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IN TRE.BILLBOARD . By J. J. JACKSON . Pennsylvania avenue, Baltimore, is becoming a veritable white shi street of the Broadway type. The past five years have seen a remark able business development along twenty blocks of that therefore. Realty values have none ° conse quence mounted until holdings al most equal, those of more favored parts of the city. Theaters enter largely Into the development. Some years ago the atre Lincoln opened Its doors with cheap vaudeville and pictures. The house has mad a ‘fortune for its owner since then; yet so far he has not neen fit to capitalize his opportunity by Increasing his plant in any manner. « P. Backs’ “Rainbow,” at 2100 Penn. avenua, is playing Dudley acta to packed houses daily and the acts, usually four or five In num er, draw 1,200 people to each performance. . In the 1900 block the New Re gent, a $800,000 property, owned by Hornstein. Bros. and managed for them by Tim Ousley, was open ed February 1. At the corner of Lanvale and Penn, the Doughsausement Co. in erecting the $300,000 Douglam. ‘Foundation work is complete, and while Lachman Kaleer are rush ing ,construction Ervin Jackson, ‘representing the underwriters, Brown Stevena Bank, of Phila delphi, in disposing of some stock J locally as an insurance, upon local interest, — ‘When completed the house will Joe an added Unk to the quality chain. It is billed to open July 1 with the Lafayette Players in an appro priate place. ‘ At Biddle street the New Royal, in mammoth picture house, is be ing erected. These five houses with two or three of the smaller store size picture places have at tracted many peopl to the avenue. Dignity is afforded by the home of the Negro Business Men's Ex change at 1210 Penn ‘avenue. Burton's Haberdashery sand Clothing Store, in the heart of the theatrical district, is already a point of interest to the artists, who so seldom see one of the race in his sort of enterprise. The American Federation of Musicians maintainsd its club and offices on the same block on the avenue. Bloomingfield Bros.' new stand at 1436 Penn. avenue carries The Bil loard, and the old vaudeville team of Evuring and DeLyons have a boarding house near the Regent lepot to show what 2o bury little spot it is we shook hands with Queen Dora, Chaos, Hightower and his company of fifteen people, Jim Stith, former Colonial Theater manager, when It was operated by the Levyn. Also with “Chicken” lackson, the Oiginal “Rags,” the Dudley, and Doach,Edwards and Williams, and with the sar castic, theatrical reviewing Vagal of. The Observer Magasine, there also an elf - timer, Re c. Ridgley, who took ‘some of our earliest companies to Europe. He has: long ‘since retired from the “profesh,” but looks them over with his wife and son. Tim Own ley, the new pranager of the He gent, is becoming an avenue char acter, of course, Penna, avenue is not all of it. Oh, no. Over on Druid Hill, Ave, le found Chaos. Carroll, a news dealer, at number 1134, who solemnly promises to ever after have Shows Billboards, Bounders’ Barber Shop at Hoff- Man street, and Winstard's Drug Store at' No. 1600 Druid’ Hill, are going to ‘cater’to the traveling artist by halting their places of business with The Bindboard. At 1109 Druid Hill, The Observer was found entrenched in its dug out, and as a peace offering to the profession, with whom the maga zine staff visits so frequently in ‘Philadelphia, Washington and New York.It pleaded for a chance to read Billyboy regularly. AN ex change was affected. . _. Up at 1620 Druid Hil the Mason Amusement Co. maintains an offee for the affairs of the Wonderland ‘Park enterprise. This park will be’ fully described in the big Spring Number. It is a regular park, boys, with real money behind St. Saw Captain Brown of Brown's Grove and Steamboat Line. He was several points off but Low, 80 we signaled and passe on. This park made so much money last season that the captain has chartered the services of another bank. At 421 Druid Hill avenue the Ured business men of the city, the mice track travelers and the actor folka foregather at Smith's Hotel to chat and enjoy the cabaret. Of course, there is constant inter change of patronage with the Gold field. on the East side of town, where Joe Gans established this ‘Monument to his fiatic achieve-
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Fri, Feb 25, 1921
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