Johannesburg: Empire Theatre (2nd)

Country: South Africa
Province: Gauteng
City: Johannesburg
Location: 135-137 Commissioner Street / Kruis Street

Variety theatre, built 1902. Opened as "Empire Theatre", taking the name of a former "Empire Theatre" (originally "Globe Theatre") at another site in Fox Street (demolished in the 1940s). 1935 replaced by another "Empire Theatre", the 3rd of that name.

Links: johannesburg1912.com, Wikidata

Johannesburg: Empire Theatre (2nd) Picture: side or rear view of the 2nd Empire Theatre (?)
Front Text: "The new Empire Theatre. Johannesburg"
Publisher: Sallo Epstein & Co., Durban
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: to Malton (England), 1914(?) [postmark hardly legible]

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