State Theatre

519 Broadway Street,
Larned, KS 67550

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Functions: Retail

Previous Names: Twilight Theatre

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The Twilight Theatre was opened by 1926. By 1928 it had been renamed State Theatre. It was closed in 1948 and a new State Theatre opened on April 6, 1949 at 617 Broadway Street.

In 2018 this first State Theatre operates as a flower shop.

Contributed by Ken Roe

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on October 15, 2018 at 3:44 pm

Opened as the Twilight Theatre on August 26, 1919 with “Don’t Change Your Husband.”

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 15, 2018 at 7:43 pm

The State Theatre at Larned was mentioned in the December 3, 1927 issue of The Moving Picture World. A regional web site has this comment about the original State Theatre: “The ‘original’ State was slightly to the south of the ‘new’ State. In the old version you walked up a flight of steps (maybe 10-12) to buy your ticket and go inside.”

The original State had a rival called the Electric Theatre, in operation at least as early as 1915 and still in operation at least as late as 1947, when it was mentioned in the May 10 issue of Boxoffice, which noted that its owner, John Schnack, had been in show business for over 45 years. The Electric is also mentioned in the State Theatre thread on the web site I linked to.

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