The biased news coverage of highly dramatic sensational stories was the journalistic practice of Hearst, the Roger Aisles of his day. Pantages trial exposed fissures in American society in gender relations at a time when theatrical opportuniti

Pantages - Chapter 6 - Trial of the Century

Jun 9th, 2018 52m 34s

By the late 1920’s Pantages was worth the equivalent of approximately $300 million in current dollars. That kind of money can change a person’s living circumstances. But what about a person’s character? Pantages was a baffling combination of

Pantages - Chapter 5 - Joe Kennedy

Jun 9th, 2018 39m 9s

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was the father of JFK and the son of a saloon owner. Apart from his brilliant propensity to attract and keep money, sometimes by shrewdness, hard work and fine timing (he came out from the 1929 crash richer) but often by

Pantages - Chapter 4 - The Movie Palace

Jun 9th, 2018 1h 2m

Pantages heightened the experience of attending a show by attracting top talent and creating sumptuously-designed theaters that could themselves be draws. Movie cathedrals replaced, in both architectural grandeur and cultural impact, the domin

Pantages - Chapter 3 - Klondike Kate, Part 2

Jun 9th, 2018 57m 15s

Klondike Kate was a spectacular conversationalist. Miners in town for an evening would chuck nuggets up on the stage and she'd scoop them up; she'd drink with them afterward, sharing bottles of wine that cost $5 each and pouring her glass disc

Pantages - Chapter 2 - Klondike Kate

Jun 9th, 2018 51m 19s

She made her name and gained her fame and fortune on the saloon stages of Dawson, in the Yukon, Canada, as a singer, dancer and Vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she earned her place in Gold Rush history as a beautiful, talen

Pantages - Chapter 1

Jun 9th, 2018 55m 3s

Without immigrants like Alexander Pantages to lead the way, Hollywood might have resembled the oil industry in the late 1880’s dominated by one individual, John D. Rockefeller. Pantages’ circuit faced vigorous competition, but the Vaudeville t

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