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REFERENCES
Public Health File
VPRS 7882P1/68/254
Hawthorn and Camberwell Citizen
1 July 1921

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to John Fitzsimons,
Brian Miller, Gordon Onans, Ian Smith
and Alan Windley for their input to this
story. Important information about the
theatre was obtained from the Public
Health files held by the Melbourne
Archives Centre.

FURTHER READING
Camberwell at the Movies, Roger
Seccombe, Coora Films Pty Ltd. 2002

Fact File:
Our Theatre/Broadway
734 Burke Road Camberwell.
Built for: Our Theatre Company.
W.J.P. Davies, Chairman
Architect: Christopher A. Cowper
Builder: George Curry, Auburn
Name: Our Theatre
Phone Canterbury 1000
Opened: 28 June 1921
While the Devil Laughs,
Louise Lovely
The World and the
Woman Geraldine Farrar
Seating: Stalls 960, Balcony 848,
Total 1808
New owners: Associated Theatres
Pty. Ltd.
February 1924
Name change: Broadway (1926)
Phone WB 1000,
later 82 1000
First Talkie RCA Photophone C
equipment:
CinemaScope: 13 May 1954 The Robe
‘Simultaneous with City’
10 June 1954
King Of the Khyber Rifles
Hoyts theatre B
classification:
Projectors: 1930-40’s C&W?
Seating 1936: 1,673, 1950s: 1,150
changes: 1963- 1979: 1,080
Closed: 28 April 1979
Midnight Express
Brad Davis
Demolished: July 1979
Site today: Single-storey shops. Above: Last night for the Broadway. The wording for a closing was always ambiguous
and low-key. The Sun Sat. 28 April 1979.
Next page: The 1950s plan suggests a well proportioned theatre, but the foyer always
looked cramped. The Crying Room idea was copied from the new Rivoli. The last
change was new seating in 1963: lounge seats in the stalls with only a centre aisle.

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