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Mandolin Cinema 150 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW

Originally built in 1905 as the Concordia Club, a meeting place for the German community which was located on the first floor of the building.

Elizabeth Street was widened in 1911 and it was given a new facade designed in a Romanesque Revival style and it reopened on 20th December 1911.

During World War I it was in use as a church. In 1923 it was renamed Australia Hall and was used for vaudeville, concerts, dancing, political rallies and some film screenings. It had a seating capacity for 850-seats. It became the Phillip Theatre in 1960, when the Phillip Street Theatre moved into the building and the seating capacity was reduced to 500-seats.

In August 1971 it was re-named Richbrook Theatre. In 1974, it was converted into a cinema with modern decorations and given a new proscenium which was wide enough to screen CinemaScope films. Known as the Rivoli Theatre, opening with Peter Sellers in “The Optimists of Nine Elms” on 5th December 1974. In late-1975 it was briefly subleased to Hoyts - Notes Ken Roe - Les Todd

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