Cofield's Corner - The Oxford Eagle

Cofield's Corner - The Oxford Eagle

By John Cofield   In the 1920s, The Lyric on Van Buren moved from live performances to early motion pictures.  By 1936, “talkies” were exploding onto the entertainment scene and The Ritz Theater opened on Van Buren within a stone’s throw of The Lyric.  So for decades, the two competed for local and student dollars. In time, The Lyric’s interior declined and the nickname “two sticks” (one stick to hold up your seat and another to beat off the rat…