Empress Theatre
11 S. Pearl Street,
Paola,
KS
66071
11 S. Pearl Street,
Paola,
KS
66071
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The map is from 1916, so you may well be right. I got my information from one of the other listings, which I felt misidentified the Empress.
This house might have opened in 1916 rather than 1915. The February 19, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World noted the opening: “Paola. Kan.—The New Empress is the name of a moving picture theater opened here by F. C. Smith.” The New Empress still might have opened in late 1915, though, as trade journals were sometimes slow in getting such information published.