Crescent Theater
920 N. Congress Avenue,
Austin,
TX
78701
920 N. Congress Avenue,
Austin,
TX
78701
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Previous Names: Unique Theater
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The Unique Theater had opened by March 30, 1913. It was renamed Crescent Theater on September 7, 1913. In 1925 it was equipped with a Reproduco pipe organ. It closed in 1931. The retail building at the site may have housed the former theater.
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Renamed from Unique on September 7th, 1913
Crescent theatre opening · Sun, Sep 7, 1913 – 10 · Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) · Newspapers.com
Oldest article about the theatre as Unique:
Unique theatre first mention in the paper. · Sun, Mar 30, 1913 – 11 · Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) · Newspapers.com
According to Film Daily Yearbook this theater had 325 seats. By 1926 J M Hegman was operating the theater.
Article transcribed from The Austin American, Sunday, July 5, 1925
BETTER MUSIC AT CRESCENT New Reproduco Organ Has Been Installed.
A new special Reproduco pipe organ has been installed in the Crescent Theatre, it was announced by the management recently. The Reproduco is the newest thing in theatre music, it was said, and it will play during the entire performance at the Crescent in the future. It is the first of its type ever brought to Austin. The instrument is reported to reproduce the organ music of the original artist with all the shadings of tone and volume, and it fills the wants of theatres playing pictures at popular prices where no orchestras are used.
(Note: Reproduco was an automated musical instrument company that built some 200-odd small pipe organs/photoplayers during the silent movie era. Though few survive today, they are in retrospect, seen to be of exceptional quality and the music recorded on their paper rolls is of quite good quality.)