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Description: | "Opening of Gatesheads, first large circuit cinema, Black's Regal, at junction. of High St & Ann St. Opened 5/2/1937 by Town Mayor. This picture is of Gracie Fields, who attended the opening after interrupting a holiday in St. Moritz to attend. She was at the time a popular singer & the highest paid film star in Britain. Crowds of several thousands stopped traffic in the streets as she sang to them from the roof of the cinema. In 1944 the cinema was taken over by the Odeon chain and in 1945 was renamed Gateshead Odeon. It closed as a cinema on 18/1/1975. This was the most opulent cinema in Ghd & boasted a magnificent Compton organ (see separate picture)." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Entertainers Cinemas | Temporal: | name=1930s; start=1930; end=1939; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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