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Rex Theatre: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 2:37pm.
The mouths of babes..
Submitted by munchdog on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 6:07pm.
My grand-daughter saw one of these photos and asked me, 'Gran-pa, did people used to come in different colors?', I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Wrong Year?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 2:14am.
The movies on the playbills would mark the year as 1935, not 1937.
[That's because the movies are two years old. Not exactly a first-run house. - Dave]
Tarzan
Submitted by Jeff Lichtman on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 6:32pm.
It's interesting that the main feature is a Tarzan movie - these were pretty racist, showing the "superior" white man among the "primitive" natives. This story is set in Guatemala, not Africa, so Lord Greystoke gets to show his stuff on a different continent.
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