sentences:  By the 1960s, it became clear that the huge Picture Palaces had had their day, and Hoyts investigated splitting the Regent into two cinemas, but instead the multi-screen Hoyts Cinema Centre opened in Bourke Street in 1969.On 1 July 1970, Hoyts shut the doors of the Regent for the last time.The South Yarra Regent closed the same night and the Ballarat Regent closed the same year.