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- Description:
- Half folded program for the Colonial Theater for the week of September 13, 1920, containing both the bill for Loew's Vaudeville as well as film to be screened. The vaudeville acts are the Colonial Orchestra; Fox, Benson, and Company in "The New Member;" Herb Knight and Marion Sawtelle; "master mind of the canine world," Brewster; Jimmy Rosen and Company in "Call Me Papa;" Thorndike and Curran in "Joining the Navy;" and dancers the Chalfonte Sisters. A preview for next week's offerings is printed on the back page.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville performance at the Temple Theatre the week of January 23, 1922. The Temple Theatre Orchestra; Brown, Gardiner, and Trahan; Al Haig and Earl LaVere; Frank Ellis; Daisy Nellis; James J. Morton; William L. Gibson and Regina Connelli; Clara Howard; Eddie Leonard; Binns and Grill; and the Temple Film Review are billed. The program also contains information about upcoming performances, including the following week's appearance by "Babe" Ruth, and numerous advertisements. The cover contains a green image of a frieze of a procession of performers above a stage curtain. Reviews, quotations, drawings, and other notes are handwritten in blue pen beside the entry for each act from someone who notes they were "at the Temple for our graduation movie."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "Merely Mary Ann" starring Eleanor Robson beginning January 15, 1906 at the Detroit Opera House; program features cast of characters, scene synopses, and musical program as well as advertisements for various Detroit-based companies; front cover is in color and features an illustration of a Classically dressed woman on the left side and a man in Renaissance-era costume on the right; between the two people are the masks of tragedy and comedy; "B. C. Whitney, Manager"; front cover also features an advertisement for "The House of George - Furs"
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a performance by Madame Liza Lehmann at the Garrick Theatre, as part of the Burton Collver Sunday Afternoon Series by Distinguished Artists, on January 16, 1910. A half tone photo of Lehmann, along with a list of the musicians accompanying her are on the cover. The lyrics to each selection are printed within.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photographic print depicting Cadillac Square as viewed from an elevated position near Randolph Street, facing west toward Michigan Avenue. The square is filled with rows of parked early automobiles. The Pontchartrain Hotel, City Hall, the Majestic Building, the Ford Building, Dime Building, and the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Campus Martius are all in view. Visible businesses include Gregg Hardware; a bar; the Gayety Theatre; the Old Kentucky Whiskey Company; the Wobrock Hotel; the American Hotel; Schroeder Paint and Glass Company; Cadillac Market; a bowling alley; McIntosh Bar; the Gregory, Mayer, and Thom Company; Home Candy Works; the Family Theatre; the Sweeney-Huston Company; Weil and Company Furniture; F.G. Clayton Company, Clothing; and Cadillac Burlesque. There are also advertisements for Calumet Baking Powder and the Ringling Brothers Circus. The word "red" above an arrow pointing to the Gregory, Mayer, and Thom Company has been added in pencil. "Gray" and an arrow have been written above City Hall. A note on the verso adds, "Gregory, Mayer and Thom Building red brick with stone trimmings," as well as "c.1913-1919."
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville performance at the Temple Theatre the week of August 14, 1911; program features a list of acts that will be performing as well as a number of advertisements; front cover features a color illustration of a young woman with a bow in her hair holding a fan looking back at the viewer as well as that of a minstrel playing a lute; at center "Temple Theatre, Detroit's Home of Vaudeville"; advertisement for Traver-Bird Co. at bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a production of "The Face in the Moonlight," at the Detroit Opera House. The program is printed in black and red, and contains numerous advertisments.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "The Legend of Leonora" and "The Ladies' Shakespeare" at Detroit Opera House November 2, 1914; front cover features a color illustration of the Opera House Facade with a number of people standing out front and two automobiles parked in the street; "B.C. Whitney, Proprietor"; "H.F. Parent, Manager"; in white letters near top "Detroit Opera House"
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a production of "The Suspect" at H.C. Miner's Grand Theatre scheduled for the week of January. 6, 1890; published in 1889; black and white print with red border markers around outside; "H.C. Miner's Grand Theatre Bill of the Play" in a banner at top of program; illustration of H.C. Miner in profile to the left; H.C. Miner Lessee & Mngr; Chas Shaw Resident Mngr; below: advertisements for various companies
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "The Charlatan" starring De Wolf Hopper at the Detroit Opera House beginning April 10, 1899; program also contains scene synopses and advertisements, including one for upcoming performances of "The Wizard of the Nile," and "The Idol's Eye;" front cover features a black and white illustration of the facade of the Detroit Opera House; "C. J. Whitney, Proprietor"
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
