Lions Lincoln Theatre
156 Lincoln Way East,
Massillon,
OH
44646
156 Lincoln Way East,
Massillon,
OH
44646
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Built in 1915 by Massillonian, John McClain, as a 900-seat playhouse with a Hillgreen-Lane "straight" pipe organ for accompaniment, this theater was bought in the late-1920’s by the Schine Brothers, who added a full rectangular marquee and a new Wurlitzer 2/7 theater organ.
Another group of “brothers”, the Warners, took over the theater in the 1930’s, and the marquee changed again to a triangular format.
That marquee was recently replicated and the whole building has been restored. The seating was downsized over the years to 684 seats to allow for a larger stage.
The theater organ was sold in the 1980’s and the theater is now owned by the Massillon Lion’s Club who maintain and operate it.
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Mike Bardin
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27 degrees? Forget it.
Here is an evening photo. I think it’s from 2004.
Another photo can be seen here.
1979 photo of the Lincoln Theatre.
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This is a nice shot of the Lincoln Theater.
Not nice to use Shot and Lincoln in the same sentence! :)
I’ll try to remember that. I also won’t post any “Booth” photos for this theater. LOL
Here is an April 1930 item from the Massillon Evening Independent:
Maurice Chevalier, who has become the greatest European actor to achieve success in American films since Emil Jannings, will be seen and heard in his most gorgeous picture to date when “The Love Parade” opens at the Lincoln Theater for a 3-day run beginning on Sunday.
“The Love Parade” is something different in all-talking musical film productions, just as Chevalier is a personage entirely different from all other screen types. In the first place “The Love Parade” ‘was written for the audible screen. It is not a film version of any previous stage production, it was created expressly for the screen and with the idea of the screen’s values for amusement uppermost in the minds of the geniuses who created it.
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