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8  Ground floor lobby. The doors on the left enter to the stalls. The stairs lead up to the dress circle foyer.

"The entrance foyer, visible from the street, is broken by a low flight of semi-circular stairs leading to a broad landing and carpeted in rich tones of orange and apricot with curious arrow-heads of black and green. The landing is ceilinged with ornamented plaster and shallow gilt domes brilliantly lighted. Straight forward a broad Moorish arch leads to the floor of the house, while right and left of this, horseshoe arches open to the stairways to the foyer and dress circle.

An array of stout pillars in arabesque design supports a low roof, heavily girded, in cream-coated concrete. The stairway walls are curved at the landings consonance with the geometric design of the whole entrance lobby. The motif of the design, deeply carved with arabesque, suggests something of the mysteries beyond."
Extract from the Capitol Theatre 10th Anniversary publication, 1934.
• Photograph from the Ian Williams Collection.

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