The Palladium

The Palladium was a Johannesburg Bio-vaudeville house in Commissioner Street bounded by Fraser and Simmonds Streets.

The Palladium from 1911 was originally the old Stock Exchange and tattersalls building and was situated on Commissioner Street bounded by Fraser and Simmonds Streets. The 1911 plan called it Coliseum Theatre which was a bioscope-vaudeville house opened by E. Hartfeil and P. Perriers in May 1910 and promoted by Americans. From 1912 it was referred to as ‘Palladium’. A.H. Reid and Walter Reid were responsible for the Palladium conversion.

Sources

https://johannesburg1912.com/2013/07/29/theatres-in-early-johannesburg/

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