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The Rivoli did not have a mezzanine foyer. Balcony patrons used a left-side staircase to enter from doors (far left). The design
persisted with the old idea of windows, and the stage boxes were purely decorative. Electric radiators are on the walls, below them is
a tiled dado. The stage curtains were green, embroidered with gold.

McLeish was founder of the Rivoli Camberwell
Cinema Industry Benevolent Fund, 481 Burke Road
president of the Cinematograph Built for: Rivoli Theatre Co.
Exhibitors Association for 30 years, (Becomes Junction
president of the Green Room Club from Theatres Ltd.)
1919 and Managing Director of Architects: F. G. Richardson
Junction Theatres Ltd. until his death in and Wood.
1953.
Contractor: Robert McDonald
From the late-1930s, son Robert
Opened: Wed.18 May 1921
began to assume more of the day-to-
Seating: 2,000 (approx.)
day responsibilities of the company. It
Projectors: Simplex
was Robert Jnr. who put his heart and
soul into preparing for, then managing, Sound (1929) RCA Photophone
the second Rivoli. ★ First all-talkie Coquette
Mary Pickford
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank Patricia Convery of Closed: October 1940
the Arts Centre, Performing Arts Later use: Retail outlet
Collection Melbourne, for access to the (foyer only)
Robert McLeish Collection. Demolished: 1988
FURTHER READING Site today: Commercial, retail
Camberwell At the Movies
Roger Seccombe, Coora Films Pty. Ltd.
2002 The Rivoli advertised each week in
Table Talk magazine.
This is the program for the week
after opening night.

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