The Roaring Lion on the Movie Screen

A marvelous memory: I never hear the opening of a movie without thinking of the following: Going to the movie theater as a kid. It was at the RKO Bushwich or the Loew’s Gates on Broadway in the Bushwich section of Brooklyn. My Aunt Anne O’Donnell use to take Cousin Sharon O’Donnell and me and then we would go either to the Ice Cream Parlor for hamburgers and a chocolate malt ( in a large frosty metal container from which you could pour more and more delicious malted into your glass - it was like being in Heaven! )or up the stairs to a Chinese restaurant next to the elevated train on Broadway. We saw such movies as “ Dial M for Murder” with Grace Kelly, “Singing in the Rain. “ and “ The Seven Little Foys” as well as others. We would walk in at anytime during the movie and stay until we got back to the point at which we walked in. Sometimes it would be a double feature or at least a cartoon or a “short”.