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Cabot Cinema
The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre
Beverly, Massachusetts
"The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre welcomed its first audience on December 8, 1920. Originally known as the Ware, the theatre was built for films and live stage entertainment by brothers N. Harris and D. Glover Ware, both vaudeville veterans. Variety, the show business weekly, praised the Ware at the time of its opening, as “the most impressive auditorium of its size east of New York.”
The Ware’s full stage was used throughout the 1920s for variety entertainment. By the mid-1930s the stage was all but silent, yet Beverly could still lay claim to the most elegant movie palace north of Boston.
Through the years, the theatre’s beautiful interior design was kept largely intact. A 43-foot dome with bronze chandelier still overarches the seats of the orchestra and balcony, and the ornate plasterwork of the proscenium is decorated with murals and gold-leaf. The interior design of circular or elliptical arches maximizes the acoustic and aesthetic effect.
By August 1976, the Cabot Cinema (its name changed in 1964) had fallen on hard times. That changed when the present owners brought new life and a new name (Cabot Street Cinema Theatre) to the aging dream-palace. A program of Films Worth Seeing More Than Once was launched, bringing high-quality films to Beverly and the North Shore, and audiences entering the Cabot were greeted by tuxedoed ushers and the melodies of a player piano.
The long-dormant stage was soon fully restored and the world-renowned stage magic extravaganza known as Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company, debuted on February 20, 1977.
Today, in the elegance of an historic 1920 theatre, you can enjoy a wonderful selection of fine domestic and foreign language films on the big screen."
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Cabot Cinema
The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre
Beverly, Massachusetts
"The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre welcomed its first audience on December 8, 1920. Originally known as the Ware, the theatre was built for films and live stage entertainment by brothers N. Harris and D. Glover Ware, both vaudeville veterans. Variety, the show business weekly, praised the Ware at the time of its opening, as “the most impressive auditorium of its size east of New York.”
The Ware’s full stage was used throughout the 1920s for variety entertainment. By the mid-1930s the stage was all but silent, yet Beverly could still lay claim to the most elegant movie palace north of Boston.
Through the years, the theatre’s beautiful interior design was kept largely intact. A 43-foot dome with bronze chandelier still overarches the seats of the orchestra and balcony, and the ornate plasterwork of the proscenium is decorated with murals and gold-leaf. The interior design of circular or elliptical arches maximizes the acoustic and aesthetic effect.
By August 1976, the Cabot Cinema (its name changed in 1964) had fallen on hard times. That changed when the present owners brought new life and a new name (Cabot Street Cinema Theatre) to the aging dream-palace. A program of Films Worth Seeing More Than Once was launched, bringing high-quality films to Beverly and the North Shore, and audiences entering the Cabot were greeted by tuxedoed ushers and the melodies of a player piano.
The long-dormant stage was soon fully restored and the world-renowned stage magic extravaganza known as Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company, debuted on February 20, 1977.
Today, in the elegance of an historic 1920 theatre, you can enjoy a wonderful selection of fine domestic and foreign language films on the big screen."
This really does look better on black ... Just type "L" for Lightbox