manage- ment of the famous actor Douglass, called itself American Company. It slowly became a stabilized institution and we shall meet its members in Lancaster many times. Demand for group entertainment had become so urgent that legal restrictions did not hamper its evolution. In the very primitive begin

From Vaudeville to the Silver Screen: Popular Entertainment in Lancaster 1900-1930 By Jodelle L. Bryan American society changed drastically in the early twentieth century. With the rise of a new, urban-industrial environment, streams of immigrants and other workers moved to the city of Lancaster

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return