Star Theater

On February 17, 1943, the Star Theatre was severely damaged by a fire which also suffered damage from Emery’s Five and Ten Cent Store, Carl’s Neal Barber Shop, and the city’s Beauty Shop, which first spawned at the rear of the theater. No cause was reported. According to an article, it says that the theater opened on December 5, 1942. It late reopened on April 5, 1943 with Paul Muni in “Commandos Strike At Dawn”. It was closed in 1951 after C. C. Freeman of Sanford, North Carolina from the Stewart & Everett Theater Incorporated chain bought the theater on November 24th of that year. He is married earlier that year and he and his wife had an apartment in the home of a postmaster and Mrs. G. R. Hogue. The theater’s stuff went on sale throughout 1952.