Cozy Theatre
106 S. Kearney Street,
Clarendon,
TX
79226
106 S. Kearney Street,
Clarendon,
TX
79226
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Previous Names: Queen Theatre
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Built in 1893, it became the 360-seat Queen Theatre by 1910. It was still open in 1931 as a silent movie theatre, but was listed in the 1932 thru 1934 editions of Film Daily Yearbook as (Closed) with 300 seats (gone in 1935).
It reopened as the Cozy Theatre on October 18, 1935 with Tom Mix in “The Miracle Rider”. Still with 300-seats. It was destroyed by fire on February 28, 1945 and was rebuilt, reopening as the Mulkey Theatre on February 13, 1946 (the Mulkey Theatre has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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The Donley County Leader newspaper shows the Cozy Theatre opened on October 18, 1935. The first picture shown in the theatre was “The Miracle Rider”. The roof was gravel and asphalt. The inside walls had a panel effect and were new to this area. the panels are colored buff, white and light blue resembling tiling. Subdued lights from the side walls alone. The sound equipment is made by RCA and Simplex machines. The front of the building is done in white with Carrara glass ornaments. The Cozy Theatre is distinguished by the nine-foot-high neon sign on the front of the building. The original building was constructed in 1893 by Frank Borcher. The article does not mention the Queen Theatre, but C.L. Heath got his first experience in the building in picture show work when he used a hand-cranked machine in this building in 1910.
There were two Cozy Theater locations - both spelled with the letter “Z”. The first was the Queen Theatre in the silent era becoming the first of two Cozy locations. Homer Mulkey of th Pastime moved the Cozy to the Bosher Building with a streamlined theater seating 350 and bathed in green glass. The Pastime also got a new sound system allowing the “New” Cozy to have an upgraded hand-me-down sound on film system.
The New Cozy launched on October 18, 1935 with Tom Mix in “The Miracle Rider.” The former Queen turned Cozy was remodeled for retail purposes. The theatre burned down on February 28, 1945 prompted a new theater which became the Mulkey Theatre.