Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2010.062.001 |
Object Name |
Poster, Theater |
Description |
Rectangular cardboard poster. White background with a blue decorative border. "Now Playing" printed in black lettering along the upper edge; "Continuous Daily 1 to 11 p.m." along the lower edge. Green oval on the left side with "Capitol/Kitchener/Sherlock Holmes/Fatal Hour/And/Marie Dressler-Polly Moran/in/Skits from the Hollywood Revue" printed on it in black lettering. Pink oval on the right side with "Lyric/Kitchener/Platinum Blonde/with/Loretta Young - Jean Harlow/and/Compromised/with/Rose Hobart - Ben Lyon" printed on it in black lettering. "Dominion Printing Co. Toronto, Can." printed in blue at the bottom of the poster. |
Date |
1931 |
History |
Both the Capitol and Lyric movie theatres opened in Kitchener in 1921. The Lyric was located at 122 King Street West, and the Capitol at 90 King Street West. The Lyric also hosted live theatre events in addition to movies. It closed as a theatre in 1991. The Capitol Theatre showed the first "talkie" in Kitchener in 1929, Interface. The Capitol also had private boxes and an orchestra pit for its eight piece orchestra. |
Search Terms |
Capitol Movie Theatre Lyric Movie Theatre Dominion Printing Company |
People |
Dressler, Marie Moran, Polly Young, Loretta Harlow, Jean Hobart, Rose Lyon, Ben |