 Suburban theatres of this period could no longer survive as the open-air venues of the 1910s or the tin sheds of the early 1920s — they had to offer the public something more than just the films.Theatres all over Brisbane either closed, or were remodelled or rebuilt along more substantial, more comfortable and more decorative lines, with the object of capturing local imagination and loyal attendance.Few suburban picture exhibitors, however, could afford to match the opulence of the central city theatres, such as Birch, Carroll and Coyle's Wintergarden Theatre (1923–24), or Hoyt's Regent Theatre (1929).