and served on the War Industries Board and Office of War Information. With World War II, Starr moved to Washington D.C. The company's theaters were in cities including San Antonio, Texas Macon, Georgia and Raleigh, North Carolina. Fox managed its Dixie Theater in Macon, Georgia. A page from one of its ledgers is extant. In 1919 it placed an add with Howard-Wells Amusement Company listing their theaters in Wilmington. The company filed a lawsuit for relief from dramatically increased fees imposed on theaters by the police commissioners in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Brooks organized a show at one of its theaters in Alabama.Īlfred Starr was involved with the company. It acquired the Savoy and Lincoln theaters in Charlotte, North Carolina's Brooklyn neighborhood. It included the Bijou Theatre and Lincoln Theatre in Nashville as well as the Royal Theatre under construction there, and the Lenox Theatre in Augusta Georgia, the Lincoln Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, the Royal Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina, and the Lincoln Theatre in New Bern, North Carolina. In 1927, the company’s letterhead touted "Celebrating the Biggest and Best Colored Theatres in the South". History īijou is the French word for jewel and was used for theaters in various cities including New York, Chicago, and Knoxville. The fight to save the theater reached the U.S. The theater and a Masonic lodge next door were razed in the 1950s as part of an urban renewal plan and replaced by the city’s Municipal Auditorium. Boxers Tiger Flowers and Sam Langford had bouts at the venue. Performers who starred at the theater included Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Lafayette Players, Butterbeans and Susie, Ethel Waters, and Irvin C. Milton Starr, who was part of the prominent Jewish family that owned and ran the theater, was the first president of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), headquartered in Chattanooga. Its Bijou Theatre in Nashville was one of the premiere venues for African American audiences in the Southern United States.
It was headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Bijou Amusement Company was a movie theater business in the United States.
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