Built by Grace and Marsh and operated by Israel Davis and his family. It opened with the British premiere of Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command, and was equipped with the largest Compton organ ever built. It was demolished as part of a road-widening scheme.
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Davis' Theatre
Google Street View shows this plaque in situ 2008 - 2014 but lost by June 201...
It closed as an Odeon in 1972 and was taken over by an independent distributor. It re-opened as the Capitol in 1975, closing in 1981. Demolished to make way for the Hobart Court office block.
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