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Oh, right. Sorry. Welcome to the lovely Minneapolis Auditorium; tonight the Minneapolis Symphony will play a selection of reels and the seldom-heard “Fizzbine Suite” by Armondo Ochsmichs, who –

Sorry! Wrong again. Welcome to the Lyceum theater, where many college students got their first cinematic peek at a lady’s naughty parts – in 1938.  Well, not a look, more like an implication, probably. The Lyceum showed the infamous “Birth of a Baby,” which had enough solemn endorsements from civic leaders to assure the other civic leaders nothing salacious was shown. It made a lot of money, but not all movies did well. The theater was outdated and poorly set-up for movies; it was better suited to plays, as the marquee shows here. Boris Karloff, clumping up and down Nicollet Mall - imagine that.