Dix Theatre
126 E. Main Street,
Marcellus,
MI
49067
126 E. Main Street,
Marcellus,
MI
49067
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Previously operated by: Independent Exhibitors Theater Services
Previous Names: Hudson Theatre, Ross Theatre, Marcellus Theatre
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The Hudson Theatre was opened on November 14, 1942 with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in “The Flying Deuces”. By 1945 it had been renamed Ross Theatre opening with Jean Arthur in “The Lady Takes a Chance”. In January 1950 it was operated by Independent Exhibitors Theater Services and it was renamed Marcellus Theatre. It was closed in September 1957. It reopened in October 1957 as the Dix Theatre. It had closed by 1959.
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Mister R. W. Thayer of the Ross Theatre contributed three capsule movie reviews to the September 8, 1945 issue of Motion Picture Herald. In 1946, the July 19 issue of Film Daily reported that Gus Eisner and J. M. McKernan had purchased the house. Boxoffice of January 12, 1950, reported that another new owner of the Ross, DeVerne Darnell, had changed the name of the house to Marcellus Theatre.
The October 19, 1957 issue of Boxoffice said that the Marcellus Theatre, recently closed by DeVerne Darnell, had been reopened by Richard E. Relsch and renamed the Dix. Dix Theatre is how the house is styled at Water Winter Wonderland, which says the theater was closed by 1959.
This theater was not on Monroe Street, but Main Street. The address might be 126 E. Main. Neither Google nor Bing Maps have either satellite or street views of Marcellus, but Water Winter Wonderland has a photo of the building the theater was in, and a real estate web site has a photo of the same row of buildings, one of which, at 128 E. Main, it says was recently sold. I’m pretty sure (though not absolutely certain) that the theater was in the building next door west of the one recently sold, and it is probably numbered 126 or some other number not too much smaller than 128.
The Hudson Theatre launched in the Memorial Building on November 14, 1942 with “The Flying Deuces” with a grand opening ad in photos. It didn’t go well. Ross Thayer got a War Production Board (WPB) grant to build a new theater in 1944. Grand opening ad of his Ross Theatre on January 31, 1945 with “Lady Takes a Chance” is in photos. In January of 1950, the theater was purchased by DeVerne C. Darnell from Clyde Jones who owned the Ross for its final two years. It was renamed the Marcellus Theatre on January 12, 1950 with “Geronimo!”
On August 1, 1957 it became the Dix Theatre with “Four Boys and a Gun.” It closed permanently on July 20, 1958 with “Hot Rod Rumble” and “Naked Sun.”