THEATRE LUXURY
GLASS FLOOR FOR DANCING N.Z.-MADE PROJECTORS Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The Fuller-Hayward Company’s new picture theatre, the Majestic, in Willis Street, which opens today, makes the fourth theatre or hall in Wellington which will seat 2,000 or over, the accommodation in this instance being 2,200. The cost of the land and building was £170,000, and the theatre has been under construction for 13 months. Apart from the girders which are notable as the largest ever seen in a building here, everything is of New Zealand manufacture, including the projection machines, which are of a type invented by a young New Zealander. An unusual feature is the large tea and luncheon-lounge with a glass floor for dancing, illuminated from beneath, by 1,100 coloured lights. This is the first of its kind in Australia or New Zealand. The lounge alone cost £15,000 and has accommodation for 600. The lighting installation represents £B,OOO. Other novelties are a special entrance for arrivals by motor, and the insurance of their cars while in the building; also ventilation apparatus which purifies, warms or cools the air, and can be scented if required.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 661, 13 May 1929, Page 9
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188THEATRE LUXURY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 661, 13 May 1929, Page 9
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