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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Peggy Cobb Walsh, daughter of the owner of the Brown Derby, says this:
"The Hollywood Derby," says Walsh, "had been built as a theater by director-producer Cecil B. DeMille. Then sound came in and it never opened as a theater," she says. "My dad rented it from the DeMille family and made it into the restaurant."
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may...ment/et-king11 |
Thx, that makes sense. The big, blocky, windowless bit behind the facade of the north end of the Derby certainly looks like it could have been built as a theater auditorium:
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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