Author: Architectural renderer of Cinemas
Title: Original Drawings of Cinemas in Durban, South Africa in the 1930s: Metro Cinema and Mayfair Hotel; and the Playhouse Cinema
Description: Durban, South Africa: Circa 1931-1935. Original pencil drawings. 18.5 x 10.8 cm. 3 small drawings on sheet... Metro Theatre:229 Anton Lembede Street, Durban 4001..Located alongside the Playhouse Theatre and the Prince's Theatre on Smith Street (today renamed Anton Lembede Street) and Albany Grove. This was the main Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Loew's) theatre in Durban. The Metro Theatre was opened on August 13, 1937, and was equipped with a Wurlitzer 3Manual/13Rank organ. The auditorium has been demolished, and a section of the Art Deco style front of the building retained as part of the Albany Hotel, together with an office tower which replaced the theatre. .

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