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 […]
Lewis Stone (1913)
In the early-1900s Lewis Stone was considered by the critics to be the most popular leading man in stock in America at that time. For eight years, he held the […]
Bruce McRae (1904)
“Bruce McRae, one of the biggest favorites among Denver audiences, returned to Elitch as the leading man after an absence of five years. He had just completed an entire season […]
William Collier (1910)
In 1910 he appeared at the Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado, while his adopted son, William Collier Jr., was recovering from scarlet fever and then typhoid. His son recovered and […]
May Buckley (1904)
May Buckley’s private life was often in newspaper headlines, especially in 1901, when a man who claimed to be her husband shot at her in a hotel dining room, wounding […]
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1905)
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932) was one of America’s greatest actresses. She was born in 1865 in New Orleans to the manager of the St. Charles Theatre and of Lizzie Maddern, […]
Amelia Bingham (1904)
Amelia Bingham (1869-1927) was born in Hicksville, Ohio, and was educated at Ohio Wesleyan. She pursued a career in theater notwithstanding her deeply religious family’s opposition. After a successful stage […]
Maude Fealy (1896)
Among the names of women who had the greatest impact on the Historic Elitch Theatre — Mary Elitch, Helen Bonfils, and Haila Stoddard — the name Maude Fealy must be […]
Rose Coghlan (1901)
Following the 1899 death of her brother, Charles Coghlan, in 1901 Rose appeared at Elitch Theatre in the world premiere of her brother’s play, Fortune Bridge. Rose stated that “my […]
Jessie Bartlett Davis (1902)
For the week of June 1, 1902, American’s leading opera Contralto — Jessie Bartlett Davis — appeared at the theatre for a one-week run of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “A […]