August 12, 2026
Tag: 1903
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.
Past Article
March 19, 2024 2 Comments
Edwardian theatre personnel often found themselves famous while at work but forgotten when idle. Such was the case with Gertrude Rider – a person no one knew until she came to the stage as Gertrude Glyn. But then she married and became Mrs. Walter Bulteel. Who was that?