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Interior of the Banqueting Hall The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left. The Palace of Whitehall was the creation of King Henry VIII, expanding an earlier mansion that had belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, known as York Place.
The renovations made the Palace the only Broadway theater that was actually on Broadway, [192] and, with 1,732 seats, the largest Broadway house. [195] Ralph Alswang oversaw the restoration of the Palace. [155] [191] The Stage magazine printed the Palace Theatre's programs, competing with Playbill magazine, the traditional publisher of stage ...
In addition to the prominent Banqueting House, also designed by Jones in 1619, the Cockpit also survived the fire. William III then moved his London residence to nearby St James's Palace, and the site was rebuilt to be used as government offices, and residential and commercial premises. [1] The Cockpit was used to house government officials.
The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, also known as, The Masque of the Olympic Knights, is an English masque created in the Jacobean period. It was written by Francis Beaumont and is known to have been performed on 20 February 1613 in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, as part of the elaborate wedding festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of ...
Banqueting House was built as an extension to the Palace of Whitehall in 1622 by Inigo Jones. It is the only surviving portion of the palace after it was burned down, and was the first Renaissance building in London. [12] It later became a museum to the Royal United Services Institute and has been opened to the public since 1963. [13]
Between 1619 and 1622, the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall was built, a design derived from buildings by Scamozzi and Palladio, to which a ceiling painted by Peter Paul Rubens was added several years later. The Whitehall palace was one of several projects where Jones worked with his personal assistant and nephew by marriage John ...
Downtown Los Angeles's Palace Theatre was originally built as the third home of Los Angeles's Orpheum Circuit.Opened in 1911, the building was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh and Robert Brown Young, [5] the former of whom would later design the nearby Orpheum Theatre, Hollywood Pacific Theatre, and many other theaters across the United States.
The Gaumont Palace Theatre was re-named 'Gaumont Theatre', from 1937, and continued under Gaumont British management. After the Second World War, Picture Palaces all over Britain began free entertainment for children. This was known as 'The Saturday Morning Picture Club'.