The “unequalled vaudeville” performed during that week was a typical mix of comedy, music, animal acts, and more that doesn’t measure up to the flaming torches on the cover that include the words “Literature, Art, Music and Drama,” but certainly was the type of menu of entertainment that satisfied a mass audience looking for entertainment, rather than the “legitimate theater” offered elsewhere.Īs noted in the October 2018 post, Pantages, a native of Greece, made his modest start in entertainment during the ferment of the Yukon gold rush in the area of Canada next to Alaska and then hit his stride in Seattle. It is a program for the week of 16 January 1911 with its original owner adding a pencil inscription on the front page: “Jan. It was at the original Broadway location where tonight’s highlighted artifact from the museum’s collection is concerned. Finally, Pantages completed the theater that still bears his name in Hollywood in 1930 as his legal issues continued. Gary Leonard, who has been the official photographer at Homestead events for years now, snapped the image here just last week as work has begun. Broadway and long known as the Arcade after Pantages built a much larger and more opulent theater at 7th and Hill in 1920 (later the Warner Downtown Theatre), is undergoing renovation. Moreover, the original Pantages Theater at 534 S. Photo taken by and courtesy of Gary Leonard. The original Pantages Theater, long known as the Arcade, as the ravaged marquee shows, at 534 S. We are also awaiting confirmation of a third presentation in collaboration with the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation, which, if this comes to pass, will take place in one of the old theaters on Broadway. Canal Street in Orange and Marcy will again be there to take part, so we certainly hope those of you reading this will consider attending. The story of Pantages and Pringle will be reprised on Thursday, 13 February at the Orange County Historical Society’s monthly meeting at Trinity Episcopal Church at 2400 N. A surprising and vital last-minute addition to the discussion was the participation of Marcy Worthington, the only child of Eunice and who provided a remarkable personal dimension to the story that largely focused on the prominent Pantages, proprietor of a highly successful chain of theaters throughout the western United States and elsewhere in the country.
DIRTY DANCING LOCATION AFTER PANTAGES THEATER TRIAL
A post on this blog in October 2018 concerning the 1929 sexual assault trial of Alexander Pantages, accused of an attack on teenage dancer Eunice Pringle led to a presentation last fall on the topic.
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