The Paramount Opéra
The programs
A long time ago, a movie ticket would buy a whole show. Every week, the Paramount offered its program, with the schedules, live entertainment (including the Paramount Orchestra), and some piece of advice:
- To avoid the crowd, come between 9:30am and 2pm, or 6 adn 9:30pm, or after 11pm. (Yes, morning shows weren't an invention of the 80s)
- For your entire satisfaction, would you please remain silent, especially during talking movies (Which might mean that everyone talked during silent movies... Maybe they should tell this to the audience again nowadays!)
February 20-26, 1931...
September 5-11, 1934...
Closer to us, not as beautiful, but bringing me more memories, here are some preview invitation cards I got in the 80s. It was fun to see the movies a couple of days before their release dates, for free, and sometimes (but not always) in their own languages, at the Paramount. Unfortunately, it was impossible to know wether the movie would be dubbed in French before it started.
In English in theater 3
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