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The cinema remained in business for over 30 years but eventually closed in 1957 and was demolished and replaced by a department store, which was later converted into New South Wales House for the Australian Government. In the late 1990s, New South Wales House was demolished and replaced by an office
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Several years after the end of World War I, when the Strand had been widened to its present size, it was decided to build a cinema on the site. Theatre architect Bertie Crewe and the architectural firm Gunton & Gunton designed the new
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and was built during 1889–90 at a cost of £300,000. It was constructed on the former site of the Tivoli Beer Garden and Restaurant. In the consortium that financed the project was the actor
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During its most popular period, the Tivoli was the big premier cinema in London, showing the very first sound short films in 1925, as well as the epic
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In 1925, the cinema was taken over by MGM/Loew's and was their showcase theatre in London for a few years, until they opened their new
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in Leicester Square in November 1928. Tivoli was then sold to
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The Tivoli Theatre of Varietiesl, 65-70½ The Strand, London
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Tivoli Music Hall (London)

the Strand
Charles Phipps
Edward O'Connor Terry
Adelphi Theatre
impresario
Charles Morton
George Robey
Harriet Vernon
Nellie Navette
Harry Randall
Herbert Campbell
Vesta Victoria
Ada Blanche
Little Tich
Dan Leno
Eugene Stratton
Where the Pavement Ends
Loew's Incorporated
Metro Pictures
MGM
Empire Theatre
Provincial Cinematograph Cinemas
Gaumont British
Ben Hur
Ramon Novarro
Samuel Goldwyn's
Bulldog Drummond
Ronald Colman

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