Royal Music Hall
520 E. Capitol Street,
Jackson,
MS
39201
520 E. Capitol Street,
Jackson,
MS
39201
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The Century Theatre opened as a playhouse in 1901. Films were screened from 1913, and by 1928 it was a full time movie theatre. The theatre was operated by Publix, Paramount-Richards and Paramount Gulf until mid-1950.
The theatre was renovated and reopened late-1950 as the Royal Music Hall (a movie theatre), which closed on June 4, 1959. The shuttered building suffered a fire in July 1960. It has since been converted to Law Offices.
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According to Movie Theatres in Twentieth-Century Jackson, Mississippi, by Jerry Dallas, (Google Documents link) the Century Theatre opened in 1901 as a playhouse. In 1913, it began showing movies intermittently, when no live performances were scheduled, and thereafter movies gradually displaced most of the live events.
The Century Theatre closed in mid-1950, but was extensively renovated and reopened by the end of that year as the Royal Music Hall which, despite its name, was a movie house. Its early success was not long sustained, however, and the Royal closed its doors on June 4, 1959, finally ending the building’s history as a theater.
As this photo shows, there was a fire at the closed theater on 07-13-60. It really should be listed as the Royal Music Hall with the Century as an AKA, inasmuch as Royal Music Hall was its name at the theater’s closing.