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Located in the beach suburb of St. Kilda. Originally built in 1920, designed by architect Cecil F. Keeley. It opened as the Victory Cinema on 18th April 1921 with Thomas Meighan in “Conrad in his Quest of his Youth”.

The original seating capacity was for 2,600. By 1928 it had been taken over by Hoyts Theatres and they employed architect Cedric Heise Ballantyne to re-design the building into an Art Deco style, with a slightly reduced seating capacity of 2,500. It re-opened on 19th March 1928 with Ronald Colman in “The Magic Flame”. The building was operated as a Hoyts theatre until closing in 1971.

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