Marion Theatre
416 S. Adams Street,
Marion,
IN
46952
416 S. Adams Street,
Marion,
IN
46952
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The Marion Theatre was opened on March 28, 1912 with Gilbert ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson in “The Bandit’s Child” & Hazel Nelson in “Lulu’s Anarchism” & Dorothy Bernard in “A String of Pearls”. This theatre appears on the 1920 Sanborn, operating in a 2-story brick storefront. The building was of fairly recent construction, since the 1911 map shows a vacant wooden structure on that lot. This was probably a fairly basic theatre, and it cannot have utilized both floors, since the second floor had a large irregular light well cut out of it.
The Marion Theatre was closed on March 25, 1929 when the lease ran out. The 1931 map shows this structure vacant. The entire southern half of this block was long ago destroyed for a parking lot.
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Sam S. Vigran opened the Marion on March 28, 1912 with Gilbert ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson in “The Bandit’s Child,” Hazel Nelson in “Lulu’s Anarchism,” and D. W. Griffith’s “A Strong of Pearls.” The Marion’s lease expired on March 25, 1929 just as the New Indiana Theatre was about to open and the new-build Paramount Theatre was being completed. Thus, operator Sam Neall made the Marion’s closure permanent.