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  • TitleRialto Theater
  • Call NumberTHEA_0081
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "The Fred Irwin Big Show ... in 1907 ... shows the company as it was when burlesque was clean entertainment. Among those in the photo are the famous Watson Sisters who are still in the ring and going strong. The Bennet Sisters -- Murray Livingston -- Uncle Jim Harkins (for many years with Fred Allen), Smiling Gertie DeMilt (A Brooklyn girl), Florence Bennett (Original Gibson Girl), Walsh Lynch and Co. (Huckin's Run), Nettie Mc Glocklin (McGlocklin and Evans), two more Brooklynites. And last but not least -- Brady and Mahoney, a couple of Brooklyn boys who tried to make good -- Mahoney is the guy on the left of photo looking like an undertaker (with high hat) and Brady is the schmo sitting down front opposite the late Harry Campbell (with the Dutch chin-piece and inflated stomach). Those were the happy daze." Signed, "Joe Brady, Century's Rialto Theater." The theater was located at 1085 Flatbush Avenue. It opened, presumably, around the turn of the century and it closed circa 1977.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 15, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectActors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.