[Phono-L] Len Spencer's Lyceum

BruceY Bruce78rpm at comcast.net
Mon Nov 26 06:30:42 PST 2007


The Lyceum Theatre is at
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Glastris" <glastris at comcast.net>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Len Spencer's Lyceum


> Most likely they were used for "sing alongs" between acts.  They would be 
> projected on a screen from a magic lantern and the audience would 
> participate.  Later, when animation came to be used, they added a 
> "bouncing ball" to make it easier to follow the music.
>
> I assume Len Spencer owned a theatre somewhere named the Lyceum, most 
> likely in his hometown or wherever his home base was.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "michael funk" <funk at insightbb.com>
> To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:14 PM
> Subject: [Phono-L] Len Spencer's Lyceum
>
>
>>I was cleaning out some boxes I had with old phono materials in them and
>> came across a tin box full of glass slides illustrating lyrics or photos 
>> to
>> a song. The box in embossed "property of Len Spencer's Lyceum".  How 
>> would
>> these have been used at the Lyceum?  To accompany singers and phonograph
>> records as they played?  Is it possible there was also an arcade that 
>> with a
>> coin op machine that played a record and showed the glass slides (like a
>> kinetescope)?  I was not able to find anything with Google. Thanks in
>> advance for your help,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. Mike and I had a fun project yesterday. We had bought a huge Nipper 
>> at
>> Stanton's that has a speaker fixed inside with a screen in his neck area.
>> We were able to combine the old speaker wire with new wire and hook it up 
>> to
>> a CD player.  We were thrilled to hear Fred Van Epps coming from Nipper!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Suellen
>>
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