MAXINE ELLIOTT’S THEATRE . 109 W. 39th Street, between Broadway and 6th Avenue. Architect: Ben Marshall . Opening: December 30, 1908; The Chaperon .
Maxine Elliott
selected Ben Marshall, an architect from
Marshall and Fox
of Chicago, to design a show-place theater. As she wrote in the Woman’s Home Companion, For eight years I have cherished consistently—though I am a woman—the dream of building a theatre that should be small and intimate; that...