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spanning ten years and in seven
different theatres!
How does GWTW compare? All-
time champ for enduring popularity, it
opened simultaneously at the Regent
and the Metro Collins Street,
transferred to the Savoy and then to the
Liberty, before doing its first suburban
round. Thereafter, city and suburban
releases came almost every five years,
when it was turn-about between the St
James/Metro Bourke Street and the
Metro Collins Street.
The 70mm version of GWTW
screened at the East End One in 1967.
GWTW was back at the Regent for its
60th Anniversary Season – more
durable in the public mind than any
other film - but it all happened in six
city theatres. ★
Ian Smith

Image Credits: All State Library
of Victoria.
Clockwise from opposite page:
The Herald 1931 – 2 May,
4 September, 11 September;
26 April 1934, 28 August 1939.

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