1927
For rehearsals, an outdoor room was used. Just outside the stage doors that adjoined the ball park the management had set up a canvas wall to separate the stage area […]
1926
There was an important change by the Elitch management in its handling of congratulatory telegrams they received each year upon the season opening. The Elitch Gardener weekly publication described the […]
Fredric March (1926)
Fredric March’s career was an example of combining hard work with extraordinary talent. After being graduated from the University of Wisconsin, he endeavored to follow his family’s desires and become […]
Florence Eldridge (1925)
Florence Eldridge was a powerhouse American stage and screen actress whose career stretched across five decades, marked by her intelligence, emotional depth, and commanding presence. Born in 1901, she became […]
Helen Menken (1922)
Helen Menken first appeared at Elitch during the summer of 1922. Following the season, she was cast in the Broadway long-running play, Seventh Heaven. John Mulvihill had contacted her prior […]
1925
The play that was the highlight of the season was Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize play Anna Christie. Others included Frederick Lonsdale’s Aren’t We All and Lewis Beach’s The Goose Hangs […]
1924
The program again listed Rollo Lloyd as director. The leads were June Walker and Norval Keedwell. Among the plays presented was Winchell Smith and Tom Cushing’s Thank You, a story […]
1923
Before the opening of the 1923 season, a row of mezzanine boxes and a few seats in the balcony were removed. This allowed more room between the aisles as well […]
1922
Most of the plays presented at Elitch had experienced a lengthy run on Broadway, as for example, Jules Eckert Goodman’s The Man Who Came Back (457 performances), Winchell Smith and […]
1921
Among the cast members were Edward G. Robinson, Albert Brown, C. W. Secrest and Edith King. Robinson had played various minor roles on Broadway during the 1920 season, and was […]