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In an era of online streaming, it may be difficult to recognize the
importance of a woman who in 1908 established the first silent
movie theater in Richmond, Virginia: the Dixie nickelodeon. But
Amanda Thorp, an independent, self-made woman, was on the ground
floor of a popular culture that would grow to be enormously
influential in our modern era. In Nickelodeons and Black
Vaudeville: The Forgotten Story of Amanda Thorp, Kathi Clark
Wong’s extensive archival research uncovers Thorp’s impressive
contributions not only to moviegoing and its growth in America, but
also perhaps even more surprisingly, Thorp’s support of early
Black vaudeville in the Jim Crow South. Movie theater entrepreneurs
like Thorp, who got her start at her Wonderland Theater in Bucyrus,
Ohio, helped create our culture’s insatiable appetite for film.
But it was after she established the Dixie in Richmond, that
Thorp—a White woman—also saw a market for providing
Black-centric entertainment. She converted the Dixie to all-Black
patronage and began to bring in scores of Black vaudeville acts.
Later, she built the Hippodrome Theater, in the heart of
Richmond’s now-historic Jackson Ward, expressly for Black
entertainment. Though she eventually left the field of Black
entertainment behind, Thorp developed other movie venues in
Richmond that brought in tens of thousands of (White) moviegoers
over the years and which were widely admired for their elaborate
trappings. Thanks to Wong’s research, contemporary readers can
now benefit from the story of Amanda Thorp, a woman who amidst
severe gender role constraints not only claimed social capacity on
the crest of a rapidly growing industry but also, almost
inadvertently, contributed to the success of early Black
vaudeville, a subject which thus far has not received the scholarly
attention it deserves.
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