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Image - Courtesy of Hakan Sonok c/- Classic Cinema Hangout (1945-1975) - Screening - 24-12-1953

The Odeon Theatre Leicester Square was opened in September 1937 and had been designed by Harry Weedon (1887-1970) and Andrew Mather and completed by the construction company, Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Limited.

JOHN HOWLETT THEATRE ORGANIST OF THE ODEON THEATRE CIRCUIT - I remember the first time that I was taken to the Odeon Theatre Leicester Square in 1953 where I saw the first film presented in CinemaScope, The Robe, and being totally and utterly bowled over by the whole experience

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