Majestic Theatre
105 S. Washington Avenue,
Wellington,
KS
67152
105 S. Washington Avenue,
Wellington,
KS
67152
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The Majestic Theatre did not become the Ashland, according to a quite thorough history of Wellington’s theaters by Jim Bales, published in 1921 and available on this web page provided by Wellington’s Chisholm Trail Museum.
The Majestic opened as the Haligraph Theatre (named for owners Dr. Halliday and Mr. Graff) in August, 1909. New owners renamed it the Majestic in early 1910. In 1928 both the Ashland Theatre, which had opened in 1921, and the Majestic came under the control of the Miller Show Corporation, operators of the regional Fox theaters.
They remodeled and reopened the Ashland as the Fox Regent Theatre in 1928, converting it for sound in 1929. The Majestic continued to operate as a silent house into late 1929, with shows only on Fridays and Saturdays. In December, 1929, an article announced plans to remodel the Majestic, but they appear never to have come to fruition, and advertisements for the house simply vanished from the local paper.