REGENT THEATRE.
Next Friday will see Williamson's new and beautiful theatre, The Regent, opened to the public. What is claimed by the management to be the very latest and greatest theatre in the Southern Hemisphere will be found to contain many new and startling features, in seating, lighting, furnishing, and decorations. By arrangement with M'Kenna's, of Lambton quay, antique furnishings and oil paintings valued at over £1000 will augment the ordinary • furnishings in tho foyer, smoke lounge, and vestibule. In addition to Jaramount's masterpiece, "Beai Geste," two of the greatest of the famous Williamson vaudeville acts, that have scored such phenomenal success at the Tivoli Theatres in Melbourne and Sydney, will be presented. Miss Hilda Nelson, a brilliant English soprano, will be heard in selections from her repertoire, and Zqe Delphine and her partners, with thensensational wire act, will be seen for the first time in New Zealand. Besides two sessions of vaudeville and pictures, at 2.15 and 7.45 daily, intermediate screenings will be presented from 11 a.m. each day. The box plans for the opening season will be available at the theatre and at The Bristol next Monday, at 10 a.m.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 10
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192REGENT THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 10
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