Capitol Cinemas

The Capitol Theatre launched on October 19, 1939 with Fred MacMurray in “Honeymoon In Bali” along with an Artie Shaw musical short “Artie Shaw’s Class In Swing”, an unnamed cartoon in color, and a pictorial newsreel.

I cannot find the original amount of seats the Capitol had in its opening heyday, but it had 338 cushioned multi-colored seats on the lower floor. The original seats featured red cushions, beige easy backs, natural arm rests, and red, blue, and gold endplates, and was designed based out of the New York World’s Fair that year. The Capitol also does have an original feature of a 15x20 daylight screen.

sold on June 24th, 2022

I watched the original Star Wars here. The updated screens are great.

The original theater on this site was the Savoy Theater. It burned to the ground in 1937. The Capitol Cinemas was built on the same site and opened in 1939. The Capitol was re-opened in 1996 and has been in continuous operation since that time. The web site for the Capitol is: www.capitolcinemas.net

An item in the August 26, 1950, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that the Capitol Theatre was being renovated. The item said that the Capitol had been built in 1939 at a cost of $50,000.

The November 11, 1939, issue of Boxoffice said that the Crescent Amusement Company’s new Capitol Theatre at Princeton had enjoyed a successful opening, the house being sold out in 30 minutes.

The Capitol apparently replaced an earlier theater called the Savoy on the same site. The June 3, 1939, issue of Boxoffice said that the Savoy Theatre had been closed on May 22 and would be demolished to make way for a new theater. Crescent had acquired the Savoy from Malco Theatres the year before.

Showtimes for this theatre are not online. It is closed?