When the Vine Street Theater opened at 1615 Vine St, just south of the Hollywood and Vine corner, it was a legitimate live theater. In March, 1931 it became a cinema called the Mirror, under the direction of Howard Hughes’ Hughes-Franklin circuit. Apparently it ran double features with THREE changes a week. (Can you imagine?) This shot here was taken in 1932 when a long-forgotten MGM picture, “Ladies of the Jury” was paired with one very well known to fans of classic cinema, RKO’s “Freaks,” and a Laurel & Hardy short. (That’s one hell of a program!) This theater is still around – for a long while it was the Lux Radio Playhouse where the long-running “Lux Radio Theater” hosted by Cecil B. DeMille was made – and is now a live theater known as the Ricardo Montalban.