| Reference Type |
picture
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| Title |
Female Ushers & Manager at the Palais Royal, Geelong |
| Town |
Geelong |
| State |
VIC |
| Country |
Australia |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1927 |
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| Comments |
This image depicts a scene inside the Palais Royal (most likely the foyer) of female ushers with a man in a suit who is presumed to be their manager or the proprietor of the theatre. The image gives a great insight into the uniforms of the ushers during this period as well as showing the inside of the Palais Royal.
The Palais Royal Theatre opened on 26th of May in 1913, in its time it served as a dance hall, as well as a cinema, which was located on its main floor. The cinema had 400 seats in the balcony level so it is quite a larger cinema than the suburban Embassy Theatre in Chilwell which only had 266 seats. The Palais Royal closed as a cinema in 1952 and is now a bingo club so the Embassy outlived it by 5 years until it was destroyed by a fire.
It is important to see the difference in design and architecture between the larger city theatres and the smaller suburban theatres. |
tags: Chilwell Embassy Palais Royal Geelong
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