Columbia Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
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The Columbia Theatre, located at 1112 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004, was a theater built and opened in 1891, closed and demolished in 1959. The Arnold & Porter Building is on the site today.


Loew's Fox Theatre

The theater was taken over by Marcus Loew in 1915 in his first Loew's Theaters venture outside New York, to present vaudeville and movies. Among them ''Going Native'' was a 1940 and 1941 annual revue show Arthur Godfrey was staged and produced by
Eugene Forde Eugene Forde (1898–1986) was an American film director. Selected filmography * ''Daredevil's Reward'' (1928) * ''Painted Post (film), Painted Post'' (1928) * ''Son of the Golden West'' (1928) * ''Charlie Chan's Courage'' (1934) * ''Charlie Ch ...
.Going Native 1941 "The second annual edition of Loew's Fox all Washington revue "Going Native," a salute to Washington and Washingtonians, Louis K. Sidney personally supervised this production, staged and produced by Gene Ford, dances staged by Margorie"


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