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It operated as a pictme house Friday, Saturday afternoon
and night,then Monday night, that was the usual run with
independents, their films came from M.G.M.
PARAMOUNT, UNNERSAL, REPUBLIC,and
BRITISH STUDIOS.

Roughly about 2 years after opening, they came up with a
new name for the theatre, "THE ARGOSY", a slide was
made with a Spanish Galleon riding the high seas, I don't
recall the name of the music we used to play under it at the • ..JI~E l T W ED H E S 0 A Y

start of every show, but it was quite a stirring number, as the
curtains were drawn back.
Some of the shows I remember, "MUTINY ON THE
BOUNTY", with Gable and Laughton, "TREASURE IS-
LAND" with Wallace Beery, and Jackie Cooper,
"BROADWAY MELODY of 1936,38, 40,1 then joined the
Army, returning in 1946, by that time Les had sold the plant to
a gentleman called ROY FARMER
I am enclosing a photo kindly passed on to me by Alan
Windley,Alan took this photo prior to closure and demolition
of the front section, it finished in front of the vertical front
wall, the latter section was added quite a few years later .hall,
the original hall did not have the entrance

KEN TULLOCH

Photo: A Windley
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