NEW THEATRES
ONE IX SYDNEY, ONE IN PERTH. PLAYS, MOVIES. MELBOURNE, Sept. 22. With a challenge of two new modern theatres, for a start, to be built in hvd-lu-y and Perth at a joint cost of about FdOO.OOO, Sir Thomas Coomhe, of Perth, has entered the Australian world of movie and theatrical enterprise “with only the friendliest rivalry against existing competitors.” He is doing it , he says, because foreign capital is threatening Australian interests. “Union Theatres and I are working in conjunction,’\he explains. “We have bought the old newspaper property in Market street for £168,000. When the new theatre is finished it will represent an investment of .11300,000. Mr. Stuart Doyle, managing director of Union Theatres in Sydney, will he in charge) of this venture.” Both theatres will be constructed to enable plays and vaudeville turns to he staged as well as picture attractions. Tt is expected that the Perth theatre will he completed early in 1928, and the Svdnev one in about two vein's.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 7
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165NEW THEATRES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 7
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