The 1,400-seat theater was completed. Many luminaries came to Hoyt Sherman Place to entertain. In its first two decades, honored speakers and performers included Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (1925), Will Rogers (1925), John Philip Sousa (1925), Amelia Earhart (1933), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1938), Grant Wood (1939), and Agnes de Mille (1940).
