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THEATRE HISTORIES


            13.   Ivanhoe Theatre                   Fred Page

            14.   Theatres of Warrnambool           Gerry Kennedy

            15.   St.  Kilda (Bioscope) Theatre     Peter Fogarty



            VICTORIAN NEWS                                                                  by Bannister


            Camberwell Rivoli                 Two additional cinemas are planned.
            Cheltenham Southland              Construction of a Village 12-plex looking very serious.
            Fitzroy Lyric                     (Formerely Star) Now Dattner furniture store. Access in trading hours.
            Geelong Drive-In                  Closed. Projectors going to Warrnambool Capitol.
            Lilydale                          Proposal for a twin cinema.
            Melbourne Chinese Cinema          (The former Mid-City) Now has a third screen operating.
            Melbourne Kino                    Third screen opened.
            Melbourne Regent                  Three-way agreement signed "to resurrect the Regent Theatre as a
                                              grand picture palace" reports the Melbourne Herald-Sun 2214/94
            Mooee Ponds                       The Moonee is now a retail store. Worth a look during trading hours.
            Ringwood                          Hoyts will be the operators of the 1 0-plex due to open in 1996.
            Warrnambool Capitol               Unfortunately will be divided into a triple in August.
                                              The seats from the stalls, mostly ex Rivoli, are for sale.
            Waverley Gardens                  Twin to close soon and commencement on a 4-plex for Palace.

            Hoyts                             Continues to expand in the U.S. with Australian innovations such as
                                              self-seNe candy bars. Now the 1Oth biggest operators in America.
            Four Weddings and a Funeral       Doing record box office. Highly recommended to all.



            ARCHIVES                                by Gerry Kennedy



            Thanks to the following members for material donated to the CATHS-V archives.

            Alan Windley                     Her Majesty's Ballarat, "Film Fan Feels At Home". Regent Albury.
                                            (Also a double video, "A Night At The Movies", for the film library.)
            Peter Kelly                     Essendon Theatres.
            Vicki Cattanagh                 Program of Theatre Royal.
            Brian Miller                    Melbourne Capitol, and various newspaper articles.
            David Kilderry                  Melbourne State theatre and various newspaper articles.
            lan Williams                    Multi Skilling and  SeNice To Customers.





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