Comments from DenisMaloney

DenisMaloney commented about Regent Theater on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:27 am

These entries are from the 1918 diary of Edmond Burke Maloney ( 1879 – 1946).

Jan 8, 1918 “In the evening I took Annie’s mother to the moving pictures at the Regent. The feature was “Nan of Music Mountain” a melodrama with much gun play and narrow escapes. “

Jan 28, 1918 “Went to see the moving pictures~ “Barbary Sheep” being the offering. Good scenery~but a poor plot.

Feb 4, 1918 “ I took Bob downtown to do a bit of banking and then we went to the Regent. Geraldine Farrar played in “The Devil’s Stone” ~ not very good. Bob talked a good deal during the play and annoyed a fat lady near us.

Feb 8,1918 “In the evening Annie and I went to the Regent to see Mary Pickford in a picture play called “Stella Maria”~ unusually good we agreed.

May 1,1918 “In the evening I took mother to see the picture at the Regent”

May 3,1918 “Annie and I went to the Regent to see a picture.”

May 6,1918 “Annie and I went to the Regent to see “The Shuttle”. I was much more interested in some pictures of wild duck and other water foul feeding.”

May 10,1918 “Mother can up to tea with us and I took her to the Regent to see Mary Pickford in “Amarillo of Cloths line Alley” ( a comedy about an Irish working class girl.)

May 14,1918 “Annie and I went to the Regent (theater) and enjoyed an unusually good set of pictures.”

May 16,1918 “Annie and I went to the Regent”

May 29,1918 “After leaving his office I went to the Regent to see (Alla) Nazimova in a picture plat called “Revelation” which was well produced.”(A film about a Paris cabaret singer and her lover)