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Last and Best. The original stage of the Regent Collins Street 1929. Ballantyne ‘softened’ the stage by broadening the curve of the
proscenium. In the 1947 re-build the proscenium was ‘squared off’.
From: The Regent Theatre, Melbourne’s Palace of Dreams, ELM Publishing 1994. Reproduced by permission.

Ballantyne’s

Big Five

City/Suburb Opening
South Yarra 25 April 1925

Ballarat 7 April 1928

Sydney 9 March 1928
Adelaide 29 June 1928

Almost a Regent: the re-worked interior of the Victory St Kilda. Melbourne 15 March 1929

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