City Center was completed in 1924 as a Masonic building, Mecca Temple, and the rehearsal studios were originally lodge rooms.

Contributions in her memory to Mecca Temple, 71 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, will be greatly appreciated.

More than 8,000 Shriners attended the daylong opening ceremonies of the new $2.5 million Mecca Temple in 1925, which included a program of operatic and symphony music.

New York City took Mecca Temple for $622,000 in back taxes in 1942 - but there was an encore.

It also rents out space to the Manhattan Theater Club, and its three large practice spaces - the three lodge rooms of Mecca Temple - are in constant demand.

This was held at New York City's Mecca Temple.

The piece (which marked Carol Channing's Off Broadway debut), opened at the Mecca Temple, now the City Center Theater, in 1941 and ran for only three performances.

In 1921, Mecca Temple bought the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation movie studio site from Yale University for $400,000.

The first Temple established was Mecca Temple (now known as Mecca Shriners), established at the New York City Masonic Hall on September 26, 1872.

The company was started in 1944 at the City Center of Music and Drama, in the former Mecca Temple on West 55th Street.