The January 20, 1926, issue of The Film Daily reported that the Minne Lusa Theatre in Omaha was under construction and was expected to open about March 1. The magazine noted the “crying room” planned for the house, probably one of the earliest examples of that feature. The Minne Lusa Theatre was designed by architect George Fisher.
This house is still called the Geauga Theater. Geauga Lyric Theater Guild is the name of the company that stages productions at the theater. This page of their official web site says “Movies are shown at the Geauga Theater on weekends when live productions are not occurring.”
Tinseltoes: The Roxy was an older theater operated by the owner of the Roy. It hasn’t been listed at Cinema Treasures yet. The Roxy was demolished in 1965.
The photo of the Roy Theatre that Chuck linked to in the first comment is gone, but I found another one partway down this web page.
The 1917 City Directory I cited lists the Paterson House Hotel at 845 2nd Avenue East. As the Classic Theatre was just two doors up the street, it must have had an address of about 849 2nd Avenue.
A 1917 city directory for Owen Sound lists a Savoy Theatre at 745 2nd Avenue East. The only other theater it listed was Griffin’s. As the Classic appears to have been in the 800 block of 2nd Avenue East, the Savoy must have been a different house and the Classic not yet built.
I think this increases the likelihood that the Classic was the 1920 project designed by Hall & Duerr, although the description “…two-story concrete, brick, and steel structure….” more closely resembles the building the Centre was in than the building the Classic was in. The Classic must have been built sometime right around 1920, though.
Judging from a comparison of the aerial photo CSWalczak linked to and the Google Street View of 2nd Avenue today it looks like the Classic Theatre has been demolished. I’d guess it was on part of the footprint of a neo-vintage building that currently houses the Remax real estate agency, a toy store called the Rocking Horse, and a swimwear shop called Sunpoint.
In Google Street View (pan it a bit left) we can see that the name Roxy is still on the theater’s sign, with “Owen Sound Little Theatre” in much smaller letters below it. The name Roxy Theatre is even in the URL of the little theater company’s official web site, and is used in its advertising, so this house should probably still be listed as the Roxy Theatre.
Reading Cinema Treasures' description of this house as currently written, I’m sure it actually describes the Halifax Theatre, not the Princess. This web page (there is supposed to be a photo but I can’t get it to display) says that the Princess Theatre burned and that the building currently on the site was built in 1958, so we can list this house as demolished. I did find a reference to the Princess still being in operation as late as 1958, and 413 Main Street is definitely the correct address.
The most recent update at the MySpace page of Sobo’s Main Theatres advertises Hellboy II: The Golden Army as the current attraction. As that movie was released in 2008, that’s probably when the theater closed. The last blog post by the theater’s manager is dated June 16, 2008.
I’ve found a reference to the Princess Theatre in South Boston, Virginia, as early as 1923, but it could be even older. The building is indeed in the 400 block of Main Street, which can be seen on the map as a southward extension of Wilborn Avenue (the name Main Street Turns the corner at its intersection with Wilborn and Ferry Street.) However, the correct street number is 413, not 408.
Thanks to the vintage photo Dragonlace1 uploaded, I’ve been able to set Street View to the correct location. The shop to the north of the theater’s location is Executive Cuts Barber Shop, at 415 Main Street, and the shop to the south is McCollum-Ferrell Shoes, at 409 Main Street. Neither business uses the directional “North” in its address, just plain “Main Street”.
The address 411 would be the door to the upstairs of the theater building, and 413 Main Street would be the theater’s address. I can’t tell from the rather blurry Google Street View what is currently in the theater building.
The book St. Cloud, by Harold Zosel, part of the Arcadia Publishing Company’s postcard book series, has a photo of the auditorium of the Hays Theatre. The caption says that the house was opened by Frank E. Nemec in 1913 as the Starland Theatre, and later operated under the names Nemec Theatre, United Capitol Theatre, People’s Theatre, and Grand Theatre before becoming the Hays Theatre. It says that the building was demolished in 1977.
The August 16, 1913, issue of The Construction News said that construction was to start soon on a vaudeville house, 44x132 feet, to be built at St. Cloud for F.E. Nemec. The September 6 issue of the same publication said that excavation had begun for F.E. Nemec’s Starland Theatre at St. Cloud. The project was to cost $28,500, and the general contractor was Edward Hirt.
Volume 2 of History of Stearns County, Minnesota by William Bell Mitchell gives the opening date of the Starland Theatre as December 8, 1913. Volume 1 of the book has a biographical sketch of St. Cloud architect Rolland C. Buckley, and lists the Starland Theatre among his works.
The house was mentioned as the Nemec Theatre in the September 16, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World.
The Lyric is one of several Spokane theaters mentioned in an article in the July 15, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World. At that time the Lyric was being operated by J.W. Allender and E.P. Gregory, who had taken over the house in February that year. The Lyric had opened in 1911.
The following item about an addition to and major remodeling of the Strand Theatre and Burlington Arcade appeared in an issue of Engineering News-Record in July, 1921:
“Conn., Stamford—Theatre—Emmons & Abbott, archts., Washington Bldg., receiving bids remodeling and building 3 story, 35 x 52 ft. concrete, brick and steel addition, rein.-con. flooring, concrete foundation, to Strand Theatre, Burlington Arcade. About $75,000.”
This article from the March 19, 1923, issue of The Norwalk Hour tells of a fire that partly destroyed the Burlington Arcade building in Stamford and says that it was “…adjoining the Strand theater building.” The last paragraph says that the building had once been known as the Opera House block.
This New York Times article from January 5, 2003, is about the adjacent Palace Theatre but mentions the Strand. It says that Mary Vuono rented space for the Strand in the Burlington building in 1915, and bought the adjacent property where the Palace was later built in 1920. Putting this information together with the other sources I cited suggests that the Palace site, which had once been occupied by the Grand Opera House, which burned in 1904, was the site of the 1921 project, and that it was that 1921 addition which was destroyed in the 1923 fire. The Times article says that Mary Vuono hired Thomas Lamb to design the proposed Palace Theatre in 1924, which would fit the time frame of the 1923 fire.
According to Dave Kenney’s Twin Cities Picture Show: A Century of Moviegoing this house operated as the Alhambra Theatre from 1911 to 1932, but had opened as the Penny Parlor in 1909. It last operated as the Cameo Theatre from 1933 to 1936.
The Alhambra was an early Finkelstein & Rubin house, as was the Gem Theatre operating next door at 18 E. 7th from 1909 to 1923. A third theater, the first Blue Mouse, was adjacent to the Gem at 20 E. 7th from 1914 to 1922. With the Princess (1910-1931) and Majestic (1911-1921) Theatres across the street, this must have been a lively block during the period around 1920.
The theater in the article Tinseltoes linked to is the Liberty. It identifies two more AKA’s for the house. It opened as the Orpheum in November, 1914, then briefly became the Empress. In May, 1916, the house was leased to the T&D circuit and renamed again. Later that same year the house had become the Liberty, so it had four names in about two years.
All these changes were the result of the fact that this theater got caught up in the collapse of the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville circuit. The article in The Moving Picture World says that the house was originally leased to Sullivan & Considine. The company had its own vaudeville circuit, but in the northwest it also had a deal with the Orpheum circuit to present that company’s shows in another string of theaters under Sullivan & Considine control.
As the S&C operation began falling apart, Considine shifted the Orpheum shows to another house in Portland and shifted the Sullivan & Considine shows from the circuit’s Empress Theatre to this house, which was renamed Empress. The Sullivan & Considine circuit was gone by 1916, and many of its theaters were taken over either by Loew’s or by Alexander Pantages. As this house was only leased, the original owners were probably the ones who leased it to T&D.
Interestingly, the Empress Theatre, which Sullivan & Considine had opened in 1913, eventually became the last Orpheum Theatre in Portland and is listed at Cinema Treasures under that name. Thus Portland had two theaters that each used both names, Orpheum and Empress, at different times.
The article Tinseltoes linked to notes that the Majestic was equipped with “…a 14 by 18 foot gold fibre screen which can be seen from every seat in the house….” The article also says that the Majestic’s projection booth was equipped with two Powers 6-A machines.
Although the Majestic had full stage facilities, it was clearly intended to operate primarily as a movie theater from the day it opened. The Moving Picture World article doesn’t even mention vaudeville, saying only that the house was presenting three shows of V-L-S-E productions on weekdays and four shows on Saturdays and holidays (V-L-S-E was a short-lived distribution combine made up of the Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, and Essanay film production companies.)
The Illinois section of the January 1, 1916, issue of the trade journal Motography had this item about the Garden Theatre:
“The new Garden theater, North Main street, Canton, had its formal opening December 8, which was attended by 1,200 people. The theater is spacious and fire-proof and presents a very beautiful and attractive appearance with its lattice window effects with overhanging flowers, while suspended from each beam a bird cage with songsters sing softly and sweet. Joe Ross is manager.”
Here is an item announcing the plans for this theater in the October 30, 1912, issue of The American Architect:
“Architects Rapp, Zettel & Rapp, Johnston Bldg., have completed plans and estimates for the erection of a brick and concrete amusement building at 18-20 E. McMicken Ave., between Vine and Walnut Sts., to be known as the Variety Theater, at a cost of $12,000.”
The November 20 issue of the same publication had an item about another projected theater designed by the same firm:
“Architects Rapp, Zettel 8: Rapp, Johnston Building, are preparing plans for a theater building for the Boston Theater Co., corner Vine and Elder Sts., to cost $10,000”
This theater would have been only a short distance from the Variety/Uptown. I don’t know if the second project was ever completed, but if it was it must have been at the northeast corner of the intersection. The other corners all have buildings on them that clearly date from the 19th century. The building on the northeast corner could have been a theater, though if so it would have been a very small one, probably not seating many more than 300 patrons.
This page from the Lane Libraries says that the Rialto Theatre returned to its original name during its last years. It closed as the Court Theatre in 1988, reopening as the Rialto once again in May, 1989. The page says: “It closed for several periods in its final years, when it was operated as a two-screen theater with 500 seats. It finally closed in October 1993, and sold to the City of Hamilton for $140,000 in 1996. It was razed by the city in October 1996.”
The page also notes that the St. Charles Hotel was partly demolished when the Rialto was built. The theater entrance was in the part of the hotel that was preserved, but the auditorium was apparently entirely new construction. The page attributes the design of the Rialto to Cincinnati architect L. W. Fahnestock. At the time the Rialto was built, he was a partner in the firm of Dittoe, Fahnestock & Ferber, architects of the Murphy Theatre at Wilmington, Ohio.
The surname of one of the partners in the architectural firm is currently misspelled. The correct spelling is Fahnestock. The firm of Dittoe, Fahnestock & Ferber was in operation from the late 1910s to the early 1920s. The partners were Louis G. Dittoe, L.W. Fahnestock, and Charles H. Ferber, Jr.
Although Dittoe appears to have been the senior architect in the firm, it is possible that Ferber brought some expertise to the Murphy Theatre project. According to his biography at the Architecture Foundation of Cincinnati, he had spent parts of the years 1913 and 1914 training in the office of noted San Francisco theater architects James and Merritt Reid. From 1909 to 1913 he had received training in the office of Rapp, Zettel & Rapp, a Cincinnati firm that designed a number of theaters.
The November, 1919, issue of The Western Architect featured five photos of this splendid theater (scan at Google Books.)
Tinseltoes: The Casino was at 624 Main Street and was opened before 1912 (in 1907, according to one source) and was operated by Walter C. Quimby. In 1912 it was renamed the Grand Theatre, which it remained until closing in 1950. During its last ten years it was operated by the Shea circuit. The Grand was dismantled in 1952, but I’m not sure what became of the building. It is not yet listed at Cinema Treasures.
Jimmo531: A history page for the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, which is located in a building erected in 1948 as a radio and television studio for the Don Lee-Mutual Broadcasting Company, and which later became the home of KHJ-TV (CBS channel 2) lists The Joey Bishop Show, The Newlywed Game, and The Dating Game as shows that originated from that studio, which was at 1313 N. Vine Street.
I have no idea why IMDb has these shows, or the Steve Allen show, originating from the Montalban’s address. Though it had been owned by CBS for many years, and was used as a studio for live radio broadcasts, for about three decades beginning in 1954 the house at 1615 Vine was called the Huntington Hartford Theatre, and operated primarily as a legitimate house. I don’t think it was equipped for television broadcasts as the Hartford, though it did have a projection room and ran at least one movie during that period (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which premiered there in 1962.)
This web page has a 1963 photo of the marquee of the Steve Allen Playhouse, and even though it is a fairly tight shot, taken at night, it is definitely recognizable as the old Filmarte building, not the Huntington Hartford Theatre.
So, the logical explanation for the discrepancy is that IMDb got the address wrong not only for the Steve Allen show but for the other three shows you listed. Other Internet sources giving the same address are probably getting it from IMDb.
Colonial Revival in the style field should be Spanish Colonial Revival, which was the original style before Timothy Pflueger’s Deco remodeling job.
Also, I’ve noticed that the auditorium photo captioned “Interior of the New Mission Theater” in the Moving Picture World article I linked to in my previous comment depicts a different auditorium than the photo captioned “Interior of Theatre” in this article in The Music Trade Review published the same year. I don’t know for sure which magazine got the wrong photo, but I suspect it was The Moving Picture World. Its item on the New Mission was part of a section that featured two other new houses, which would be more likely to lead to error than the stand-alone item in Music Trade. The MPW photo might actually have depicted the Lorin Theatre in Berkeley.
Tinseltoes: The Regency was at 1600 Willow Avenue. CinemaTour says it closed in 2000. It also says the theater has been demolished, but I think the building is still there. Google Satellite View and (very distant) Street View show a building with a pent-roofed portico at the front and a lower portico along the sides, just like the theater in the photo in Boxoffice. 1600 Willow is now the address of the Judah First Church of God in Christ. The church probably adapted the theater for multiple uses and altered the interior, but I’m sure its the same building.
The January 20, 1926, issue of The Film Daily reported that the Minne Lusa Theatre in Omaha was under construction and was expected to open about March 1. The magazine noted the “crying room” planned for the house, probably one of the earliest examples of that feature. The Minne Lusa Theatre was designed by architect George Fisher.
This house is still called the Geauga Theater. Geauga Lyric Theater Guild is the name of the company that stages productions at the theater. This page of their official web site says “Movies are shown at the Geauga Theater on weekends when live productions are not occurring.”
Tinseltoes: The Roxy was an older theater operated by the owner of the Roy. It hasn’t been listed at Cinema Treasures yet. The Roxy was demolished in 1965.
The photo of the Roy Theatre that Chuck linked to in the first comment is gone, but I found another one partway down this web page.
The 1917 City Directory I cited lists the Paterson House Hotel at 845 2nd Avenue East. As the Classic Theatre was just two doors up the street, it must have had an address of about 849 2nd Avenue.
A 1917 city directory for Owen Sound lists a Savoy Theatre at 745 2nd Avenue East. The only other theater it listed was Griffin’s. As the Classic appears to have been in the 800 block of 2nd Avenue East, the Savoy must have been a different house and the Classic not yet built.
I think this increases the likelihood that the Classic was the 1920 project designed by Hall & Duerr, although the description “…two-story concrete, brick, and steel structure….” more closely resembles the building the Centre was in than the building the Classic was in. The Classic must have been built sometime right around 1920, though.
Judging from a comparison of the aerial photo CSWalczak linked to and the Google Street View of 2nd Avenue today it looks like the Classic Theatre has been demolished. I’d guess it was on part of the footprint of a neo-vintage building that currently houses the Remax real estate agency, a toy store called the Rocking Horse, and a swimwear shop called Sunpoint.
In Google Street View (pan it a bit left) we can see that the name Roxy is still on the theater’s sign, with “Owen Sound Little Theatre” in much smaller letters below it. The name Roxy Theatre is even in the URL of the little theater company’s official web site, and is used in its advertising, so this house should probably still be listed as the Roxy Theatre.
Reading Cinema Treasures' description of this house as currently written, I’m sure it actually describes the Halifax Theatre, not the Princess. This web page (there is supposed to be a photo but I can’t get it to display) says that the Princess Theatre burned and that the building currently on the site was built in 1958, so we can list this house as demolished. I did find a reference to the Princess still being in operation as late as 1958, and 413 Main Street is definitely the correct address.
The most recent update at the MySpace page of Sobo’s Main Theatres advertises Hellboy II: The Golden Army as the current attraction. As that movie was released in 2008, that’s probably when the theater closed. The last blog post by the theater’s manager is dated June 16, 2008.
I’ve found a reference to the Princess Theatre in South Boston, Virginia, as early as 1923, but it could be even older. The building is indeed in the 400 block of Main Street, which can be seen on the map as a southward extension of Wilborn Avenue (the name Main Street Turns the corner at its intersection with Wilborn and Ferry Street.) However, the correct street number is 413, not 408.
Thanks to the vintage photo Dragonlace1 uploaded, I’ve been able to set Street View to the correct location. The shop to the north of the theater’s location is Executive Cuts Barber Shop, at 415 Main Street, and the shop to the south is McCollum-Ferrell Shoes, at 409 Main Street. Neither business uses the directional “North” in its address, just plain “Main Street”.
The address 411 would be the door to the upstairs of the theater building, and 413 Main Street would be the theater’s address. I can’t tell from the rather blurry Google Street View what is currently in the theater building.
The book St. Cloud, by Harold Zosel, part of the Arcadia Publishing Company’s postcard book series, has a photo of the auditorium of the Hays Theatre. The caption says that the house was opened by Frank E. Nemec in 1913 as the Starland Theatre, and later operated under the names Nemec Theatre, United Capitol Theatre, People’s Theatre, and Grand Theatre before becoming the Hays Theatre. It says that the building was demolished in 1977.
The August 16, 1913, issue of The Construction News said that construction was to start soon on a vaudeville house, 44x132 feet, to be built at St. Cloud for F.E. Nemec. The September 6 issue of the same publication said that excavation had begun for F.E. Nemec’s Starland Theatre at St. Cloud. The project was to cost $28,500, and the general contractor was Edward Hirt.
Volume 2 of History of Stearns County, Minnesota by William Bell Mitchell gives the opening date of the Starland Theatre as December 8, 1913. Volume 1 of the book has a biographical sketch of St. Cloud architect Rolland C. Buckley, and lists the Starland Theatre among his works.
The house was mentioned as the Nemec Theatre in the September 16, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World.
The Lyric is one of several Spokane theaters mentioned in an article in the July 15, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World. At that time the Lyric was being operated by J.W. Allender and E.P. Gregory, who had taken over the house in February that year. The Lyric had opened in 1911.
The following item about an addition to and major remodeling of the Strand Theatre and Burlington Arcade appeared in an issue of Engineering News-Record in July, 1921:
This article from the March 19, 1923, issue of The Norwalk Hour tells of a fire that partly destroyed the Burlington Arcade building in Stamford and says that it was “…adjoining the Strand theater building.” The last paragraph says that the building had once been known as the Opera House block.This New York Times article from January 5, 2003, is about the adjacent Palace Theatre but mentions the Strand. It says that Mary Vuono rented space for the Strand in the Burlington building in 1915, and bought the adjacent property where the Palace was later built in 1920. Putting this information together with the other sources I cited suggests that the Palace site, which had once been occupied by the Grand Opera House, which burned in 1904, was the site of the 1921 project, and that it was that 1921 addition which was destroyed in the 1923 fire. The Times article says that Mary Vuono hired Thomas Lamb to design the proposed Palace Theatre in 1924, which would fit the time frame of the 1923 fire.
According to Dave Kenney’s Twin Cities Picture Show: A Century of Moviegoing this house operated as the Alhambra Theatre from 1911 to 1932, but had opened as the Penny Parlor in 1909. It last operated as the Cameo Theatre from 1933 to 1936.
The Alhambra was an early Finkelstein & Rubin house, as was the Gem Theatre operating next door at 18 E. 7th from 1909 to 1923. A third theater, the first Blue Mouse, was adjacent to the Gem at 20 E. 7th from 1914 to 1922. With the Princess (1910-1931) and Majestic (1911-1921) Theatres across the street, this must have been a lively block during the period around 1920.
The theater in the article Tinseltoes linked to is the Liberty. It identifies two more AKA’s for the house. It opened as the Orpheum in November, 1914, then briefly became the Empress. In May, 1916, the house was leased to the T&D circuit and renamed again. Later that same year the house had become the Liberty, so it had four names in about two years.
All these changes were the result of the fact that this theater got caught up in the collapse of the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville circuit. The article in The Moving Picture World says that the house was originally leased to Sullivan & Considine. The company had its own vaudeville circuit, but in the northwest it also had a deal with the Orpheum circuit to present that company’s shows in another string of theaters under Sullivan & Considine control.
As the S&C operation began falling apart, Considine shifted the Orpheum shows to another house in Portland and shifted the Sullivan & Considine shows from the circuit’s Empress Theatre to this house, which was renamed Empress. The Sullivan & Considine circuit was gone by 1916, and many of its theaters were taken over either by Loew’s or by Alexander Pantages. As this house was only leased, the original owners were probably the ones who leased it to T&D.
Interestingly, the Empress Theatre, which Sullivan & Considine had opened in 1913, eventually became the last Orpheum Theatre in Portland and is listed at Cinema Treasures under that name. Thus Portland had two theaters that each used both names, Orpheum and Empress, at different times.
The article Tinseltoes linked to notes that the Majestic was equipped with “…a 14 by 18 foot gold fibre screen which can be seen from every seat in the house….” The article also says that the Majestic’s projection booth was equipped with two Powers 6-A machines.
Although the Majestic had full stage facilities, it was clearly intended to operate primarily as a movie theater from the day it opened. The Moving Picture World article doesn’t even mention vaudeville, saying only that the house was presenting three shows of V-L-S-E productions on weekdays and four shows on Saturdays and holidays (V-L-S-E was a short-lived distribution combine made up of the Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, and Essanay film production companies.)
The Rex was not at the corner of Ray Street. The building can be seen in Street View if you shift several doors north.
The Illinois section of the January 1, 1916, issue of the trade journal Motography had this item about the Garden Theatre:
Here is an item announcing the plans for this theater in the October 30, 1912, issue of The American Architect:
The November 20 issue of the same publication had an item about another projected theater designed by the same firm:This theater would have been only a short distance from the Variety/Uptown. I don’t know if the second project was ever completed, but if it was it must have been at the northeast corner of the intersection. The other corners all have buildings on them that clearly date from the 19th century. The building on the northeast corner could have been a theater, though if so it would have been a very small one, probably not seating many more than 300 patrons.This page from the Lane Libraries says that the Rialto Theatre returned to its original name during its last years. It closed as the Court Theatre in 1988, reopening as the Rialto once again in May, 1989. The page says: “It closed for several periods in its final years, when it was operated as a two-screen theater with 500 seats. It finally closed in October 1993, and sold to the City of Hamilton for $140,000 in 1996. It was razed by the city in October 1996.”
The page also notes that the St. Charles Hotel was partly demolished when the Rialto was built. The theater entrance was in the part of the hotel that was preserved, but the auditorium was apparently entirely new construction. The page attributes the design of the Rialto to Cincinnati architect L. W. Fahnestock. At the time the Rialto was built, he was a partner in the firm of Dittoe, Fahnestock & Ferber, architects of the Murphy Theatre at Wilmington, Ohio.
The surname of one of the partners in the architectural firm is currently misspelled. The correct spelling is Fahnestock. The firm of Dittoe, Fahnestock & Ferber was in operation from the late 1910s to the early 1920s. The partners were Louis G. Dittoe, L.W. Fahnestock, and Charles H. Ferber, Jr.
Although Dittoe appears to have been the senior architect in the firm, it is possible that Ferber brought some expertise to the Murphy Theatre project. According to his biography at the Architecture Foundation of Cincinnati, he had spent parts of the years 1913 and 1914 training in the office of noted San Francisco theater architects James and Merritt Reid. From 1909 to 1913 he had received training in the office of Rapp, Zettel & Rapp, a Cincinnati firm that designed a number of theaters.
The November, 1919, issue of The Western Architect featured five photos of this splendid theater (scan at Google Books.)
Tinseltoes: The Casino was at 624 Main Street and was opened before 1912 (in 1907, according to one source) and was operated by Walter C. Quimby. In 1912 it was renamed the Grand Theatre, which it remained until closing in 1950. During its last ten years it was operated by the Shea circuit. The Grand was dismantled in 1952, but I’m not sure what became of the building. It is not yet listed at Cinema Treasures.
The fire that destroyed the Filmarte building took place in July, 1990. Here is an article about it from the Los Angeles Times.
Jimmo531: A history page for the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, which is located in a building erected in 1948 as a radio and television studio for the Don Lee-Mutual Broadcasting Company, and which later became the home of KHJ-TV (CBS channel 2) lists The Joey Bishop Show, The Newlywed Game, and The Dating Game as shows that originated from that studio, which was at 1313 N. Vine Street.
I have no idea why IMDb has these shows, or the Steve Allen show, originating from the Montalban’s address. Though it had been owned by CBS for many years, and was used as a studio for live radio broadcasts, for about three decades beginning in 1954 the house at 1615 Vine was called the Huntington Hartford Theatre, and operated primarily as a legitimate house. I don’t think it was equipped for television broadcasts as the Hartford, though it did have a projection room and ran at least one movie during that period (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which premiered there in 1962.)
This web page has a 1963 photo of the marquee of the Steve Allen Playhouse, and even though it is a fairly tight shot, taken at night, it is definitely recognizable as the old Filmarte building, not the Huntington Hartford Theatre.
So, the logical explanation for the discrepancy is that IMDb got the address wrong not only for the Steve Allen show but for the other three shows you listed. Other Internet sources giving the same address are probably getting it from IMDb.
Colonial Revival in the style field should be Spanish Colonial Revival, which was the original style before Timothy Pflueger’s Deco remodeling job.
Also, I’ve noticed that the auditorium photo captioned “Interior of the New Mission Theater” in the Moving Picture World article I linked to in my previous comment depicts a different auditorium than the photo captioned “Interior of Theatre” in this article in The Music Trade Review published the same year. I don’t know for sure which magazine got the wrong photo, but I suspect it was The Moving Picture World. Its item on the New Mission was part of a section that featured two other new houses, which would be more likely to lead to error than the stand-alone item in Music Trade. The MPW photo might actually have depicted the Lorin Theatre in Berkeley.
Tinseltoes: The Regency was at 1600 Willow Avenue. CinemaTour says it closed in 2000. It also says the theater has been demolished, but I think the building is still there. Google Satellite View and (very distant) Street View show a building with a pent-roofed portico at the front and a lower portico along the sides, just like the theater in the photo in Boxoffice. 1600 Willow is now the address of the Judah First Church of God in Christ. The church probably adapted the theater for multiple uses and altered the interior, but I’m sure its the same building.