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His Majesty's Theatre was a theatre and cinema in Johannesburg's theatre district. Opened in 1903 and later rebuilt in the Art Deco style, it was used as a legitimate theatre until 1956, when it was became a roadshow cinema. Live theatre briefly returned to the venue in the late 1970s, but in 1981 His Majesty's Theatre was gutted and converted to retail space.

First Theatre (1903)
The first theatre on the site was opened in 1903 by Benjamin and Frank Wheeler of B & F Wheeler Limited, owners of a circuit of South African theatres. They presented famous dramatic and musical performers of the Edwardian era, including Lily Langtry and the shows like The Quaker Girl. After Benjamin Wheeler's death in 1908, Frank Wheeler sold their circuit to the australian firm, J C Williamson Limited in 1913.

The Williamson firm wanted to expand their circuit internationally but had misjudged the nature of the South African market, and, unable to run their South African operations profitably, sold their South African theatres to the African Theatres Trust three years later, in 1916.

Second Theatre (1946)
In time the original theatre was demolished and between 1937 and 1941 the His Majesty's Building, by architecht Morris Cowen, was constructed on the site. A midrise building in the Art Deco style, it sported a new theatre on the ground level with office space on the floors above. There were restaurants in the basement (called The Cellar) and on the roof.

The theatre lobbies were lush, with white marble flooring and golden chandaliers; the auditorium's 1,250 seats (on two levels) were in covered red velvet. The theatre's murals were by artist Rene Shapsak.

By this time, the area of the Johannesburg CBD in which His Majesty's was located had developed into a theatre district — nicknamed "mini Broadway": in close proximity were The Colosseum, The Empire, Thr Plaza and The Standard.

Although construction of His Majesty's had been completed in 1941, the theatre only opened five years later as wartime shortages had made procurement of the necessary technical equipment impossible. His Majesty's Theatre was officially inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Jan Smuts, on 23 December 1946. The first production in the new venue was Robinson Crusoe.