Thornbury Theatre 853 High Street, Melbourne, VIC - 1939
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Taken on: June 10, 2023
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The Regent Thornbury play the great ROY RENE (MO) - 1939
In 1926, Hoyts and two other companies, Electric Theatres Pty. Ltd. and Associated Theatres Pty. Ltd., merged to become Hoyts Theatres Limited. Over the next few years joint managing directors Frank Thring and George Griffiths expanded the circuit to almost 100 cinemas Australia-wide.
The company’s policy of vaudeville and pictures continued at many of its cinemas well into the 1930s, thereby increasing the employment opportunities for local variety entertainers during a difficult economic period.
Among the thousands of artists engaged by Hoyts during the early 1900s were Roy Rene, George Wallace, Nellie Kolle, Stella Lamond, Charles Zoli and Cusko’s Circus.
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