New Grand Theatre
213 W. Monroe Street,
Mexico,
MO
65265
213 W. Monroe Street,
Mexico,
MO
65265
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The New Grand Theatre was opened on June 9, 1924 with Lloyd Hughes in “Judgement of the Storm” & 5-actrs of Junior Orpheum circuit vaudeville. It was destroyed by fire on April 23, 1927.
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The Grand Theatre was open prior to 1926, but is no longer listed in 1931 or later.
The New Grand replaced the Ferris Grand Opera House, a large and fancy opera house which was constructed between 1886 and 1890. On the 1914 Sanborn map it is listed as ‘Ruins of Fire’, so this site seems to have been unlucky.
The actual opening date is June 9, 1924 with Lloyd Hughes in “Judgement Of The Storm” along with five acts of vaudeville by the Junior Orpheum circuit.
The October 11, 1924 Exhibitor’s Trade Review had this brief (and late) item about an Orpheum theatre in Mexico. As the Grand presented Orpheum vaudeville, might it have used the circuit name as an aka? “The Orpheum Theatre, Mexico, Mo., opens Saturday September 27, and will show pictures and vaudeville. Putney & Clay are the owners.”
The Grand had been mentioned in the September 13 issue of the same journal that year, in an item saying that Buddy Paul planned to reopen the house on Labor Day (this announcement was also late, as Labor Day is the first Monday of September) “…with feature pictures and tab musical sets.”