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Mark Strand 1923 Broadway Theatre Program

Programma del Mark Strand Theatre (1923)

Esisteva ( demolito nel 1987) a Broadway  un grande teatro  , poi music hall, poi cinema,Il The Mark Strand Theather...
Ovviamente non c'entra per nulla col poeta Mark Strand, però strana la coincidenza ...

Also known as Mark Strand, Warner, Warner Cinerama, RKO Cinerama, Penthouse, Orleans, RKO Warner Twin
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Strand Theatre
New York, NY
1579 Broadway
, New York, NY 10036 United States
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Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Twin
Style: Adam

Function: Unknown
Seats: 2750
Chain: Unknown

Architect: Thomas W. Lamb
Firm: Unknown
Strand Theatre
Circa-1915 postcard view of the Strand's ornate auditorium
Photo courtesy of the public domain
The Strand Theatre was opened in 1914 for the Mitchel Mark Realty Company and was under the early direction of Samuel "Roxy" Rothapfel as the Mark Strand. It originally had a seating capacity of 2,989.

The Strand Theatre began its life with stage shows in addition to movies and also had one of the largest stages in the city in 1914. After stage shows were dropped in 1929, seating was reduced to 2,750. In the late-1930's stage shows (and vaudeville) were brought back.

After dropping stage shows on July 3, 1951, the Strand Theatre was renamed Warner Theatre, and opened with "Stangers on a Train". During 1952 to 1953, the theatre closed, was renovated and renamed Warner Cinerama. Cinerama films moved here from the Broadway Theatre, starting with "This Is Cinerama" in 1953.

In 1963, the auditorium was equipped with a 81 foot wide, 30 feet tall screen to show "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". World Premiere's of 70mm films included "Porgy and Bess"(June 24, 1959), "Exodus"(December 15, 1960), "The Greatest Story Ever Told"(February 15, 1965), "Grand Prix"(December 21, 1966 and "Camelot"(October 25, 1967).

On July 30, 1968, the theatre reopened as a triplex. The Warner Cinerama theatre with 1,000 seats occupied the main floor. The former balcony became the 1,200 seat Penthouse Theatre. A third theatre built in the old Stand's stagehouse was also opened, called the Cine Orleans, which had its own entrance on W. 47th Street. In the early-1980's the Cinerama and Penthouse were remodeled and renamed the RKO Warner Twin.

Unfortunately, on February 8th 1987, after a long and eventful life, one of the greatest movie palaces of New York City closed and was demolished.
                                     Contributed by Cinema Treasures, Warren, Orlando Lopes

MARK STRAND ' s Bibliography (In English)

Bibliography excerpt from The Poetry Foundation

 

Mark Strand a Parole Spalancate 2010
foto 36° Fotogramma - Marco Dragonetti

 

 

 

POETRY

• Sleeping with One Eye Open, Stone Wall Press, 1964.
• Reasons for Moving: Poems, Atheneum, 1968.
• Darker: Poems, Atheneum, 1970.
• The Story of Our Lives, Atheneum, 1973.
• The Sargeantville Notebook, Burning Deck, 1974.
• Elegy for My Father, Windhover, 1978.
• The Late Hour, Atheneum, 1978.
• Selected Poems, Atheneum, 1980.
• The Continuous Life, Knopf (New York), 1990.
• The Monument, Ecco Press, 1991.
• Reasons for Moving, Darker, and the Sargeantville Notebook, Knopf, 1992.
• Dark Harbor: A Poem, Knopf, 1993.
• Blizzard of One: Poems, Knopf, 1998.
• 89 Clouds (single poem), monotypes by Wendy Mark and introduction by Thomas Hoving, ACA Galleries (New York), 1999.
• Man and Camel, Knopf, 2005.
• New Selected Poems, Knopf, 2007.

Also author of New Poems, 1990, and Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More (poems with illustrations by the author), 2000.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• The Planet of Lost Things, illustrated by William Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1982.
• The Night Book, illustrated by Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1983.
• Rembrandt Takes a Walk, illustrated by Red Grooms, C. N. Potter, 1986.

OTHER

• (Editor) The Contemporary American Poets, New American Library, 1968.
• (Editor) New Poetry of Mexico, Dutton, 1970.
• (Editor and translator) 18 Poems from the Quechua, Halty Ferguson, 1971.
• (Editor and translator) Rafael Alberti, The Owl's Insomnia, Atheneum, 1973.
• (Editor with Charles Simic) Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, Ecco, 1976.
• (Translator) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Souvenir of the Ancient World, Antaeus Editions, 1976.
• The Monument (prose), Ecco, 1978.
• (Contributor) Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press, 1982.
• (Editor) The Art of the Real (art criticism), C. N. Potter, 1983.
• Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (short stories), Knopf, 1985.
• (Editor with Thomas Colchie; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Traveling in the Family, Random House, 1987.
• William Bailey (art criticism), Abrams, 1987.
• (Editor) The Best American Poetry, 1991, Macmillan, 1991.
• (Contributor) Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Columbia College Chicago/Aperture Foundation, 1993.
• (Editor) Golden Ecco Anthology, Ecco Press, 1994.
• Hopper (art criticism), Ecco Press, 1994.
• (Editor with Eavan Boland) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York), 2000.
• The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, Knopf, 2000.
• (Translator) Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua, Knopf, 2002.
• (Editor) 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, Norton (New York), 2005.