Wintergarden

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Venue Wintergarden
Other Names Wintergarden Theatre
Address 116 Brisbane Street
Ipswich QLD 4305
Australia
First Date 9 January 1925
Last Date 1979
Notes Located next to the Post Office. The Wintergarden Theatre was opened on 9th January 1925 with Tom Mix in “The Last of the Duanes”. It was equipped for talkies and and on 1st July 1929 Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer” was its first sound film. It was operated by the Birch, Carroll & Coyle chain. It suffered damage from a fire on 23rd October 1930, but repairs were quickly carried out and it re-opened in early-December 1930. It was closed in 1979. The auditoriuum has been demolished, but the front part of the building survives.
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Latitude | Longitude -27.614378 | 152.759008
Events

Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company

Australian Broadcasting Commission Concert Department

The Comedy Harmonists

Jean Atholl - Actor

Heath Burdock - Actor

John Cairns - Actor

Dulcie Cherry - Actor

Norma Drayton - Actor

Mona Duval - Actor

Lorna Forbes - Actor

Leslie Gordon - Actor

Kingston Hewitt - Actor

Frediswyde Hunter-Watts - Actor

Ellis Irving - Actor

Arthur Keane - Actor

Kiore King - Actor

William Lockhart - Actor

Milton Sands - Actor

Claude Saunders - Actor

Phyllis Scully - Actor

Vincent Scully - Actor

A Shaw - Actor

Herbert Sheldrick - Actor

Allan Wilkie - Actor, Producer

Cecily Wilson - Actor

Alan Seymour - Playwright

Venue Identifier 16478
Dataset AusStage