SENSATION OF CABARET

Patea Mail, Volume L, 2 August 1929, Page 2

SENSATION OF CABARET

BLAZE TRAPS 300 DANCERS,

BUILDING EMPTIED JUST IN TIME.

Throe hundred dancers were trapped for nearly an hour on July 29 -when five partially destroyed one of Sydney’s most luxurious pleasure palaces, tho Ambassador’s Cabaret.

The fusing of electric switches in a shoe store next door caused a blaze, which was soon trying the best efforts of the firemen. In tho dance hall women fainted, being neaily suffocated by the thick smoke, Scarcely had tho Ambassador's been emptied than the dome crashed in. Amazing scenes were witnessed in the streets as the men carried out overwrought women. The damage is estimated at one hundred thousand pounds, and the whole block, which is the most valuable in Sydney, was at one time threatened.