I pickd this up at a screening of this film in 1972. it was a period in which I was reading Mishima. haven't seen the film since. don't know if it's available.
& the theater is one of those which were torn down to build an ugly tourist hotel.
it was the smallest of the Schubert theaters. built in the teens & torn down in 1982. thruout the '70s it alternated between having plays & showing movies. I remember there were some star footprints in the cement in front of it but no longer recall whose.
it's a shame that cities didn't preserve old theaters. the safeway where i do most of our grocery shopping was once the site of a grand movie palace called the alhambra done in a rather flamboyant moorish style. it was torn down in the early '70s to make way for a supermarket. the only evidence left of the old alhambra's existence is a wall with a fountain and a plaque with a omar kayyam quote.
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think this is the theatre that I saw a revival of freaks also around this time. Maybe a year or so earlier.
it was the smallest of the Schubert theaters. built in the teens & torn down in 1982. thruout the '70s it alternated between having plays & showing movies. I remember there were some star footprints in the cement in front of it but no longer recall whose.
it's a shame that cities didn't preserve old theaters. the safeway where i do most of our grocery shopping was once the site of a grand movie palace called the alhambra done in a rather flamboyant moorish style. it was torn down in the early '70s to make way for a supermarket. the only evidence left of the old alhambra's existence is a wall with a fountain and a plaque with a omar kayyam quote.
I mourn the loss of the great old movie theatres that use to line the streets of times sq. Happily I got to go to them in the early and mid 50's.
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