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The 1992 photograph shows Majestic Theatre, a Cantonese opera house, located at Eu Tong Sen Street on New Bridge Road. The theatre continued screening Chinese films until it closed in 1998. In early 2000s, the Majestic Theatre was gazetted for conservation by URA and the three-storey shopping mall was renamed as The Majestic and opened on 2003. Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
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Majestic Theatre : general view
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This 1983 photograph shows the Majestic Theatre, located at Eu Tong Sen Street. The theatre, designed by Swan and Maclaren, was completed in 1928. It was a Cantonese opera house built by Eu Tong Sen for his wife, who was a Cantonese opera fan. The Majestic Theatre is now known...
Majestic Theatre : general view
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This 1983 photograph shows the Majestic Theatre, located at Eu Tong Sen Street. The theatre, designed by Swan and Maclaren, was completed in 1928. It was a Cantonese opera house built by Eu Tong Sen for his wife, who was a Cantonese opera fan. The Majestic Theatre is now known...
Majestic Theatre : general view
IMAGE
This 1983 photograph shows the Majestic Theatre, located at Eu Tong Sen Street. The theatre, designed by Swan and Maclaren, was completed in 1928. It was a Cantonese opera house built by Eu Tong Sen for his wife, who was a Cantonese opera fan. The Majestic Theatre is now known...
Majestic Theatre : general view
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This 1983 photograph shows the Majestic Theatre, located at Eu Tong Sen Street. The theatre, designed by Swan and Maclaren, was completed in 1928. It was a Cantonese opera house built by Eu Tong Sen for his wife, who was a Cantonese opera fan. The Majestic Theatre is now known...
Majestic Theatre : exterior
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This photograph shows the Majestic Theatre, built in 1927. It is located between People's Park Complex and Yue Hwa Department Store on Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown. It was a Cantonese opera house built by Eu Tong Sen, a tin mining and rubber magnate, for his wife who was...
The Majestic building : exterior
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View of the theatre located at Eu Tong Sen Street from across the road with its mixture of Western and Chinese architectural styles. ...
New Bridge Road : general view
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The 1992 photograph shows New Bridge Road with the old Great Southern Hotel, also known as Nam Tin Hotel, and Majestic Theatre, which was renamed as The Majestic at Eu Tong Sen Street. Both the Great Southern Hotel and Majestic Theatre are no longer found in the present day street...
The Majestic building facade : general view
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View of the facade of the old building that was once a theatre at Eu Tong Sen Street with its mixture of Western and Chinese architectural styles. Its façade is decorated with tiles depicting scenes from Cantonese opera and shiny and colourful mosaics of flying dragons....
Eu Tong Sen Street : general view
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This 1983 photograph shows Eu Tong Sen Street, from an overhead bridge at People's Park Complex (towards Wayang Street). Eu Tong Sen Street (previously called Wayang Street) was named after Eu Tong Sen in 1919. Until the mid 1980s, part of the street was still named Wayang Street. Title devised...
