Balaban and Katz New Paradise Opens Today
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Source: Chicago Evening American, 14 September 1928, pg. 33.
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The Paradise Theater at Crawford and Washington blvd., the newest link in the huge chain of Balaban & Katz Chicago theaters, formally opens its doors today.
With the opening will come a gala week for the entire West Side of Chicago, which has been preparing for this event for the past month. For blocks around the theater the streets are already gaily bedecked with banners, announcing the fact that "Chicago's Great West Side" welcomes the Paradise Theater.
Differing in architecture from any other of the many Balaban & Katz theaters, it is said even its manner of opening will be different. Heretofore every Balaban & Katz theater opened in this city has had a formal opening—a sort of pre-opening given the night before for an audience culled from the civic, social, and theatrical life of Chicago.
The Paradise will not have any pre-opening shows. Promptly at 1:30 p.m. the doors will be thrown open to everyone and the show will begin.
With the opening of the Paradise, Balaban & Katz complete the chain which they started about eleven years ago. As a firm they began on the West Side of Chicago, when they opened the Central Park Theater at Roosevelt Road and Central Park av. With the Paradise, they return to the West Side.
Despite the fact that the theater will forego a formal opening, many notables, among them men prominent from theater business everywhere, will be among those present.
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Page compiled: 8 August 1998
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