150 North Street, Brighton
operated 1910-1942

Local star Max Miller was in the main feature, Things are Looking Up, when this photograph of the Cinema-de-Luxe was taken in 1935.

1909 November Plans for a cinema conversion by Melville S Ward in the former printing works of the Brighton Gazette and latterly the South-Eastern Banking Company are approved.
1910 spring Opened by Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd. Single-floor auditorium with 520 seats. Prices 3d, 6d; children 2d, 3d; weekly changes. The auditorium clock (later?) carries the name of the Evening Argus.
1929 late/1930 early Western Electric sound system installed.
1934 July 15 Screening of the film Whither Germany causes controversy but attracts supportive comments from, among other, Alfred Duff Cooper, later Viscount Norwich, Financial Secretary at the War Office.
c1934 Acquired by T Easten Rutherford.
1942 March 25 During the morning fire breaks out in the screen area. The cinema does not re-open. The last films, shown the previous evening, are Behind the News and Petticoat Politics.
1958/59 Plans by Capital & Provincial News Theatres to open a cartoon cinema never materialise.
The building is demolished in 1962 and Prudential House built on the site.

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