Effingham Theatre
114 N. 5th Street,
Effingham,
IL
62401
114 N. 5th Street,
Effingham,
IL
62401
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Unlike most openings, the Effingham Theatre did not open with a main movie. Instead it opened with a newsreel, a sportsreel, and a two-reel Pathe comedy, plus five vaudeville performances (including Madam Louise & Company doing “Aerial Oddities”, the Shaun Brothers with the Midnight Hour Radio Biys, the LeRoy, Mable Hart & Company doing the Medley Garden Revue, Nilson & Ardell, and the Four Italian Serenaders). The first main attraction didn’t came until either two or three days later.
November 22, 1927 grand opening ad in photos. Final showing March 30, 1956 - likely the end of a 30-year leasing agreement - with “The Vanishing American” and “Headline Hunters.”
Newspaper listings for the Effingham theatre ended in 1956.
FDYB of 1954 gives address as 112-14-16 N. 5th Street.