Madison Square Garden in the city and a roof garden cabaret. The building cost $3 million. Madison Square Garden II was unsuccessful like the first Garden, and the New York Life Insurance Company, which held the mortgage on it, decided to tear it down in 1925 to make way for a new headquarters building, which would become the landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968. Groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9, 1925. Designed by the
I Have Been Here Before Mr Farrant and Mrs Ormund leave, but Mr Ormund takes the blow calmly, realising that his life has been saved. The play was inspired by conjectures in P. D. Ouspensky's book "A New Model of the Universe" (1931). Ouspensky had already expressed these ideas in fiction with "Strange Life of Ivan Osokin" (1915, translated 1947). It was filmed for Australian TV in 1964. It was directed by Ken Hannam. I Have Been Here Before I Have Been Here Before is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Lewis Casson at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 22 September 1937.