Historian Richard Schwartz will tell the fascinating story of the numerous philanthropic and significant deeds of immigrant M. B. Curtis, a once famed but now largely forgotten actor, for the city of Berkeley, and that still has an effect on us today. Schwartz will also discuss many never-before-shared events at Curtis's Berkeley-based Peralta Park Hotel, and will include Berkeley-specific stories not included in his book, The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty, The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis, now in paperback.

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