Theater

Joe Vogel on December 23, 2025 at 4:49 pm

This house could have been the Wigwam Theatre. Its manager, Ross Riley, provided dozens of capsule movie reviews to Exhibitors Herald which appeared from early 1920 into late 1924. It was a rather primitive operation, Riley noting in one 1924 item that he had only one projection machine and would show slides while reels were being changed. An R. Ross Riley of Oberlin had a letter published in the July, 1918 issue of Photoplay, but it doesn’t mention a theater.

An October 24, 1925 Moving Picture World item said that the New Regent Theatre at Oberlin was scheduled to open the next week, but I’ve been unable to find anything more about it. I found one source saying that the Wigwam closed in 1928.