Martin Beck Theater in New York City (renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003). On January 28, 1928, Orpheum Circuit was merged with the theater chain started by Benjamin Franklin Keith and Edward Franklin Albee II to form Keith-Albee-Orpheum. A few months later, Joseph P. Kennedy and David Sarnoff of Radio Corporation of America merged Keith-Albee-Orpheum with Film Booking Office of America to form the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) movie studio. In 1932 he managed the booking office at RKO. In 1934 he brought the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from London to America. Death Beck died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on November 16, 1940. Arthur Hopkins gave the eulogy at the funeral; honorary pall bearers included William A. Brady, John Golden, Sam H. Harris, Lawrence Langner, Guthrie McClintic, Lee Shubert and Herman Shumlin. References 1867 births 1940 deaths Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States 19th-century American male actors American male stage actors American theatre managers and producers Vaudeville performers Vaudeville producers American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Harry Houdini People from the Kingdom of Hungary People from Liptovský Mikuláš