Roxy Theater (#1)

Arthur D. Dumaine opened the Poland Theatre on November 4, 1917. He sold the diminutive neighborhood theatre in 1921 only to reacquire it months later. The Poland Theatre featured a Wurlitzer electric piano for silent film accompaniment. It was refreshed twice in the 1920’s: in 1922 and 1925. The 1925 refresh included a new organ and found Dumaine changing the venue’s name from the Poland to the Roxy Theater.

The Roxy Theater played its final showtimes on the evening of April 26, 1926. Shortly after, the projection booth exploded. That blaze destroyed the Roxy Theater and damaged both neighboring residences. The theater was not rebuilt. When the unrelated Pandoara Theatre elsewhere in town wired for sound in January of 1930, it repurposed the Roxy nameplate. That Roxy Theatre has its own entry on Cinema Treasures.

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