On May 29, 1910, the Empress Theatre opened its doors on the northwest corner of 12th and McGee. In its structure and in its performances, it was advancing a new age for Kansas City. With matinee and evening shows, and the screening of motion pictures, it was a popular haunt of the city’s growing vaudeville entertainment circuit. It was hailed at the time, not only as a “model for fireproof construction”, but also as “one of the most modern vaudeville houses in America.”
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