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  • <p>Savoy Theatre, Anniston, Alabama in 1920</p>
  • <p>From SF Chronicle, 1/26/52</p>
  • <p>Benson Theatre with John Travolta in the foreground during the filming of Saturday Night Fever.</p>
  • <p>Millie Comes to Perth’s Piccadilly -
              Greg Lynch says - The year is 1967 and Piccadilly Theatre management demonstrates a creative style of Showmanship in the promotion of the Universal Pictures production “Thoroughly Modern Millie”  A  mannequin had been dressed as Julie Andrews in a flapper costume and appears to be hanging with both hands from the theatre flagpole (flying way above Hay Street).This attracted a lot of attention (and stiff necks) - I took the B/W photo of Millie hanging on the flagpole while visiting Perth in 1967 with an old Box Brownie (the only camera to hand). To me It demonstrated an “out-there” old style of showmanship, something that’s missing in today’s automated digital world of concrete boxs. In 1967 I was with Universal Pictures in Melbourne, and as an old Perth boy I would return frequently to see industry friends & family. I have strong memories of The Piccadilly as a quality mainstream city release house.  <script type="text/javascript">
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  • <p>THE PICCADILLY THEATRE OPENING NIGHT - THE WEST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER  reported on Thurs March 10, 1938 on Page 19 … THE PICCADILLY THEATRE. Official Opening Tonight. Tonight Perth’s newest cinema, the Piccadilly Theatre, which is situated above the Hay-street end of the Piccadilly Arcade, will be officially opened by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir James Mitchell. The proceeds will go to the Children’s Hospital…The special opening screen entertainment is, “I Met Him in Paris” -  I Met Him in Paris is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, written by Claude Binyon, and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas & Robert Young. (pictured above)</p>
  • <p>Greg Lynch says – ALL PERTH IS TALKING! – ALL PERTH IS SEEING!  “ JEDDA ”  (G) at the Liberty, 2nd sensational month – Plus : Nat King Cole & his Trio
               - Mirror Newspaper - Jan. 1956</p>
  • <p>Feb 6th, 1998 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>December 18th, 1961</p>