Word: theater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
Since the Keith Memorial has taken to running only pictures, the high class vaudeville acts for which it was so noted have shifted to its sister theater, the Keith Albee, with the result that the pictures at the latter house are as a rule of lower calibre...
Hollis--"Pygmalion". One of Shaw's best produced by the Theater Guild...
Right now there are approximately 3,000,000 persons either temporarily or permanently unemployed. Jobs have been growing steadily scarcer for the past six weeks. Example: steady growth of sound cinema has forced a total of 16,000 union musicians out of theater work...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concert in Sanders Theater at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The program will consist entirely of the works of Glazounow, who will conduct the orchestra. The soloist for the evening will be Benno Rabinoff...