SNOOKUMS -

SNOOKUMS - [Sunny Jim McKeen [1924-1933 - blood poisoning] The New York Hippodrome - 'the largest theatre in the world' with 5,300 seats is in this 1926 advertisement running films .It had a chequered history, built in 1906 it was demolished in 1939. The 'opening' as referred to here is the premiering of these new films rather than the theatre's opening