Grace Theater
19 N. Main Street,
Grace,
ID
83241
19 N. Main Street,
Grace,
ID
83241
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The 1916 opening date is a bit late. The Grace Opera House is listed in the 1913-1914 Cahn Guide. Page 17 of the book I linked to in my previous comment has a photo of Main Street dated “around 1913” and showing the Opera House already there.
Photos of Bert Orr, owner of the Grace Opera House, and of the original building itself when it was nearing completion, can be seen on page 213 of a local history published by the Grace Literary Club in 1977.
The Grace Theatre presented vaudeville as well as movies in its early years. In her 1959 memoir Early Havoc, actress June Havoc recalled the Grace Theatre as one of the venues her family’s vaudeville act played. Havoc’s older sister achieved fame in her own right as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and young June was immortalized in the musical Gypsy as Baby June and Dainty June, the star of the struggling vaudeville act put together by her ambitious mother, Rose.