Dix Theatre

Mister R. W. Thayer of the Ross Theatre contributed three capsule movie reviews to the September 8, 1945 issue of Motion Picture Herald. In 1946, the July 19 issue of Film Daily reported that Gus Eisner and J. M. McKernan had purchased the house. Boxoffice of January 12, 1950, reported that another new owner of the Ross, DeVerne Darnell, had changed the name of the house to Marcellus Theatre.

The October 19, 1957 issue of Boxoffice said that the Marcellus Theatre, recently closed by DeVerne Darnell, had been reopened by Richard E. Relsch and renamed the Dix. Dix Theatre is how the house is styled at Water Winter Wonderland, which says the theater was closed by 1959.

This theater was not on Monroe Street, but Main Street. The address might be 126 E. Main. Neither Google nor Bing Maps have either satellite or street views of Marcellus, but Water Winter Wonderland has a photo of the building the theater was in, and a real estate web site has a photo of the same row of buildings, one of which, at 128 E. Main, it says was recently sold. I’m pretty sure (though not absolutely certain) that the theater was in the building next door west of the one recently sold, and it is probably numbered 126 or some other number not too much smaller than 128.