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- The most successful promoter of the style was John Eberson. He credited the Hoblitzelle Majestic Theatre (Houston, 1923, since demolished) as the first.
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John Eberson was the most successful promoter and designer of the atmospheric style. His last atmospheric design in the US was the "Midwest Theatre" at 17 N. Harvey Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which opened August 1, 1930, but was demolished in 1976.
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OPENED January 28, 1922. Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. The Indiana Theatre was the second of architect John Eberson’s three proto-Atmospheric theatres, all built prior to his self-proclaimed first Atmospheric theatre, the Majestic Theatre in Houston, Texas.
“The Atmospheric Theatre” was first published in the 12th June 1926 edition of Motion Picture News. It’s available online in various formats here , from an original held by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library and digitized online by the Internet Archive and the Media History Digital Library .
European-born American architect John Eberson was the pioneer of the Atmospheric theatre style and designed hundreds of theatres across the United States. John Adolf Emil Eberson was born in early 1875 to Austro-Hungarian parents in Chernivtsi, in what is modern-day Western Ukraine.
John Adolph Emil Eberson (January 2, 1875 – March 5, 1954) [1] was an Austrian-American architect best known for the development and promotion of movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre style.
John Eberson is considered by most to be the author of the "atmospheric" style, that included the interior of his movie palace auditoriums being designed to give the impression of being outside under the night's sky, complete with twinkling stars and rolling clouds.
The most successful promoter of the style was John Eberson. He credited the Hoblitzelle Majestic Theatre (Houston, 1923) as the first. Before the end of the 1920s he designed around 100 atmospheric theatres in the U.S. and a few other countries, personally selecting the furnishings and art objects.
