Orpheum Theatre
122 N. 5th Street,
Springfield,
IL
62703
122 N. 5th Street,
Springfield,
IL
62703
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My father, Meredith Rhule, Sr., was the Sangamon County Sheriff there in the late 40s, early 50s. I remember Frank Sinatra portraying him as a WWII hero in a movie that played at the Orpheum. In those days, he couldn’t receive credits in the flick due to “conflicts of interests” with regards to political figures.
My father, Ralph W. Lawler was manager of the Orpheum Theater in Springfield Illinois in the early 1930s…I have memories as a small child of the theater and have a photo of the theater. In fact the Orpheum was robbed while my father was the manager and the robber didn’t want to believe that my father did not know the combination to the safe….but he was willing to wait until an employee who did have the combination arrived for work…and then the robber stole the money in the safe! Jean Lawler Bell