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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:29:00

The neighbors heard the theatre would become a parking lot and phoned a cinema chain instead - Little Italy keeps its landmarks. The Royal at 608 College Street in Toronto opened in October 1939 as the Pylon Theatre, an Art Moderne house by architect Benjamin Swartz, commissioned by Ray Lewis - the formidable editor-publisher of the Canadian Moving Picture Digest and one of the early Canadian film industry's most influential women. The original operation was a full entertainment compound: 390 s...