Cameo Theatre
N. Main Street,
Mountain Grove,
MO
65711
N. Main Street,
Mountain Grove,
MO
65711
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Yes, Mansfield’s early theaters are missing from the database, unless they are early aka’s for the Mansfield. The only mention of the Nugget I’ve found in the trades is in that item from 1924, but it was being advertised in the local newspaper as early as 1918. Then in 1928 there are frequent mentions of a house called the Bonny Theatre, and then in 1930 the New Bonny Theatre, both run by a Robert K. Yancey. I don’t know if the Bonny (CinemaTour spells it Bonnie, but has no information about it) was a different theater or a new name for the Nugget, and I don’t know if the Bonny and New Bonny were in two different buildings, or if either or both were aka’s for the Paradise/Mansfield, so I’m not submitting them, but I’ll leave a comment on the Mansfield page revealing what little I know about them, in anticipation of more information becoming available.
Joe Your comment mentions that Dr. Riley, the owner, had owned and managed the Nugget Theatre in Mansfield. There is no Nugget Theatre in Mansfield on Cinema Treasures, only the Mansfield Theatre which started out life as the Paradise.
Here is an announcement about the Cozy/Cameo Theatre from The Reel Journal of March 22, 1924:
The Cozy is mentioned (with a variant spelling) in the May 3, 1924, issue of The Moving Picture World: