Famously lost Laurel & Hardy film HATS OFF played Sid Grauman's prestigious Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, at Sixth and Hill streets, on March 8, 1927. Built in 1923, this enormous movie palace seated 3,485 people, and lasted until it was demolished in 1960. By then every single HATS OFF film element, including the 35mm print projected at this theatre for lucky patrons, had vanished. Though difficult to read because of the colors used, the top of the 1-sheet posters (none of which survives either) specially created for this run reads, "Never before a two-reel comedy like this!" We may never know. Also on the bill, another lost film, TILLIES PUNCTURED ROMANCE with W.C. Fields, and a live stage show featuring "The Ingenues" from "Flo. Ziegfeld's 1928 Follies."