This was constructed as a large steel-framed arched structure over the top of the original, allowing the movies to continue uninterrupted.

[1] The Palais de Danse could hold as many as 2,870 patrons, and was a popular venue throughout its life, and is remembered for its magical atmosphere.

Also located on the Lower Esplanade was the Daylight Pictures Co. open-air cinema, which in 1914 was converted to a live venue, the Comedy Theatre,[8][9] but appears to have had a brief life.

[11] The dance floor was surrounded by seating areas behind abstracted fluted Doric columns, which supported a remarkable frieze of complex, prismatic, up-lit panels.

The ceiling, at first just the exposed metal trusses of the roof, was soon concealed by low pitched angled ribbing, from which hung three rows of large geometrically decorated prismatic lamps.