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Orpheum Theatre
RKO Orpheum Theatre
 
Address 5th Avenue and Stewart Street
Opening Night Seating Capacity unknown
Original Theatre Owner unknown
Original Theatre Architect B. Marcus Priteca
Years of Operation Opened 28 August 1927
Operating from 1927 through circa 1967
Type of Musical Accompaniment unknown
Current Status Demolished August 1967

The Orpheum Theatre was known as the RKO Orpheum Theatre by circa December 1929.

Showing 1-6 December 1929, Rio Rita (1929); 7 December 1929, The Painted Angel (1929), with live vaudeville.

The theatre was controlled by Hamrick-Evergreen Theatres circa 1936.

References: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, pp. 6E, 8E; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 December 1929, p. 13; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 December 1929, p. 15; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6 December 1929, p. 13.

 

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