Marblehead Auditorium Theatre
Main Street,
Marblehead,
OH
43440
Main Street,
Marblehead,
OH
43440
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Previous Names: Marblehead Auditorium, Marblehead Theatre
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In the Spring of 1908, early movie operators Ricilli and Guensert of Sandusky launched the downtown Marblehead Auditorium as a 300-seat silent movie house. John Wargoftchick was one of the first projectionists for the operation. In the Summer of 1909, Mayor George J. Eberwine assumed operation adding vaudeville and local talent shows to the mix. An innovation by Eberwine was a tie-in with the street car which provided a film plus round-trip street car ride to and from the theatre for just a quarter.
The theatre closed as a silent movie house on February 15, 1931. Harold S. Clouse took on the venue wiring for sound film, bit it didn’t reopen until October 10, 1936. Unfortunately, fire destroyed the building Friday, February 19, 1943 ending its run while destroying the Clouse’s residence which was in the back of the venue.
A new property, the town’s former school house, was identified for the continuation of movies as the Marblehead Theatre launching on Thanksgiving Day of 1943 and running to its closure as the Town Theatre almost ten years later in May of 1953.
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Just a quick update. The Marblehead Auditorium Theatre discontinued movies after the February 15, 1931 silent film presentation of William Haines in “Way Out West” as it couldn’t afford to convert to sound. The venue was used for a handful of sporadic live events. But on October 10, 1936, ir re-emerged with a sound system playing talkies starting with Barbara Stanwyck in “A Message to Garcia” and Buster Keaton in “Grand Slam Opera.”