Love this shot of the Cambria Theatre on Main Street. You can see that 'Orchids and Ermine' is playing - starring Miss Colleen Moore - she is not really one of my favorites - the films I have seen her in - she just doesn't have any charisma to me - but then again - with so few surviving films - I could be misjudging her and TCM doesn't play her much anyway. For you trivia buffs out there - this picture was the film debut of Mickey Rooney and for a Blair County connection - Hedda Hopper is also in the film - she grew up in Hollidaysburg and is buried in Altoona.
Now back to the photograph on hand - the movie was released nationwide in March of 1927. But judging from the picture and the leaves on the trees and knowing about the State Censorship Board (Pennsylvania was very strict and would have had to make cuts) - I'd say this was late April or sometime in May. Oh and one more thing - this picture was snapped at 9:40 am.
Now back to the photograph on hand - the movie was released nationwide in March of 1927. But judging from the picture and the leaves on the trees and knowing about the State Censorship Board (Pennsylvania was very strict and would have had to make cuts) - I'd say this was late April or sometime in May. Oh and one more thing - this picture was snapped at 9:40 am.
