Saenger Theatre
Second Street,
Hope,
AR
71801
Second Street,
Hope,
AR
71801
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Here is a November 1930 ad from the Hope Star:
http://tinyurl.com/ykned25
The original Saenger Theatre in Hope burned on Easter Sunday, 1944. Malco Theatres, the operator, didn’t get government permission to rebuild until 1947. The January 17, 1948, issue of Boxoffice announced that the new Saenger had opened. As rebuilt, the house had 900 seats.
Back on November 6, 1926, an item in The Reel Journal said that the Saenger Amusement company was planning to build a $150,000 theater on the site of the Alice Theatre in Hope. The new theater was probably the Saenger. It was being designed by architects Witt, Seibert & Halsey. A December 4 Reel Journal item said that starting on December 15 construction bids would be taken for the new Saenger house to be built on the site of the old Alice Theatre on Second Street.
The Saenger Theater is listed in 1935 with 1,200 seats. No address given.
A Robert-Morton theater organ size 2/8 was installed in the Saenger Theater in 1927.
Closed? And it’s President Clinton’s hometown…give us ‘hope’ for that theatre! It seems there were many theatres with the name Saenger throughout the Gulf Coast region.