Shaftesbury Picture Gardens

Theatre in Beaufort Street, opened as Shaftesbury Theatre 1904. Later known as Luxor Theatre, Ritz Theatre, Hollywood Theatre. Became Tivoli Theatre under management of Bruce Carroll 1946. Closed 1949.

Thomas Shafto celebrated his surname and his English home town in 1904 by building a theatre and a hotel and naming each of the neighbouring buildings the Shaftesbury. The theatre, never known for luxurious appointments, was Perth's home of variety from the start, and leading variety artists such as Jenny Howard, Queenie Paul and Roy Rene later worked there. It sent shows to Fremantle and the goldfields, and also housed drama, pantomime, boxing, wrestling and silent films. After it closed as the Tivoli Theatre it was converted to a skating rink, and later the Canterbury Court Ballroom. The building was demolished in 1990.