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barryinperth commented about FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN at the Plaza, April 1941 on Sep 21, 2016 at 2:16 am

One of the most successful Australian films of the era, the critic from the Sydney Morning Herald claimed that “there have been some good Australian films before this one, but Forty Thousand Horsemen has every right to be regarded as the first really great Australian picture.”

It was a massive success at the box office, and it was seen by 287,000 in Sydney alone during a ten-week run on first release. Its Perth season at the Plaza also attracted huge crowds.

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barryinperth commented about THE HURRICANE at the Plaza, May 1938 on Sep 21, 2016 at 1:08 am

The hurricane sequence in THE HURRICANE (1937) drew this fabulous response from Frank S. Nugent in the New York Times: “It is a hurricane to blast you from the orchestra pit to the first mezzanine. It is a hurricane to fill your eyes with spin-drift, to beat at your ears with its thunder, to clutch at your heart and send your diaphragm vaulting over your floating rib into the region just south of your tonsils.”

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barryinperth commented about IN WHICH WE SERVE at the Plaza, December 1943 on Sep 21, 2016 at 1:02 am

Not remembered today as much as it should be, IN WHICH WE SERVE was cited by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as the Best English Language Film of the Year. It was also nominated in the 1943 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay (losing out to Casablanca and Princess O'Rourke respectively). However Coward was presented with an Academy Honorary Award for “his outstanding production achievement.”

In Which We Serve also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (beating Casablanca) and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1943.

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barryinperth commented about Theatre Royal interior after secoind make-over on Sep 20, 2016 at 4:50 am

The Royal was indeed a great place to see films in 70mm, screening the likes of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. This photo is exactly how I remember it in the 1960s and early 70s. Films I saw there include FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD and PAINT YOUR WAGON.

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barryinperth commented about Regal Theatre ad in the Movie Supplement of the Sunday Times, 13th August 1939 on Sep 20, 2016 at 12:40 am

This 1939 ad placed by the Regal Theatre management implores film-goers to SHOP FOR YOUR PICTURES! This meant choosing the Regal because clearly it offered better PICTURES, LIGHT, SOUND, SEATING, VENTILATION and SERVICE … So, there you have it!

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barryinperth commented about Bottom half of press ad for MGM attractions coming to Perth's Metro in 1939 on Sep 20, 2016 at 12:25 am

This large display ad (bottom half)appeared in the Perth Sunday Times’s annual Movie Supplement published on 13th August 1939.

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barryinperth commented about Top half of press ad for MGM attractions coming to Perth's Metro in 1939 on Sep 20, 2016 at 12:24 am

This large display ad (top half)appeared in the Perth Sunday Times’s annual Movie Supplement published on 13th August 1939.

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barryinperth commented about CAPTAIN FURY at the Ambassadors, September 1939 on Sep 19, 2016 at 6:37 am

Of CAPTAIN FURY, Brian Aherne wrote that “[it] seemed like such a farrago of nonsense to me that I was very happy to know that Juarez would rescue me by coming out at about the same time. Well, Juarez turned out to be a highly respected box-office flop while Captain Fury cleaned up and went on playing all over the world for many years with countless television runs.”

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barryinperth commented about Theatre le Ranelagh on Sep 18, 2016 at 5:36 pm

Love it!

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barryinperth commented about United Artists auditorium on Sep 13, 2016 at 7:58 am

Nice! Mega thanks for posting Tim.

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barryinperth commented about United Artists Theatre on Sep 13, 2016 at 1:36 am

Why are there no auditorium photographs posted? I’m keen to see what the interior was like.

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barryinperth commented about There were three rival documentary films about the Queen's 1954 Australian tour and this was one of them. on Sep 10, 2016 at 7:43 pm

Perth audiences – indeed audiences across Australia – flocked to the three rival films dealing with the Queen’s 1954 Australian tour. The Ambassadors had THE ROYAL TOUR OF OUR QUEEN, while the officially-sanctioned film was THE QUEEN IN AUSTRALIA which was screening at Perth’s Piccadilly Theatre. At the same time, the Metro was screening WELCOME THE QUEEN! Meanwhile, the newsreel house, the Mayfair Theatrette was also featuring a lot of tour content. These ‘Royal Tour’ films were some of the highest grossing films in Australia in 1954.

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barryinperth commented about Royal Theatre on Sep 10, 2016 at 5:11 pm

I saw THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Royal in 1966.

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barryinperth commented about Interior of the Capri Cinema, 1969 on Sep 8, 2016 at 7:57 am

A former newsreel theatrette located in a basement, when the Mayfair become the Capri, a coffee shop was created in the lobby and, like the Liberty been in the 1950s, it was initially a continental/art house cinema before moving to more mainstream programming due to limited audiences.

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barryinperth commented about Fox Theatre on Sep 2, 2016 at 8:45 pm

What a MAJOR CRIME this fabulous theatre’s destruction was!

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barryinperth commented about Street view of the Ambassadors 1966 on Aug 31, 2016 at 4:04 am

The neo-classical building with the Corinthian columns to the left is the Theatre Royal. The red brick Medieval Gothic Revival style tower belongs to the Perth Town Hall.

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barryinperth commented about Palace Theatre on Aug 30, 2016 at 9:04 am

Crazy!

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barryinperth commented about Capitol Theatre on Aug 29, 2016 at 8:08 am

Criminal that this was demolished …

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barryinperth commented about Undated photo courtesy of Doug Simmons. on Aug 27, 2016 at 5:05 am

So beautiful. Reminiscent of Gaudi’s Barcelona architecture …

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barryinperth commented about Carthay Circle Theatre on Aug 27, 2016 at 5:03 am

What a crime this extraordinary theatre was demolished! Are there any interior shots available?

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barryinperth commented about His Majesty's Theatre on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:36 am

View from the stage of His Majesty’s auditorium in the 1960s. The theatre at this time was owned and operated by the Edgley family, one of Australia’s great theatrical dynasties. It was during the 1950s through to the early 1970s that all the great JC Williamson’s touring musicals came to town, including Funny Girl, My Fair Lady, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof, Mame, Man of La Mancha, and Hair. The auditorium had been painted out in neutral pastels, with none of the original Edwardian decorative detail highlighted. It was not until the theatre’s full restoration that the original glory of the interior returned to life.

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barryinperth commented about 1910 newspaper street view of His Majesty's Theatre on Aug 24, 2016 at 11:47 pm

Correction to the date. This is pre-1910. Probably around 1906 or thereabouts.

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barryinperth commented about Architect's sketch of proposed Art Deco make-over of the Cottesloe Theatre, January 1937 on Aug 23, 2016 at 2:48 am

According to CinemaWeb, the Cottesloe Theatre was originally Wells Hall (on the corner of Leake Street and Stirling Highway)and “alterations costing more than £3,000 were undertaken in 1928, and in 1937 the hall was completely remodelled and became purely a cinema. At this stage the hall and gardens each held 900. In the sixties, the company bought up surrounding properties until they had enough to interest a development company, which demolished everything on the site and constructed the Grove Shopping Centre.”

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barryinperth commented about Plaza Theatre on Aug 11, 2016 at 1:48 am

A Star is Born was the second attraction at Hoyts Plaza in 1937, following the opening season of Lloyds of London.

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barryinperth commented about Regal Theatre on Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 am

Link to news clip on Regal Theatre refurbishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpsH37z4dg