Built in 1925, the Embassy Theatre was designed as an exclusive high society motion picture house run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It made history by being the only theatre in the United States managed and staffed solely by women, under the direction of Gloria Gould Bishop.
She was the granddaughter of tycoon Jay Gould, whose son - her father - contracted a fever in Egypt after visiting King Tut's tomb in 1923. Gloria was married the same year. The Embassy opened two years later, and she didn't stick around too long. She left for Europe, saying New York was too expensive.
Some things never change.
