Empire Theater (2)

EMPIRE THEATER (2) . 236 W. 42nd Street. Architect: Thomas W. Lamb . Original name: Eltinge Theatre . Opening: September 11, 1912; Within the Law . Producer A. H. Woods hired Thomas W. Lamb, who would become one of the preeminent motion picture theater architects in the 1920s and ’30s, to design the Eltinge Theatre, named after famed female impersonator Julian Eltinge . Lamb came up with a distinguished Beaux Arts design for his theater...