Capitol II Theatre
120 First Street North,
Newton,
IA
50208
120 First Street North,
Newton,
IA
50208
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Capitol II Theatre (Official)
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Previously operated by: BigTime Cinema, Central States Theatres Corp, Paramount Pictures Inc.
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Capitol Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
641.792.3549
Manager:
641.792.1862
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- Nov 11, 2013 — New owners bring Capitol II to the next level
The historic Capitol Theatre, located in the Hotel Maytag Building on First Street, originally opened in 1927 as a single-screen theatre which seated 585. In March 1929 it was taken over by A.H. Blank, a subsidiary of Paramount Theatres Inc. It was twinned in 1988. The theatre still is in operation, showing first-run films. It was part of the Central States Theatres chain and was operated by the independent Dream Star Cinemas chain. It is now independently operated.
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Dream Star Cinemas no longer operates the Captiol (they are down to one two-screen theater in Pella, Iowa.) At some point the Capitol was taken over by Big Time Cinema,which operates seven houses in Iowa and two in Missouri.
The Capitol Theatre is now operated by Dawn and Paul Bleeker (DMB Dream Ventures). They were able to convert the theater to digital projection in January 2014. They also have a theater mascot, their pet pig named Joy.
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A couple of photos I took in June can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/19208644530
and here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/19208649498
Taken over by A.H. Blank Theatres (a subsidiary of Paramount-Publix) in March 1929.
The theater mentioned at the end of this item from the March 12, 1927 issue of Moving Picture World could have been the Capitol, though it doesn’t use that name: “A. G. Stolte with the Blank circuit is in Chicago for a few weeks making a close inspection of the Balaban and Katz system, which he will introduce in the management of the new Riveria theatre to be opened at Omaha, Neb., under his direction. He recently opened the new Englert theatre at Iowa City and new Newton theatre at Newton, Iowa.”
The 1926 and 1927 FDYs list only two theaters in Newton, the Newtonia, with no details, and the 585-seat Rialto. The 1928 edition lists a rather surprising five: the previous two, plus the Capitol, the Strand, and the Rex. As Newtonia is supposed to have been an aka for the Strand, its appearance that year was probably an error, though the same five houses are listed in 1929.