Roxy Theatre
212 E. Market Street,
Logansport,
IN
46947
212 E. Market Street,
Logansport,
IN
46947
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Actually The Theater Became The Roxy Theatre On September 15, 1934. It Reopened With James Cagney In The Hit-Smash “Here Comes The Navy” Along With Pathe News, A Cartoon: Betty Boop’s Only Color Appearance In The Fleischer Era In “Poor Cinderella”, And A Performance By Vincent Lopez And His Orchestra.
An item datelined Logansport in the December 1, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World says: “Frank Robinson has leased the Nelson theater and renamed it the Majestic.” A longer item appeared in the December 8 issue of the same journal:
The future Roxy is billed on this vintage postcard as Theater Nelson. Though a row of four Victorian commercial buildings survives on this block of Market Street today, everything else, including the theater, has vanished.
The 1908-1909 edition of the Cahn guide lists the “New Nelson Theatre. Just opened.” The house had 1,200 seats. Later editions of the Cahn guide indicate that about a third of those were in the gallery that was removed when the house was remodeled as the Roxy. The 1921 Cahn guide listed the house as the Luna Theatre.
Opened 15, November, 1934. Opening attraction was “Here Comes The Navy”