New Nugget

PLANS for a new Nugget Theatre on South Main Street, opposite the Post Office Building, were announced in mid-February by Adna D. Storrs '99, president of the Hanover Improvement Society, which has operated the town's famous movie house since World War I. The Society has purchased the site of the present Brock house at 55 South Main and also the adjoining College property at 59 South Main, giving it a frontage of 125 feet and a depth of 270 feet.

The building to be erected there will contain stores and apartments as well as a new theatre and will be a major improvement at the south end of Hanover's business district. The site is the first which the Improvement Society has owned outright for the Nugget, the West Wheelock Street property having been leased from the Davison Estate and Casque and Gauntlet. The new location will be much more flexible than the old and will permit a parking lot in the rear of the building. Although no building plans have been prepared, the new Nugget is expected to seat about a thousand persons as compared with a capacity of 800 in the theatre which was destroyed by fire in January 1944. Since that time the Nugget has been operating in Webster Hall.