And I found Nathan's sisters obituary:
| June 5, 1999
Isabel
Estella Knorr, 92, of 29th Street SW, Allentown, died Wednesday, June
2, in Sacred Heart Hospital. She was a receptionist for the former
A&B Meat Packing Co., Allentown, for many years before retiring in
1968. Born in Bethlehem, she was a daughter of the late D. Ellsworth
and Estella B. (Bloss) Knorr. She was a member of Kingdom Hall of
Jehovah's Witnesses, Parkway Congregation, Macungie. Survivors:
Nieces and nephews. Memorial services: 7 p.m. Friday in Kingdom Hall.
and this:
Bernhardt's
private train, "The Bernhardt Special," made up of two Pullman cars, a
day coach and four baggage cars, arrived from Rochester, N.Y., at the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Station at 10 a.m. While her touring company
headed up the hill to the Hotel Allen, the actress remained in her car,
waving to the crowd along the rail siding near Gordon Street.
That afternoon, Bernhardt donned her full-length coat of Russian sable, pinned on two faded silk roses and climbed into an automobile for a tour of the Lehigh Valley. Later, she told The Morning Call she had seen "many fine homes and fine people." From her train she had observed cement mills. "And I hear you make silk and have a big fair, too."
One of Bernhardt's stops in Allentown was at the Pergola movie theater at 903 Hamilton St., where the PP&L building is today. Its owner, James Bowen, recently had installed a new color movie process and Bernhardt expressed an interest in seeing it. Theater manager D. Ellsworth Knorr, who escorted Bernhardt to her seat, was still in awe when he told Morning Call Sunday editor John Y. Kohl about it 51 years later.
Bernhardt's performance that evening at the Lyric consisted of scenes from three of her best-known works, "L'Aiglon," a drama based around an attempted rescue of the young son of Napoleon Bonaparte (Bernhardt played the male lead); a tragic melodrama "La Dame aux Camelias," better known as Camille, and "Joan of Arc," a play based on the life of France's patron saint.
And from another newspaper article:
The Pergola had been built about 1907 as a combination penny arcade, bowling alley and billiard parlor. By 1910 the penny arcade had been transformed to a 50-seat movie theater. Admission was a nickel, a reserved seat cost 10 cents, and the average length of a film was an hour.
Before long the movie business grew so popular the Pergola's bowling and billiard table space was transformed into an even bigger theater. The arcade space was renovated into the lobby. Added at the same time was an organ that was played along with the silent movies to provide mood music or move the film's action along. According to Kohl was the first organ put into an Allentown theater.
Among the most popular films at the Pergola were westerns. As films were shown continuously on Saturday boys would often spend hours there. The Pergola's manager, D. Ellsworth Knorr, received telephone calls from worried mothers looking for their children. The cliffhanger serials, which debuted in the decade of 1910-1919, were very popular.
A typical bill of fare at The Pergola in fall 1913 included a two-reeler, "Broken Threads United," said to be "a stirring melodrama of country and city life with excellent character portrayals," and four shorter films.
and this:
FOR
THE RECORD - (Published Wednesday, March 24, 1999) A headline Sunday
gave an incorrect year of actress Sarah Bernhardt's Lehigh Valley
performance. It was in 1910.
That afternoon, Bernhardt donned her full-length coat of Russian sable, pinned on two faded silk roses and climbed into an automobile for a tour of the Lehigh Valley. Later, she told The Morning Call she had seen "many fine homes and fine people." From her train she had observed cement mills. "And I hear you make silk and have a big fair, too."
One of Bernhardt's stops in Allentown was at the Pergola movie theater at 903 Hamilton St., where the PP&L building is today. Its owner, James Bowen, recently had installed a new color movie process and Bernhardt expressed an interest in seeing it. Theater manager D. Ellsworth Knorr, who escorted Bernhardt to her seat, was still in awe when he told Morning Call Sunday editor John Y. Kohl about it 51 years later.
Bernhardt's performance that evening at the Lyric consisted of scenes from three of her best-known works, "L'Aiglon," a drama based around an attempted rescue of the young son of Napoleon Bonaparte (Bernhardt played the male lead); a tragic melodrama "La Dame aux Camelias," better known as Camille, and "Joan of Arc," a play based on the life of France's patron saint.
And from another newspaper article:
The Pergola had been built about 1907 as a combination penny arcade, bowling alley and billiard parlor. By 1910 the penny arcade had been transformed to a 50-seat movie theater. Admission was a nickel, a reserved seat cost 10 cents, and the average length of a film was an hour.
Before long the movie business grew so popular the Pergola's bowling and billiard table space was transformed into an even bigger theater. The arcade space was renovated into the lobby. Added at the same time was an organ that was played along with the silent movies to provide mood music or move the film's action along. According to Kohl was the first organ put into an Allentown theater.
Among the most popular films at the Pergola were westerns. As films were shown continuously on Saturday boys would often spend hours there. The Pergola's manager, D. Ellsworth Knorr, received telephone calls from worried mothers looking for their children. The cliffhanger serials, which debuted in the decade of 1910-1919, were very popular.
A typical bill of fare at The Pergola in fall 1913 included a two-reeler, "Broken Threads United," said to be "a stirring melodrama of country and city life with excellent character portrayals," and four shorter films.
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