EARL CARROLL THEATRE. Southeast corner of 7th Avenue and 50th Street. Architect: George Keister . Opening: February 25, 1922; Bavu.
The Earl Carroll Theatre had two lives in two theaters on the same site. The first Earl Carroll Theatre was built by the producer with money supplied by Texas oil baron William Edrington, Carroll’s principal backer.
Among the theater’s technical innovations was the horizant,
a permanent cyclorama painted on the curved back wall of the stage house...