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Coming Events

October 17th Seymour Trip. Leave Seymour 9.30 am by train (steam & diesel locos) for trip to Benalla
followed by matinee screening at Neil & Nancy Harris's Tatty Theatre on return to Seymour.
Contact Brian Miller on (03) 9557-7 446. Must pre-pay by 9/1 0/98.

October 24th CATHS-V meeting 5/98 at 2 pm. Victorian Movie Makers Theatrette, 2 Napier Street, Fitzroy
The Annual General Meeting follows at 3 pm.

November 1998 CinemaRecord Editor, Stan Gunn, produces his first issue.

December 5th CATHS-V Christmas Party at the Clematis Wintergarden, 5 pm. Back by popular demand
is "Hellzapoppin" starring Olsen and Johnson and Martha Raye.

Past Events from Time Magazine

"New Cathedral" - March 21st, 1927

Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his brand new "cathedral of
motion picture", the world's largest theatre, the Roxy. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance
structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Avenue and 50th Street, otherwise a
sprawl with garages, nightclubs, hot-dog stands, pawn-jewellers. Inside it was golden-brown, well
ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment.

Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have all of the properties of
a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright, unite us all to worship at beauty's
throne". Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent
of its 1 0 million dollars advertised cost. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra burst into the "Star-Spangled
Banner". The Mayor spranf to his feet. The audience sprang as promptly as possible considering their
laps were cluttered with hats, coats, and canes.

After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to
Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not
whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a
crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and
thereupon marries the lover.

"Newsreel Theatre' - Nov 18th, 1929
The six or seven minutes of newsreel exhibited in ordinary program houses are selected from many reels
of current events. In Manhattan William Fox, in collaboration with Hearst Metrotone, found what to do
with the discarded reels. He took over a Broadway theatre (Embassy) and changed its program from a
$2 twice a day to a continuous 25 cent show. He made the program all newsreels, to run for an hour.

You saw a murderer confessing to his crime. You saw Prince Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street
at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him. Lighter events relieved such stern episodes. The
Embassy Theatre became so thronged with patrons that its backers announced they would start a chain
of such theatres through the U.S.

For Sale - 1940's Cinema Seats
3 rows- 4 seats per row. Crimson coloured. Padded arm rests. Lift-up vinyl seats.
One row has cast design on side boards.
Prices: $100 for row with casting. $80 for rows without casting
Phone Raymond on 9419-0208 (16 Napier St. Fitzroy)