Cameo Theater

Joe Vogel on April 20, 2026 at 3:26 pm

This item from the June 3, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World might be about the Cameo Theatre’s origin: “Will Build in Lawrenceville, Va.

“Lawrenceville, Va.—This place is soon to have a new and modern motion picture theater as a result of a fire in the operating room of the Opera House during which the five reel subject ‘The Sins of the Mothers,’ V-L-S-E., and a single reel Universal was destroyed. The owners of the building, which also houses a bank, refuse to allow the exhibition of motion pictures there in the future. E. K. Fox, who has been operating in the Opera House and who also has the Opera House at Snow Hill, Va., is fixing up a tent to use during the summer. He expects to have his new house ready early in the fall.”