LC control no. | n 2017068369 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Pantages, Alexander, 1867-1936 |
Birth date | 1867 |
Death date | 1936 |
Found in | American zeus, 2017: ECIP t.p. (Alexander Pantages) Wikipedia, 11-14-2018 : ((Alexander Pantages; b. 1867, in Andros, Greece; d. February 17, 1936, California) was a Greek American vaudeville and early motion picture producer and impresario who created a large and powerful circuit of theatres across the western United States and Canada; at the height of his empire, he owned or operated 84 theatres across the United States and Canada. He was known as a tireless operator and a particularly ruthless one. In 1929 he was accused of raping a native 17-year-old dancer named Eunice Alice Pringle; the negative publicity led to the selling of his operations and he ceased to be a force in exhibition or vaudeville ever again) |