Rice Theater with Plenty of Smoke

ID: 1685 ~ Source: "Rice Theater in Flames" Newspapers.com. The Crowley Post-Signal, July 22, 1956. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-crowley-post-signal-rice-theater-in/145925798/. ~ Date: 1956
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Rice Theater with Plenty of Smoke

Yellow smoke billowed out of the Rice Theater Friday afternoon just before opening time when some 25-year-old film stored in a cabinet with paper records caught fire from spontaneous combustion

This file appears in: Setting Sights on the Rice

By Xian Maynor
On Friday, January 31st, 1941, a new center of entertainment and community held its formal debut. Throughout the decades since its grand opening, the Rice Theater has hosted a variety of events from film screenings to Christmas celebrations,…