Chic
Harry Hosman knows Cinema Palace well. He wrote a book about the Haarlem cinemas. Not much has changed on the facade of the building, where there is now a clothing store.
“This is really the front that I remember. In the middle of the ground floor there was a semi -round kiosk where the cards were sold. That was very characteristic. Then you came to the hall of the cinema, where the clothing is now hanging.”
Even the holes in the wall betray where the letters Cinema Palace were attached.
There was beautiful paneling in the room, there were chandeliers and wall lamps of Venetian glass. The curtain for the cinema screen was gold in color. The seats were made of red velvet fabric, as you expect in a cinema like this. It was really a chic cinema, there was even heating. Here you had to be for the big American public films.