Gem Theater

15 South Park Place,
Newark, OH 43055

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on July 3, 2021 at 9:12 pm

Here is part of an item from the May 3, 1924 issue of Moving Picture World:

“Page Organ Draws Crowds

“Standing room only was to be had when Messrs. Scholl, Gallagher and Gleason recently dedicated the new $15,000 Page pipe organ in their Gem Theatre, a 350-seat house in Newark, Ohio. William Dalton, the wellknown organist of the Grand Theatre, Columbus, motored to Newark to give a special midnight concert on the beautiful instrument, and the following day Prof. Berton Burkett, assisted by Frank Reynolds, the Gem organist, officially dedicated the organ with a series of recitals.

“The occasion testified to the value of music in a picture theatre. The Gem has been crowded since the installation of the Page instrument and many compliments have been paid the proprietors for installing so expensive an organ in such a comparatively small theatre.”

The Gem Theatre was still in operation in November, 1931, though the November 14 edition of The Newark Advocate said that the house was continuing its policy of opening only one day a week, Saturday.