Empress Theatre
Main Street,
Malvern,
IA
51551
Main Street,
Malvern,
IA
51551
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Malvern’s only popular theatre in town was the Empress Theatre. The Empress Theatre opened its doors (during the birth of talkies) on May 21, 1930 with Joseph Wagstaff and Lola Lane in “Let’s Go Places” (a Fox Film) which ran on its opening day and the day afterwards. On May 9, 1940, the Empress Theatre is the only theatre in Mills County, Iowa to install air-conditioning. The Empress Theatre closed in the mid-1960’s.
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This was a rare new-build female owned (Lela Mason) and co-operated with L.D. Fletcher launching in 1929. She sublet it to W.S. Powers in 1932. A second female owner, Frances Pace took over the venue and converted it to widescreen to present CinemaScope titles beginning with “Trapeze” on March3, 1957. The Empress closed permanently with “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” on May 30, 1965. The Modern Beauty Salon took over the venue in June of 1966.