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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Searchlights swept the Sacramento sky on 6 October 1949 as Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson arrived to christen the theatre showing their new picture, with Governor Earl Warren - the future Chief Justice - and the city's first woman mayor in the crowd. The Crest Theatre at 1013 K Street was the third act for a site with deep show-business roots: the Empress Theatre, a vaudeville house designed by Lee DeCamp, opened there in 1912, was rebuilt as the Hippodrome in 1918, and ran vaudeville and films...