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Saint George Theatre

This movie and vaudeville house was built by independent theatre owner Solomon Brill as part of a $2 MM office and theatre complex. The Spanish and Italian Baroque interior originally featured a Wurlitzer theatre organ. The theatre was largely devoted to film after 1934 until 1977. Subsequent attempts over the next three decades to turn the theatre into a roller rink, an antique showroom, a night club, and a performing arts center were unsuccessful until 2004 when dance teacher Rosemary Cappozalo and her daughters, Luanne Sorrentino, Doreen Cugno, and Rosemary Hillers, started a not-for-profit organization to save the theatre from demolition and reopen it as a live performance venue.

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