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The partnership of Big Tim Sullivan (1862-1913), a powerful Tammany Hall politician and impresario, and John Considine, a Seattle impresario, joined forces to operate a significant West Coast vaudeville circuit. The Sacramento Empress, originally containing a 2,000-seat auditorium, opened in 01/1913. The Sullivan and Considine partnership began to implode following the former's death in 1913; its holdings were purchased by the Hippodrome circuit, which renamed many of its new venues the "Hippodrome." The Hippodrome staged live performances and movies, silent and talkies. Its ownership gutted the Empress/Hippodrome in 1946, to create an updated movie-focused theatre, renamed the Crest. The Crest opened on 10/06/1949.

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