bearing the name J. Gootzeit in gilt lettering, and featuring a photographic transfer image of the Arion Theatre, Middle Village, in Queens, New York.

underside marked Germany.

Height 3 3/4 inches.

The Arion Theatre was a 970-seat cinema, possibly the first in Queens to be wired for sound. It was opened by at least 1928 when contemporaneous newspaper advertisements promoted the theatre as "The House of Talkies." Numerous members of the Gootzeit, variably spelled Gutzeit, clan are recorded as residents of Queens during the early twentieth century, including a Julius Gutzeit, although there are no immediately apparent connections to the Arion Theatre.