Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-22
KEITH'S $1,OOO,OOO
THEATRE FOR PHILADELPHIA.
The Vaudeville Completes Purchase OF BALDWIN
Erect the Finest the World, gardess o
His Famous Boston Theatre
oBuIdA Theatre Up-Iown-ran-
Remarkable Career


mer season-no other house here mas
been open So weeks year Ana tne
hest people in the city compose the
Audience. and twice daily from January
lst to December 31st the capacity OF
the theatre is taxed.
Mr.. Keith has not been insensibie 10
the public support. He has ever az
vanced; nowadays one or two acts costs
as much an an entire show dld Wheh
he opened the theatre The variety
enter tainment has been revolutionizeo
not alone in his houses; the good ne
did was so remuneratiVe that ms
scheme Of clean, enjoyable entertain
ment was adopted throughout the
United States; and the good ne mas
done will live after him. Time was
when women never attended va
riety show; 60 per cent OF the iocai
patronage consists of ladies and cnii-
dren So one need not wonder at the
81, 900 900 theatre; it Is given 10 fni,a-
delphia as a token of Mr. keith's ap-
probation, an excellent and practical
way of indicating ones gratitude.
Mr.. Keith will also establish a thea
, tire uptown. The house on Elghth
street will be maintained after these
,, new places are open: with three a heltn
theatres there should be afforded ample
room for the ever increasing number
of Keithites in Philadelphia and ala
cent cities.
The Boston theatre evoked these ex-
calmations by those best qaulihed TO
judge: What shall say exclaimed
Sir Henry Irving, Unique? 1t Is Ger
expresses it. Perfect? That is the
word "A most perfect theatre"
declared John Hare, the most beautt-
full 1 ever saw" Worth" averred Sec
retary of the Navy John D. Long. "a
trip from Washington" Words faii
Do
most marvellous sight" said Col ]. u.
Mapleson, II have ever seen."
Yet the house that Mr.. Keith 10 to
give to Philadelphia Will surpass the
place that earned the above enthusias-
tic praise. AS no other city In the
world has attempted to equal the Bos.
ton theatre, il is not likely that the
practical amusement house to be erect
ed in Philadelphia will have a rival
anywhere in the coming halt century.
Features of the new house which
will be opened in September. 1901, Will
be handsome furniture, rare paintings.
collections of bric-brac. atatuary. ETC..
writing materials, post office. smoking
and reading rooms, floral display, perfect
ventilation, local and long distance
telephones, messenger calls, and the
checking of wearing apparel. etc, with
out charge.
Mr. Keith's new uptown theatre will
be a structure with few equals any
where. Every good feature of the
Keith houses will be enjoyed by the
theatre-goers of that part of the city.
its location has not yet been dis
closed.
Mr.. Keith seems to be buying up
small sections of the earth at a pretty
rapid pace. No sooner has his pur-
chase of the Princess Theatre pro-
erty in London ceased to be a sensa
lAI 90 th.
familiar facts of the theatrical world,
than the announcement comes of his
Philadelphia plans. The London pur-
chase makes him an international
manager. and in this, as in other
things. he is pioneer, for never be-
fore has the vaudeville business pro-
duced a manager who personally con-
trolled theatres on both sides of the
world. He will also have the distinc-
tion of introducing the continuous per-
formance in London, for with all its
varied, forms of amusement this
American idea has never yet been
tried in the British metropolis.
The air is full of rumors of other
possible enterprises of similar charac-
ter which he means to undertake in
other poPulous centres of the country,
all of which lack confirma ton from
the man most interested. One Of the
most persistent reports is that Mr.,
some theatre in New York, while still
retaining his famous Union Square
Theatre.
With three theatres i'm Philadelphia,
one in London. one in Boston, one
and perhaps two in New York, and
the house in Providence, now the prop
erty of General Manager A1hee, but
still under Keith's name, Mr.. Keith
will have unquestionabiy the foremost
circuit Of vaudeville houses in the world
managed by one person. Even the
chains of music halls in Europe leased
by companies will not equal the Keith
enterprises in magnitude.
On July 9th. 1885, Mr. Keith's idea
was first introduced in Boston in a
room as large as the first floor of the
average Eighth street store; his chief
attraction was one and one-half-
pound midget. Soon he rented the
second floor: then he leased a theatre
J nearby, and finally built his palatial
place of amusement. Then came the
theatres in Philadelphia, New York
and Providence. now the London thea
tire and the new Philadelphia houses,
and the end is not yet. The inventor
of the continuous performance has
had q wonderful career.