St. Louis Fox by Terry Clark,J~
THE CAVERNOUS ST. LOUIS FOX BY TERRY CLARK,J~ The Fox Theatre circuit, perhaps the Thus, a great movie palace, conceived most prodigious builder of cinema pal and partially constructed in the silent aces in an era of extravagant motion pic era, opened in a new age - an age its ture theatre construction, poured its re builders had not foreseen, even with the sources into five great Fox Theatres at ominour forebodings of "sound". Detroit (September 1928), Saint Louis During the eight months preceding the (January 1929), San Francisco (February opening of the house, work went forward 1929), and Philadelphia, and Newark on the $75,000 4/36 Wurlitzer, one of the (September 1929). four great Crawford Specials built during The Saint Louis Fox, a midwestern the last days of the theatre organ con theatre landmark, was lavishly decorated struction. So much of rather conflicting under the personal supervision of Mrs. nature has been written concerning these William Fox. A Moorish motif was instruments, that this writing shall be carried out through the use of expensive confined to the physical aspects of the objects d'art imported from the Far instrument. That the Paramount Wur East. The vast majority of motion pic litzer was the "mother" instrument and Drawing of the facade from the original ture theatres of that era could have been that similar, if not identical instruments souvenir program (Courtesy of George housed comfortably in the grand Lobby went into Detroit, San Francisco, and Swett). and Foyer of the Saint Louis Fox. Saint Louis, cannot be argued. On January 31, 1929, the theatre opened In the Saint Louis Fox, the blower and with Frank Borzage's "Street Angel", relay rooms and the seven chambers starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Far cover a vertical height equal to a five rell.
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