
Casino Theatre
1618 Market Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
1618 Market Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
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Theatre operated by John Karzin from 1907 to 1927 with 318 seats.
The August 15, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World has this item about John Karzin and the Casino Theatre:
I don’t know if Mr. Karzin’s plans for the Casino Theatre were carried out or not. I’ve been unable to find any later references to the Casino.I did come across one puzzling item in the November 7, 1908, issue of The Moving Picture World which is about a different St. Louis theater which was also called the Casino:
Cinema Treasures doesn’t have any other Casino Theatre listed in St. Louis, nor is it given as an aka for any St. Louis house, so I’ve been unable to identify this surplus Casino Theatre. It’s possible that the magazine just got the name wrong.The street names might have changed. As another possibility, there’s a Green Street in East St. Louis, so maybe the magazine accidentally left the East off of the city name.
The William and Marcella Magnan book on St. Louis street names says Green Street is now known as Lucas.
The Missouri History Museum’s online history resources indicates that its collections includes a box of circulars that date from 1801-1973. The description of one of these circulars, located in Folder No. 6 apparently dating from 1912 reads as follows: Circular of the Casino Theatre, 1618 Market St., [St. Louis]: “Balkan War: the First Moving Pictures!! The Allies against Turkey in the most wanton waste of world’s humanity ever recorded by the blood-dipped pen of history’s hand!!!”