Morris Theater
101 N. Main Street,
Cimarron,
KS
67835
101 N. Main Street,
Cimarron,
KS
67835
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Previous Names: Iris Theater, Mavis Theater
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This theater appears on the 1922 Sanborn. It was located in a two story wooden commercial building, which had housed a general store in 1915. This was likely a typical false-fronted frame building, which composed so many early downtowns on the Plains.
This theater appears in the 1926 Yearbook as the Iris Theater. By 1930, it is listed as offering Royaltone sound. The 1931 Yearbook lists it as the Mavis Theater, and in 1932 it appears as the Morris Theater. It was apparently destroyed in a fire sometime in 1932. Cimarron is not listed in the 1933 Yearbook, but Mr. Morris relocated further north and constructed a new theater (which has its own listing on Cinema Treasures) in time to be listed in 1934.
The current structure was built in 1947.
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Seth Gaines
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An F. D. Morris of the Iris Theatre, Cimarron, Kansas, authored three capsule movie reviews that were published in the March 3, 1928 issue of Movie Age. That’s pretty much all I’ve been able to find about Cimarron in the trade journals until the 1940s. I have found the Iris Theatre mentioned in the newspaper as early as September, 1920.
Oddly, Maggie Valentine’s history of movie theater architecture “The Show Starts On the Sidewalk” includes a small photo of Hopper’s Opera House in Cimarron, ca.1911, but doesn’t say anything about that house running movies.
The opera house building is still there, minus the fly tower, and it certainly might have showed movies. The opera house itself still appears on the 1922 map.