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'Katsehamos' is the family nickname
          of Peter Feros.  The 'Great Idea' is
          a reference to the ambitious Roxy
          development in Bingara, but it also
          refers to Greece's ‘national project’
          of the 19th and early 20th centuries
          to reclaim Constantinople, which
          made huge demands on men of my
          grandfather’s generation.

          In my research I uncovered some facts
          about the Bingara Roxy that may help
          to set the record straight.

          The theatre was developed by three men
          comprising a partnership named Peters
          and Co, but in 2004 there was confusion
          about the partners. In his article, Gerry
          Kennedy mentioned Comino as the
          name of one of the three partners in
          place of Emanuel Aroney.

          An article in  The Sydney Morning
          Herald at the time mentioned Comino in
          place of Peter Feros. I don’t know how
          the name Comino arose but the names
          of the three partners were Emanuel
          Aroney, Peter Feros and George Psaltis.
          Of the three, George Psaltis was the
          chief mover in the Roxy development.


          Old and disused buildings often have
          their stories embellished in local
          folklore and it seems that Bingara's
          Roxy gave rise to a myth concerning
          my grandfather. This was passed on to
          Gerry Kennedy and his article mentions
          that one of the  Roxy  partners, Feros,
          committed suicide due to the failure of
          the enterprise.
          This story confuses Peter Feros and
          the  Roxy  failure in 1936 with the
          largely unrelated death four years later
          of Phillip Feros who briefly resided in
          Bingara in 1939-40. Peter Feros left
          Bingara late in 1936 and went into
          business in Murtoa in western Victoria.
          He and my grandmother later retired
          to Junee in southern NSW and lived
          with my parents. Peter Feros died of
          natural causes in the Junee Hospital in
          December 1954.









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