Edwin Booth, Ethel Barrymore, and Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne still have theatres. In older days, there was the Garrick, the Maxine Elliott, Jolson’s 59th, Molly Picon’s, the Nora Bayes, and George M. Cohan—though some of these were not merely honorary, but because the actor was owner and producer, as well as performer.
And the original Helen Hayes Theatre was demolished in 1982 while Miss Hayes was still with us.
The demolishing of HHT and the Morosco should go down as one of the crimes of the last century.
