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"Ben Hur was more than a play: It was one of life's great experiences," recalled [Walker]'s daughter Ruth Harvey in her memoir, Curtain Time.
Except for a brief period, the Walker programmed strictly what was called legit theatre, leaving the lower-status stars of vaudeville to play the Orpheum Theatre on Fort Street. Since the Walker was the theatre in Winnipeg, it has been wrongly assumed that every name that came though town played there. For decades it has been repeated that Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, Lily Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt, Bob Hope and Harry Houdini performed at the Walker but they didn't. Most played the Orpheum.See the full content of this document
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Golden Age of the Stage
THE newly opened Walker, which justifiably called itself Canada's finest theatre, ushered in the stage's golden age of entertainment in this city...
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