mtnman your over blown sense of self-importance is getting out of hand here. I merely came up with the most likely answer to the OPs question. If you have a more plausible solution post it. Im not here to prove anything.
Don't mistake the fact that I've pointed out the miss-identification of the statue (and supported that fact with visual evidence) with the idea that I feel more important than you or anyone else here.
What you came up with is obviously not "the most likely answer to the OPs question". It appears to be a guess based on circumstantial, incomplete and unsupported information.
If you can't ID the statue and its location, there's no shame in that. Nobody else can either at this point.
Fact is... 1944 was a long time ago.
I've been working on it. But you're correct, it was a long time ago.
For what it's worth, I've been researching it from the direction you alluded to. I've been looking into the history of the theater and whether the explanation you give could possibly be correct. I haven't found anything to support it yet, but I'm not finished either. If nothing else, I'd like to see if I can ID the building in the photo as part of the original theater.
You dont seem to be coming up with answers here but you are acting the total jerk with all this "Its hard to take you at your word" junk. Find another answer if your so full of information.
Don't be so sensitive, and don't take it as a personal attack on you or your credibility. I could have probably left off the "hard to take you at your word" part, but then again, that's all I had to go on, and it's hard to just go on that when the statues obviously aren't the same. Persisting with the claim that the ID was correct was annoying (I thought it was jerk-like, myself). I guess I'm kind of sorry about that wording, but not totally?
And pointing out the differences between the statues is something anyone who looks at them can do. I don't claim to be "full of information" when it comes to that. I may have more training in it than some, but it's just visual evidence that anyone can see if they take more than a passing glance.
Getting a positive ID may take a long time; and it's obviously not an easy task or we'd have it solved by now. It could take years, or even be impossible at this point. The statue may not even exist anymore. It may have been moved more than once, for more than one reason. Who knows?