In Bright Lights
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Pantages Theatre, built in
1913-14, hosted vaudeville
performances by Buster
Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and
the Marx Brothers. Tickets
cost 10, 15 or 25 cents for an
exclusive box seat. It was the
first air-conditioned building in
Winnipeg. Huge pieces of ice
were placed in the basement
and large fans were used to
blow air over the ice and cool
the patrons. *
Prairie Theatre Exchange is the only live
theatre in the world that is located in a
shopping centre.
Photo courtesy Pantages Playhouse
Theatre
Winnipeg's French theatre
company, Le Cercle Molière,
is Canada's oldest continuously
running French theatre.
Factoids | Volume 5
