Image: Our theatres to-day and yesterday (1913) (14579801100)

Description: Identifier: ourtheatrestoday00dimm (find matches) Title: Our theatres to-day and yesterday Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Dimmick, Ruth Crosby Subjects: Theater -- New York (State) New York Publisher: New York : The H.K. Fly Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF BURLESQUE. The Olympic Theatre, located at 144 Broadway, between Grand and Howard streets, was opened September 12, 1837, and was described by a critic of the day as a parlor of elegance 1837 and beauty. The opening performance was Perfec-tion, followed by The Lady and the Devil. Theauditorium was small and was entered by a subterranean passage running between the boxes and furnished with distinct ticketvendors and doorkeepers. The first and second rows of boxeswere shut off from the lobby by a series of doors and were setapart for ladies and their escorts. A bar was run in connectionwith the theatre for the accommodation of the thirsty. Seats inthe boxes sold for 75 cents, and in the pit for 37^/2 cents. TheOlympic, however, was not placed on a paying basis until theseason of 1838-9, when William Mitchell took hold of it. Thenfrom 1841 to 1845 it became the leading place of amusement inthe city, producing light farces, extravaganzas and burlesques,in whic Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Our theatres to-day and yesterday (1913) (14579801100)
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