Tagore's dance drama troupe had performed at the Regal theatre for about a week in the late twenties or the early thirties, Tagore himself participating in the presentation. I wonder if the Regal authorities or someone else have any record of that.
THINK NEXT DELHI WILL ALSO,FORGET RIVOLI,ODEAN AND OTHER GOOD OLD PLACES LIKE EMBASSY HOTEL ETC. VERY SAD,INDEED AS THESE WERE LANDMARK FOR ANY ADDRESS IN C PLACE
Re: REGAL....
by gomathy venkateswar on Apr 02, 2017 12:56 PM
I grewup in Delhi in the 1940s in the viscinity of the Regal and Rivoli, literally behind these two cinema Houses and they were landmarks. It was War Time, and the arcade over the Regal and on the other side Vengers had the 'Tommies" andGI soldiers in their uniforms hanging out I was a child of 5 and I would be taken out at around 4 pm everyday to play in the park within Cnnaught Circle bang opposite the Regal Cinema which had rows of CANNA flowers blooming, and on Tuesdays and Saturday evenings the Military band would play here. The bagpipes played by Gurkha Soldiers and British soldiers with their kettle drums and kilts,marching on the grass, and the BandMaster who led them with a silvr topped long cane which he threw up in the air and caught it was a giant of a man, with a bob cropped hair cut and a henna dyed beard. I think he must have been a Pathan for he was bare bodied with a leopard skin thrown across his chest and tied at the back with leathr straps. Thee was a Baloon Barrage floating low over the Connaught Place, and it was an awesome sight, something like that looming over our heads. Can never eradicate this frommy early childhood memories of a Delhi gone by, where Regal and Rivili was kike your most familiar landmarks to guide you home.
Re: REGAL....
by gomathy venkateswar on Apr 02, 2017 12:56 PM
I grewup in Delhi in the 1940s in the viscinity of the Regal and Rivoli, literally behind these two cinema Houses and they were landmarks. It was War Time, and the arcade over the Regal and on the other side Vengers had the 'Tommies" andGI soldiers in their uniforms hanging out I was a child of 5 and I would be taken out at around 4 pm everyday to play in the park within Cnnaught Circle bang opposite the Regal Cinema which had rows of CANNA flowers blooming, and on Tuesdays and Saturday evenings the Military band would play here. The bagpipes played by Gurkha Soldiers and British soldiers with their kettle drums and kilts,marching on the grass, and the BandMaster who led them with a silvr topped long cane which he threw up in the air and caught it was a giant of a man, with a bob cropped hair cut and a henna dyed beard. I think he must have been a Pathan for he was bare bodied with a leopard skin thrown across his chest and tied at the back with leathr straps. Thee was a Baloon Barrage floating low over the Connaught Place, and it was an awesome sight, something like that looming over our heads. Can never eradicate this frommy early childhood memories of a Delhi gone by, where Regal and Rivili was kike your most familiar landmarks to guide you home.
Re: REGAL....
by gomathy venkateswar on Apr 02, 2017 12:56 PM
I grewup in Delhi in the 1940s in the viscinity of the Regal and Rivoli, literally behind these two cinema Houses and they were landmarks. It was War Time, and the arcade over the Regal and on the other side Vengers had the 'Tommies" andGI soldiers in their uniforms hanging out I was a child of 5 and I would be taken out at around 4 pm everyday to play in the park within Cnnaught Circle bang opposite the Regal Cinema which had rows of CANNA flowers blooming, and on Tuesdays and Saturday evenings the Military band would play here. The bagpipes played by Gurkha Soldiers and British soldiers with their kettle drums and kilts,marching on the grass, and the BandMaster who led them with a silvr topped long cane which he threw up in the air and caught it was a giant of a man, with a bob cropped hair cut and a henna dyed beard. I think he must have been a Pathan for he was bare bodied with a leopard skin thrown across his chest and tied at the back with leathr straps. Thee was a Baloon Barrage floating low over the Connaught Place, and it was an awesome sight, something like that looming over our heads. Can never eradicate this frommy early childhood memories of a Delhi gone by, where Regal and Rivili was kike your most familiar landmarks to guide you home.
Re: REGAL....
by gomathy venkateswar on Apr 02, 2017 12:56 PM
I grewup in Delhi in the 1940s in the viscinity of the Regal and Rivoli, literally behind these two cinema Houses and they were landmarks. It was War Time, and the arcade over the Regal and on the other side Vengers had the 'Tommies" andGI soldiers in their uniforms hanging out I was a child of 5 and I would be taken out at around 4 pm everyday to play in the park within Cnnaught Circle bang opposite the Regal Cinema which had rows of CANNA flowers blooming, and on Tuesdays and Saturday evenings the Military band would play here. The bagpipes played by Gurkha Soldiers and British soldiers with their kettle drums and kilts,marching on the grass, and the BandMaster who led them with a silvr topped long cane which he threw up in the air and caught it was a giant of a man, with a bob cropped hair cut and a henna dyed beard. I think he must have been a Pathan for he was bare bodied with a leopard skin thrown across his chest and tied at the back with leathr straps. Thee was a Baloon Barrage floating low over the Connaught Place, and it was an awesome sight, something like that looming over our heads. Can never eradicate this frommy early childhood memories of a Delhi gone by, where Regal and Rivili was kike your most familiar landmarks to guide you home.
Re: REGAL....
by Anirban Sen on Mar 30, 2017 11:52 PM
Each of these places had their unique character. Now everything will follow a format, be a franchisee, a larger brand. And with that individual memories will become from special, ordinary.
