Keith-Albee Boston Theatre
The Keith-Albee Boston Theatre (1925-1930s) was a cinema in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Boston Theater District.[1][2] It occupied part of a larger building at no.616 Washington Street, which itself had originally housed the Henry Siegel Co. department store. The theater section was built in 1925, designed by Thomas Lamb."[3] In the 1930s the Keith-Albee became known as the RKO-Boston, an abbreviation for "Radio-Keith-Orpheum".[4]
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See also
- Edward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), impresario
References
- ↑ Elliot Norton (1978), Broadway Down East: an informal account of the plays, players, and playhouses of Boston from Puritan times to the present : lectures delivered for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston Public Library Learning Library Program, Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, ISBN 0-89073-055-5, OCLC 3843437, 0890730555
- ↑ Donald C. King (2005), The Theatres of Boston: a Stage and Screen History, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., ISBN 0-7864-1910-5, 0786419105
- ↑ Anthony J. Yudis. "Lafayette Place inspires revitalization; 5 old buildings in lower Washington Street marked for rehabilitation." Boston Globe, 28 Nov 1982
- ↑ Frank Cullen; Florence Hackman; Donald McNeilly (2004). Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. Psychology Press. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2.
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Jan 12, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - May 25, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Aug 31, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Sep 14, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Sep 21, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Nov 9, 1926
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Mar 1, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Apr 12, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - May 3, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - May 17, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - May 31, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Jun 14, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Jun 21, 1927
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe - Jul 26, 1927
- ↑ Daily Boston Globe - Jun 5, 1928
- ↑ Daily Boston Globe - May 13, 1928
- ↑ "'Bozo' Snyder, Non-Talkie in Person at Keith-Albee." Daily Boston Globe - May 11, 1930
External links
- Library of Congress. Drawing of Keith Albee New Bijou Theatre, Washington and Essex Streets, Boston, Massachusetts, 1927.
- Wikimedia. Detail of postcard depicting Henry Siegel Co. department store, corner of Washington St. and Essex St., Boston, USA, ca.1910s
Coordinates: 42°21′9.06″N 71°3′45.27″W / 42.3525167°N 71.0625750°W
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