1925 E.F. Albee Theatre Brooklyn NY INAUGURAL Program week of 1/19/1925 Premier

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Ultra rare INAUGURAL program for the E.F. Albee Theatre in Brooklyn.  Below is a history of this theatre.
The RKO Albee Theatre, located on Dekalb Avenue in downtown Brooklyn,
opened on January 25, 1925
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It was named for Edward F. Albee (1857-1930), who became partners with Franklin Keith (1867-1914) in the late 1880s to promote "polite" vaudeville. Albee and Keith remodeled several theaters on the east coast and began producing a brand of "high class" vaudeville. Keith was the financial head of the circuit, while Albee was the general manager and owner of several theaters.
Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Beaux-Arts style, the Albee had crystal chandeliers in the lobby and paintings from Albee's private collection. It also contained a 40 x 70 foot Czech Maffersdorf carpet billed as the world's largest rug.
As the RKO Albee, it showed exclusive first-run films for all of Brooklyn, getting the movies direct from their Broadway premiere engagements. However, due to the product "split" between three other downtown Brooklyn palaces—the Fox, Metropolitan, and Paramount—the Albee played mainly 20th Century-Fox and RKO releases.
The last motion picture to play the RKO Albee was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," the film adaptation of the play by Edward Albee, who happened to be the adopted grandson of E. F. Albee, the vaudeville magnate who built the theatre.
The RKO Albee Theatre closed in September 1978 and demolished in November 1978 to make way for the Albee Square Mall
Don’t miss out.  no history of past sales on Worthpoint although a July 1925 1st year program for this theatre sold for .
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