Regent Theatre
225 Queen Street E,
Toronto,
ON
M5A 1S4
225 Queen Street E,
Toronto,
ON
M5A 1S4
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Previously operated by: Famous Players
Previous Names: Majestic Music Hall
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Open in August 25, 1916 as a vaudeville theater owned by Ambrose Small a Canadian theater magnate, who later disappeared in 1919 and was never found. The Majestic Music Hall was sold to Jack Bickell the first president of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. and his business partners. They converted the theater into a cinema and renamed it the Regent Theatre.
Mr. Bickell and his partners in 1920 sold the theater to Famous Players which would become their first cinema. Famous Players was sold to Cineplex Galaxy in 2005. Now the Scotia Plaza is standing near the site. In 2007, the Paramount Theatre was renamed the Scotiabank because of this coincidence.
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No…the Paramount was renamed the Scotiabank because they pumped a lot of money into the Scene card promotion scheme, and offer Scene branded debit and credit cards to collect Cineplex redeemable points.
I for one refuse to call the Paramount the Scotiabank; it’s a CINEMA, not a bank.
Perhaps I should open a bank and call it Rialto?
An old postcard view of the Regent when it was the Majestic Music Hall: http://tiny.cc/0mi43
The Majestic Music Hall was in operation by late 1909. The May 10, 1911 issue of Contract Record, a Canadian construction journal, said that the Majestic had been designed by architect Walter S. Painter, who had soon after become chief architect for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Walter Scott Painter designed a number of theaters in Canada and the United States.