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MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA
MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA. Jake Rosenthal, the manager of the Majestic, during Thanksgiving week in 1911 advertised that visitors to the Majestic were listening to an orchestra, for ten, twenty, or thirty cents, that cost $150.00 "saying not a word about the salaries of our twenty-one local employees, light, heat, insurance and advertising." (1) Advertisement for the theater regularly credited the quality of the music. (2)
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Source:
1. Advertisement, The Telegraph-Herald, November 26, 1911, p. 28
2. Advertisement, The Telegraph-Herald, November 14, 1911, p. 9
The 1916-1917 White's Dubuque County Directory listed the MAJESTIC THEATRE as the address.