of Leicester Square, London
1937 The Odeon cinema building was completed by Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons to the design of Harry Weedon and Andrew Mather on the site of Nevill's Victorian Turkish baths and the adjoining Alhambra Theatre a large music hall dating from the 1850s. It was the flagship Odeon cinema.
1937 There were 250 Odeons in Britain. Odeon cinemas were considered more up-market than those of the two other circuits, Associated British Cinemas (ABC) and Gaumont-British Cinemas.
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