![]() If the sun wasn’t shining toward me, I might have been able to see something inside, but no such luck. In the back there was a hole about ten feet square knocked out of the backstage wall. Next door at the Paramount, they they have definitely started renovations – can see evidence of it behind the plywood covering the front. Keith’s New theatre is partly taken up by the Opera House stage house, and the rest is construction area – eventually the addition to the Paramount/Bijou will be there. The Bijou next door looks like progress is being made – most of the back portion where the Bijou auditorium stood is demolished – the front part of the building has interior demolition well underway and the front facade has already been restored. Was in the “ladder district” today to see “Wicked the Musical” at the Opera House (see my report on the Opera House on its page). As a sample of the best development of the motion picture theater, visitors to Boston should not neglect the Bijou.” “The regular program of motion pictures - always with one educational film - is varied by ten minute, illustrated, camera chats, one act dramas presented by the Bijou players, stereopticon views of subjects of contemporary interest, and high grade vocal and instrumental music. During the past three years, the entire program at the Bijou has been developed from material supplied directly to the management, no agents having been employed. ![]() The management believes, however, that a motion picture entertainment may be made both interesting and diverting without depicting the antics of hoodlums or the tawdry sentiment of the dime novel. “The Bijou Theater is not an educational institution in any sense of the word its sole purpose is to amuse. Keith have raised the ordinary moving picture show to the level of refined entertainment without sacrificing life and sparkle to ‘uplift.’ A visit to the Bijou will illustrate how the liberality and broad-mindedness of Mr. The two and one-half hour entertainment will consist of motion pictures, musical numbers, and the one act play or opera that are parts of the regular program, and will include also specially arranged illustrated talks on topics of social and civic interest, prepared by a local conference committee. Keith’s Bijou Theater, has arranged a program of special interest for the week of June 7-14. In order to show these visitors the possibilities in the development of a moving picture theater, Mrs. ![]() Keith’s Bijou Theatre: “During the month of June hundreds of visiting social workers, interested in the dangers and possibilities of the moving picture show, will be in Boston attending the various meetings of a half dozen or more charities conferences. The July, 1911, issue of a magazine called New Boston featured a brief article with an encomium for B.
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