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| Date: | 05 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte... |
| Date: | 08 17 1933 |
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| Description: | Crowd assembled outside the RKO Orpheum Theatre to watch "Tugboat Annie" on MGM's traveling theatre. Speths Clothing and other businesses in the 200 block ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron." |
| 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: | 12 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Woldenberg's, 26 E. Mifflin Street, "Joan Crawford" window taken for the Orpheum Theatre. "One of the many dresses worn by Joan Crawford in the picture: 'T... |
| Date: | 12 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Woldenberg's, 26 E. Mifflin Street, "Joan Crawford" window taken for the Orpheum Theatre. "One of the many dresses worn by Joan Crawford in the picture 'Th... |
| Date: | 07 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Reri (Anne Chevalier), Tahitian star of the Fanchon and Marco "Tahiti" show at the Orpheum theater, having her eyebrows penciled in her dressing room by Mr... |
| Date: | 11 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon & Marco "Irene Girls" listening to a small radio backstage at the Orpheum Theatre. Fanchon & Marco were a brother and sister choreography duo who t... |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932." |
| 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: | 05 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon & Marco showgirls being welcomed to Madison at railroad station. |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | World's largest Goodyear tire in front of RKO Orpheum theater, 216 State Street, with six people viewing the tire. One man is on top of the tire holding a ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1980 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire St... |
| Date: | 09 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Back in Madison after 27 years is Richard Neumann, one-time organist at the Orpheum and Parkway theaters. Neumann was the organist... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the World's largest tire on display in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre at 216 State Street. A group of people are standing on t... |
| Date: | 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the world premiere of "Childhood II: A Nude Encounter," a documentary film at the Stage Door Theatre, part of the Orpheum in Madison... |
| Date: | 05 27 1939 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred... |
| Date: | 09 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats." |
| Date: | 07 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Reri (Anne Chevalier), Tahitian star of the Fanchon and Marco "Tahiti" show at the Orpheum theater trying Cinderella cosmetics in her dressing room with Mr... |
| 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... |
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