MARTIN BECK THEATRE . 302 W. 45th Street. Architect: G. Albert Lansburgh . Opening: November 11, 1924; Madame Pompadour .
Vaudeville impresario Martin Beck played out chapter one of his Broadway adventures when he built the Palace Theater . When the theater was taken over by the Keith/Albee (see E. F. Albee) vaudeville interests, Beck returned to his West Coast-based Orpheum Circuit . When he was forced out of the Orpheum Circuit,...