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Kerasotes on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was a movie theatre operator in the United States. Based in Chicago, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was the sixth-largest movie-theatre company in North America which had some 957 screens in 95 locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and ...
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for ...
Characterizing Jane Austen as a romance writer is at best disputed, [1] and at worst a misconception. [2] [3] Austen wrote novels of manners, with some elements of love and relationships that are vehicles for social commentary. Modern movie adaptations about Austen's books have lead to a misunderstanding of Austen's work. [4]
W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. was an American operator of vaudeville theaters and later movie theaters in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Beginning in the early 1900s, "Colonel" Walter Scott Butterfield expanded his business from one vaudeville house in Battle Creek in 1906 to 114 cinemas across Michigan in 1942. [ 1 ]
Bounded by Michigan Boulevard and 11th, Pine, and 6th Sts., Michigan City, Indiana Coordinates 41°42′49″N 86°53′35″W / 41.71361°N 86.89306°W / 41.71361; -86
The Martha Washington Theatre was the second purpose-built movie theatre in Ypsilanti. The first was the Vaudette at 19 North Huron Street, which opened in 1907 in a former grocery store. The local press criticized the safety of the 40-seat Vaudette after fires at similar theatres, and it closed around 1912. [3] Line drawing of the theatre, 1915
Improv Cape Cod takes on Jane Austen with ”Poshington Manor,” a scripted send-up of the 19th century novelist who penned such classics as “Sense and Sensibility” and “Emma ...
The Rev. George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen's parents, lived in Steventon, Hampshire, where Rev. Austen was the rector of the Anglican parish from 1765 until 1801. [2] Jane Austen's immediate family was large and close-knit. She had six brothers—James, George, Charles, Francis, Henry, and Edward—and a beloved older sister ...