Vet Theatre

TOOTER TOOTS WINS HIS CASE – CHICAGO, Feb. 3. 1932 – Lawyers clustered around Judge Edward Casey, hands cupped to ear, as a sedate man blew measured blasts on a tin whistle. “Listen judge,” Leslie Parry, blower, would say. And then a shrill wheee-e-eee would come from his whistle. Parry, acoustic engineer, was making his experiment to convince the judge that sound equipment installed by the Johns-Manville corporation in the Lucille theater, 653 North Cicero avenue, is effective. The equipment had been reproduced in court. After the acoustic properties of the courtroom had been demonstrated as an example of sound properties in the theater, Judge Casey entered judgement of $575 against the theater for installation of the equipment.

Incidentally the theater can still be seen on Google, but many of those photos were taken in 2007.

Seating should be like 550 too.

Was this demolished, or partly? Or perhaps a collapse? It almost looks like it in THIS aerial. Anyone want to check it out?

Sheldon Good & Company Auctions, LLC has just listed the Lucille Theatre/Vet 615-53 N. Cicero, Chicago, Il. for Auction in June 2004. The minimum bid is $95,000. I am seeking additional information on the Lynch circuit and pictures of the marquee and facade from the earlier period. Any idea who would have the this type of information? Please email or contact me at 312.373.4322.