The Orpheum
This tidbit
from Mike Slate's
site
You will read elsewhere that the Ryman was Nashville’s only playhouse after the Vendome became Loew’s but those reports ignore the importance of the 1910 Orpheum, which booked dramatic roadshows into the city for most of its almost thirty years. Parenthetically we should mention what older Nashvillians already know, namely that during the Depression the Edward Bellamy Players went broke at the Orpheum and Mrs. Inez Bassett Alder bought the props and wardrobe for the Hume-Fogg dramatic department.
You will read elsewhere that the Ryman was Nashville’s only playhouse after the Vendome became Loew’s but those reports ignore the importance of the 1910 Orpheum, which booked dramatic roadshows into the city for most of its almost thirty years. Parenthetically we should mention what older Nashvillians already know, namely that during the Depression the Edward Bellamy Players went broke at the Orpheum and Mrs. Inez Bassett Alder bought the props and wardrobe for the Hume-Fogg dramatic department.
