I have not been back to this site for a long time, but the Grand Theater I identified in my 1/13/08 posting as a former vaudeville house was, in fact, the Grand Theater on Grand Street. The 1907 program that I have includes a seating map that shows “exits no. 1,2,3 leading to Grand Street” and “exits no. 4 and 5 leading to South 1st Street.” The theater was managed by Davis & Marks. This was not the Grand Opera House on Elm.
Before The Grand Theatre was a movie theater, it was a vaudeville playhouse. I have a January 14, 1907 program, when The Grand featured the play “Grogan’s Alley,” followed by musical performances by (among others) Violet Villiers (Singing Soubrette) and Sabine and Dale, Assisted by Miss Cora Spencer, “in their laughable comedy creation, entitled ‘Training a Husband,’” followed by “the electric marvel of the age,” (presumably a motion picture) presenting 10 rounds of a fight between Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, refereed by “the world’s champion James J. Jeffries.” The program notes that amateur contests were held every Thursday night — and that every Friday night was “Athletic Night.”
I have not been back to this site for a long time, but the Grand Theater I identified in my 1/13/08 posting as a former vaudeville house was, in fact, the Grand Theater on Grand Street. The 1907 program that I have includes a seating map that shows “exits no. 1,2,3 leading to Grand Street” and “exits no. 4 and 5 leading to South 1st Street.” The theater was managed by Davis & Marks. This was not the Grand Opera House on Elm.
C. R. Brewster
Before The Grand Theatre was a movie theater, it was a vaudeville playhouse. I have a January 14, 1907 program, when The Grand featured the play “Grogan’s Alley,” followed by musical performances by (among others) Violet Villiers (Singing Soubrette) and Sabine and Dale, Assisted by Miss Cora Spencer, “in their laughable comedy creation, entitled ‘Training a Husband,’” followed by “the electric marvel of the age,” (presumably a motion picture) presenting 10 rounds of a fight between Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, refereed by “the world’s champion James J. Jeffries.” The program notes that amateur contests were held every Thursday night — and that every Friday night was “Athletic Night.”