1917 Strauss Magazine Theatre Program - The Majestic (Brooklyn)

Strauss Magazine Theatre Program 1917

One play advertised begins November 12th, 1917, using this as approximate date.

Superb program with much interesting content:

• Advertising: Azurea-The Perfume Illusive, Adams California Fruit Chewing Gum, Wallingford Cold-air Window Refrigerator, A La Spirite Corsets, The Plaza Restaurant, cigars, cigarettes, and many more….
• F. Keith Concert-Nine Big Acts from the Orpheum, Bushwick and Palace Theatres
• WW1 food conservation ideas from Vassar students: Cheap Soup, War bread, Boy Blue Muffins…
• Peter Ibbetson starring John and Lionel Barrymore
• Hello Ritz 1918 Revue
• ….

16 pages, including covers.

Nice condition. Light vertical fold, minor creases and paper nicks, some light rust on center page from staples.

Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn, NY

651 Fulton Street

Architect: John B. McElfatrick,

Also known as BAM Majestic, BAM Harvey

Opened August 29, 1904, with Montgomery & Stone in The Wizard of Oz.

In the early years of the 20th Century, Brooklyn had a large number of legitimate theatres, and today the only one remaining is the Majestic. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it housed both pre- and post-Broadway productions. In 1942, the Majestic became a movie theatre and showed films up until it closed in 1968. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) rescued the theatre in 1987 for Peter Brooks' production of The Mahabharata renaming it the BAM Majestic. Instead of doing a complete restoration, the theatre was turned into a purposeful ruin. The theatre is now the BAM Harvey named after Harvey Lichtenstein who made BAM into the world-class cultural center it is today.

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