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[Syt]

That's an interesting layout.  So they did dinner service on the main floor, with conventional theater seating in the balconies?

It seems it was mainly built/used as vaudeville venue before WW1, for iperettas after WW1, before being converted into a cinema in 1929. Apparently (based on what I find online) vaudevilles had less strict building requirements (no hallways around the main auditorium, no large foyer for breaks, smoking permission in the auditory since the audience would be in the main auditory most of the time, including taking food/drink there). It seems they skirted some of the requirements even so, because of the location being at a fairly uneven incline in Vienna's topography.

Next time I go there with friends I can annoy them with quite a but of trivia about the building.