WORLD’S LARGEST THEATRE.
OPENED IN NEW YOKE. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Radio City music hall, the _ largest theatre in the world, containing (1200 seats, was opened to-night as the first completed unit of the 250 million dollar Rockefeller mid-town radio and entertainment project. There was a capacity audience, among whom were many notables, including Mr J. D. Rockefeller, junr., and Mr Owen Young. They witnessed a variety programme ranging from grand opera to the old-time burlesque favourites, Weber and Fields. The theatre requires 748 employees, including over 100 electricians, carpenters, etc., to handle the 144-foot stage.
Other units, including a motion picture theatre and radio broadcasting stations, will he opened later.
Radio City, or Rockfeller Centre, to give it the official name, is a group of buildings covering three blocks between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the centre of New York business life. In addition to the music hall, just opened, there will bo a sound-motion picture theatre seating 3500 persons and an opera house seating 4300, a 70-storey office building 850 feet high, two 45-storey office blocks each 600 feet high and several smaller buildings. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 27, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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185WORLD’S LARGEST THEATRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 27, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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