Savoy Theatre
N. Jim Thorpe Boulevard and W. Main Street,
Prague,
OK
74864
N. Jim Thorpe Boulevard and W. Main Street,
Prague,
OK
74864
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Savoy Theatre was opened in 1908 by two Pennsylvania businessmen. Built inside a 50 foot store front, wooden seats were placed on a flat floor in front of a raised stage (That same year another movie house was also opened in Prague, but the name has been lost to time). Both movies and vaudeville were exhibited at the Savoy Theatre, with piano music provided by Ms. Margaret Lewis Way.
In 1921 Ellen Mohrbacher purchased the picture house and updated and renovated the interior, and ran it as a three day a week operation, with ticket prices set at 10c for children and 25c for adults.
In 1930 the other Prague theatre closed, and the Savoy Theatre installed sound equipment and new seating and began operating seven days a week, open from morning till midnight, with program changes three times a week. Come 1937 the Savoy Theatre received a complete face-lift, but admission remained at 1921 prices.
In 1940 Oklahoma had 381 movie theatres, of which 37 were owned by women. Ms. Mohrbacher “freshened” the look of her theatre in 1942, but kept admission prices at 10c & 25c. On March 27, 1943, the Savoy Theatre hosted the world premier of the United Artist feature ‘Hangmen also Die’, directed by Fritz Lang, with personal appearances by Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan.
Closed and demolished in 1958, fixtures and equipment were sold to a theatre in Albuquerque, NM.
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The only movie house listed at Prague in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory was called the Picture Show Theatre. Was this an aka for the Savoy, or was it a rival theater?