{"id":53966,"date":"2022-04-25T03:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=53966"},"modified":"2022-04-25T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:18:13","slug":"vaudeville-at-keiths-march-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/vaudeville-at-keiths-march-1908\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaudeville at Keith&#8217;s, March 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sample of the vaudeville programme at Keith&#8217;s theatre, March 1908.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mar-1908-keiths-vaudeville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mar-1908-keiths-vaudeville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1048\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53967\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft fondly recalled, in a letter to Moe, &#8220;Keith&#8217;s Continuous Vaudeville&#8221; and the &#8220;new biograph travel films to chase the audiences out of Keith&#8217;s at six-o&#8217;clock&#8221;. He was recalling the years 1900-02 when he was ten to twelve years old. He is known to have visited &#8220;the old Keith&#8217;s Theatre&#8221; c. 1905 to see Houdini. The 1908 date of the above programme may be a bit late, as he would then have been around 17 years old, but the sort of vaudeville programme at Keith&#8217;s would not have changed much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/keithext.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/keithext.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"808\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/keithext.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/keithext-528x808.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sample of the vaudeville programme at Keith&#8217;s theatre, March 1908. Lovecraft fondly recalled, in a letter to Moe, &#8220;Keith&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/vaudeville-at-keiths-march-1908\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53971,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966\/revisions\/53971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}