The Vaudette is a place of amusement listed in the 1912 Polk Directory, at 19 Huron St in Ypsilanti.
On North Huron Street in the first block, the Bert Readers opened the Vaudette Theatre with movies. Their son Russell was in school with this relict. He knew how to operate the projector while his parents went down near the screen and Mrs. Reader played the piano while Bert sang about “The Morning Glories twine around the same old door' as still color pictures were shown on the screen. Son Russell used to let us in in the afternoon after school to see the show. You sat in straight wooden kitchen chairs in a room like an empty store. A ticket cost 5¢ which none of us had. I was never in the movie across the street from the Vaudette and can't recapture the name. The Bijou was on old Congress Street and near the First National Bank. Al Rennie was an early manager of the Opera House and put in a big movie screen and also vaudeville. As late as 1920, movies are listed for the Martha Washington Theatre and in a place with movies and vaudeville-the Wuerth Theatre.
