Rialto Theater
1540 Curtis Street,
Denver,
CO
80202
1540 Curtis Street,
Denver,
CO
80202
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Became the Rialto Newsreel theatre on May 29th, 1942 as the 2nd newsreel in Denver. Ad posted.
Opened on February 7th, 1914, as the United States Theatre and reopened on June 15th, 1916, as the Rialto. Grand opening ads posted.
1922 photo added credit Getty Images/Underwood Archives.
The earliest mention of the United States Theatre I’ve found is this item from the March 1, 1913, issue of Motography:
I’ve been unable to discover if J. J. McClusky was related to the R. H. McClusky who operated the house under lease until 1916, or how ownership of the theater passed to Albert Lewin (see MPW citation in my previous comment.)An article about new theaters in Denver that appeared in the August 5, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World said that finishing touches were being put on the new Rialto Theatre on Curtis Street. However, the Rialto was apparently not a new theater at that time. In this comment on the Isis Theatre page, paulomalley says that the Rialto opened in 1913 as the United States Theatre.
I found the following item about the United States Theatre in the March 4, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World:
The September 16, 1916, issue of the same publication said that the United States Theatre in Denver had been remodeled and renamed the Rialto. As the project had cost only $20,000, it’s likely that the changes had been less extensive than originally planned.The September, 1916, issue of The Doherty News, an electrical industry trade publication, features a nocturnal photo of the Rialto on page 17. Text on page 22 describes the theater: