I liked it in the 1950s-1960s and later (?) when you could enter through that right door, buy your ticket, turn left into a larger auditorium. The later modifications changed all that. At the end of shows, that center door would open and let you out directly onto Brattle Street.
Although the theatre was one of the best known structures in the town after 1919, there are precious few images of it and none of the interior. Year of this photo uncertain.
Pro-Mussolini films and events were common here before the war began.
Scipio Africanus as a Mussolini figure.
In 1911.
A 1930 movie.
As the Olympia.
Providence City Hall dome and flagpole can be seen in the rear.
Auburn is part of Cranston.
That’s not “The Big Clock.” That’s “Opens December 25, 8 O'Clock.
The Nickel signage and Keith’s as well.
Not sure of the year given. It’s a 1950 film.
“When Willie Comes Marching Home” by John Ford. Plus “Dakota Lil.”
Manager Morris Simms, circa 1955.
The prime movie and stage venue in the city in the early 1900s.
Better resolution than earlier post.
Looks like 1999.
“The Awakening” was one of Anna Magnani’s best and now nearly forgotten performances. Original title: “Suor Letizia.”
The face in the photo is of young Luciano De Ambrosis in “The Children Are Watching Us”, a late Fascist era Italian drama by De Sica.
February 10, 1849 ad. Film made in 1941. Original title: “Uomini sul fondo.”
Year?
Stairway to heaven???
I liked it in the 1950s-1960s and later (?) when you could enter through that right door, buy your ticket, turn left into a larger auditorium. The later modifications changed all that. At the end of shows, that center door would open and let you out directly onto Brattle Street.
See separate entry about what happened. Woonsocket Call article 7-26-63.
Remember that entrance canopy from the 1960s.
I went there many times in the 1960s.
Although the theatre was one of the best known structures in the town after 1919, there are precious few images of it and none of the interior. Year of this photo uncertain.