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4 juin 2016 · Barney Balaban (Q2884698) From Wikidata. Jump to navigation Jump to search. American film studio executive. edit. Language Label Description Also known as; English: Barney Balaban . American film studio executive. Statements. instance of. ...
Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres. Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon.
Barney Balaban, former Chicago theater chain cofounder and honorary chairman of the board of Paramount Pictures Corp., New York City, died yesterday in his home in Byram, Conn. He was 83. New York City, died yesterday in his home in Byram, Conn.
Brief Life History of Barney. When Barney Balaban was born on 8 June 1887, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Israel Balaban, was 25 and his mother, Augusta "Goldie" Mandebursky, was 19. He married Tillie Urkov on 24 February 1929, in Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
17 mars 2003 · About 1915, Barney Balaban met Sam Katz and the two men made plans for a group of de luxe theaters. Their first theater, the Central Park, was opened in 1917. It was the first theater with modern air conditioning. There followed the building of the Riviera, Tivoli, Chicago, and Uptown—the nucleus of a circuit now operating 38 theaters in Chicago and 57 in the rest of Illinois through Great ...
The Chicago Theatre. When Balaban and Katz opened The Chicago Theatre on October 26, 1921, eager and hopeful moviegoers swarmed State Street. Lines formed as early as two o’clock, a full three and a half hours before the scheduled opening. By six, crowds wrapped around the block, and a force of two hundred patrolmen and thirty mounted ...
Pooling talents, Barney Balaban, A.J. Balaban and Sam Katz formed Balaban & Katz in 1916 and financed the construction of a new 2,400-seat theatre, the Central Park, on Chicago's West Side. The Central Park. In 1916, Balaban "took Katz to Baraboo, Wisconsin, to see the memorial theatre of the Ringling Brothers designed by Rapp and Rapp. It was ...
