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Lincoln Theatre on Goondoon Street.

The Lincoln Theatre was built on the corner Gladstone theatre patrons were not long to
of Goondoon and Roseberry Streets in 1914 be “without a roof over their heads” for the
by Irvin Sydney Crow as an open-air picture weather took a hand and so much rain fell in
theatre. Crow was born in Lincolnshire, that year that it was decided to cover the entire
England, and named the theatre after his home building.
county. Later Crow leased out the building, with JT
Ryalls conducting the picture business for
some years.

Ryalls purchased the theatre from William
P Mellefont and managed it himself until
December 1926, when he sold the local picture
rights for the Lincoln and Theatre Royal to
Gladstone Theatres Limited.

This company was formed in 1925 with
provisional directors George Carter MLA,
Edward Matthew Breslin, Henry Gilbert
Ambrose, William Peel Mellefont and Martin
Flynn Mylne.
Stan Clapham, whose name was to be
associated with moving pictures for some
years in Gladstone, became the manager of the
Lincoln Theatre in January, 1927.
Empire Day.

Council water mains work used to promote “All Quiet on the Western Front” at the Lincoln.

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