Dame Doris Fitton used the Savoy for smaller scale plays in her Independent Theatre before moving to North Sydney.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Savoy was equipped for talkies using locally produced sound systems.
The Rio was not on Longueville Road, it was on Burns Bay Road which terminates at Longuevlle Road. The final block of Burns Bay Road was landscaped as a mall park.
From the North Sydney municipal archives:
Panels commissioned by Sydney County Council and mounted on George Street facade of the Queen Victoria Building for Australian Sesqui-centenary celebrations in 1938. The panels were designed by artist Edmund Harvey and the sculptors Neville Bunning and Morris Helsen. The panels were purchased for the newly refurbished Queens Picture Theatre, renamed the Sesqui Theatre at Crows Nest in 1938.
The cinema was renamed the Metro and then the Dendy. In 1983 the cinema was demolished and the panels relocated to the Holroyd Centre.
The Esquire had louvres over windows on the auditorium walls. In daytime showings an usher came by with a very long pole and closed the louvres.
For most of its life it ran double bills, two or three days per week.
Dame Doris Fitton used the Savoy for smaller scale plays in her Independent Theatre before moving to North Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Savoy was equipped for talkies using locally produced sound systems.
The Rio was not on Longueville Road, it was on Burns Bay Road which terminates at Longuevlle Road. The final block of Burns Bay Road was landscaped as a mall park.
Nearby theatres should include The Arcadia, Hoyts and Kings in Chatswood, the Gordon and Lindfield Kings
and the Pacific in Hornsby.
From the North Sydney municipal archives: Panels commissioned by Sydney County Council and mounted on George Street facade of the Queen Victoria Building for Australian Sesqui-centenary celebrations in 1938. The panels were designed by artist Edmund Harvey and the sculptors Neville Bunning and Morris Helsen. The panels were purchased for the newly refurbished Queens Picture Theatre, renamed the Sesqui Theatre at Crows Nest in 1938. The cinema was renamed the Metro and then the Dendy. In 1983 the cinema was demolished and the panels relocated to the Holroyd Centre.
The Esquire had louvres over windows on the auditorium walls. In daytime showings an usher came by with a very long pole and closed the louvres. For most of its life it ran double bills, two or three days per week.
Here’s the bottom panel of a newspaper ad from 1958 with the Hawaii as the lead house.
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This site has one exterior and two interior photos of the theater.
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