Morris Theater
101 N. Main Street,
Cimarron,
KS
67835
101 N. Main Street,
Cimarron,
KS
67835
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The opera house building is still there, minus the fly tower, and it certainly might have showed movies. The opera house itself still appears on the 1922 map.
An F. D. Morris of the Iris Theatre, Cimarron, Kansas, authored three capsule movie reviews that were published in the March 3, 1928 issue of Movie Age. That’s pretty much all I’ve been able to find about Cimarron in the trade journals until the 1940s. I have found the Iris Theatre mentioned in the newspaper as early as September, 1920.
Oddly, Maggie Valentine’s history of movie theater architecture “The Show Starts On the Sidewalk” includes a small photo of Hopper’s Opera House in Cimarron, ca.1911, but doesn’t say anything about that house running movies.