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LEASE OH OLD LYCEUMtColored Managers to Conduct Independent Vaudeville.PERFORMERS OF BOTE RACESProprietors Have Been in the Theatrical Bittiness in Washington Fcur Years and Own Houses in Other Cities—Announcement of Latest Acquisition Made From Stage of the Howard Last WightAndrew J Thomas and Gherman H JDudlBj1- both colored and proprietors of the Howard and the Dudley theaters respectively, have taken out a five-year lease on the American Theater, formerly the Lyceum and K email a Theater at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest They will open the former hurlesque house either August 24 or Si as an Independent vaudeville and moving picture theaterThe lease was taken from the present owners, the Empire Circuit of St Louis Mo . managers of the well-known West ern Wheel’ of burlesque shows, which played in Washington at the Lyceum for several years pastThomas Announces Hew Enterprise.Though the lease was signed three weeks ago, it was only -announced by Andrew J Thomas last night. With a population of 100 030 colored people as Washington has it Is highly possible that a theater of this sort will thrive, he saidIt is the intention of the lessees to employ both white and colored acts they said They will operate however, as an Independent organization, booking- from several services they have used,Thomas and Dudley have been In thetheatrical business m this city for thepast four yearsOne of Oldest Vaudeville Houses.The American Theater, better known to older residents both as the Lyceum and Keman’s Theater is on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, near Eleventh street It was the pioneer of burlesque theaters In this city havingbeen built about 30 years ago Operatedby its first owners. Rife . Kerman of Baltimore, it became the property of tho Empire Circuit, of St Louis, when a rival theater brought In an opposition circuit known to the profession as * the Eastern Wheel *It thrived as a burlesque theater until last year, when it was abandoned and leased to the American Theater which has lately been operating a moving picture and vaudeville ahow there
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Tue, Jun 16, 1914
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