It looks like Norma Talmadge in “The Woman Disputed” really packed them in at the United Artists Theater on Broadway, Los Angeles in 1928. I wonder if they knew—or Norma knew, for that matter—that it would be her final silent movie. At any rate, get a load of all that gorgeously detailed masonry. Not only is it still there but has been fully restored now that it’s the Ace Theatre.

The Ace Theatre in March 2018: