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This was the first time in over 20 years I had worked with white metal which from experience can be a bit of a pig to bring together., but this one generally behaved.
Construction used a combination of Deluxe Cyano superglue and Devcon epoxy adhesive.
The rear panelling was filed smooth and a new rear fabricated from Plasticard to revive the damaged boot area.
Missing internal luggage racks have been replaced with new Plasticard units and a central roof panel added to give detail down the length of the interior.
Here's an evening shot of the beautiful Paramount Theater marquee on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Operating as a movie theater from 1931 to 1974, it has provided a variety of concerts and other live art performances since reopening in 2004. Films are also still shown, including the Christmas classic advertised on the marquee.
Information from the theater's website.
Premiere Programme exhibited at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow
"Opened on December 31st 1934, the Glasgow Paramount Theatre was one of the later cinemas built for the American based chain in Britain. The architects were Frank T. Verity and Samuel Beverly, who designed many of the Paramount Theatre’s in the UK.
Glasgow’s was freestanding, and occupied half a city block. The facade was built in white granite, with five two-storey finned windows curving around and above the corner entrance. At night, the entire building was outlined in neon.
The main foyer had an open staircase and upper foyer, which looked down onto the ground floor, and was home to a tea room and restaurant, situated under the tall corner windows. A further cafe was situated upstairs from the main restaurant.
The auditorium seated 2,784 in the circle and stalls, and was originally coloured green, copper and silver. The stage area was spacious, with a tall fly-tower, and around fifteen dressing rooms at the rear of the side elevation and under the stage. A Compton 4Manual/10Ranks organ rose from this under-stage area.
In 1939, the Paramount Theatre, along with all other UK Paramount’s, was sold to Oscar Deutsch’s chain of Odeon Theatres Ltd. and was re-named Odeon. Under this name, it continued successfully until 1970, with live shows augmenting the film presentations. The Rolling Stones played there, as did The Beatles supported on the bill by Roy Orbison. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra appeared in concert in the late-summer of 1969. The Odeon was closed on 13th September 1969 to be remodeled into a triple screen cinema.
The Compton organ was removed and by January 2004, the console was being housed in Summerlee Heritage Museum in nearby Coatbridge. It has now been shipped to a private residence in the USA. The remodeling involved stripping almost all of the Italianate interior out and creating 3 screens – one in the former balcony, one in the stalls (both seating around 1,100) and a smaller screen in the former stage area. This latter screen, seating 555, was formed over two levels, with a small circle, and had a separate entrance to the rear of the building. The foyers were remodeled too, with the double height sections being floored over, and the staircase realigned. The cafes were walled off to become offices and staff areas, and a bar was placed in the top foyer, although the view from the corner windows was now blocked.
The exterior suffered then too, the corner windows and fins being hidden behind a giant, full height readograph, lit from behind, and with corrugated metal sheeting covering much of the granite around it. It reopened as the Odeon Film Centre on 2nd October 1970.
In 1988, the screen in the stalls area was further subdivided into three screens, of around 220 seats each, and the smaller Screen 3 was split horizontally to give a total of six screens. Access to all screens was now from the main entrance. A further subdivision in 1999 saw the 1,100 seat Screen 1, in roughly the former circle, divided into four screens, bringing the total to nine. The current Screen 1, at 555 seats, is now the largest in the complex. This refurbishment also saw the bar being removed and, happily, the exterior restored to something like its former glory, with the removal of the readograph and the corrugated sheeting.
Sadly, only a few years later, the future seems uncertain, as Odeon sold the building in March 2003 to developers. On 29th March 1995, Historic Scotland afforded the building a degree of protection with a Grade B Listed building status, but this seems only to apply to the facade. It is listed in the Buildings At Risk Register.
The cinema closed on 7th January 2006, and plans call for the demolition of the interior to be replaced with shops, restaurants, and a nightclub. The facade is supposed to be restored to its 1934 appearance. The auditorium was demolished in March 2013 and will be replaced by a hotel & office block, with the front of the former Odeon and its foyer spaces becoming the lobby of the hotel." Cinema Treasures Website
Since the above narrative was written the office block has been completed.
British Real Hand-Coloured Photograph postcard, no. 3384/1. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Service for Ladies (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927).
Suave and debonair American actor Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) with his trademark waxy black moustache was one of Hollywood's most distinguished stars and one of America's 'Best Dressed Men'. He started as a matinée idol in the silent cinema in such classics as Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). His sound films included Morocco (1931) with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, A Star is Born (1937), and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) with Kirk Douglas. In 1931, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Front Page (1931).
Adolphe Jean Menjou was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh. He was the elder son of hotel manager Albert Menjou. His Irish mother, Nora Menjou-Joyce, was a distant cousin of the famous Irish author James Joyce. Menjou had a younger brother, Henri Menjou, who made an attempt to become an actor and played in three films for Paramount in the mid-1930s. Their French émigré father moved the family to Cleveland, where he operated a chain of restaurants. He disapproved of show business and sent his son to Culver Military Academy in Indiana in the hopes of dissuading him from an acting career. Later, at Cornell University, Menjou abruptly changed his major engineering to liberal arts and began auditioning for college plays. He did some vaudeville work, and from 1915 on, he appeared as an extra for such film studios as Vitagraph, Edison and Biograph. During World War I, he served as a captain with the Ambulance Corps in France. After the war he found employment off-camera as a productions manager and unit manager. After six years of struggle he finally broke into the top ranks with substantial roles in The Faith Healer (George Melford, 1921) and Through the Back Door (Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford, 1921), starring Mary Pickford. He earned a Paramount contract and played Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, 1921), starring Douglas Fairbanks and the influential writer Raoul de Saint Hubert in Rudolph Valentino's classic The Sheik (George Melford, 1921). Menjou established his slick prototype as the urbane ladies' man and wealthy roué opposite Edna Purviance in Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Paramount capitalized on Menjou's playboy image by casting him as matinée leads in Broadway After Dark (Monta Bell, 1924), Sinners in Silk (Hobart Henley, 1924), The Ace of Cads (Luther Reed, 1926), A Social Celebrity (Malcolm St. Clair, 1926) and A Gentleman of Paris (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927).
The stock market crash led to the termination of Adolphe Menjou's Paramount contract and his status as a leading man. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "MGM took him on at half his Paramount salary and his fluency in such languages as French and Spanish kept him employed at the beginning. Rivalling Gary Cooper for the attentions of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) started the ball rolling for Menjou as a dressy second lead. Rarely placed in leads following this period, he managed his one and only Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" with his performance as editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (Lewis Milestone, 1931). " Other successful films include Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932), Little Miss Marker (Alexander Hall, 1934), A Star is Born (William A. Wellman, 1937), Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937) and Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian, 1939). During the war, he entertained the troops overseas and worked for the radio. He played the slick and slimy lawyer Billy Flynn opposite Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942). After the war he played secondary parts in The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948). His last lead was in the crackerjack thriller The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952). His role was a San Francisco homicide detective tracking down a killer who preys on women in San Francisco. For the first time in nearly two decades, he appeared without his moustache .In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in Hollywood. His last notable film was the classic anti-war picture Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) in which he played the villainous General Broulard. After Disney's Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960), featuring Hayley Mills, he retired from acting. In 1963, he died in his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with hepatitis. He married three times. His second wife was actress and co-star Kathryn Carver. They married in 1928 and divorced in 1934. Since 1934 he was married to actress Verree Teasdale, with whom he had an adopted son, Peter. His autobiography was called 'It Took Nine Tailors' (1947).
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
A backstage view, showing the curtain operating mechanism and a tech guy working on a project.
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The Paramount Theatre, also known as the Paramount Arts Center, is located in Aurora, Illinois. It was designed by Rapp and Rapp in the Art Deco style with Venetian elements, and opened in 1931. Over the years, it has hosted films, plays, musicals, concerts, comedy shows, and other acts. It has been extensively renovated and restored, with great attention to maintaining historical accuracy in the beautiful auditorium.
Seen heading around the St.Annes Street roundabout in Valetta catching the early morning sun on May 26th this year was LPY111 one of Paramount Coaches two Plaxton Elite bodied Volvo B12B's.
These two vehicles have sen very little use despite being on the island for a number of months, this is, however not unusual for Paramount.
Newlands Farm have this unidentified Plaxton Paramount coach, I presume as a shed. This has traditionally been a fairly remote area of Banchory Devenick just west of Portlethen although the AWPR is being built just next to it that will end that. The coach was not at the farm when Google mapped the area so has been acquired in the last few years at least. There was an unidentified Paramount just down the road at the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service but that was allover white so not this coach.
Anyone know the identity of this?
The Paramount Theater of Burlington North Carolina.
Originally opened in 1928, the Paramount Theater was scheduled to be demolished after it was hit by hard times in the 1960s and 70s. The theater managed to survive and is now the permanent home of community theater in Burlington. The theater was renovated in 1993 by the City of Burlington and the Alamance County Arts Council.
This is one of my favorites from Burlington for my "Main St. NC" series. Stay tuned for more later this week.
Austin’s historic Paramount Theater opened in 1915 as a vaudeville venue, originally as the Majestic. Performers from those early days included Harry Houdini, becoming a silent movie theater from the 1920s. A tie-in with Paramount Studios led to the adoption of the theatre’s present name. The signature blade sign was removed during renovations in the 1960s but was restored in time for the theater’s centenary in 2015.
United 1325 was one of a number of Leyland Tigers to be acquired second-hand from West Riding at the time when both operators were under the common ownership of Caldaire. This vehicle had been new to West Riding in January 1986 and is pictured in pictured in Bishop Auckland on 1st August 1991.
Paramount Coaches Plaxton Excalibur bodied Dennis Javelin JCY989 is seen here heading out of Malta Airport working a private hire.
In New York City for one night to see "Hangmen" on Broadway, we stayed at the Knickerbocker Hotel on Time Square. We were on the 16th floor, a corner room, looking out on the flashing, billboard splendor. The Paramount Building was across the intersection at 1501 Broadway. This grand Art Deco building was built in the 1920s. The lights from the huge, flashing billboards reflected off this 33 story pyramidal edifice. The ornamental glass globe glowed green in the night. May 13, 2022
Parksville's former large resort was later bought out by Best Western, However a fire halted all renovation and like its larger area cousins, she sits empty and decaying.
New in 1990 to Linkline of London, Volvo B10M Plaxton Paramount 3500 G21 CEH is a typical exampls of coaches in the 1990's. In September that year it passed to Potteries Motor Traction (PMT) as number 21. In August 200 it went to Hayton of Burnage and gained the private plate RIL 5713. It has been with West Coast Motors, Tower Coaches of West yorkshire, and more recently was with Dodsworth's of Boroughbridge (in their bright orange livery, aquired Feb 2012). In August 2014 it was bought by EYMS drivers Ian and Jeanette Tallentire for restoration by COBUS and was placed into the white Volvo demonstrator livery (which was displayed at a Big Bus Day event). Now however it is seen back within the York Pullman realm at Rufforth, and has been given a new Heritage Livery for the group in the shape of the 1990's Eddie Brown colours - which is quite fitting as EBT did have B10M Paramounts in this livery. Note: Eddie brown Tours shouldn't be confused by Eddie Brown Travel, the phoenixed company which was owned by Island Fortitude and operated for a while without any 'O' licenses and later was absorbed within Tates Travel.
Five different Paramount bodies on five different chassis - where will you see a line-up like this again ?
The chassis are (L-R) Dennis Dorchester, Bedford YNT, Leyland Tiger, Volvo B10M and Mercedes O303. The bodies are one each of Mark I - Mark IV, with the last one having the slight modifications for the O303.
Both of the National Express coaches are "impostors", having never carried that livery in their working lives, but both are splendid representations of how things were.
And if the DVLA are to be believed, then Roy McCarthy's Bedford should be black, despite having been delivered in blue and cream when new, and never worn any other colour in its life !
A pair of Leyland Plaxton Paramount 3200s in Brough, 31st March, 2024. PWS 492S is a Leopard rebodied in 1983 for Bristol Omnibus and subsequently operated for Badgerline whilst C131 HJN is a former Eastern National Tiger that later saw service with United.
WUV 417 is a Plaxton Paramount 3500 bodied Leyland Royal Tiger B50, originally registered A382 NNK by Arlington (dealer) in 1983. It carries a superb Royal Tiger badge below the windscreen.
A collection of bus photos from a holiday in North Wales in May 1996.
Here, Dennis Javelin / Plaxton Paramount III G958WNR of Pathfinder-Masons, Willenhall is seen in the Llandudno coach park in Mostyn Broadway.