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Eager Throngs See New Theater Opening
Source: Chicago Evening American, 19 August 1925, pg. 9.
They keep coming and coming and coming.
The crowds forming at the doors of the new Balaban & Katz Uptown Theatre today threatened to equal the thousands that were on hand for the grand opening yesterday.
The Broadway and Lawrence av. district
looked like a circus yesterday. A veritable standing army gathered
before the doors of the magnificent moving picture palace and waited in
the hot sun for several hours.
They were women for the most part and their gay Summer dresses
formed a colorful parade, three blocks long. Street vendors sold
balloons and refreshments.
Within the theater workmen were putting the finishing touches to
the carpets, rearranging the vases and pictures for the last time. When
the doors were opened the excitement in the street grew more intense,
but those who entered the stately lobby filled with flowers became
silent and spoke in whispers.
Toward the end of the line, several blocks away, the fans became anxious.
"Are the tickets all sold?" they asked anxiously. Even when the
house had been filled to its capacity, the crowds still mobbed the
streets.
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