The Embassy Theatre will host a book signing and release event tomorrow August 6, at 10 a.m. in the Embassy Theatre Lobby. Tom Borne, the Embassy Theatre’s board president, will welcome attendees and Kelly Updike, Embassy executive director, will speak about the book’s author, Dyne Pfeffenberger. Deputy Mayor Greg Purcell will proclaim August 6 Embassy Theatre History Day.
The Historic Fort Wayne Embassy Theatre recounts the history of rescue from demolition, and subsequent restoration of Fort Wayne’s largest movie palace and vaudeville house. Lavish and ornate, the theatre is famous for its Grande Page Theatre Pipe Organ, which was installed when the venue was built in 1928.
The book’s author, Dyne L. Pfeffenberger (1937-2009), was professor emeritus of accounting at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. An original member of the organization that formed to save and restore the theatre, Dyne was the historian for the Embassy Theatre and played the organ and piano at Embassy functions.
Copies of The Historic Fort Wayne Embassy Theatre are available for purchase at the Embassy Theatre box office by calling (260) 424.5665 or online at http://www.fwembassytheatre.org/order_form.html#book. Mention code 1928 and receive a 15% discount until Sept. 15, 2009.
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