Globe Theatre

Boardwalk and Delaware Avenue,
Atlantic City, NJ 08401

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rivest266
rivest266 on March 11, 2023 at 8:45 am

The Globe theatre opened on April 14th, 1919, with “Sinbad”. Grand opening ad posted.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on November 22, 2017 at 1:55 pm

1950s sailboat promoting Globe Burlesque photo added, courtesy of Wm Walsh.

marsta2060
marsta2060 on August 22, 2017 at 5:59 am

My mom was a cashier, at the Globe, in the late 30’s. She worked there during the Summer. She lived in Philly. She met my dad there. He was from NYC.

RickB
RickB on December 14, 2015 at 3:44 am

There is no current building. If you’re going by the map on this page, it’s completely wrong; this theater was much farther uptown and would have been torn down for the construction of the Showboat, if not before. Since St. Charles Place no longer exists, Google probably just put a marker at some random spot on the Boardwalk.

Tonysj
Tonysj on December 13, 2015 at 8:52 pm

Is the current building there still the original globe? Or was it torn down and replaced? They do look somewhat similar.

TedLederer
TedLederer on December 6, 2014 at 12:19 am

Does anyone have any information on George Warshaw who went by the stage name George Murray (1904-1965). George performed at and may have managed the Globe along with his wife Eileen in the 1940’s and 1950’s. they had a daughter named Anita. My family is trying to find Anita and/or her children. Ted Lederer

InesitadaSilva
InesitadaSilva on January 29, 2011 at 4:12 am

Many thanks residents for the above URLs and informative posts. I’d like to share with site visitors a web page regarding one European (actually German) vaudeville act called the Six Rockets that passed through Atlantic City on a couple of occasions. The page here: View link links up many vintage photos from the Act’s two visits there, although sadly none are from inside any theatre itself and rather reveals what an act was up to when not on the stage.

However, I would like to take this opportunity to enquire whether CT readers may know whether some theatres more than others among Atlantic City’s vaudeville houses may have hosted German or European acts (if that’s a possibility at all). A number of the city’s residents claimed German ancestry, so would some houses like the Globe perhaps have catered rather more for the German speaking community? From the German Programm that the girls can be seen reading here: View link it would appear so.

Any suggestions or thoughts are more than welcome. Thank you very much in advance and I trust this post is useful to visitors.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 22, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Here is another photo, taken after a fire on the boardwalk:
http://tinyurl.com/ya8robq

edblank
edblank on October 12, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Can anyone pinpoint for me, please, which of the two corners this was on? Did it face the ocean or was it on St. Charles Place?

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 20, 2009 at 3:45 pm

The Globe theater sign can be seen in this photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ykct24

james1940
james1940 on June 2, 2009 at 8:49 am

my mother was a burlesque dancer there in the 1940’s,she went by the stage name nancy payne, i have a 1940 photo of a group of dancers outside the theatre. i am trying to find any info regarding her, i am her son, she died when i was very young, i have a whole suitcase full of photos from there actually. any info of her please me at …thanks james ryan

nonsportsnut
nonsportsnut on October 7, 2007 at 1:37 pm

There used to be a great group of posts here, but I guess an internet glich wiped thm out. Hopefully, the automatic email system will forward this poet to the former posters, and they will re-post.
I’m a Three Stooges researcher, who finally found out what happened to Burlesque dancer & talking woman Dorothy DeHaven, who was in the Stooge’s 1946 short “Three Little Pirates”.
I have been searching for information about the Globe, and the filming of a Burlesque ahow there in 1961, called “Scanty Panties”. It starred Virginia “Ding Dong” Bell, Billy “Cheese and Crackers” Hagan, Maxie Furman and Alma Maiben, among others.
Anyone with ANY information, please email me at Thanks,
Frank Reighter

spectrum
spectrum on September 29, 2007 at 11:34 am

According to Craig Morrison’s book “Theaters”, this was originally built in 1913, Magaziner & Potter architects. Originally the New Nixon Theatre. 2,227 seats, but (according to Marquee, 1980, v. 1), reduced to 1,400 upon conversion to movies in 1926. Had burlesque in 30’s.