For 100 years, millions of people sought an escape, inside the Paramount’s luscious grandeur, from the worrisome headlines of the day including two World Wars and the Great Depression.  Houdini, the greatest star in the world, played the Paramount in 1916 while World War I was raging.  The Paramount originally was called the Majestic Theatre in 1915.  By 1930, Interstate Theatres assumed control and renamed it the Paramount Theatre, which now sported the miracle of air conditioning which was worth the price of admission, in and of itself!