State Theatre opens.

[3/13] Architect: Thomas Lamb. Designed in the Adam style, it is located at 205 Massachusetts Avenue. The theater seats 3,583 and opens with the silent film The Champion. The second largest theater in New England, it is one of the most lavish, with an Audubon Room featuring murals by Edward Trumbull, a fish pond in the floor of the lobby, a waterfall next to the staircase, and an ornate, elliptical aviary. On opening night, thousands who could not gain admittance gather on the street to watch movie stars enter. Operated by E.M. Loew as a movie house, it subsequently hosts stage performances, including opera. The last movie is screened on August 24, 1959. The building is sold to the Archdiocese of Boston, renamed the Donnelly Memorial Theatre after a prominent Catholic family, and reopens on May 1, 1959. The building is sold to the Christian Science Church in 1963 and becomes the Back Bay Theatre in 1965. One of the last concerts held here is by Judy Garland. The building is torn down to make way for an apartment complex in May 1968.