Now that's a marquee.
Welcome to the War Eagle Theater, one of two in town at the time. War Eagle, of course, being the University's famed battle cry.
War Eagle was on Magnolia Avenue, known to students of the 1950s as Magnolia Street. Today the spot is a bar of rapidly changing names. There's a different view of the theatre be found in the 1952 Glomerata. It was a bar during my time in school as well. Literally around the corner was the other theater, the Tiger. By my time at Auburn Tiger Theater was gone as well, but the marquee remained. Toward the end of my tenure they took down that beautiful old sign and replaced it with a Gap. Change is inevitable, mileage may vary on the quality.
As for the movie, someone got this wrong. Someone was surely playing a little prank. Mouth Adventure is actually Plymouth Adventure, a 1952 Spencer Tracy vehicle that was well received, winning an Oscar for special effects. It is the story of the Mayflower's voyage. And seduction of the Captain (Tracy's wife).
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