Quilna Theatre

rivest266 on October 21, 2022 at 5:36 pm

Opened September 11th, 1919.

Regent Theatre opening 11 Sep 1919, Thu The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) Newspapers.com

Joe Vogel on March 24, 2014 at 1:39 pm

Here is a brief article about the Quilna Theatre project from the March 8, 1919, issue of The Moving Picture World:

“Bijou Syndicate Builds New Theatre in Lima

“LIMA, OHIO, is to have a handsome new moving picture theatre. The Shawnee Amusement Company will operate the house, which is one of thirty-seven in Ohio and nearby states, the bulk of the capital being furnished by the Bijou Theatre Enterprise Company of Detroit.

“The new theatre, which will seat 1,500 persons, is to have a $10,000 Hope-Jones organ, leather upholstered chairs and a balcony given over entirely to boxes, each fitted with six wicker chairs. It will be located in the handsome brick building now being used by the Heniger Auto Sales Company. This building was completed about a year ago and is especially adapted for uses of this kind. It is situated next to the Trinity Methodist Church.

“J. J. Zanone, formerly manager of Lima’s Majestic, will have entire charge of the theatre, and promises up-to-date releases and a progressive policy generally. He has engaged a ten-piece orchestra, which will furnish the music with each showing. At least $50,000 will be spent on improving the building.”

The February 21, 1919, issue of The Lima News reported that local architect Walter DeKalb would work with theater architect John Eberson on the project.

Karen Colizzi Noonan on July 8, 2013 at 7:00 pm

I have just acquired a small eBay trinket from the Schine Quilna Theater. It advertises the film Ben Hur with Carmel Myers indicating the year would have been 1925. Does anyone know what years this theater would have been under the Schine chain?