Sanford's Broadcast Hour
Dublin Core
Title
Sanford's Broadcast Hour
Alternative Title
Sanford's Broadcast Hour
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Theaters--Florida
Radio--United States
Broadcasting--United States
Description
Newspaper article announcing WJZ's broadcast from the Milane Theatre planned to air June 25, 1926.
The Milane Theatre was built at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theater and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
The Milane Theatre was built at 203 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, the former location of the Star Theatre, an abandoned movie house. Scroggs and Ewing, architects from Georgia, prepared the plans for the Milane. The name of the new theater was derived from the combination of the presidents of the Milane Amusement Company president and vice president: Frank L. Miller and Edward F. Lane. The Milane opened in July of 1923 and seated 823 patrons. In 1933, the Milane was sold to Frank and Stella Evans, investors from Lake Mary, Florida. The new owners renamed their business the Ritz Theater and held the property until the 1990s. However, the Ritz struggled financially in the 1960s and closed in 1978 due to failure to compete with the new multiplex theaters. The building remained vacant until 1984, when it reopened as the Showtime Cantina. The Showtime Cantina closed in 1988 and remained vacant and in decay. In the mid-1990s, Ritz Community Theater Projects, Inc. acquired the property and began rehabilitation in 1998. On May 6, 2000, the theater reopened as the Helen Stairs Theatre in honor of the citizen who led the restoration project, Helen Stairs. The following year, the location was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, additional renovations were completed at the theater was renamed the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in honor of the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust Fund for contributing to the renovations fund.
Source
Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: This Week in Sanford, Vol. 01, No. 23, June 21, 1926, page 1: Item number DP0008900. Central Florida Memory. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CFM/id/120807.
Publisher
This Week in Sanford
Curnick, Arthur R.
Date Created
ca. 1926-06-21
Date Copyrighted
1926-06-21
Date Issued
1926-06-21
Has Format
Original newspaper article: This Week in Sanford, Vol. 01, No. 23, June 21, 1926, page 1: Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: This Week in Sanford, Vol. 01, No. 23, June 21, 1926, page 1.
Is Part Of
This Week in Sanford, Vol. 01, No. 23, June 21, 1926.
Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida.
Milane Theatre Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
135 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
New York City, New York
Spatial Coverage
28.810527, -81.266859
40.754543, -73.982245
Temporal Coverage
1926-06-21/1926-06-25
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by This Week in Sanford.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by This Week in Sanford and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Source Repository
External Reference
"Helen Stairs Theatre." StageClick. http://www.stageclick.com/venue/457.aspx.
"Theater History." Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center. http://www.wdpac.com/footer-menu/theater-history/.
"Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center." Seminole County: Florida's Natural Choice. http://www.visitseminole.com/things-to-do/general/wayne-densch-performing-arts-center.
External Reference Title
Transcript
SANFORD'S BROADCAST HOUR
By Station WJZ, Radio Corporation of America, 8 to 9 o'clock the evening of Friday, June 25, out of New York City to the World, will consist of a series of sections of an Address setting forth those Facts about Sanford and Seminole County which most truly and attractively represent this City and Section as the right place in Florida for the right people to come to. Mayor Lake stated, Saturday, that he will go to New York in time to deliver Sanford's invitation to the Country at large to come, see, and be convinced. Between the sections of the main address of the Broadcast Hour as arranged for in New York by Arthur R. Curnick, editor and publisher of THIS WEEK IN SANFORD, artists of high repute will give musical selections voicing the period history of Florida, and the great orchestra of WJZ will assist. On the stage of Milane Theater a loud-speaker will be installed under direction of Manager Marentette by Hoff-Mac Battery Company of Sanford, to convey the New York program to the people of Sanford and the County who attend on next Friday Night, June 25, eight to nine.
By Station WJZ, Radio Corporation of America, 8 to 9 o'clock the evening of Friday, June 25, out of New York City to the World, will consist of a series of sections of an Address setting forth those Facts about Sanford and Seminole County which most truly and attractively represent this City and Section as the right place in Florida for the right people to come to. Mayor Lake stated, Saturday, that he will go to New York in time to deliver Sanford's invitation to the Country at large to come, see, and be convinced. Between the sections of the main address of the Broadcast Hour as arranged for in New York by Arthur R. Curnick, editor and publisher of THIS WEEK IN SANFORD, artists of high repute will give musical selections voicing the period history of Florida, and the great orchestra of WJZ will assist. On the stage of Milane Theater a loud-speaker will be installed under direction of Manager Marentette by Hoff-Mac Battery Company of Sanford, to convey the New York program to the people of Sanford and the County who attend on next Friday Night, June 25, eight to nine.
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1 newspaper article
Collection
Citation
“Sanford's Broadcast Hour,” RICHES, accessed May 23, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/1092.