Though styled like an oriental temple, the theater in fact has nothing to do with China. In the 1920s, cinema owners felt that with the American public still recovering from the trauma of the First World War, fantastically decorated movie-houses built to resemble palaces would help to cheer people up.
一九二○年代好萊塢的戲院業者認為，美國民眾才從戰爭傷痛中恢復，帶有娛樂效果的電影院如果蓋得像王宮一樣華麗，也可以安撫迷惘的民心，於是好萊塢出現以埃及、中國為名的戲院。