Ritz Theater

The Lyric Theatre opened in 1914 by Frank M. Smith, Jr. It was likely this building. H.L. Ardis who had opened the original Majestic in 1911 bought his competitor running both theatres. New operators take on the Majestic and appear to both change the theater’s name and close it. Then a grand opening as the Ritz Theatre by Mrs. Nadine W. Story on June 16, 1930 with “Under a Texas Moon.” She and her husband then opened the New Majestic elsewhere in August of 1936. Final show for the Ritz was “Last of the Mohicans on January 1, 1948. It was then used as a church and then a retail store.