movie palace
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Designed in 1931 as a neighborhood movie palace, the building opened on April 21, 1932, with 1,100 seats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The demolition has begun at Bengaluru's Urvashi Cinema, once a 1,200-seat movie palace where generations of filmgoers cheered and whistled, another casualty of India's vanishing single-screen era.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The Westlake Theatre opened in 1926 as a 1,949-seat vaudeville and movie palace overlooking MacArthur Park, according to the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The group, which also includes Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Lulu Wang and Alfonso Cuarón, among others, plans to restore the 93-year-old movie palace, which features one of the largest screens in Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Fifty cents would be a lot to pay for a matinee, but the Egyptian Theatre was new, a lavish movie palace, and it had an exclusive on the picture.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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