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Iroquois Theatre
24–28 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Wednesday 30th of December 1903 (x) — . At the beginning of the second act, a dance number in the popular Drury Lane musical 'Mr. Bluebeard', was in progress when an arc light shorted out and sparks ignited a muslin curtain.