Sun Theatre
Hampden Road,
Sydney,
NSW
2064
Hampden Road,
Sydney,
NSW
2064
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Actually, it was only known as the Prince of Wales for six years. From 1930 it was called Regent, then Sun and finally Savoy. For a more detailed chronology of events, follow the text to be found with my sequence of images in the photo section.
The cinema opened as the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1923. In 1937 the cinema was renamed the Sun, after the Prince of Wales it had been named for, who on 20 January 1936 had inherited the throne as King Edward VIII, become involved with an American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and abdicated the Crown to marry her. (Source: Rachel Fallowfield, ‘Artarmon’ (2008), in The Dictionary of Sydney [online].)