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FDR's New Deal Work  Projects  Administration created a massive reaseach volume of San Francisco Theatre Research as part of the  Federal Theatre Project (FTP)
comprising 21 Volumes of the History  of  the  San  Francisco  Theatre.
compiled by the Northern  California Writers'  Project. These volumes had an exceedingly low print run (less than 150 copies) with art print photo documents lovingly mounted on tan card stock in the books. These volumes were mainly inteded for libraries and not available for public sale.

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San Francisco Theatre Research

MONOGRAPH XXVII
THEATRE BUILDINGS
(Part 1)

Lawrence Estavan, Editor


Compiled  by  Workers  of  the  Writers'  Program 
of  the  Work  Projects  Administration 
in  Northern  California 


Sponsored  by  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco 
1941

CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Official sponsor of the Northern California Writers' Project

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
John M. Carmody, Administrator

WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
Howard O. Hunter, Commissioner
Florence Kerr, Assistant Commissioner
William R. Lawson, Administrator for Northern California


Original Edition 1940 by Writers'  Program of  the  Work  Projects  Administration   Softcover staple bound 11x8.5" tan handwritten covers, mimeographed 235 pages, this seems to be a reduced printing with no introduction, illustrations nor bibliography



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CHAPTER 1, THE BELLA UNION, "TEMPLE OF CHANCES"

• Mr. Bones Retreats
• Shots that Killed
• Suicide and the Editor.
• High Wages of Sin
• Origin as Gambling Den
• Ordeal by Fire
• The First Melodeon
• The Bawdy "Belly" Union
• Later Deterioration
• Tetlow Produces
• The Editor Disapproves
• Burlesque as Dramatic Criticism
• Tetlow Prospers
• The New Bella Union
• An Evening at the Bella Union
• Enter Skeantlebury
• Skeantlebury Takes Over
• Tetlow Returns
• Tetlow Shoots — Exit Skeantlebury
• Tetlow Retires — Enter McAtee
• After Tetlow
• Battle of the Balloons
• Harry Montague — Phil Without Vulgarity
• Whiskey Must Go — Last Days
• "Formerly the Bella Union"

CHAPTER 2. SALOONS, SHACKS, AND CIRCUSES: BIG EL DORADO TENT, WASHINGTON HALL, DR. ROBINSON'S HALL, ROWE'S OLYMPIC AMPHITHEATRE, CALIFORNIA EXCHANGE

• Washington Hall Becomes Eagle Theatre
• Treasurer Gambles, Company Goes Unpaid
• Company Disbands
• Eagle Theatre Destroyed
• Rowe's Olympic Amphitheatre
• Twelve Hundred a Week Too Little.
• Circus Closes
• Reopens with Drama
• Rowe Sells Out to Foley
• New Olympic Amphitheatre
• Big El Dorado Tent.
• El Dorado Burns, Is Rebuilt
• Dr. Robinson's Hall
• California Exchange
• Stood Till I860

CHAPTER 3. THEATRES OF 1850: THE NATIONAL, THE PHOENIX, PHOENIX EXCHANGE, DRAMATIC MUSEUM. ITALIAN THEATRE, FOLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE

• National is First Conventional Theatre
• Phoenix Theatre and Phoenix Exchange
• Doc Robinson Builds Dramatic Museum
• Dramatic Museum Destroyed
• Italian Theatre Has Short Life
• Foley's Amphitheatre

CHAPTER 4. THE ATHENAEUM AND THE ADOLPHI

• Long Careers
• Athenaeum Shocks
• Collyer Moves to Adelphi
• French Actress at Adelphi
• Magician Vanishes
• Athenaeum II
• Athenaeum Becomes Minstrel Hall
• Minstrel Hall Becomes Olympic
• Adelphi Also Shocks
• Drama Comes to Adelphi
• First Italian Opera in San Francisco
• Adelphi Destroyed by Fire
• Adelphi II is First French Theatre
• Doctor Robinson Leaves the Adelphi
• Adelphi Overshadowed
• Representative Theatre

CHAPTER 5. THE JENNY LIND AND AMERICAN THEATRES

• Maguire Brings Rivalry
• Maguire Loses Out
• First Jenny Lind
• Shakespeare and Maguire
• First Jenny Lind Burns
• Second Jenny Lind
• Third Jenny Lind
• Seven Doors to Paradise
• Triumph of Maguire
• Tom Takes a Bow
• The Snug Saloon
• The Jenny Lind and American Theatres
• The Booths at the Jenny Lind
• Maguire Sails Out
• The Jenny Lind Swindle
• The American Theatre
• Parisian Prefers American
• Stark Waves the Flag
• Ode to Shakespeare
• The American Theatre Issues Stock
• The American Theatre Stands Alone
• First Chinese Entertainment
• Lola Montez Appears
• The American Closes Its Doors
• The Second American
• Poor Investment
• The Haunted House
• The American is Remodeled
• Low Receipts
• Foreign Language Theatre
• Fire Ends Career

CHAPTER 6. MINOR SPOTS OF THE EARLY FIFTIES: THEATRE OF ARTS, ARMORY HALL, CHINESE THEATRE, UNION THEATRE, MUSICAL HALL, RUSS GARDENS, GUILLOT'S THEATRE, TURNVEREIN HALL

• Short Careers
• Long, Fitful Life of the Union
• Theatre of Arts
• Armory Hall
• Armory Hall Becomes the Olympic
• First Chinese Theatre
• Hook Took Tong Company Departs
• Union Theatre a Jinx
• Opens as French Theatre
• Americans Alternate with French
• Laura Keene Takes Over
• The Union, Alias the People's Theatre
• Alias the Olympic
• The Union Theatre Again
• The German Stadt Theatre
• The Union Again
• The New Idea
• The Yun Sing Ping Company
• End of The Union
• "Honest Harry's" Musical Hall
• Genteel House
• Musical Hall Destroyed by Fire, Rebuilt
• Musical Hall Becomes Place of Worship
• Russ Gardens
• Resort for German Societies
• May Day at Russ Gardens
• Later Gardens Larger
• Beer Gardens Become Popular
• The Turnverein
• Center of German Activities
• The Turnvereins in Germany
• First May Day Celebration
• The Turnverein Moves
• Annual Musical Jubilee
• Turnverein Rebuilt
• Belasco at the Turnverein

CHAPTER 7, MAGUIRE'S OPERA HOUSE AND THE METROPOLITAN

• Maguire Again
• The Rivals
• Maguire Sets the Pace
• The Metropolitan Keeps Step
• San Francisco Hall
• Doc Robinson Returns
• Who's Got the Countess?
• Maguire 's Minstrels
• Maguire 's Opera House
• Vigilantes and Minstrels
• Novelty Needed
• Opera House Praised
• No Certain Like It
• More Minstrels
• Minstrels and the Drama
• Maguire is Supreme
• No Tragedy Wanted
• Mrs, Wood Saves the Day
• Mad Maguire and the Hatter
• The Irish Comedians
• Opera House Remodeled
• Maguire Goes Into Opera
• The Wizard of the North
• Novelties at the Opera House
• Rebuilding of the Metropolitan
• Joseph Jefferson
• Maguire and the Colleen Bawn
• Civil War Bitterness
• Maguire Makes Up
• The Varieties
• The Opera House Again
• The Naked Lady
• Charles Kean, "Our Charley"
• Maguire 's Bright Idea
• Maguire Threatens a Lady
• Edwin Forrest and McCullough
• Harry Courtaine Gets Drunk
• Harry Redems Himself
• The Thirsty Irishman
• The Tolerance of Maguire
• Maguire Mad Again
• By Hook or By Crook
• Judge Deady Decides
• Lawrence Barrett Comes to Town
• More Opera
• Last Stand of the Opera House
• Decline of the Opera House
• Frou-Frou
• The British Blondes
• Billy Emerson's Minstrels
• The Bianchis and the Fahbris
• The Opera House Torn Down
• The First Metropolitan
• Most Beautiful Theatre
• Curtain Not So Good
• First Theatre Lighted by Gas
• Catherine Sinclair in Charge
• Mama Bateman Writes a Play
• Papa Bateman Fires a Shot
• A Year of Departure
• Robert, the Devil
• Mrs, Sinclair Finds Opera Dear
• Farewell to Catherine Sinclair
• Bad Year for Drama
• Cora Shoots to Kill
• Mrs. Sinclair Returns
• Last Appearance of Mrs. Sinclair
• Brief Engagements
• Joseph Trench Departs
• Edwin Booth at the Metropolitan
• Farewell Booth
• Julia Deane Hayne
• A Benefit for Edwin Booth
• Fire in the Metropolitan
• Another Dull Year
• Mother Goose and the Golden Egg
• Young California
• First Metropolitan Destroyed by Fire
• Mr, Johns is Called Out
• Mr, Johns is Defiant
• Mr, Johns Retires
• A Revealing Incident
• The Second Metropolitan
• Superior Entertainments
• Maguire is Restrained
• A Great Year Ends
• Maguire Buys into the Metropolitan
• Maguire Goes Back to the Opera House
• Bummer and Lazarus
• Come and Go
• James Stark Says Goodbye
• Rivalry
• Six Houses and a Horse
• Sunday Blue Laws
• Grand Opera
• Wheatleigh, Maguire, and Boucicault
• The Martinettis
• The Black Rook
• Fire Almost
• Railroads and Racetracks
• Climax at the Metropolitan
• Emelle Melville
• Parepa-Rosa Counts the Cash
• Harry Courtalne Sobers Up
• Beginning of the End
• Feud and Revival
• An Impresario Issues a Statement
• Joe Murphy
• Thrills and Chills
• Lotta Crabtree
• Denouement
• The Last Days
• Hall and Farewell

CHAPTER 8, RISE OF MELODEONS AND VARIETY HALLS: MINERVA HALL, APOLLO HALL, CONCERT HALL, THE MELODEON, LYCEUM THEATRE, MECHANICS PAVILION, GILBERT'S MELODEON, THE GAIETIES

• Early Melodeons
• The "Bit Theatres"
• Minerva Hall
• Apollo Hall
• Teatro Apollo
• Patriotism at Concert Hall
• The Melodeon
• No Place for Ladies
• Popularity of the Melodeon
• Child Prodigies at the Melodeon
• Bartender Praised
• End of the Melodeon
• Building Still Stands
• The Lyceum Theatre
• Lyceum Fit for Ladies
• Begins as a Melodeon
• Lyceum Turns Legitimate
• Lyceum Versus Maguire
• John Drew the Elder
• Harry Courtaine Becomes Stage-Manager
• Dull Times at the Lyceum
• Junius Booth Takes Over
• The Marsh Juveniles
• Lyceum is Unrivalled
• Fire Destroys the Lyceum
• Mechanics Pavilion
• Annual Mechanics Fair
• Fairs, Funerals, Fights, and Conventions
• The First Pavilion
• Two Pavilions in Union Square
• Pavilion Number Four
• The Fifth and Last
• Anything Goes
• The Phonograph
• Dan O'Leary Walks
• Gilbert's Melodeon
• An Upstairs Hall
• Rivals the Bella Union
• Gilbert's Becomes Worrell's Olympic
• Becomes the New Olympic
• Burlesque, Minstrels, the Can-Can
• Courtaine Again
• No More Olympic
• The Gaieties: A Short Story
• A Bit of a Row

CHAPTER 9, MUSIC HALLS OF 1860: TUCKER'S ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PLATT'S MUSIC HALL, APOLLO VARIETY HALL

• Unequal Careers
• Apollo Variety Hall
• Tucker's Academy of Music
• A Great Future Predicted
• Off On the Wrong Foot
• A Genteel House
• Norton the First
• Becomes Odd Fellows Hall
• Platt's Music Hall
• Largest on Pacific Coast
• Platt's Hall Shelters Flood Victims
• The Circus Comes to Platt's Hall
• "Bank Nites"
• Music Festivals, Ole Bull
• Failure of Drama at Music Hall
• Augustin Daly "Flops"
• Thirty Years Later
• The Passing of an Age

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