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Theater courtyard. Although originating as a small community theater featuring the Claremont Community Players in the hills of Claremont in southern California, by the depression years Padua Hills featured dinner theatre by the "Mexican Players." The group presented plays, songs, and dances for theatre patrons from 1931 to 1974.
Big Bridges under construction in 1931. The auditorium was built as a joint project of the Claremont Colleges consortium. It was sponsored by Appleton and Amelia (nee Timken) Bridges, the parents of Mabel Shaw Bridges, a student in Pomona's class of 1908 who died of illness in her junior year, [5] and H.H. Timken, president of the Timken Roller Bearing Company.
The Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, more commonly known as Little Bridges (to distinguish it from nearby Bridges Auditorium, known as Big Bridges), is a concert hall at Pomona College in Claremont, California, designed by Myron Hunt and opened in 1915.
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Laemmle Theatres (/ ˈ l ɛ m l i / LEM-lee) is a Los Angeles-based arthouse movie theater chain owned and operated by Robert Laemmle and his son Greg. The company's first theater, bought in 1938 [1] by Robert's father Max and uncle Kurt, both cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, was located in Highland Park.
In the 1940s and 1950s, musicals about World War II tended to be peppy shows about soldiers and sailors on leave, acting carefree for a few days and leaving the war behind. Nowadays, we know that ...
Claremont: 2,500 [1] 1915 Bridges Hall of Music: 550 May 1975 ... 1,075 (Polk Theatre) 264 (Johnson Theater) unknown Fisher Center: 1,727 2021 FirstBank Amphitheater:
Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England on Oct. 28, 1929. She appeared in amateur theater productions as a child, and won an amateur theater prize at age 15 and after high ...