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Griffin’s Palais. Stylised gothic columns, ecclesiastical windows and carved timber aisle markers, suggest a college chapel or
assembly hall. Graeme McBain Collection

Bigger And Better Acknowledgments:
With astonishing speed Henry E. I wish to thank Aristotle Caron and
White of Sydney was retained as the Tom Ingram for information and
new architect and construction set in helpful advice and the Public Records
train. By this time White had completed Office, Victoria for background.
some 130 theatres and halls throughout
Australia and New Zealand. The new References
Palais Pictures - unlike its 1 Entertainment Venues in and Around
predecessors - would have a balcony, St. Kilda. Carol Mathews.
fully-fitted stage house and flytower. 2 Greater Union Story. Fraser and
This Palais would be fit for a king, its O’Brien
opulence reflecting the contemporary 3 Prahran Telegraph 9 June1920
approach to building a prestige cinema 4 The Sun News Pictorial
- reproduce European palace-style 11 February1926
elegance. At the same time it would
5 Building. 12 January 1925
give St Kilda the largest suburban
cinema in Australasia. It’s a story for
another issue. ★
Detail of the stage surrounds which the
reviewer for Building found to be ‘too
heavy’.

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