Mary at the Orpheum

Tennessee · USA · Theatre

She has a favourite seat and she takes it during performances. Unusually for this archive, the accounts are in print.

Mary is a little girl, and she is the best documented figure in this entire collection.

Her accounts appear in the archives of Memphis Magazine, in published books, and in the theatre's own official history, which is a paper trail almost nothing else here can offer.

She has a favourite seat and sits in it during performances.

The Orpheum itself is a 1928 picture palace, built after the earlier theatre on the site burned down, with a Wurlitzer organ and chandeliers, and it is one of the great surviving movie palaces in the American south.

What is unusual about her, beyond the documentation, is how the theatre treats her. She is not a marketing exercise and not a warning. The company simply accepts that she comes to the shows.

The theatre is open and putting on performances.

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Mary at the Orpheum ligger i Tennessee, USA.

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