Empire Cinema

Garbo reigned supreme at the Empire in the the 1930’s and for this film Queen Christina which was shown at the Empire in 1934 for four weeks from 16th February - 16th March there were 233,688 admissions. Much later when a student in 1965 the old Ritz next door used to have Garbo Seasons, remember a group of us used to go to each of the six films screened. I think they changed every two weeks and you had to queue to get in, admission around 3/- (30p). It was the first time I ever heard of Garbo. During the last week of the Season asked the doorman if it would be possible to have a poster he said come next week when the Season finishes and will save one and still have it, the poster is a montage of Garbo from her various films shown during that season.

Ron Knee