The Candler Theatre opened at 226 W. 42nd Street in 1914, named for its principal owner Asa Candler. Architect Thomas W. Lamb designed the theatre, and it was soon leased to George M. Cohan, Sam H. Harris, Sol Bloom, and George Kleine. In 1916 the theatre was renamed the Cohan and Harris after two of its lessees. Between 1917 and 1920, the theatre produced A Tailor Made Man, Three Faces East, and Welcome Stranger. The producing team split in 1920, and the theatre was renamed the Sam H. Harris Theatre. The next year, Arthur Hopkins’ famous production of Hamlet, starring John Barrymore, premiered at this theatre. The Candler Theatre was gutted and demolished, as the Harris Movie Theatre, in 1996 to make way for Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.