Barney L. Allis

Kansas City, Missouri businessman. Barney Allis owned and operated the Muehlebach Hotel at 12th and Baltimore, originally built by George E. Muehlebach in 1916. He also lived in the hotel. In 1941 he purchased and reopened what was originally the Standard Theatre at 12th and Central. Designed by the prominent Kansas City architect Louis Singleton Curtiss, the theatre was rich in history. Performers Maude Adams, Richard Mansfield, Sarah Bernhardt, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Eddie Foy, and the Marx Brothers had appeared there in the early years. At one time Frank James was a ticket taker there. Renamed the Folly Theatre, performers such as Gypsy Rose Lee, Tempest Storm, Rose La Rose, Peaches Browning, and Miss Chesty Gabor appeared there. The theatre still stands, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Today Barney Allis Plaza in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, is named in his honor.

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