Palace Theatre

61 S. Broadway,
Peru, IN 46970

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SethG
SethG on August 9, 2021 at 5:44 am

We have the Palace identified as the Isis. Ken often tries to help me out with an ID, which I almost never have. In this case, there’s such an absurd number of theaters coming and going within just a few blocks, so mistakes are to be expected.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on August 8, 2021 at 5:51 pm

This house must have been the second Palace Theatre in Peru. Indiana Album has a photo dated c.1905 showing a Palace Theatre with a note on the back saying it was the second door north of 2nd Street on the west side of Broadway.

An item pertaining to the later Palace appears in The Moving Picture World of September 11, 1915, saying that about $1,000 was being expended on improvements to the house. Then the October 2 issue of MPW had this item:

“Jimmy Chandler, manager of the Palace, Peru, Ind., has asked an ‘unofficial board’ of censors to sit on ‘Midnight at Maxims’. The rector of St. Charles Church, Peru, said it was not fit for public consumption and Jimmy has named the rector on the board.”