Fox Theatre St. Louis

I love musicals and plays. My daughter is begging to take her to one so.......I am going to inquire about future shows this Fall and Winter. I need to attend these functions more often and to expose my child to the finer things:

No second of every 24 hours passes but that the name of William Fox is on the screen in some part of the world." -- W.F. By the time William Fox opened his new theatre in St. Louis on January 31, 1929, he had parlayed an initial investment of $1,660.67 for a 146 seat Brooklyn storefront theatre into a nationwide circuit of 305 theatres. Just two months later, on March 3rd, Fox shook the film industry with his takeover of the Loew's Corporation, swallowing up an additional 500 theatres and the mightly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Studios to boot.At the age of nine months, Baby William was moved by his parents from his birthplace in Tulchva, Hungary, to the ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side. By age eleven Fox was already in business, selling penny-candy with his pals in Central Park. Born New Year's Day, 1879, Fox married 16-year-old Eve Leo on December 31, 1899. He claimed this timing was most efficient, allowing him to celebrate his anniversary, his birthday and New Year's all at once.W.F., as he was addressed, was a publicity-shy man, called in the press "a brilliant, excited, energetic, roughneck." Niece, Angela Fox Dunn, recalls her Uncle Bill was given the title "The Lone Eagle" of the film industry. At the height of his empire-building, Fox was known never to carry anything smaller than a $100 bill. He would not wear a watch and kept his office blinds drawn in an effort "to make time stand still." For 25 years the Fox fortunes improved steadily. With his fledgling Greater New York Film Rental Company (formed in 1904) Fox fought against the movie monopoly of the Motion Picture Patents Company. The fight ended in the Supreme Court in 1912, deciding in W.F.'s favor.

From the opening night

"It must have been a fascinating picture for those grim old warriors as they looked down upon the thousands of eager and amazed Americans, bobbed-haired women in fur wraps and evening gowns, clean-shaven men in the severe black and white of evening clothes or the others whose fancy was for business wear, and posted among them-like well trained statues---the neatly uniformed guides and ushers standing, with ramrod backs, in military pose. Just as the gorgeousness of that lobby was an eye-filling spectacle to those lucky seat holders who found their way within."

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