Vintage Arcade Theatre Program 534 So. Broadway, Los Angeles, California, starring Tyrone Powers Senior and others in the main feature, The Red Kimono.

History

• The Arcade started its life as the Pantages Theatre on Broadway, leased to the Pantages Vaudeville Circuit. Its helped secure Broadway as early 20th century Los Angeles' prime theatre district. The theatre hosted lived performances including vaudeville and features performers like Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy) in 1919. 
• In 1925, the Pantages was sold to the Dalton Brothers, who also owned and operated a burlesque theater on Main Street. The news owners changed the name to the Arcade in 1927 because it was next to the well-known Broadway-Spring Arcade Building. On April 30, 1927 Dalton's reopened as a film house under the management of Principal Theatres.
• An article about the Arcade's first attraction, "The Red Kimono," appeared in the Los Angeles Times on April 28, 1927. (Although the film had been released in 1925, it had not been released in Los Angeles until this 1927 engagement.)  The Red Kimono or Red Kimona was a silent film about prostitution produced by Dorothy Davenport (billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid) and starring Priscilla Bonner, as well as the directorial debut of Walter Lang.
• The theater advertised its opening program in the Los Angeles Times on May 2, 1927, describing the feature film as "A Daring Subject Delicately Handled." In a review in the same issue the newspaper noted that the program also included "Grandpa's Boy," a comedy from Educational Pictures, a Kinograms newsreel, and a short organ program by Maurice B. Streeter. 
• This program includes all of the features from the 1927 Gala opening of the Arcade Theater. The program is not dated, so we do not know if it is from the first 2pm Gala showing or from another showing on a later date.

Size

• Measures about 4 x 7" folded

Condition

• Pre-owned, clean and crisp, found tucked inside a McGuffey's reader book and nicely preserved.

Other

• Shipper's note: Stored with Disney ephemera branded bag about program boxes