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Moore’s Opera House  
Address 110 South Fourth Street
Opening Night Seating Capacity 1150
Original Theatre Owner Jack Marks
Original Theatre Architect unknown
Years of Operation Opened in 1911
Operated as Moore’s Opera House: 1911 through at least 1957 (but possibly closed in or before 1959)
Type of Musical Accompaniment unknown
Current Status Demolished

Moore’s Opera House was built by Jack Marks on land donated by the former mayor of Clarksburg, Frank Moore, and operated as a live theatre venue. Sometime in the following years, the theatre began presenting motion pictures.

The theatre was retrofitted with Vitaphone sound film equipment at sometime before 1931. The film may have been operated by Claude Robinson beginning sometime in the 1930s. When Robinson’s Grand Theatre burned in 1939, it was announced that the Grand’s film programs would be presented at the Moore Opera House until rebuilding was completed.

In 1949, film theatre entrepreneur Madge Douds (née Madge Stout) acquired a lease on the theatre, and continuted to operate it as a film venue until its close in the late 1950s.

References: Cinema Treasures website : with additional information supplied by Savanna Violet.

 

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