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    into the Keith-Albee-Orpheum corporation, ultimately becoming part of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) corporation. The Orpheum Circuit was started by the...
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  • Orpheum Circuit. The company was incorporated in Delaware on January 28, 1928, to acquire the stocks of the B.F. Keith Corporation; Orpheum Circuit,...
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  • controlled everything east of Chicago and Orpheum controlled Chicago and everything to the west of it. The Chitlin' Circuit was a "collection of all-black venues...
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    The Orpheum Theatre is a 1364-seat theatre in downtown Phoenix. This venue was originally used for vaudeville acts as part of the nationwide Orpheum Circuit...
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    Orpheum theater in the United States. Downtown Los Angeles's Palace Theatre was originally built as the third home of Los Angeles's Orpheum Circuit....
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  • Orpheum is a name often used for theatres or other entertainment venues. It may refer to: Orpheum Circuit, a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters Orpheum...
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    theater Omaha Orpheum Interior Postcard Orpheum Theater Interior Original Omaha Orpheum Theater Postcard Orpheum Circuit Program - Omaha Orpheum on lower left...
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    California. The Orpheum theatres are named for the Greek mythological figure, Orpheus. The first site for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit was the Grand Opera...
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    and San Francisco. The group eventually became a staple on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit's North America tour. Bennie Nawahi separated from the group and...
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    theatre owner and manager, and theatrical booking agent, who founded the Orpheum Circuit, and built the Palace and Martin Beck Theatres in New York City's Broadway...
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    such a purchase. At that same time, the allied Keith-Albee and Orpheum theater circuits, built around the then fading medium of live vaudeville, were pursuing...
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    The Orpheum Theatre, originally the Pantages Theatre, is located at 1192 Market Street at Hyde, Grove and 8th Streets in the Civic Center district of...
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    was C. S. Harris. The Orpheum was the main vaudeville stop in Champaign and Urbana, and a member of the noted Orpheum Circuit. It played host to many...
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    Sioux City Orpheum was designed by the nationally known Chicago firm of Rapp & Rapp and constructed in 1927 as part of the Orpheum Circuit. The major...
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    The Grand became part of the Orpheum Circuit in 1907, and the theater became known as the Orpheum. Vaudeville at the Orpheum was successful for almost two...
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    went to Albee. In 1928, the B. F. Keith Circuit merged with the Orpheum Circuit to form the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) corporation in Marysville, Washington...
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    condition. The theater opened as part of vaudeville's Orpheum Circuit. As part of the Orpheum Circuit, the theater presented such stars as Jimmy Durante...
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    In 1928, the theaters owned by Albee and the Orpheum Circuit merged to form the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit. The combined theater chain now had over 700...
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    movies and live entertainment. Throughout the 1920s, the Chicago-based Orpheum circuit brought famous names like: Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Jack Benny, George...
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    the Titanic sank). The Sharpshooters Club leased the theatre to the Orpheum Circuit of Boston, which brought a series of vaudeville and variety performers...
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    Kansas City jazz; theater, as a historical center of the Vaudevillian Orpheum circuit in the 1920s; the nickname City of Fountains; the Chiefs and Royals...
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    salesmanship, Fred and Adele Astaire landed a major contract and played the Orpheum Circuit in the Midwest, West and some Southern cities in the U.S. Soon Adele...
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    immediate sensation. The Keith-Albee Theatre Circuit, the Orpheum Circuit, the Pantages Theatre Circuit, Loew's Inc., all of the picture houses, and several...
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    had become primarily a tap-dancing act, booked on both the Keith and Orpheum Circuits. The team broke up in 1914, and vaudeville performer Rae Samuels, who...
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  • which was part of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit at the time. This would later become the RKO Pictures circuit. The Houdini Tour, show, and museum...
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    brick mason, and her mother performed in vaudeville as a dancer on the Orpheum circuit and later taught ballet. After the divorce of her parents in 1964,...
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    43°4′30″N 89°23′19″W / 43.07500°N 89.38861°W / 43.07500; -89.38861 The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater built in the 1920s as...
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    she was 15 years old, Kane was onstage professionally, touring the Orpheum Circuit with the Marx Brothers in On the Balcony. She spent the early 1920s...
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    Herbie Sommers, finally manages to secure a booking on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit. Years pass, and the girls no longer are young enough to pull off the...
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    acts, and a loyal national following. One of the biggest circuits was Martin Beck's Orpheum Circuit. It incorporated in 1919 and brought together 45 vaudeville...
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