Lyric Theatre
Chief Street,
Benkelman,
NE
69021
Chief Street,
Benkelman,
NE
69021
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The second McEvoy Building in downtown Benkelman housed its first motion picture theatre, the Lyric Theatre, beginning on October 17, 1911. It had replaced the F.E. McClane Skating Rink and Photography Studio. The Lyric Theatre showed films four days a week. In 1925, Edward Zorn took on the Lyric Theatre. He would build a new theatre replacing the Lyric Theatre.
The Lyric Theatre closed on February 2, 1928 with W.C. Fields in “So’s Your Old Man”. The Zorn Theatre then replaced the Lyric Theatre launching February 8, 1928 with Mrs. Wallace Reid in “The Satin Woman".
The McEvoy building would be used first as a dance hall and then was converted to a retail store, Ed H. Cox Community Store. After the store moved out, the McEvoy Building was demolished in the Fall of 1956. Between the Lyric Theatre and the Zorn Theatre, the town was served by just two movie houses in over 100 years of operation.
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