| Lime
Street - The Palais De Luxe |
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Palais' site has been home to entertainment in Liverpool since
1847 |
This site
on Lime Street has the longest history for entertainment in the city,
dating back to l847.
Over
the years it became the Theatre Variete; St. James Hall and Operetta
House; the Tivoli Palace of Varieties and the New Tivoli of Varieties,
in December 1906, when Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone. Pictures
and vaudeville formed the entertainment until 1911 when the renamed
Palais de Luxe showed "The World鈥檚 Greatest Pictures" with musical
accompaniment.
| Bryan
Willis comments by e-mail: |
I
was browsing your site and Iremembered being told that the stainless
steel montage of the cameraman which was on the wall of the
Palais De Luxe, was in the technical college in riversdale road!
I don't know how true this is does anyone else know? |
In
November l912, the Palais secured exclusive rights to show the film
record of the sinking of the TITANTIC; and "singing and talking"
pictures were included in the supporting programmes from as early
as December l913.
But
the Palais de Luxe was in fact the last city centre cinema to show
"talkies" - in August l930.
The
cinema was closed because of bombing in the war, and a serious fire
in l951 caused massive damage. The re-opening saw the screening
of Mario Lanza鈥檚 "The Great Caruso" on 6th November l952.
After
51 years of entertainment, the Palais de Luxe finally closed its
doors in October l959.
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