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Newspaper article

Date	1974/12/03
Organization name	Lyric II
Industry Sector	Information > Motion Picture and Sound Recording
Year	1974
Newspaper title	The Daily Record
Page number	27
Article title	Lyric II Celebrates Anniversary With Classic Films & Low Prices

"Lyric II Celebrates Anniversary With Classic Films & Low Prices. People who walk into Wooster's Lyric Two movie theater and ask where the Lyric One is located don't realize they're giving away a lot about their ages and how long they've lived in Wooster, according to Walter and Margaret Brubaker, operators of the theatre on North Buckeye Street.

"That's the one question people ask most often," Margaret says, "Even more often than how much is admission and what time is the show. And I could answer the question for anyone who was really interested, but it makes for a pretty long story."

A long story, indeed, one that began over 63 years ago when Margaret's father, Edward Mott, opened Wooster's first movie house, The Lyric, on the site that is now White's Jewelers on East Liberty Street.

Picked Lyric For Luck. "When Walter and I opened the theater we have now," Margaret said, "We took the name Lyric for luck and called it Lyric Two because it's the second theater of that name in Wooster."

The Brubakers are currently celebrating their sixth anniversary at the North Buckeye location with presentations of three of Hollywood's most popular films, "Gone With The Wind," "Dr. Zhivago," and "The Sound of Music" to run successively at the same prices the Lyric Two charged when it opened in 1968, $1.50 for adults and 50 cents for children.

"Gone With The Wind" will run from Dec. 4 thru 10, "Dr. Zhivago" from Dec. 11 thru 17, and "The Sound of Music" from Dec. 18 thru 24. On Christmas Day, the anniversary celebration will end and the Lyric Two will formally begin its seventh year of operations with Burt Reynold's smash new movie, "The Longest Yard."