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Moving Picture World, New York, November 28, 1914.

Kansas City Has All Night House

      Idle Hour Is the Only All-Night Theater Between the Great

      Lakes and the Rockies – Caters to Night Workers.

      KANSAS CITY, MO. – The first all-night picture house between

the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains has been

opened here and is operating twenty-one hours out of the day‘s

twenty-four. The theater that has adopted the new

policy is the Idle Hour, 114 East Twelfth street, owned by W. D. Scoville. Its hours now are from 9 o‘clock in the

morning until 6 o‘clock the next morning, the three hours

intermission being utilized by janitors and sweepers

in cleaning up.

      Mr. Scoville opened the all-night feature on the assumption

that the three thousand and more night workers would

patronize his house while waiting for the owl cars that run only

every hour after 1 o‘clock in the morning. So far his

idea has proved successful. The first two nights, Saturday

and Sunday, he made money, but on the third –

blue Monday – he operated at a loss of $1.75. (...) The music

at night is confined to a piano.

(...) Moving Picture World, Jan. 1, 1916

„Never so much business“

Editorial content. „The Idle Hour theater in Kansas City ran

the Keystone release The Trysting Place three days.

And the management state that never in the history of the

theater was so much business done on one picture.“

      Idle Hour Theater, 114 East 12th Street, Kansas City.

      His Trysting Places is

      released by Keystone Nov. 9, 1914.

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