I have recollections of seeing some some truly grisly horror films in that theater. In earlier times, when Bill Hendrix owned the theater, some of our great aunts worked in the box office, and they talked about Harper Lee and Truman Capote coming to the box office to get their tickets. They said Truman was an odd little boy. He is represented in “To Kill A Mockingbird” by the character “Dill”.
William ‘Bill’ Hendrix was my maternal grandfather, he died in 1957 or 1958. My siblings and I (from Natchez, MS) used to visit his sisters Margie, Vernon and Dot at the Monroeville family home, which was at the corner of the square next to the theatre. We have recollections of seeing horror movies there on our visits in the late 50’s – early 60’s, but I wouldn’t know who owned it then. Are you sure it stopped operating in 1941? Both Harper Lee and Truman Capote saw movies there in their youth. Harper inscribed a copy of “To Kill A Mockingbird” to my grandmother Margaret Hendrix, writing “From just another kid who was raised in Bill’s theatre”. Bill Hendrix also was a cousin of Truman Capote, whose maternal grandmother was Edna Hendrix.
I have recollections of seeing some some truly grisly horror films in that theater. In earlier times, when Bill Hendrix owned the theater, some of our great aunts worked in the box office, and they talked about Harper Lee and Truman Capote coming to the box office to get their tickets. They said Truman was an odd little boy. He is represented in “To Kill A Mockingbird” by the character “Dill”.
William ‘Bill’ Hendrix was my maternal grandfather, he died in 1957 or 1958. My siblings and I (from Natchez, MS) used to visit his sisters Margie, Vernon and Dot at the Monroeville family home, which was at the corner of the square next to the theatre. We have recollections of seeing horror movies there on our visits in the late 50’s – early 60’s, but I wouldn’t know who owned it then. Are you sure it stopped operating in 1941? Both Harper Lee and Truman Capote saw movies there in their youth. Harper inscribed a copy of “To Kill A Mockingbird” to my grandmother Margaret Hendrix, writing “From just another kid who was raised in Bill’s theatre”. Bill Hendrix also was a cousin of Truman Capote, whose maternal grandmother was Edna Hendrix.