thumb|230x230px|Awarding Abebe Bikila the Order of the Star of Ethiopia, 1960, after winning the Olympic Gold Medal Selassie commissioned the opening of Ethiopia's first Hager Fikir Theater House in 1935 and the National Theatre in Addis Ababa in 1955.
thumb|230x230px|Awarding Abebe Bikila the Order of the Star of Ethiopia, 1960, after winning the Olympic Gold Medal Selassie commissioned the opening of Ethiopia's first Hager Fikir Theater House in 1935 and the Natio.nal Theatre in Addis Ababa in 1955