The Rialto Theater opened on September 1, 1920. It was the fourth theater in Hamilton then owned by the Jewel Photoplay Company. The original plan was to raze the former St. Charles Hotel at High and Front streets, but instead it was remodeled into a theater. The theater seated 867 and showed silent movies in the beginning. In 1959, the name of the theater was changed to the Court Theater.
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