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Green's Playhouse : ウィキペディア英語版
Green's Playhouse

Green's Playhouse was an entertainment complex comprising a cinema, ballroom, tea rooms and other facilities. The Playhouse was at 126 Renfield Street, Glasgow, Scotland, commissioned by ''George Green Ltd'', designed by architect ''John Fairweather'', and built by the ''Cinema Building Company''. Opened in 1927, the Playhouse operated until the 1970s, a decline in audience numbers in the 1960s necessitated diversification as a music venue until closure in 1973. The building continued in use as the Apollo, after being acquired by ''Unicorn Leisure'' on a lease-holding arrangement, until final closure in 1985, with subsequent demolition in 1987.
==The Green family==

''George Green'', an apprentice watch-maker, the son of a cabinet-maker, came into ownership of a fairground carousel; from that solitary carousel he developed a number of travelling fairground shows. It is widely believed that along with ''Randall Williams'', he was one of the original pioneers of the cinematograph on the fairgrounds in the United Kingdom. He had travelled to London in 1896 and purchased a ''theatrograph'' from Robert W. Paul, making its first appearance on the fairgrounds in 1898. Although ''George Green'' travelled with several large shows, the most extravagant was the ''Theatre Unique'', purchased in 1911 from ''George 'President' Kemp'', who had previously purchased it from ''Orton & Spooners'' in 1908. The ''Theatre Unique'' was centred on a 104-key ''Marenghi'' fairground organ, housed in a truck chassis which opened out to form a stage, complete with two carved gilded staircases flanked by four tall columns. The ''Theatre Unique'' was travelled throughout the fairgrounds during 1911 to 1914.
In 1914, ''George Green'' established as an adjunct to the cinema business, ''Green's Film Service'', a rental operation enabling cost-effectiveness in purchasing film reels outright for showing in the cinema chain and renting to other showmen / cinema operators. ''George Green'' died in 1915, his sons, Fred ''(d. 1965)'' and Bert ''(d. 1982)'', with their mother and four sisters continued to expand the business. Offices in Glasgow and London were engaged in the renting of comedies, dramas and serials, with departments selling cinema projectors and printing publicity material including their own ''Green's Kinema Tatler'' magazine. An investment in ''Samson Films'' and the purchase of a rival's producing facilities gave the Green's the ability to produce their own films such as the ''Patriotic Porker'' (1916), for the War Office under the name of ''Green's Topical Productions''. Their activities were developed further with a Scottish newsreel, ''The Scottish Moving Picture News'', with a change of name in 1919 to ''British Moving Picture News'', reverting in 1921 to the original name.
In the early 1920s, the Green's recognised the need to secure the best and latest films for their customers, a city-centre venue was required, they proceeded to purchase properties within the city block bounded by Renfrew Street, West Nile Street, Renfield Street and Renfrew Lane with the intention to construct the ''Green's Playhouse''. The construction of which was to be a massive undertaking for a small family firm.

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