Liberty Theatre

Tiny Morse Bluffs had its own movie theatre for a brief period. The town was served by contracted, traveling, outdoor movie presentations back in 1912. In 1925, A. Herman opened his Liberty Theatre using the nameplate and equipment from a former Liberty Theatre elsewhere. His wife was one of two piano players at the venue.

The Liberty Theatre was located in the former Chapek furniture store that was built in 1887. It had turned into a general merchandise store under two different operators. Herman made the conversion running it until he sold it to Anna B. Moss in 1928. Moss also purchased the nearby Lyric Theatre and Star Theatre in North Bend, Nebraska.

The Mosses struggled as theatres were making the costly conversion to sound. They closed one of the North Bend theatres operating the Star Theatre there and the Liberty Theatre. They sold the two venues to Otto Kleman. Kleman would convert the Star Theatre to sound in 1931 but appears to have decided to close the Liberty Theatre as opposed to converting it to sound. The town was serviced by sporadic, contracted traveling movie shows as it had been in the silent era from the 1930’s to the end of the 1940’s.

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