Sioux Theatre

Joe Vogel on February 25, 2016 at 12:24 am

This item from the May 24, 1919, issue of The Moving Picture World could have been about the house that later became the Sioux:

“Tom Hammond, of Anthon, Ia., has built a brand new theatre, equipped up to the minute in every respect with Power’s equipment, and will open at once.”

An F. C. Lyon, operating a house in Anthon called the Jewel Theatre was listed in the October 12, 1929, issue of Exhibitors Herald World. The January 11, 1936, issue of Motion Picture Herald published a letter from W. Anderson, operating the Sioux Theatre, Anthon, Iowa.

The 1914-1915 edition of The American Motion Picture Directory listed the Opera House at Anthon, Iowa, as a movie theater. Given how small Anthon was it’s likely that the Opera House closed when Tom Hammond’s new theater opened. It’s also likely that Anthon never supported two theaters at once, so unless something happened to its original building, it seems likely that the 1919 house was the theater that later operated as the Jewel and as the Sioux.