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State Theatre (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
The State Theatre is a movie theater in downtown Benton Harbor, Michigan. The State opened on May 14, 1942, operated by W. S. Butterfield Theatres. Butterfield sold the State in 1967, and it closed in 1974. The State reopened as a community performing arts center in 1987, but closed again in 2007, and the building deteriorated substantially. As of 2023, the Benton Harbor Downtown Development Authority plans to renovate the theatre to its 1942 appearance and reopen it. History W.S. Butterfield Theatres, founded by "Colonel" Walter Scott Butterfield, operated over 110 theaters in 1942. The Butterfield circuit operated theaters in much of Lower Michigan, as far north as Traverse City, with headquarters in Detroit. In the Benton Harbor–St Joseph area, the Butterfield circuit operated four other theaters: the Lake, the Liberty, the Caldwell, and the Bell Opera House. Programming The State has hosted a variety of programming in its over 80 years of history. The State opened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County, Michigan, Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is 46 miles southwest of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo and 71 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids. According to the 2020 2020 United States census, census, its population was 9,103. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles, Michigan, Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the St. Joseph, Michigan, city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan), St. Joseph River and are known locally as the "Twin cities (geographical proximity), Twin Cities". Fairplain, Michigan, Fairplain and Benton Heights, Michigan, Benton Heights are unincorporated areas adjacent to Benton Harbor. History Benton Harbor was founded by Henry C. Morton, Sterne Brunson and Charles Hull, who all now have or have had schools named after them. Benton Harbor was mainly wetlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Scott Butterfield
Walter Scott "Colonel W. S." Butterfield (April 25, 1867 – April 23, 1936) was an American vaudeville promoter and theater manager. His business, W. S. Butterfield Theatres, operated over 100 theatres at its peak, with locations throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Early life Walter Scott Butterfield was born in Connersville, Indiana in 1867. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio when he was a child, for his father to take a job at the Ohio State Journal. Butterfield intended to start a career in the newspaper business, but instead began working at theaters in Columbus. Personal life Butterfield married Maria Louise Mills in 1891, with whom he had a daughter, Mitties Louise Butterfield. In 1903, Butterfield met Caroline Kelley McCord, a performer in the "Buster Brown" show that he was promoting. They married that year, and had four daughters: Caroline Hamilton Butterfield, Laura McCord Butterfield, Julia Scott Butterfield, and Helen Butterfield. The couple divorced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920November 6, 1991) was an American stage and film actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, Tierney was a prominent Leading actor, leading lady during the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood. She starred as Laura Hunt in Otto Preminger's ''Laura (1944 film), Laura'' (1944), a film noir classic, and as Ellen Berent in John M. Stahl's ''Leave Her to Heaven'' (1945), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history." Tierney was a 20th Century Fox contract player who did much of her work for the Film studio, studio. She starred in many commercially successful Fox films, including ''The Return of Frank James'' (1940; her film debut), ''Tobacco Road (film), Tobacco Road'' (1941), ''Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake'' (1942), ''Heaven Can Wait (1943 film), Heaven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundown (1941 Film)
''Sundown'' is a 1941 American war drama film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot and George Sanders. It was produced by Jack Moss and Walter Wanger, written by Charles G. Booth and Barré Lyndon, and released by United Artists. Set in British East Africa, the film's adventure story was well received by critics, earning three Academy Award nominations, but it was a failure at the box office. Plot An aircraft lands in Kenya near Rhino Rock, and Zia (Gene Tierney) disembarks and is met by a caravan she owns. In Manieka, British East Africa, Bill Crawford (Bruce Cabot), District Commissioner, contacts the governor at Nairobi, requesting a month-long furlough to study the Senshi, a local tribe. His colleague, Lt. Roddy Turner (Reginald Gardiner), sends a message to the governor to cancel the furlough as the Senshi are becoming hostile. Two aircraft land at Manieka, bringing both rifles and Major Coombes (George Sanders), the Governor's agent. Coombe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habitat For Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or Habitat, is a U.S. non-governmental, and tax-exempt 501(C)(3) Christian nonprofit organization which seeks to build affordable housing. The international operational headquarters are located in Americus, Georgia, United States, with the administrative headquarters located in Atlanta. As of 2023, Habitat for Humanity operates in more than 70 countries. Habitat for Humanity works to help build and improve homes for families of low-income or disadvantaged backgrounds. Homes are built using volunteer labor, including that of Habitat homeowners through the practice of sweat equity, as well as paid contractors for certain construction or infrastructure activities as needed. Habitat makes no profit from the sales. The organization operates with financial support from individuals, philanthropic foundations, corporations, government entities, and mass media companies. History Habitat for H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He was the List of presidents of the United States by age, longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100. Born in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the submarines in the United States Navy, submarine service before returning to his family's peanut farm. He was active in the civil rights movement, then served as state senator and governor before Jimmy Carter 1976 presidential campaign, running for president in 1976 United States presidential election, 1976. He secured the 1976 Democratic National Convention, Democratic nomination as a dark horse li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In Michigan
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Venues In Michigan
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of elements of music, specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. Diverse activities are involved in the creation of music, and are often divided into categories of musical composition, composition, musical improvisation, improvisation, and performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise produced to be indirectly played mechanically or electronically, such as via a music box ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinemas And Movie Theaters In Michigan
A movie theater (American English) or cinema (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the movies, the pictures, or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films for public entertainment. Most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing Ticket (admission), tickets. The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print on a heavy reel. A great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films to Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Cinemas In The United States
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
