Urban Indiana

Paramount Theatre rallies once more in downtown Anderson

Although Rich Jorn has been on the job as executive director of the Paramount Theatre Centre & Ballroom for just two months, he sounds like a longtime caretaker when he raves about the downtown Anderson landmark.

The Paramount has a way of playing with time, which Jorn notes when describing the modern-day experience of visiting the theater that opened 94 years ago with a screening of the Marx Brothers film "The Cocoanuts."

"If you were a resident of the booming town of Anderson, Indiana, in 1929 and you were putting on your Sunday best to come out to the grand opening of the beautiful Paramount Theatre, this is what it would look like," said Jorn, standing in the venue's balcony while surveying statues of Greek and Roman goddesses, flower-covered trellises and facades of Spanish villas that decorate the room.

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