A people s palace will soon be fit again to receive its loyal subjects. Us.
Loew s Jersey, the spectacular but deteriorating 92 year-old movie palace at Jersey City s Journal Square, will be getting an estimated $72 million upgrade, the office of the mayor announced today.
A partnership of Devil s Arena Entertainment (DAE), operators of the Prudential Center, and the city will transform the venue into a code-compliant, modern entertainment center that will still maintain the dazzling gilt and marble architectural features that wowed the first ticket-buyers in 1929.
There will be major concert acts no names announced, yet but also community based cultural activities. And yes, there will be movies.
Fortunes in Films
Rise of New Type of Theatre and Photo Plays Creates New Profession of “Moving Picture Actors” and Yields Big Returns December 1 1912
Fortunes in Films
Rise of New Type of Theatre and Photo Plays Creates New Profession of “Moving Picture Actors” and Yields Big Returns
THE public is at last awakening to the fact that the early twentieth century has evolved an entirely new form of dramatic entertainment. At the present moment the American people are spending $500,000 a day on moving-picture shows. There are at least 20,000 places in the United States that are devoted to this form of popular amusement. Not far from 300,000 people, in New York City alone, daily witness these performances. In the United States, half a million people are engaged directly or indirectly in the moving-picture industries and the varied business represents an investment of $200,000,000. And the motion picture is more than a diverting photographic toy.
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