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Chickering Hall, Boston (1901)

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Chickering Hall, Boston (1901)

Chickering Hall (1901-1912) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay. It stood adjacent to Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the Emerson College of Oratory and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe." In 1912 it became the St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.

Performances

  • Opening concert, with Antoinette Szumowska, Pol Plançon, Kneisel Quartet
  • Lucy Gates, soprano
  • Florizel, boy violinist
  • Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist
  • The Merchant of Venice, with Ben Greet English Co.
  • W. B. Yeats plays, with Margaret Wycherly
  • Beatrice Herford

    • References

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