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Gaslight Square (also known as Greenwich Corners) [1] was an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri active in the 1950s and 60s, covering an area of about three blocks at the intersection of Olive and Boyle, near the eastern part of the current Central West End and close to the current Grand Center Arts District.
The Fox Theatre, a former movie palace, is a performing arts center located at 527 N. Grand Blvd. in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.Also known as "The Fabulous Fox", it is situated in the arts district of the Grand Center area in Midtown St. Louis, one block north of Saint Louis University.
Westport was built by a prominent St. Louis developer, Thomas J. White, [2] and opened in 1973. [3] Westport since has grown to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2 ) of office buildings, restaurants, entertainment venues, and hotels. [ 4 ]
The Improv is a comedy club franchise. It was founded as a single venue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City in 1963, and expanded into a chain of venues in the late 1970s. History
The bandstand television program St. Louis Hop, hosted by Russ Carter, was filmed at Casa Loma Ballroom for part of its run. Writer Elaine Viets used Casa Loma as a setting in the novel Rubout in her Francesca Vierline mystery series. [1] On July 29, 1988, a 38-year-old woman suffered a severe heart attack at the Ballroom.
The Grove is a business district in St. Louis, and has several bars and restaurants. Several businesses were featured in the Best Of List [4] of The Riverfront Times.. The Grove is also home to a growing number of public art pieces, primarily murals worked on by local artist Grace McCammond.
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The best known farce is La Farce de maître Pathelin (The Farce of Master Pathelin) from c. 1460. [3] Spoof films such as Spaceballs, a comedy based on the Star Wars movies, are farces. [4] Sir George Grove opined that the "farce" began as a canticle in the common French tongue intermixed with Latin. It became a vehicle for satire and fun, and ...