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Park Crescent Place, Brighton
operated 1897-1900

• Opened on 31 October 1876 as Ginnett's Royal Circus.
1897 It becomes the Gaiety Theatre, under the management of J & F Abrahams. Along with melodramas, music hall bills include Professor Lear's Kinematographe, a moving picture music hall act also known as Professor Lear's Eragraph, Bioscope and Bio-Tableaux, using a standard projector.
1898 Now owned by George Evans and Fred Dunkin, who also own the Eden Theatre (see Grand Cinema Theatre).
1900 It closes.
• The site, which is opposite the building that becomes the Arcadia, was bought by the Fryco mineral water company, which remained here until 1930. There are now flats on the site.

Brighton cinema directory
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