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The St. James Theatre (1912–1929) of
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, was a
playhouse
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and
cinema in the
Back Bay
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in the 1910s and 1920s. It occupied the former
Chickering Hall on Huntington Avenue near
Massachusetts Avenue, adjacent to
Horticultural Hall. For some years
Loew's theatre chain oversaw the St. James.
[Moving Picture World, Feb. 5, 1916] In 1929 the theatre "became part of the Publix (
Paramount
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) chain, and was renamed the Uptown."
Images
Image:1912 StJamesTheater HuntingtonAve Boston USA lobby.png, Interior, 1912
Image:1912 StJamesTheater HuntingtonAve Boston USA.png, Interior, 1912
Image:1920 StJames theatre BostonGlobe January7.png, Advertisement for "vaudeville and super photo-plays," 1920, including Charlie Chaplin's ''A Day's Pleasure
''A Day's Pleasure'' (1919) is Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature '' The Kid''. It is about a day ...
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Image:St James Theatre (Boston) April 1920.jpg, St. James Theatre (center), next to Horticultural Hall (at left), 1920
Image:1922 StJames theatre BostonGlobe 14April.png, Advertisement for Boston Stock Company production of Charles H. Hoyt's ''A Temperance Town,'' 1922
References
Further reading
*
The St. James Theater and its Founder" New England Magazine, v.48, no.2, Oct. 1912
External links
* Library of Congress
Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing of theater facade, 1928.
* Boston Public Librar
Postcard of St. James Theatre Boston, Mass., published by Mason Bros. & Co., ca. 1915-1930
* Bostonian Society
Photograph of Uptown Theater 239 Huntington Street, ca. 1962-1963. "Demolition (replaced by Christian Science Center). Originally the Chickering Hall (built 1900-1901), later Saint James Theater."
* CinemaTreasures.org
Uptown Theatre 239 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (successor to the St. James)
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Former buildings and structures in Boston
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Peabody and Stearns buildings