Woman-owned Theaters

       This newspaper article, from The Oregon Daily Journal, describes how the Globe Theatre had been newly renovated and was reopening with a new bill. The article states that the opening feature, for The Globe's reopening, was the film The Prima Donna's Husband (Dir. Joseph A.

Dorothy Jaquish was a movie theater prodigy, as this article in the exhibitors’ trade journal Motion Picture World explains. When she was still a teenager, she took over running the Dreamland Theatre in remote Ontario, Oregon, after her father died in 1918.