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Canadian's restored Palace Theater features first-run movies. Canadian, in the Texas Panhandle, is more attractive than many of its Panhandle counterparts, partly because of the varied terrain, but also because some of its wealthy families have stayed in the area over the years and given back to the community. The most prominent is Salem Abraham, 47, who runs a futures-trading firm out of a venerable restored hotel in Canadian. The multimillionaire, whose Lebanese immigrant family has been in Canadian for five generations, has restored buildings, established museums and supported the public schools and the results show.