The main screen remained the Patricia Theatre and the Patricia Annex became known as the Little Patricia. Bert Ram added a screen to an adjoining building and shared a common box office. On February 25, 1940, the Patricia Theater made news by becoming what is believed to be the first two-screen theater showing different movies when operator H. It did not convert to showing different movies on both screens until some time after Taylor. While both screens would show the same feature movie, one would also offer a double bill. In 1937 James Edwards twinned his Alhambra Theater in the Los Angeles area by converting an adjacent storefront into a second "annex" screen. The arrangement was so unusual it was featured by Robert Ripley in his Believe It or Not! comic strip. There were separate ticket booths once patrons entered the door and different programs were shown. In about 1915 two adjacent theatres in Moncton, New Brunswick, under the same ownership were converted to share a single entrance on Main Street.
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