When did Aberdeens Capitol Theatre open?
January 12, 1927. When the 900 seat theatre opened, the Aberdeen American News proclaimed it to be “one of the best appointed and most beautiful theatres in the northwest.” What was its first presentation? A live performance of a touring production of Michael Arlen’s The Green Hat. The play, considered extremely shocking in its day, tells the story of a bride whose husband commits suicide on their honeymoon. The audience discovers in the last act that the husband killed himself because he had a venereal disease. The first film shown on the Capitol Theatre’s silver screen was Kid Boots (1926) starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. The theatre screened its last film: Robocop 2 in 1990 and became the home of the Aberdeen Community Theatre in 1993. 16. How many other downtown movie houses were in operation when it opened? Five. Four theatres (Princess, Rialto, Lyric, and State) were located on south Main street, the fifth, the Orpheum Theatre, was one block east on south Lincoln. The four Ma
