Palace TheatreThe following appeared in the Rock County Star-Herald on April 12, 1945:Artist who Decorated State’s Biggest Theatres Does The Jochims’ Interior WorkThe Palace Theatre, hailed as "Southwestern Minnesota’s most beautiful movie house" is even more beautiful today than ever before. Again it is Herman and Maude Jochims, whose efforts to make motion picture entertainment more enjoyable who are known throughout the entire middle west, who are responsible for giving Luverne the finest interior decorating to be found anywhere. When the theatre patrons in this area attend the re-opening of the Palace tonight, they will see the results of an eight-week repair and beauty treatment given by Harold Larsen & Son, Inc., interior decorators of Minneapolis, whose artistic work is throughout the entire northwest. Their choice of color and design must be seen to be appreciated to the fullest extent. Those who have admired the interior designing of such places as the Minnesota Theatre, Curtis Hotel and Charlie’s Exceptionale café in Minneapolis; the Paramount Theatre, St. Paul; the Chateau Theatre, Rochester; Hibbing High School, Hibbing, and too many more of equal importance to mention, will see art work by the same man, Harold Larsen, the minute they enter the lobby of the Palace. While Mr. Larsen himself is a very capable artist, he has also an excellent staff of workmen. A.A. Baumgart, artist exceptional, is responsible for the big painted mural, the wall designs and the beautiful artistic hand work on the lights. He was ably assisted by Andrew Lundmark and Paul Nielsen,Glenn Adams, and his helper, Elmer Skyberg, and B.S. Hinkly, and his staff of workmen, were locally employed and lived up to their usual high standard of workmanship. The management of the theatre also wishes to compliment all other helpers who so ably supported the big undertaking, and have expressed the hope that the final results will meet with the approval of the entire community. Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156. Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.