"Orpheum Theatre"

ID: 5146 ~ Source: Image courtesy of New Orleans Public Library, Alexander Allison Photograph Collection. ~ Creator: Alexander Allison, Photographer. ~ Date: 1948

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Orpheum Theater

By Vicky Leung, Cody Wild, David Patton, Carolyn Heneghan & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Built in 1918 to replace the older Orpheum, the new Orpheum Theatre opened with great pomp and circumstance on February 5, 1921, with a matinee performance in the afternoon. [1] However, according to…