Music filled the Jayhawk Theatre when it opened 90 years ago, even though the first movie shown then was silent.
And on Friday night, a celebration of the venue’s 90th anniversary will feature a four-band concert intended to raise funds for the effort to restore the historic site to a venue where movies, theater and music can share the stage.
An August 1926 front-page story in The Topeka Daily Capital, one of The Capital-Journal’s forerunner publications, described the grand opening of the 1,500-seat movie palace at 720 S.W. ...