Alfred Pellan was born in Quebec City in 1906. His artistic abilities surfaced early, selling his painting, "Corner of Old Quebec" to the National Gallery, Ottawa, when he was a mere 16 years of age.

Henry B. Harris and Jesse L. Lasky produced the Folies-Bergere in 1911. Renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in the mid-1950s, the theatre housed the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day’s Journey ...