NEW TALKIE HOUSE
NATIONAL REOPENS NEXT WEEK EXTENSIVE RENOVATIONS Next Wednesday l - will mark the reopening of the National Theatre, Queen Street, as a talkie house, under the control of J. C. Williamson Films, Ltd. It has been equipped with Western electric talking apparatus. The theatre is the last of the silent picture houses in the city’s main thoroughfare. The interior of the building, which was largely reconstructed two years ago, when it was leased as a vaudeville house, is now undergoing extensive redecorating. The main entrance and the vestibule will be brilliantly illuminated by r the Neon lighting system, and all parts of the house are being renovated. A new operating box to accommodate the talkie plant has been constructed in concrete, lined with asbestos. Following the arrival yesterday of 30 large cases of electrical apparatus the wiring and equipment of the operating box is proceeding immediately, so that the plant can be tested before the first public performance. The acoustic properties of the theatre have been proved to be satisfactory when the theatre was used for vaudeville. Some of the side seats have been moved so that every seat now gives a perfect view of the screen. The first picture will be “The Unborn Child.” which had a successful run in the United States.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 12
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