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Kevin Coxhead writes: - Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sydney, the second version of HMT, closed its doors on this day, June 10, 1933 with Maid of the Mountains.

Rising costs and tax problems forced Williamsons to close the theatre. Gladys Moncrieff led the cast and audience in Auld Lang Syne.

Eighty year old Elizabeth, “Mummy” Kelly , who had been with Williamson’s for fifty years and who made the first drop-curtain for the theatre some forty-six years before was at that final performance. George Warwick, who raised the very first curtain at the theatre, was also there and he had the honour of lowering the curtain for the last time

Contributed by Greg Lynch –