ROBERTA REED CRENSHAW
Paramount Theatre Benefactor
Austin American Statesman article
by Michael Barnes
August 2, 2015
Paramount at 100
How Roberta Reed Crenshaw became the Paramount’s patron saint
Citywide philanthropist made possible the restoration of the theater in the 1970s.
During the 1970s, when the Paramount Theatre was being restored, Roberta “Bobbie” Reed Crenshaw dropped by to check on a particularly difficult painting […]
AMERICAN STATESMAN ARTICLE – PARAMOUNT THEATRE 100 YEARS
By Michael Barnes
July 26, 2015
In the run up to the Paramount Theatre’s 100th anniversary, the Austin American Statesman and Michael Barnes published an historic article that captured the very essence of one of the greatest theatres of the 20th Century and beyond. While untold millions were suffering through […]
FANNY BRICE, COMEDIAN
“Everything I know I learned in vaudeville.” James Cagney
At the turn of the century in America, the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight, Jack London wrote Call of the Wild, Henry Ford started his motor company, and thousands of people escaped small apartments in big cities to see the amazing acts of […]