Hyatt's Opera House
322 E. Main Street,
Olney,
IL
62450
322 E. Main Street,
Olney,
IL
62450
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In the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide there is a Shultz’s Opera House in Olney. Was that this theatre? It was located on the second floor and had 600 seats. A.E. Shultz was Mgr. Tickets, 25 cents & 50 cents. It had a huge orchestra with 22 players. Electric illumination.
One mark of an old theatre is when the roof of the stage house has slanted sides, as we see in the photo here.
Uploaded postcard images of the building in which the Opera House was contained and two, basically, identical, interior shots, one of which is personalized in 1906.