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| Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
| Date: | 01 24 1936 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre canopy and sign at night on the 200 block of State Street. The Orpheum Theatre marquee notes: "Shep Fields" on stage, and "Kind Lady" o... |
| Date: | 09 25 1956 |
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| Description: | A man and two women with piles of paper tickets being sorted for the upcoming theater season at the Fred Miller theater. |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Capitol Theatre at night with sign and marquee, located at 209-211 State Street. On the left is the Fred W. Kruse Co., and on the righ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Capitol Theatre's entrance flanked with staircases. |
| Date: | 04 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three student actors in a play scene on stage at Edgewood High School. |
| Date: | 10 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theatre lobby, 216 State Street, with sign with description of items on display at Baron's Department Store that were used to produce "American Rom... |
| Date: | 10 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theatre marquee advertising "Lost Horizon" starring Ronald Colman. 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 11 19 1936 |
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| Description: | Flannery and Wohlenberg standing on the sidewalk in front of the Madison Theatre. A woman is inside the ticket booth. |
| Date: | 04 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Two scenes from the East High School operetta "Tune In," a modern musical comedy, presented by the East High A Capella Choir and Treble Clef Club. |
| Date: | 09 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Garrick Theatre, 115 Monona Avenue. (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.) Interior, side view, of the theater being remodeled. |
| Date: | 03 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Bryn Griffiths, Capitol Theatre advertising manager and treasurer, shown at empty safe after burglary. |
| Date: | 09 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Fan dancer Rosita Carmen performing at the Orpheum Theatre, while offstage she is accompanied by the organist Mac Bridwell. |
| Date: | 09 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Rosita Carmen, burlesque dancer, performing with feather fans on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre. |
| Date: | 08 06 1933 |
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| Description: | "Gold Diggers of 1933" on Orpheum Theater marquee, 216 State Street. The entrance to Weber's Restaurant is on the left side of the theater. |
| Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s... |
| Date: | 12 08 1931 |
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| Description: | A girl posing in costume in her role as the Madonna from a Central High School play. |
| Date: | 09 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Parkway Theater (formerly Fuller Opera House). 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. McVicar's automobile is parked in front with a sign on the tire cov... |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Two Orpheum stars with Mrs. Nina Westbury. They are standing in front of flags. |
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