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REFERENCES: Top: Proscenium and stage c.1953. A traveller curtain has replaced the original contour. All
curtains now match and the removal of the furniture from the boxes has made a simpler,
elegant space. Above: Herald 23 October 1975
Regent Fitzroy
84 Johnston Street
Built for: Griffiths & Wests
and Hoyts Theatres
Ltd., as Northern
Theatres Pty Ltd.
Architect: C. N. Hollinshed
Opened: 30 March 1929
Two Lovers,
Ronald Colman,
Vilma Banky
First All
Talkie: 8 January 1930
Broadway
Evelyn Brent
CinemaScope
from: Thurs. 2 Dec. 1954
Seating: 1,443 stalls,
804 balcony
Total 2,247 (1938)
Closed: 17 Sept. 1960
The Mountain Road
James Stewart
Other Uses: HSV-7 teletheatre
1961 – 1970? Health Department File Public Records Office /Melbourne
Rocky Horror Show 7882/P1/326/1767 Archives Centre.
October 1975 Cinemas in Melbourne 1896 –1942,
Demolished: 1984 (Appendix ) Daniel Catrice. Greg Lynch, Ian Smith
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

22 2004 CINEMARECORD