The theater was loaded in extravagant details, from its auditorium to its four-story, 1,000-square-foot, mirror-paneled, black-and-white checkered-floor Grande Lobby. … No one will dispute these assertions after having seen this magnificent building, with its opulence in decorative art … its thousand and one features planned for the complete enjoyment of patrons."
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McCormick wrote in the Free Press that the Michigan is "heralded as the world's finest. McLaughlin's review in the Detroit Daily News described the theater as "a new jewel to Detroit … bound to have its historic value in the city, for another such theatre is not likely to be built while the memory of this is yet green." Ella H. It becomes gay and light under the warm coloring that plays across the heavily carved and ornamental walls as myriads of unseen lights steal out from mysteriously hidden coves to illume the interior with romantic sundown colors." Your spirit rises and soars along the climbing pillars and mirrored walls that ascend five stories to the dome of the great lobby. The Free Press' review of the theater's opening showed Kunsky was a man of his word: "It is beyond the dreams of loveliness entering, you pass into another world. It is designed to be the great showplace of the middle west." "It is not merely a theatre for Detroit," Kunsky told The Detroiter in August 1926. To the Michigan, to see an eye-popping playhouse," the Detroit News wrote in November 1970. To the Adams to see the screen's greatest lover. "That way, a lot of customers would come to Kunsky houses twice.
Kunsky was known as a risk-taker, and he bet that the Michigan's opulence and grand opening would be a big enough draw to allow him to open his new theater with the lesser film while putting Valentino's last film, "The Son of the Sheik," at his much smaller Adams Theatre down the street. The opening was the same day that one of the silent screen's biggest stars, Rudolph Valentino, died at age 31 of peritonitis caused by a perforated ulcer. 23, 1926, with the film "You Never Know Women" with Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman.
It would be Kunsky's flagship in his empire of theaters. The theater was run by the Balaban & Katz group of Chicago in affiliation with Detroit's first theater tycoon, John H. … The average native Detroiter believes that it is quite natural for unusual things to be the usual in Detroit, but this great investment in such an undeveloped district made him wonder." "The growth of business on that part of Bagley avenue that has been touched by the magic of enterprise - that has felt the guiding hands of this far-seeing group, these public-spirited citizens - is one of Detroit's commercial marvels. Before the Michigan Theatre rose in 1926, the eastern end of Bagley was "a wide, unkempt thoroughfare with nondescript buildings lining most of its length," the Detroit Free Press wrote in January 1928. The other two key pieces were the United Artists Theatre and the 22-story Detroit-Leland Hotel. The Michigan complex was the first piece in an ambitious program planned for Bagley Avenue and sponsored by the Stormfeltz-Loveley real estate company. The theater's owners, the Detroit Properties Corp., decided to go with the more appropriately named Michigan Building and Michigan Theatre. Denis Hotel, a gas station, restaurant, blacksmith shop, employment bureau, Detroit Creamery Co. These names were tossed out in March 1925, about the same time that wreckers were beginning demolition to make way for the Michigan. The original plan was for the office tower to be called the Metropolitan Building, not to be confused with the Neo-Gothic gem on John R. The theater was the Rapp brothers' third largest, and it, and the 13-story Michigan Building office tower that it is connected to, would open in 1926. The Michigan was built at Bagley and Cass avenues at a cost of more than $3.5 million ($42.4 million today, when adjusted for inflation) and was the only Detroit theater designed by renowned architects Cornelius W.
The 4,038-seat Michigan Theatre was designed in the French Renaissance style in 1925 and was simply unrivaled in Detroit in elegance at the time.
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Generations of Detroiters used to park their seats under the jaw-dropping ornate plasterwork and opulence of a downtown movie palace.
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