Cozy Theatre

This was very likely the Victory Theatre/Brownie Theatre/New Victory Theatre which began during World War I and running through the silent era (see ads in photos). It likely was fitted with sound and became the New Cabool Theatre in 1929. The Cabool theater was purchased by O.L. Gentry who operated the nearby Lyric Theatre in Houston in 1929. Gentry renamed the Lyric to the Melba in Houston. He’s likely the one who rebranded the New Cabool as the Cozy Theatre although two other operators who follow him during the 1930s — Charles M. Cain and Richard “J.H.” Fisher — could be responsible for the name change. The theater’s trajectory would appear to time out with 30 years of leasing which conclude in 1948 with the theatre replaced by the State.