Rats. I confused the Bradford and Brantford Theatoriums. The one in Canada had the explosion, and was replaced by a house called the Gem. The Pennsylvania Theatorium just got sold to new owners in 1909.
As for the Gem noted in the Bradford Landmarks newsletter, that publication cites no sources, so there’s no way to check them. I’ve found no other text references to a Gem Theatre in Bradford, but the Landmark Society’s web site has a photo collection, and this undated early photo of South Avenue features the Bradford/Shea’s Theatre. The writing is very difficult to make out, but it appears to me that the small building just this side of the Bradford has a sign that could read “Gem Novelties.” I wonder if that might have been a short-lived nickelodeon?
The newsletter article doesn’t mention the People’s Opera House, but does list a house on Chambers Street (no number) called the Theater Comique, which ran from 1877 until burning in 1880. The only other mention of Chambers Street is the Wagner Opera House, which it lists at Main and Chambers from 1878 to 1903. In any case, it’s clear that the newsletter list is, unfortunately, not entirely reliable.
There is a 1910 photo of the Peerless Theatre’s entrance on this WorthPoint listing, but it won’t enlarge enough to be clear if it were uploaded here. It’s a Real Photo post card, so another copy might turn up on another auction site someday. The accompanying text gives the operating years as 1907 to 1913, contradicting the Landmark Society’s newsletter dates of 1907-1917.
A list of Bradford’s early theaters in a newsletter from the Bradford Landmark Society (PDF here) gives the following names for the house at 11 Main Street: The Star Continuous Show (1906-1912); The Star (1912-1919); The Strand (1919-1924.) It was listed as the Star Theatre in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory.
The Theatorium, 29 Main St., is still listed at Bradford in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. However, a newsletter from the Bradford Landmark Society (PDF here) has a list of Bradford’s early theaters and also says the Theatorium closed in 1910, and had opened in 1906.
To add a bit more confusion, This Wikipedia article about Jay and Jules Allen, founders of Canada’s famous Allen Theatres chain, says that they were the original owners of the Theatorium, having opened it on November 10, 1906. However, Wiki’s article says that the Theatorium was destroyed by an explosion in September, 1908, “…resulting in its replacement by the Gem.”
The local newsletter lists the Gem as a house on Chambers Street which operated from 1880 until 1912, when it was converted to a horse stable. The Allens sold their local holdings in 1909, according to Wikipedia. It does not help that the Allens' first Canadian Theater was also called the Theatorium, and was in Brantford, Ontario. I’ve also found a reference to the Bradford Theatorium being in operation again in 1909, at 29 Main street, under the ownership of “Travis, Walker and Bush.”
Obviously not everything said about the Theatorium from all these sources can be correct, but I’ve not yet been able to establish which claims are accurate. There might be sources I haven’t found yet.
The December, 2020 issue of The Inkwell, billing itself as “A Newsletter for Friends of the Bradford Landmark Society” (PDF here) included a list of Bradford’s theaters, and says that a house called the Peerless Theatre operated at 115 Main Street from 1907 to 1917. I’ve found the Peerless mentioned in trade journals in 1912, but it was not listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though that publication is known for its frequent omissions.
The May 22, 1920 issue of Moving Picture World said that the Melvin brothers, operating the Lyceum Theater at Bradford, Pennsylvania, had purchased a franchise from The First National Exhibitors Exchange. First National was formed in 1917 by a merger of 26 large theater circuits, and eventually controlled 600 houses nationwide, about 200 of them being first run operations. Thomas Talley of Los Angeles was among the founders, though the company’s headquarters was in New Orleans. The chain established production facilities in Burbank, California in 1924, which became the Warner Bros studio in 1929.
Film Daily of August 28, 1927 said that “Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., pipe organ Builders of St. Louis, have shipped a two manual organ to the Rex, Albion, Nebraska, which is now being installed.”
The most succinct history of this theater I’ve found is this post from the Kiel Area Historical Society’s Facebook page. It says that Keil’s original Pastime Theatre operated at 501 Fremont Street from 1912 to 1917, when it was replaced by the second Pastime at 510 Fremont. The new theater operated as the Pastime until 1939, when it was renamed the Kiel Theatre. The Kiel Theatre closed in 1961 and the building was converted for use as an automobile showroom the following year. It has since been converted for ordinary retail purposes, though on the most recent Google street view car’s pass (August, 2024) it appeared to be vacant.
There are several photos of the 1917 house on the Internet. It featured a triumphal arch façade, perhaps the single most popular style for small, purpose-built movie theaters in the U.S. during the period leading up to the First World War. The building is still recognizable today despite a few unfortunate alterations. An August 28, 1927 Film Daily item said that a $7,000 organ had just been installed in the Pastime, an expense the owners most likely soon regretted when it became apparent that talking pictures were here to stay.
The Texas section of the “Theatre Changes” column in the October 4, 1937 issue of Film Daily listed the Timberland Theatre at Diboll under the heading “Openings.” It was first listed in the 1938 FDY with 400 seats.
A quick check of earlier FDYs shows no listing for Diboll in 1935, 1936, or 1937, nor in 1926 or 1929, but the town had at least two theaters earlier. The July 1, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World had this item: “Diboll, Tex.—B. F. Tucker has opened a new theater at Diboll. This gives this fine little city two theaters.” Diboll, however, made no appearance in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory.
This memorial page for Elvis Larry Bowman says that he “…was the owner of the Timberland Theatre in Diboll from 1970 – 1989.” As it doesn’t say that he actually operated the theater or at least leased it to an operator, it can’t be assumed the place was actually open during that period, but it might have been.
There is a 1941 photo of the Timberland on this web page, and to my eye it bears no resemblance to the building at the theater’s address now, though in a glimpse of the back of the current building available on Google’s street view it looks much older than the front, so it is possible it was simply remodeled beyond recognition.
The plain, vernacular style of the original building might have been built at just about any time in the first half of the 20th century, so it could be that the house did date from 1915 or 1916 and, long dormant, was renovated and reopened in 1937.
The November 13, 1954 issue of Boxoffice said that CinemaScope equipment had been installed at the Tejas Theatre in Grapeland. A predecessor house called the Star Theatre had installed a new projector, according to the January 13, 1923 issue of Exhibitors Trade Review. The Star might have been the house the July 1, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World said that B. C. Lively had recently opened at Grapeland.
The theaters listed at Madera in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory were called the Royal and the Pastime. The latter was mentioned in The Billboard in January, 1911. As there is no clue where they were located, either name might have been an aka for the house that became the Wonderland.
Here is earlier news about the Rex, from a history of the county published in 1949: “Mr. William Pratt had his Barber Shop on the land that Fred and Francis Thompson purchased for the building of the Strand Theatre in 1920. The Barber Shop was then moved off its foundation and re-located where Paul’s Shoe Shop now stands. The Strand Theatre was leased by John Cribble and during his management was destroyed by fire. It was purchased in 1935 by H. J. Thompson, remodeled and renamed THE REX THEATRE”
The 1926 FDY lists three houses at Curwensville: the Opera House, the Grand, and the Strand. No locations or seating capacities are given for any. All three were still listed in 1929, but in 1930 only the Strand remained. It was last listed in 1933, and Curwensville then vanishes from the FDY until 1935, when the Rex is listed, so it was likely 1933 when the Strand burned.
The 550-seat Rex Theatre at Curwensville was offered for sale in a classified ad in the December 2, 1968 issue of Boxoffice. The ad said the house was in operation and in “excellent condition.” The asking price was not mentioned.
This item from the October 10, 1940 issue of Film Daily is clearly wrong in its headline claim, but this still might have been a different building than the the one the Liberty had been in, perhaps the one next door: “First House for Madera
“Madera, Pa.—Opening of the new 500 seat Madera Theater, owned and constructed by Mid-West Theaters, Inc., gives this town its first motion picture house.” (“Mid-West Theaters” obviously a typo for “Mid-State Theaters.”)
Other than the mention of a house called the Pastime in a 1911 Billboard item, this is the only mention of Madera I’ve been able to find in the trade journals. Two houses were listed there in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, but they were the Pastime and a house called the Royal. Locations weren’t provided for either.
The Coliseum was the only house listed at Stoneboro in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The September 26, 1914 issue of The New York Clipper had two ads from Stoneboro in sequence:
“STONEBORO, PA. Book now for coming Season. Everything working full time. Write for dates. Hines opera house, box 14.”
and
“THE COLISEUM THEATRE, Stoneboro, Pa. New house. Ground floor. Large stage. Modern equipment. Electric lighted. Open time for good attractions. E. AL. RAYMOND, Manager.”
So the Coliseum was new in 1914, and originally featured live performances, but had to have been equipped for movies as well, or it wouldn’t have been listed in the AMPD.
The only mention of the house I’ve found in the movie theater industry trade journals is this item from the October 21, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World: “Tom Greer, of the Coliseum Theatre, Stoneboro, Pa., recently motored to Pittsburgh in his flivver, and was arrested here for speeding. But Tom got out of his trouble. He told the cop he had just assembled the car and forgot to put the slow parts back into it.”
Its official web site is once again listing this house as the Falls Theatre rather than the Falls Cinema. According to this article from Minnesota Public Radio News the new owners, Phil and Suzy Prosapio, are a local couple who have been involved in renovating and reinvigorating downtown Little Falls for some time, and they completely renovated the theater, restoring its 1933 Art Deco look, before reopening it on Friday, October 6, 2023. The opening feature on one of the three screens was “The Nuisance,” the romantic comedy that opened the house in 1933.
A June 25, 1908 Cameron County Press article about the first anniversary of the Theatorium said that the owners had operated in the Opera House for a time. The Theatorium had originally opened in a storefront on Broad Street on June 22, 1907, but this location proved too small, and it soon moved to the Opera House. It had moved into the Shives Building (presumably the one at 36 E. 4th) around January 1, 1908. By the middle of 1908, vaudeville acts had been added to the Theatorium’s programs. The Theatorium was still listed in the FDY in 1929, when it had 230 seats. The 480 seat Opera House was its only listed competitor.
An Emporium Theatre on 4th Street and the Emporium Opera House on South Street were both listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. I don’t see a South Street on the map of Emporium, so perhaps it was just an alternate name for Fourth Street, and these were both the same theater.
The May 13, 1909 issue of the Cameron County Press carried an announcement that the Opera House at Emporium would reopen for the season Monday evening with a program of vaudeville and movies. In 1926, capsule movie reviews were being submitted to Moving Picture World by manager A. E. Andrews of the Opera House, Emporium. Mr. Andrews included the seating capacity of the house (486) and the prices (10-25 and 15-30, presumably for matinees and evenings, respectively.)
The NRHP registration form for the Little Falls Commercial Historic District says that the Ripley Theatre building was built in 1936 and was designed by architect Sheldon Haatvedt.
The May 22, 1948 issue of Boxoffice said that the Pix Theatre in Minneapolis, having returned to the name Newsreel a month previously, had once again restored the name Pix. The house was still under lease to Metropolitan Theatres, and showing double-feature revivals.
What may have been the first instance of the Metropolitan Opera House being used for movies was noted in this item from the “Philadelphia Pointers” column of Moving Picture World for April 3, 1920:
“‘Pollyanna’ in Grand Opera Surroundings.
“Thousands of dollars will be spent by the United Artists' Corporation to change the Metropolitan Opera House into an up-to-date motion picture palace in time for the opening presentation, ‘Pollyanna,’ commencing May 8. It is expected to have Mary Pickford here in person providing she does not go abroad before that date.”
Mary Pickford was 27 years old when she portrayed Eleanor H. Porter’s 12 year old heroine. “Pollyanna” was Pickford’s first film for her recently established United Artists studio. A blockbuster for its time, the film had a budget of $300,000 and grossed $1.1 million worldwide in its initial theatrical run. Now in the public domain, at least in the US, multiple copies have been uploaded to YouTube where it can be watched at no charge.
News about the Main Theatre from the April 3, 1920 issue of Moving Picture World:
“Fire Exits Stand the Test.
“The Main Theatre, a house situated in a thickly populated section of Cleveland at East Twenty-fifth street and Scoville avenue, was put out of business March 11, when a fire broke out in the building in which the entrance to the theatre was situated. Although the blaze started about 8:30 in the evening, and the theatre was well filled, there was no panic whatever. As soon as the smoke commenced to come into the auditorium, the fire exits were opened and in a short time the theatre was emptied.
“The building in front of the theatre, a four-story structure, was very badly damaged, the loss being about $100,000. Several firemen were injured when a roof fell. The fire did not start in the theatre, but in the loft of the building where a laundry is located.
“The theatre was leased and operated by O. E. Belles, of Cleveland, and F. G. Stevens, of Newark, O. They also operated a candy shop in the burned building. As soon as possible, the damage will be repaired and a new entrance made for the house so that it can resume business.”
Rats. I confused the Bradford and Brantford Theatoriums. The one in Canada had the explosion, and was replaced by a house called the Gem. The Pennsylvania Theatorium just got sold to new owners in 1909.
As for the Gem noted in the Bradford Landmarks newsletter, that publication cites no sources, so there’s no way to check them. I’ve found no other text references to a Gem Theatre in Bradford, but the Landmark Society’s web site has a photo collection, and this undated early photo of South Avenue features the Bradford/Shea’s Theatre. The writing is very difficult to make out, but it appears to me that the small building just this side of the Bradford has a sign that could read “Gem Novelties.” I wonder if that might have been a short-lived nickelodeon?
The newsletter article doesn’t mention the People’s Opera House, but does list a house on Chambers Street (no number) called the Theater Comique, which ran from 1877 until burning in 1880. The only other mention of Chambers Street is the Wagner Opera House, which it lists at Main and Chambers from 1878 to 1903. In any case, it’s clear that the newsletter list is, unfortunately, not entirely reliable.
There is a 1910 photo of the Peerless Theatre’s entrance on this WorthPoint listing, but it won’t enlarge enough to be clear if it were uploaded here. It’s a Real Photo post card, so another copy might turn up on another auction site someday. The accompanying text gives the operating years as 1907 to 1913, contradicting the Landmark Society’s newsletter dates of 1907-1917.
A list of Bradford’s early theaters in a newsletter from the Bradford Landmark Society (PDF here) gives the following names for the house at 11 Main Street: The Star Continuous Show (1906-1912); The Star (1912-1919); The Strand (1919-1924.) It was listed as the Star Theatre in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory.
The Theatorium, 29 Main St., is still listed at Bradford in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. However, a newsletter from the Bradford Landmark Society (PDF here) has a list of Bradford’s early theaters and also says the Theatorium closed in 1910, and had opened in 1906.
To add a bit more confusion, This Wikipedia article about Jay and Jules Allen, founders of Canada’s famous Allen Theatres chain, says that they were the original owners of the Theatorium, having opened it on November 10, 1906. However, Wiki’s article says that the Theatorium was destroyed by an explosion in September, 1908, “…resulting in its replacement by the Gem.”
The local newsletter lists the Gem as a house on Chambers Street which operated from 1880 until 1912, when it was converted to a horse stable. The Allens sold their local holdings in 1909, according to Wikipedia. It does not help that the Allens' first Canadian Theater was also called the Theatorium, and was in Brantford, Ontario. I’ve also found a reference to the Bradford Theatorium being in operation again in 1909, at 29 Main street, under the ownership of “Travis, Walker and Bush.”
Obviously not everything said about the Theatorium from all these sources can be correct, but I’ve not yet been able to establish which claims are accurate. There might be sources I haven’t found yet.
The December, 2020 issue of The Inkwell, billing itself as “A Newsletter for Friends of the Bradford Landmark Society” (PDF here) included a list of Bradford’s theaters, and says that a house called the Peerless Theatre operated at 115 Main Street from 1907 to 1917. I’ve found the Peerless mentioned in trade journals in 1912, but it was not listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though that publication is known for its frequent omissions.
Dreamland was opened by, but not necessarily on, February 5, 1908, and was mentioned in the March 28 issue of Moving Picture World that year.
The May 22, 1920 issue of Moving Picture World said that the Melvin brothers, operating the Lyceum Theater at Bradford, Pennsylvania, had purchased a franchise from The First National Exhibitors Exchange. First National was formed in 1917 by a merger of 26 large theater circuits, and eventually controlled 600 houses nationwide, about 200 of them being first run operations. Thomas Talley of Los Angeles was among the founders, though the company’s headquarters was in New Orleans. The chain established production facilities in Burbank, California in 1924, which became the Warner Bros studio in 1929.
Film Daily of August 28, 1927 said that “Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., pipe organ Builders of St. Louis, have shipped a two manual organ to the Rex, Albion, Nebraska, which is now being installed.”
The most succinct history of this theater I’ve found is this post from the Kiel Area Historical Society’s Facebook page. It says that Keil’s original Pastime Theatre operated at 501 Fremont Street from 1912 to 1917, when it was replaced by the second Pastime at 510 Fremont. The new theater operated as the Pastime until 1939, when it was renamed the Kiel Theatre. The Kiel Theatre closed in 1961 and the building was converted for use as an automobile showroom the following year. It has since been converted for ordinary retail purposes, though on the most recent Google street view car’s pass (August, 2024) it appeared to be vacant.
There are several photos of the 1917 house on the Internet. It featured a triumphal arch façade, perhaps the single most popular style for small, purpose-built movie theaters in the U.S. during the period leading up to the First World War. The building is still recognizable today despite a few unfortunate alterations. An August 28, 1927 Film Daily item said that a $7,000 organ had just been installed in the Pastime, an expense the owners most likely soon regretted when it became apparent that talking pictures were here to stay.
The Texas section of the “Theatre Changes” column in the October 4, 1937 issue of Film Daily listed the Timberland Theatre at Diboll under the heading “Openings.” It was first listed in the 1938 FDY with 400 seats.
A quick check of earlier FDYs shows no listing for Diboll in 1935, 1936, or 1937, nor in 1926 or 1929, but the town had at least two theaters earlier. The July 1, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World had this item: “Diboll, Tex.—B. F. Tucker has opened a new theater at Diboll. This gives this fine little city two theaters.” Diboll, however, made no appearance in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory.
This memorial page for Elvis Larry Bowman says that he “…was the owner of the Timberland Theatre in Diboll from 1970 – 1989.” As it doesn’t say that he actually operated the theater or at least leased it to an operator, it can’t be assumed the place was actually open during that period, but it might have been.
There is a 1941 photo of the Timberland on this web page, and to my eye it bears no resemblance to the building at the theater’s address now, though in a glimpse of the back of the current building available on Google’s street view it looks much older than the front, so it is possible it was simply remodeled beyond recognition.
The plain, vernacular style of the original building might have been built at just about any time in the first half of the 20th century, so it could be that the house did date from 1915 or 1916 and, long dormant, was renovated and reopened in 1937.
The November 13, 1954 issue of Boxoffice said that CinemaScope equipment had been installed at the Tejas Theatre in Grapeland. A predecessor house called the Star Theatre had installed a new projector, according to the January 13, 1923 issue of Exhibitors Trade Review. The Star might have been the house the July 1, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World said that B. C. Lively had recently opened at Grapeland.
The theaters listed at Madera in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory were called the Royal and the Pastime. The latter was mentioned in The Billboard in January, 1911. As there is no clue where they were located, either name might have been an aka for the house that became the Wonderland.
Here is earlier news about the Rex, from a history of the county published in 1949: “Mr. William Pratt had his Barber Shop on the land that Fred and Francis Thompson purchased for the building of the Strand Theatre in 1920. The Barber Shop was then moved off its foundation and re-located where Paul’s Shoe Shop now stands. The Strand Theatre was leased by John Cribble and during his management was destroyed by fire. It was purchased in 1935 by H. J. Thompson, remodeled and renamed THE REX THEATRE”
The 1926 FDY lists three houses at Curwensville: the Opera House, the Grand, and the Strand. No locations or seating capacities are given for any. All three were still listed in 1929, but in 1930 only the Strand remained. It was last listed in 1933, and Curwensville then vanishes from the FDY until 1935, when the Rex is listed, so it was likely 1933 when the Strand burned.
The 550-seat Rex Theatre at Curwensville was offered for sale in a classified ad in the December 2, 1968 issue of Boxoffice. The ad said the house was in operation and in “excellent condition.” The asking price was not mentioned.
This item from the October 10, 1940 issue of Film Daily is clearly wrong in its headline claim, but this still might have been a different building than the the one the Liberty had been in, perhaps the one next door: “First House for Madera
“Madera, Pa.—Opening of the new 500 seat Madera Theater, owned and constructed by Mid-West Theaters, Inc., gives this town its first motion picture house.” (“Mid-West Theaters” obviously a typo for “Mid-State Theaters.”)
Other than the mention of a house called the Pastime in a 1911 Billboard item, this is the only mention of Madera I’ve been able to find in the trade journals. Two houses were listed there in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, but they were the Pastime and a house called the Royal. Locations weren’t provided for either.
The Coliseum was the only house listed at Stoneboro in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. The September 26, 1914 issue of The New York Clipper had two ads from Stoneboro in sequence:
So the Coliseum was new in 1914, and originally featured live performances, but had to have been equipped for movies as well, or it wouldn’t have been listed in the AMPD.The only mention of the house I’ve found in the movie theater industry trade journals is this item from the October 21, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World: “Tom Greer, of the Coliseum Theatre, Stoneboro, Pa., recently motored to Pittsburgh in his flivver, and was arrested here for speeding. But Tom got out of his trouble. He told the cop he had just assembled the car and forgot to put the slow parts back into it.”
Its official web site is once again listing this house as the Falls Theatre rather than the Falls Cinema. According to this article from Minnesota Public Radio News the new owners, Phil and Suzy Prosapio, are a local couple who have been involved in renovating and reinvigorating downtown Little Falls for some time, and they completely renovated the theater, restoring its 1933 Art Deco look, before reopening it on Friday, October 6, 2023. The opening feature on one of the three screens was “The Nuisance,” the romantic comedy that opened the house in 1933.
A June 25, 1908 Cameron County Press article about the first anniversary of the Theatorium said that the owners had operated in the Opera House for a time. The Theatorium had originally opened in a storefront on Broad Street on June 22, 1907, but this location proved too small, and it soon moved to the Opera House. It had moved into the Shives Building (presumably the one at 36 E. 4th) around January 1, 1908. By the middle of 1908, vaudeville acts had been added to the Theatorium’s programs. The Theatorium was still listed in the FDY in 1929, when it had 230 seats. The 480 seat Opera House was its only listed competitor.
An Emporium Theatre on 4th Street and the Emporium Opera House on South Street were both listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. I don’t see a South Street on the map of Emporium, so perhaps it was just an alternate name for Fourth Street, and these were both the same theater.
The May 13, 1909 issue of the Cameron County Press carried an announcement that the Opera House at Emporium would reopen for the season Monday evening with a program of vaudeville and movies. In 1926, capsule movie reviews were being submitted to Moving Picture World by manager A. E. Andrews of the Opera House, Emporium. Mr. Andrews included the seating capacity of the house (486) and the prices (10-25 and 15-30, presumably for matinees and evenings, respectively.)
The NRHP registration form for the Little Falls Commercial Historic District attributes the design of the Falls Theatre to architect Perry Crosier.
The NRHP registration form for the Little Falls Commercial Historic District says that the Ripley Theatre building was built in 1936 and was designed by architect Sheldon Haatvedt.
The Falls Theatre is open again, with shows nightly plus matinees Saturday and Sunday. Here is the official web site.
The May 22, 1948 issue of Boxoffice said that the Pix Theatre in Minneapolis, having returned to the name Newsreel a month previously, had once again restored the name Pix. The house was still under lease to Metropolitan Theatres, and showing double-feature revivals.
What may have been the first instance of the Metropolitan Opera House being used for movies was noted in this item from the “Philadelphia Pointers” column of Moving Picture World for April 3, 1920:
Mary Pickford was 27 years old when she portrayed Eleanor H. Porter’s 12 year old heroine. “Pollyanna” was Pickford’s first film for her recently established United Artists studio. A blockbuster for its time, the film had a budget of $300,000 and grossed $1.1 million worldwide in its initial theatrical run. Now in the public domain, at least in the US, multiple copies have been uploaded to YouTube where it can be watched at no charge.News about the Main Theatre from the April 3, 1920 issue of Moving Picture World: