenn Caldwell is the manager.
Do you mean Sansom Street? I don’t remember any Sampson in Center City.
Here is some recent renovation news:
http://tinyurl.com/dmxhwg
Here is some recent renovation news:
http://tinyurl.com/dmxhwg
Here is some recent renovation news:
http://tinyurl.com/dmxhwg
Here is some recent news about a possible new tenant:
http://tinyurl.com/d2vctd
Here is some recent renovation news:
http://tinyurl.com/brmjg5
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1962:
LEOMINSTER, MASS.-The Metropolitan Theater is undergoing a facelifting. Ray M. Butterfield, manager of this town’s one remaining film theater, said that improvements would include a new marquee, restroom updating, painting, redecoration and a general housecleaning.
This is from Boxoffice magazine, August 1962:
LOS ANGELES-A reduced admission price of $1.50 per carload has been adopted by Pacific Drive-In Theaters in several of its area drive-ins. The policy, an effort to deal with product shortage and a reported slump in ozoner attendance, was tested at the Floral in East L.A. and has been newly inaugurated at the Sepulveda, Long Beach, Azusa and Gage. Circuit officials anticipate higher weekly grosses for the individual operations in reducing the prices to carloads.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1962:
WEST WARWICK, R.I.-The former Palace Theater on Washington Street, Arctic, closed as a motion picture house more than two years ago, has been purchased by Harry Erinakes and his wife Irene. Erinakes owns and operates the Hilltop Drive-In and the Lonsdale Drive-In, in addition to the Redwood Bowling Alley on Crawford Street in Arctic. He has not announced his plans for the new property.
There are modern buildings on all four corners of North 12th and P, so I doubt if this theater is still standing.
This was in Boxoffice magazine back in August 1962:
LINCOLN-Bert Cheever, Nebraska Theater manager, has to give top rating to the live drama enacted just doors away over his current film, “Bon Voyage”, on the night of August 11.
The real-life drama climaxed in the shooting and death of an ex-convict, Joe Cline, after he tried to rob the Acme Liquor store just west a few doors and across busy O Street from the State Theater. The death dealing shot was fired by liquor store owner George Christopulos as the former convict was leaving the store with more than $100. He had ignored the store owner’s warning to stop.
The Office Depot that replaced the Cooper is up for sale. Here is an aerial view of the current location:
http://tinyurl.com/dehzbr
This article was in Boxoffice magazine in August 1962:
MINNEAPOLIS-The first completely new theater to be beuilt here in 11 years, the Cooper, showplace of Cinerama, was opened to the public August 9 with “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” following a series of international premieres. The Cooper is an exact replica of the original built in Denver, which was designed specifically for Cinerama.
A walnut-paneled foyer of 3,000 square feet is decorated in black brick with bittersweet (burnt orange) upholstery fabric and a skyblue acoustic plaster ceiling. A circle pattern is also carried out in the carpeting.
Total seating in the theater, which cost $1,000,000, is 808, 146 of which are on the mezzanine. The screen is the largest ever installed-35 feet high with a 105-foot-wide side curve. The screen end of the theater is about a third of the total circumference of the circle, so that a full 180-degree picture could be shown if it ever were produced.
Senator and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey and trustees of the Cooper Foundation of Lincoln, Neb. entertained at a dinner on the 8th at the Radisson Hotel, and were hosts at the grand opening of the theater that night.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1962:
SYRACUSE, IND.-Business has been “very good”, according to Max L. Patterson, since he reopened the Pickwick Theater on August 4. Patterson has also started a program to redecorate the Pickwick, which he has leased from the Glazier Bros., owners of the Pickwick block.
Patterson also operates the Boice Theater in Warsaw. He has been in motion picture exhibition for 16 years.