A NEW THEATRE.
THE CHRISTCHURCH REGBHT. (Bfbouz. to Duly TW) CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. ' Sketch plans for tKe Regent Theatre, 'which is to stand on the site of the Royal Exchange Buildings in Cathedral square, have now been approved. Tenders for the work will be called in the course of the next few weeks. In making this announcement this morning. Mr E. J. Righton eaid that the architect (Mr J. S. Guthrie) had returned from Sydney, where theatre designers had culled the world for the latest ideas. The new theatre would be the most up-to-date in the Dominion and would be a surprise to everyone. The first work to be done will be the remodelling of the shop sites on the square and Worcester street frontages. These will be built in the latest London style, with a modern veranda. The building itself will be illuminated nightly with floodlights. There will be two foyers of magnificent dimensions and furnished on club lines of the type that is now so popular overseas. The lighting will be of the most modern type, and the theatre will represent an advance on anything in the Dominion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20725, 24 May 1929, Page 6
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190A NEW THEATRE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20725, 24 May 1929, Page 6
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