Jimmie's Playhouse

Jimmie’s Playhouse, March 24, 1921 opening ad in photos with the opening film, “Once to Every Woman.” Its film exhibition ended after a merger in 1923 but the Playhouse cont’d with live events into 1927 before being converted a store for Ebers & Brandeis five and dime store of Memphis. It was named for Jimmie Boyd - a former Ringling Brothers Circus troupe member who ran the Gem Theatre in Blytheville, Arkansas and also Jimmie’s Playhouse for two years in Union City.