Fox Theatre

112 W. National Avenue,
Brazil, IN 47834

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SethG
SethG on June 12, 2021 at 9:35 am

I think this theater has to be the Fox. There’s not enough information on either this or the Beverly to say which one opened in 1935. It’s odd that there were two opening so late to compete with the Lark and the Sourwine. Brazil peaked in population around 1910, and seems to have been declining ever since. Downtown is in a pretty sad state, and most of the largest buildings are long gone.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on June 11, 2021 at 10:48 pm

Could this item from Motion Picture Daily of January 11, 1935 be about this theater?

“New House for Brazil

“Brazil, Ind., Jan. 10. — A new downtown theatre is being completed here from a remodeled business building by a company headed by H. V. Neese. It will seat 500.”

The 1947 Film Daily Yearbook lists only four theaters at Brazil: The 400-seat Beverly, the 300-seat Fox, the 800-seat Lark, and the 800-seat Sourwine. As the locations of the Beverly, Lark and Sourwine are accounted for, by process of elimination 112 W. National must have been the Fox. The 1935 storefront remodeling might have been either the Fox or the Beverly, but the item’s claim of 500 seats might make the Beverly the more likely candidate, unless the 500 was a typo.

SethG
SethG on June 9, 2021 at 11:14 am

This may have been the Fox? Cinematour lists a Fox in Brazil with no other information.