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Description: | When this building on Commercial Road first opened it was called the New Kings Hall. From 1911-23 it functioned as a cinema, The Imperial Picture Palace. In 1923 it was bought by Lazarus Greenberg and became a wedding hall, renamed The Grand Palais. Yiddish theatre performances started there in 1926, and from 1935 it became a permanent Yiddish theatre with a capacity of 480. The Grand Palais was the scene of the East End's most famous Yiddish production, 'The King of Lampedusa', a runaway success which had over 200 performances in the mid 1940s. In postwar years, audiences at the theatre declined, and in 1970 the Grand Palais was reluctantly closed down by Basil Greenby, the grandson of its founder. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Courtesy of: The Grand Palais Collection, in memory of H I Greenby | Subjects: | Communities Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 1930 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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