AMBITIOUS CINEMA PLANS FOR ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 14.- Allen's £500^000 cinema enterprise, just completed liere, is tho first of„ a series of undertakings which is intended to cover Great Britain. I. W. Spilth, director, states that their view is that England docs not yet know what a cinema theatre should be. Existing buildings, ever the largest, a^e merely adapted theatres and are not specially built for cinema purposes. Tire Empire Theatre aiid Queen's Hotel, both m Leicester Square, are now to be pulled down by Aliens for two model cinema theatres, one of which will provide usual performance of varied programme, and the other will run one filni continuously until its popularity is exhausted. [
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 8
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114AMBITIOUS CINEMA PLANS FOR ENGLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 8
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