Last night, at the Rivoli

April 1939. You are in New York, seated on your seat at the Rivoli Theatre. You are reading The New York Times where Frank S. Nugent writes about the film you are going to see:

After a long recess, Samuel Goldwyn has returned to serious screen business again with his film "Wuthering Heights," which had its première at the Rivoli last night. It is Goldwyn at his best, and better still, Emily Brontë at hers. Out of her strange tale of a tortured romance Mr. Goldwyn and his troupe have fashioned a strong and somber film, poetically written as the novel not always was, sinister and wild as it was meant to be, far more compact dramatically than Miss Brontë had made it. During December's dusty researches we expect to be filing it away among the year's best ten; in April it is a living thing, vibrant as the wind that swept Times Square last night. (...) (The New York Times, April 14, 1939)

Suddenly, the lights go off and the show begins...

If you want to experience something similar, you have a chance today, April 17, if you live near Jersey City. The Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre (1929, the only one of the Loew's Wonder Theaters still operating as movie theatre) shows Wuthering Heights:

Timeless Romance
Friday, April 27 08:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)

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