Image Courtesy State Library of SA [B 71977]
Image courtesy of Trove (The Register, 4th Jan 1928)
On Tuesday the 24th January 1928, Dan Clifford opened his New Star Theatre at Unley. At a cost of £39,000 it was described in the Everyones magazine as Clifford's most ambitious project to date (Feb 1, 1928 p. 7). With a seating capacity of 2000 patrons it certainly was built on a grand scale, with a nod to Spanish Architecture, it was described as the 'last thing in modern design' (ibid). This New Star Theatre was built to replace the old Star Theatre, which was originally the Unley Picture Palace, then the Unley Wondergraph followed by Unley Star and later the Unley Odean (Walker, 1995. p. 131).
Image Courtesy of Trove (Everyones,1928 vol. 7, no. 413)
By 1930 The New Star at Unley would be ready to show talkies, and on 3 March 1930 they commenced as a Talkie House with the film The Broadway Melody (1929).
Image Courtesy of Trove (The Adelaide Advertiser, 1 March 1930)
References: Everyones,1928 vol. 7, no. 413. February 1928
Walker, Dylan 1995, Adelaide’s silent nights: A pictorial history of Adelaide’s picture theatres during the silent era 1896-1929, National Film and Sound Archive
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