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  • <p>Mayfair Signage Overlooking Duffy Square (January, 1959)</p>
  • <p>Auditorium of the Majestic Cinema, Gravesend in 1933.  Courtesy Richard Jones</p>
  • <p>8/9/21</p>
  • <p>Photo of the original Gaumont Palace auditorium taken August 1937. I worked here briefly during 1970 as holiday relief Manager, it looked even larger then made by poor attendances, the pendant light fittings were gone by then.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
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  • <p>A small entrance foyer with walls decorated with sycamore veneering, leading directly to a flight of stairs down to  the Mezzanine and Pay box was situated. This photo shows this area, out of view is the Pay Box the front was finished in black and chrome. Ahead right is a further staircase which led down to the auditorium.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>Photograph shows the staircase down to the auditorium entrance. The auditorium accommodated 500. As mentioned the whole of the interior was very modern, designed by Mollo balustrades, carpets, lighting and auditorium. Also showing on the wall above the stairs is a one of four featured panels used internally carried out by a Photoscan Spraying Technique, invented and patented by Mollo in the UK and USA May 1935. Because this was expensive and time consuming it was rarely used. The only other known cinema to do so was the Century, Cheam. However, some commercial architects did such as the Electricity Showroom in Regent Street and Embassy Court Brighton.  The auditorium ceiling was coved at the corners and stepped down towards the proscenium opening, the steps incorporating concealed lighting and the ventilation extract grilles, which were important for a cinema that was built mostly below ground level. The seat coverings were bright green and the carpet design in black, grey and white.
              Construction of the entire building was by Gee, Walker and Slater, who also installed the plenum system of ventilation.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>https://peterclarkinc.blogspot.com/2020/06/peter-clark-and-radio-city-music-hall.html</p>
  • <p>Staff Doctor For Foot Care (December, 1926)</p>
  • <p>Henry C. Landa</p>
  • <p>October 21, 1962 Announcing November 8th World Premiere of 70MM Roadshow Engagement.</p>
            
              <p><A HREF = "http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/557/photos/289899">Opening Night Ad Here</A></p>
  • <p>Close-up detail in Butterfly Rooom (Ladies lounge) on auditorium Mezzanine level, February 2011.</p>
  • <p>Detail in Butterfly Room (Ladies lounge) on auditorium Mezzanine level, February 2011.</p>
  • <p>State Theatre 49 Market Street, Sydney, NSW</p>
            
              <p>Photo: Alan Caradus (February 2019)</p>
            
              <p>The State theatre opened in 1929, this is one of the last great picture palaces, with all the lavish fittings of an old-fashioned opera house, complete with 13 chandeliers and Renaissance bronze doors. The Koh-I-Nor cut crystal chandelier is the second largest in the world, weighing over four tonnes. The theatre seats 2,000 people.</p>
            
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  • <p>A rare early programme for the Palace Theatre dated Monday February 20th 1911. Act 1. Overture “The Palace March. Act 2. Franco Piper greatest of all Banjo Soloists
              and first time appearing in Bristol prior returning to the Alhambra Theatre London. Finale Act 11. "Palascope” Bioscope.</p>
            
              <p>Ron Knee</p>
  • <p>An early programme for the Tivoli theatre dated Monday 30th January 1893.
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  • <p>Liberty Theatre 283 Bourke St, Melbourne 1938</p>
            
              <p>PHOTO - The State Library Victoria.</p>
            
              <p>Liberty Theatre 1938 - The Liberty was destroyed by fire, later to be re-opened as the Odeon in 1951.</p>
            
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