St. James Theatre, Boston

The St. James Theatre (1912–1929) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a playhouse and cinema in the Back Bay in the 1910s and 1920s. It occupied the former Chickering Hall on Huntington Avenue near Massachusetts Avenue, adjacent to Horticultural Hall. For some years Loew's theatre chain oversaw the St. James. In 1929 the theatre "became part of the Publix (Paramount) chain, and was renamed the Uptown."

Images

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  Interior, 1912

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  Interior, 1912

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  Advertisement for "vaudeville and super photo-plays," 1920, including Charlie Chaplin's A Day's Pleasure

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  St. James Theatre (center), next to Horticultural Hall (at left), 1920

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  Advertisement for Boston Stock Company production of Caroline Miskel-Hoyt's A Temperance Town, 1922

Further reading

• "The St. James Theater and its Founder." New England Magazine, v.48, no.2, Oct. 1912

External links

• Library of Congress. Keith-Albee St. James Theatre, (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts. Drawing of theater facade, 1928.
• Boston Public Library.Postcard of St. James Theatre, Boston, Mass., published by Mason Bros. & Co., ca. 1915-1930
• Bostonian Society. Photograph of Uptown Theater, 239 Huntington Street, ca. 1962-1963. "Demolition (replaced by Christian Science Center). Originally the Chickering Hall (built 1900-1901), later Saint James Theater."
• CinemaTreasures.org. Uptown Theatre, 239 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (successor to the St. James)