STILL MORE PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1460, 7 June 1912, Page 4

STILL MORE PICTURES.

4 . U; NEW THEATRES. Another picture theatre in the. l'o.irs ... of the city is rabidly approaching coinpletion. ' The main building is already erected, ami tiic wooden flocr is being Icid down. This theatre, which is being erectod by Mr.. P. London, abuts on to I Customhouse Quay, next to thei 'Kwnulry.''. It is a vcetaisgular.vl.iiildinfy: '-4; 98ft. in' ic-iißth (.inside inoasur(menf).. ana 33ft. in width.' -Though the.fronts Old Customhouse Quay, t'.to mam ,-y entrance to the 1 beatv-o will be from JSaii-,:;.;:; iters Street, and to provide this i'io siiiall wooden--premises- (now in occupation »s a fancy' goods- shop), nest to Begg s. v 'ill be. demolished to provide'a. lOtt. entrance hnll, : -■ which..will necessarily back for abcut thirty feet front Manners btroft. The ; screen will be erected at the Ulri. - Customhouse- Street end ot the (beaire, and to..enable everyone to obtain a pood view n- rake of four feet has been nut: in.. ! the ' floor.?,'. The operator's room will l:e ft; v. j brick"" 1 apartment outside the mam v.ntl oMheifbuildin?, and there will bo pro-.... ' vMed., a ladies' cloak-room, a storeroom (b" ! o\vM'he operator's box), and nUices ion : Old Customhonso Street frentaje). Tho ' ; .'ietorioi: oi' the b'.iiliiini is to bo tnished . . :■ in', , white, asbestos plaster. Ihe Vuildms beiii" 'creeled by day labour. Adjoining tho now theatre in Old Cup- , ■ : toinhottsei Street is Robertson's PLoenix 'Foundry,'- n property which has been ! sinfled'osit by certain i interested partial '■ as « likely place for still another picture : -theatre, and negotiations for its purchase have Rone as far as to fiooiiro a price front the owner (Mr. David Robertson) for lh< ; whole, block. Only half was 1 needed, but |>lv. Robertson has informed tiro inq litre ri ihii(.. lie will sell fclts whole or none. , The reason which makes the property de- 1 i tirablo.if- that it is not so valuable as the land with a frontage either to Willis or I Manners Street, whilst it is so situated that, entrances could be secured from l»tn |of Itiose busy streets