I don’t know, but you can email MaryAnn Chach, the curator of the Shubert Archive, and ask her. If you’re in New York City, they’re quite accessible on the 4th floor of the Lyceum Theatre on 45th Street. Try
The comedy team of Joe Weber and Lew Fields built the theatre in 1902; in 1904, according to papers in the Shubert Archive, they leased it to Edward W. Stair and Albert L. Wilbur and it continued in service as a vaudeville and legit theatre. A year or two later, the Shubert Theatrical Company acquired a half-interest in the lease. Business relations between the Shuberts, Edward Stair (long a partner of J. H. Havlin in ownership of vaudeville and cheap melodrama theatres) and Albert Wilbur (Boston-based theatre owner and manger) were fluid and complex, but Wilbur probably provided Shubert access to the property. The West End Theatre lease was assigned to the United States Amusement Company, a Shubert-Erlanger vaudeville venture in 1907-08. From 1908 to 1912 it was booked as a part of the Shubert’s “subway circuit” by the Sam S. Shubert Booking Agency. 1912-14 it was subleased to managers who installed stock companies. Shuberts disengaged in 1914.
Records in the Shubert Archives indicate that William Fox owned the Riviera. From 1918 to 1923, the Shuberts had a profit-sharing booking contract with Fox whereby a Shubert subsidiary, the Sam S. Shubert Amusement Company, booked attractions into the Riviera for 50% of the net receipts. Shubert Theatrical Company leased the theatre from Fox in 1923 for $40,000 per year. They extended the lease in 1926 and terminated it in 1931. The Riviera became the Shubert Riviera in 1923.
I don’t know, but you can email MaryAnn Chach, the curator of the Shubert Archive, and ask her. If you’re in New York City, they’re quite accessible on the 4th floor of the Lyceum Theatre on 45th Street. Try
The comedy team of Joe Weber and Lew Fields built the theatre in 1902; in 1904, according to papers in the Shubert Archive, they leased it to Edward W. Stair and Albert L. Wilbur and it continued in service as a vaudeville and legit theatre. A year or two later, the Shubert Theatrical Company acquired a half-interest in the lease. Business relations between the Shuberts, Edward Stair (long a partner of J. H. Havlin in ownership of vaudeville and cheap melodrama theatres) and Albert Wilbur (Boston-based theatre owner and manger) were fluid and complex, but Wilbur probably provided Shubert access to the property. The West End Theatre lease was assigned to the United States Amusement Company, a Shubert-Erlanger vaudeville venture in 1907-08. From 1908 to 1912 it was booked as a part of the Shubert’s “subway circuit” by the Sam S. Shubert Booking Agency. 1912-14 it was subleased to managers who installed stock companies. Shuberts disengaged in 1914.
Records in the Shubert Archives indicate that William Fox owned the Riviera. From 1918 to 1923, the Shuberts had a profit-sharing booking contract with Fox whereby a Shubert subsidiary, the Sam S. Shubert Amusement Company, booked attractions into the Riviera for 50% of the net receipts. Shubert Theatrical Company leased the theatre from Fox in 1923 for $40,000 per year. They extended the lease in 1926 and terminated it in 1931. The Riviera became the Shubert Riviera in 1923.