Strand Theatre
E. Main Street,
Paris,
AR
72855
E. Main Street,
Paris,
AR
72855
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Previously operated by: K. Lee Williams Theaters Inc.
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The Strand Theatre was opened by March 1927. By 1950 it was operated by the K. Lee Williams Theaters Inc. circuit. It was still open in 1957.
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This looks like it was just west of the alley on the north side, where the bank parking lot is. Needs to be listed as demolished.
The earliest mention of the Strand I’ve found in the trade journals is in the March 19, 1927 issue of Exhibitors Herald. Paris was not listed in that year’s FDY, but the Strand was the only house listed the following year. The 1926 FDY had listed two houses at Paris, the Grand and the Joie, neither with a seating capacity given.
A Mr. G. Carey, the owner of the Strand in 1927, was a prolific contributor of capsule movie reviews to trade journals into the early 1930s. Back in 1914, the two houses listed at Paris in the American Motion Picture Directory were called the Lyric and the Pathé. A house called the Pastime was mentioned in the December 17, 1921 Exhibitors Herald.