New Theatre

The only theater listed at Salina in the 1898 Cahn guide is the Salina Opera House, an upstairs auditorium seating 800. News of the New Theatre’s impending demise appeared in the August 8, 1925 issue of Exhibitor’s Daily Review, which said that the New Theatre, one of the oldest buildings in Salina, would soon be replaced by a seven-story hotel. Apparently the hotel project fell through and the office block was built instead.