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Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
...SATURDAY NIGHT in the Orpheum theater in downtown Boston, and a garishly dressed is assembled, swaying slowly back and forth to an old Montown number, which no one can remember. The house lights are dimmed, and five silhouetted figures make their way to their instruments. A nasal, almost adolescent voice comes out of nowhere...
...album yet, do so now because he will play almost all of it. The best part is when, the crowd joins on all of the old favorites Margaritaville." Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Come Monday," and the cult Classic. "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)." Bullet at the Orpheum here two years ago was great, in his own backyard he'll be incredible. Make sure to get there while there's still beer, and when he asks everybody what they want to hear near the end yell "migration" because it's a great song...
...first 25 ticket-seekers in line, mostly college students, gathered outside the Orpheum early yesterday after hearing rumors emanating from radio stations in New York and Massachusetts. Although Orpheum spokesmen said they didn't know if tickets would be sold, WBCN hinted that people would be able to buy them within twenty-four hours. By 2 p.m. the ticket-seekers began to grumble...
...tickets arrived before the outlet opened at 10 a.m. Some were there to buy tickets for the Stones' Nov. 27-28 concert in Syracuse, but the Nov. 27 date sold out Tuesday and tickets for the 28th would not be available through Ticketron, a spokesman for the Orpheum said...