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Palais Theatre
14 Lower Esplanade, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B4722
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The Sydney Architect, Henry White, designed the Palais Pictures in 1926 and achieved the opening of the theatre in November, 1927. Then, as at the present, the Palais had the largest seating capacity in Australia, possessing over 3,000 seats.
From a simple Islamic flavoured exterior, the style of the Palais moves to a predominently Spanish mode internally with multi-coloured steepled walls and applied plaster decoration in the Adam style.
Notable internal elements include a
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