Rosendale Theatre
Rosendale,
MO
64483
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Previous Names: Community Theatre
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The 500-seat Community Theatre was opened in January 1918. It was still open in 1929. By 1932 it had been renamed Rosendale Theatre and was listed as (Closed). Still (Closed) in the 1934 edition of Film Daily Yearbook.
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In early 1918, several theater industry trade journals, including the January 5 issue of Moving Picture World noted that the new Opera House at Rosendale, Missouri, had recently opened.
The April 12, 1924 issue of The Reel Journal said that “[a] stock company is being organized at Rosendale, Mo., to rebuild the opera house recently destroyed by fire.”
In 1938 and 1939, issues of Boxoffice mentioned an E. L. Lewellyn as a visitor to film row in Kansas City, but never gave the name of Mr. Lewellyn’s theater. The 1938 FDY lists a 400-seat house called the Rosendale Theatre, but it is closed. In 1940, FDY lists the 150-seat Airdome, in 1943 and 1945 a 150-seat house called the Community, and in 1947 and 1950 the Airdome is back again, though with 200 seats in 1947 and 220 in 1950. Small as it was (FDY lists the population as 150) Rosendale had movies at least as late as 1950,even if they were outdoors and probably seasonal.
Here is an item about the first Rosendale Community Theatre, from the January 5, 1918 Moving Picture World: