From what I’ve heard the rialto was the low budget theater In Pekin. My guess is they ran poverty row films from studios like Monogram and PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation).
According to my mother’s memories the Empire was the theater in Pekin that mainly showed b westerns like Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey. A 1949 history of Pekin has an ad for the Empire Pekin and Rialto theaters in Pekin.
From what I’ve heard the rialto was the low budget theater In Pekin. My guess is they ran poverty row films from studios like Monogram and PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation).
According to my mother’s memories the Empire was the theater in Pekin that mainly showed b westerns like Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey. A 1949 history of Pekin has an ad for the Empire Pekin and Rialto theaters in Pekin.