Dorchester Illustration no. 2220 Strand Theatre program 1929
Clara Bow appears in The Saturday Night Kid, November, 1929, at the Strand Theatre.
The Strand Theatre was constructed on the site of the former Dyer mansion.
The Strand opened on November 11, 1918, as Dorchester’s NewMillionDollarPhotoplayPalace, one of the first designed specifically for motion pictures, and hailed as New England’s most beautiful theatre. The Strand opened the same day that the news of the Armistice, which ended World War I, reached Boston. The Theatre would go on to host movies, stage plays, concerts and political meetings.
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