Currently appearing at the Shubert, if it were 1915.
If you want gorgeous scenic and electrical effects that make you feel you are in the middle of the Sahara Desert, you need to travel no farther than College Street.
That’s where the then relatively new Shubert Theater was making its first impressive impressions with “The Garden of Allah” starring Lawson Butt and Edyth Latymer.
Check out the entertainments of this day in 1915 as “This Day In New Haven History” time-travels back a century through the resources and charm of the Local History Room off the rotunda of the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. Today, I read to you from the pages of the Oct. 16, 1915 paper where that story dominated the columns.
You can listen by clicking on the audio below or finding it in iTunes or any podcast under “WNHH Community Radio.”
Alas, most often we’ve been talking about has been tough and sad news of the war rampaging in Europe that President Wilson is trying to keep us out of, even as he ups the budgets for the departments of war and navy.
Today, we focussed on entertainments.
In addition to the Shubert, there are also some great shows to catch out in Westville at the Poli Theater [today’s Lyric Hall] where “ten honey girls” in “a bright and snappy piece of vaudeville calculated to amuse and please the most exacting patrons of variety.”
