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Author:   Donald C. King
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780786438747

ISBN 10:   0786438746
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   13 March 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      Chapter 1 (1750–1776)      God Bless the British Chapter 2 (1791–1794)      Foiling the Bluenoses, Lecture Halls, Rooms and Museums Chapter 3 (1794–1841)      The First Theatres Battle of the Managers The Lion and the Lamb Chapter 4 (1841–1843)      Exit Tremont Theatre, Enter Tremont Temple The Rise of the Boston Museum Chapter 5 (1843–1846)      The End of the World Enter the Howard Athenaeum The Boston Museum Moves up Tremont Street Chapter 6 (1847–1852)      Exit the First Boston Theatre The Adelphi and New National Theatres Chapter 7 (1852–1857)      Ancestors of the Movie Palaces The Boston Music Hall and the Second Boston Theatre Chapter 8 (1857–1861)      The Great Financial Panic of      1857 The Prince of Wales Comes to Boston Chapter 9 (1861–1873)      Minstrels, Aquariums and a New Boston Museum The Second Tremont Theatre and the Selwyn Chapter 10 (1874–1879)      Abbey and Schoeffel Meet John Stetson Head-On The Park Theatre Is Built in Fifty Days Chapter 11 (1879–1882)      The First “Movies” and Summer Theatres The Boston Bijou and Thomas Alva Edison Chapter 12 (1883–1885)      Benjamin Franklin Keith Comes to Boston Battle of the Museums The Hollis Street Theatre Chapter 13 (1885–1889)      The Year of the “Mikados” and the Grand Opera House George E. Lothrop’s Lady Natators Colonel Austin and Alexander Graham Bell Chapter 14 (1889)      Improvements at the Boston Theatre The Third Tremont Theatre Chapter 15 (1889–1891)      B.F. Keith Invents Vaudeville Enter Edward Franklin Albee Chapter 16 (1892–1894)      The Bowdoin Square Theatre B.F. Keith Builds a Palace Chapter 17 (1894–1896)      Cyclorama to Castle Square Theatre The End of an Chapter 18 (1896–1897)      The Motion Picture Comes to Boston Keith Builds a Subway Burlesque at the Palace and the Old Howard Chapter 19 (1898–1899)      The Last Days of the Boston Museum European Music Halls in Boston Chapter 20 (1900)      B.F. Keith and the Vaudeville Wars The United Booking Office William Morris and the Boston Music Hall Chapter 21 (1900–1903)      The Colonial, Majestic, and Globe Theatres The Brothers Shubert Arrive Chapter 22 (1905–1908)      The Music Hall Becomes Loew's Orpheum A Sleeping Giant Wakes The Poor Man’s Amusement Chapter 23 (1908–1910)      The Gaiety Theatre, the Boston Opera House The Sam S. Shubert Theatre Chapter 24 (1911–1912)      The National and the Plymouth Theatres Tremont Temple Becomes a Movie Palace Gordon’s Olympia and Saint James The First Feature Length Films Chapter 25 (1912–1915)      Famous Players in Famous Films, in Famous Theatres: Enter Adolph Zukor Chapter 26 (1915–1924)      Boston's First Movie Palace Loew’s Braves Field The Shuberts Build a Subway and the Copley Turns Around Chapter 27 (1925–1927)      The Third Boston Theatre The Mighty Metropolitan The Mystery House Chapter 28 (1926–1929)      “Auld Lang Syne” at B.F. Keith’s Theatre The Voice of the Screen The B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre Chapter 29 (1929–1937)      Albee Out, Kennedy In, RKO Is Born The Shuberts in Receivership The Great Depression and Proven Pictures Memories of the Scollay Square Palace Chapter 30 (1938–1949)      U.S. Sues Paramount Pictures over Monopoly Walt Disney’s Fantasia Saves the Majestic The Coconut Grove Tragedy, Bye Bye Bijou Chapter 31 (1950–1958)      U.S. Sues Shubert over Monopoly 3-D, CinemaScope, and Cinerama Ben Sack Steps In and the Boston Opera House Steps Chapter 32 (1958–1979)      The Old Howard’s Swan Song Ben Sack Takes Over the Met Keith’s Pornography Comes to Washington Street Sarah Caldwell Gets Her Opera House Chapter 33 (1979–2002)      Lose Some, Save Some Bringing Back Boston's Downtown Memories of the Bijou Appendix 1: Boston Theatres in Chronological Order      Appendix 2: How Patrons Got to Boston Theatres      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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The late Donald C. King, a Boston native, spent 42 years in the theatre business and retired in 1980. He was the owner of the last operating motion picture theatre in downtown Washington, D.C.

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