I’ve posted a few photos of the Carthay Circle Theatre before but this one is kind of special. It shows us the theater during its very first engagement: Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Volga Boatman.” It was an auspicious opening because that film was a huge hit and made a star of William Boyd, who would later become immortalized as Hopalong Cassidy. I was surprised to see how well established the trees were back then until I found another photo of the place as it was getting ready for the opening: