Stunning 1930 "Roxy Theatre Weekly Review Magazine" For Motion Pictures *

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Description:  This Stunning 1930 "Roxy Theatre Weekly Review Magazine" For Motion Pictures has a picture of the theatre on the cover. The dark blue background contrasts the red fan like design that has the Roxy name in it. At the bottom of the cover in red letters it says " The Cathedral of the Motion Picture."
The
Roxy Theatre
was a 5,920
seat
movie theatre located at
153 West 50th Street
between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off
Times Square in
New York City
. It opened on March 11, 1927 with the silent film
The Love of Sunya
, produced
by and starring
Gloria Swanson
. The huge
movie palace
was a leading Broadway film showcase through the 1950s and was also noted for its lavish stage shows.
Known as the "Cathedral of the Motion Picture," the Roxy's design by Ahlschlager featured a soaring golden, Spanish-inspired auditorium, and a lobby in the form of a large columned rotunda called the "Grand Foyer," which featured "the world's largest oval rug",
manufactured by Mohawk Carpets in
Amsterdam
NY
,
plus its own pipe organ on the mezzanine. Off the rotunda was a long entrance lobby that led through the building of the adjacent Manger Hotel to the theater's main entrance at the corner of
Seventh Ave.
and
W. 50th St.
The hotel (later called the
Taft
Hotel)
was built at the same time as the theater. Measures 6" W x 8-3/4" H.
Co
ndition: Corners and edges are slightly worn.
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4/2013
Nancy