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 […]
1920
After two seasons without theater, John Mulvihill made the decision to reopen the Theatre for the 1920 season. It was a decision that the citizens of Denver awaited, as did […]
1918
The Elitch Theatre closed during the 1918 and 1919 seasons. The World War ended by the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918. A period of peacetime reconstruction and […]
Raffaelo Cavallo (1897)
“In 1896 a brilliant young violinist arrived in Denver. This was Raffaelo Cavallo, who succeeded Ferdinand Stark as conductor at the old Tabor Grand when that theatre was at the […]
1917
In 1917, John Mulvihill had yet to develop the confidence to manage the Theatre himself. Accordingly, he decided to lease the Theatre to Joseph D. Glass, an experienced director of […]
1916
Mary Elitch Long struggled to keep the Gardens going. Throughout her financial crisis, she refused to admit how desperate the circumstances were. As of May 1915, Oscar L. Malo, son-in-law, […]