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Metropolitan Theatre
Address	University Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues
Opening Night Seating Capacity	unknown
Original Theater Owner	unknown
Original Theater Architect	unknown
Years of Operation	unknown (in operation from circa 1924 through at least December 1929)
Type of Musical Accompaniment	unknown
Current Status	Demolished
The Metropolitan Theatre at times featured Seattle organist Warren Wright. Opera singer and actress Geraldine Farrar performed at the Metropolitan in 1924 and in 1929. Showing the week of 1 December 1929, live performance of the play Journey’s End (1929) with Colin Clive (closing performance). The Metropolitan stood on the site currently occupied by the Fairmount Olympic Hotel. References: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, p. 6E.

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