Electric Theatre

I don’t know if it was the same theater or not, but by 1940 the FDY is listing a 300-seat house called the Claflin Theatre at Claflin. This house was probably also the one that was later called the Lux Theatre. A Boxoffice item from 1948 mentions a theater owner named Wheatcraft at Claflin, and a Google Books snippet view of an item from a 1960 issue of Independent Film Journal says that “…Wm. Wheatcraft closed his Lux Theatre in Claflin, Kans., and operation was taken over by the junior class of the local high school. Wheatcraft, who manages the Moore in Plainville, is buying and booking for the …” (snippet ends.) A 1963 newspaper item says that the public library at Claflin was moving out of the lobby of the Claflin theater (uncapitalized) where it had been for several years. I don’t know if this indicates a return to the name Claflin Theatre or not, and there’s no clear indication that the house was even still open that late.