<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theatre_(42nd_Street)" class="extiw" title="en:Apollo Theatre (42nd Street)">Apollo Theatre</a> entrance (left) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square_Theater" class="extiw" title="en:Times Square Theater">Times Square Theatre</a>, north side of West 42nd Street between 7th and 8th avenues in Manhattan, in 1922.
<p>The theaters share a unified facade and marquee, but the Apollo was actually on 43rd Street. In 1996 the Apollo was demolished and a new house was constructed on the combined "footprint" of the Apollo Theatre and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Theatre_(1903_New_York_City)" class="extiw" title="en:Lyric Theatre (1903 New York City)">Lyric Theatre</a>, which it adjoined on 43rd Street. Some architectural elements from the two theaters were preserved and incorporated in the new theater, which opened on January 18, 1998 as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Theatre_(1998_New_York_City)" class="extiw" title="en:Lyric Theatre (1998 New York City)">Ford Center for the Performing Arts</a>. After several name changes, it was renamed the Lyric in 2014.
</p><p>The facade and the Times Square Theatre are extant (in 2014).
</p><p>In the image an electrical sign announces the film <i>Silver Wings</i>, starring Mary Carr, at the Apollo, where it played from May 17 to August 20, 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p><p>The marquee advertises <i>The Charlatan</i> ("A Thriller"), a play which ran at the Times Square from April 24 to June 17, 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></p><p><b>Notes</b>
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<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40C17F73D5F10738DDDA10994DD405B828EF1D3">"The Screen"</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (May 18, 1922) (review of <i>Silver Wings</i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F7061EFA355B11728DDDA90A94D0405B828EF1D3">"Picture Plays and People"</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (August 20, 1922), third item (announcing end of run)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70813FB3F5E10728DDDAC0A94DC405B828EF1D3">"<i>The Charlatan</i> Exciting"</a> <i>The New York Times</i> (April 25, 1922) (review)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0C17FE3B5D14738DDDA10994DE405B828EF1D3">"Gossip of the Rialto"</a> NYT (June 18, 1922) col. 2 bottom (closed)</span>
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Wurts Brothers, photographers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_De_Rosa" class="extiw" title="en:Eugene De Rosa">Eugene De Rosa</a>, architect.
1922
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