Held in the cultural collection at the Parramatta Heritage Centre is an entertainment program from the Roxy Spanish Theatre. This booklet lists a program of entertainment including a range of 1930s movies such as This is the Night with Cary Grant and No More Orchids with Carol Lombard. There are many other films listed on the packed program as well as boxing matches, wrestling, vaudeville and an organ recital.
The Roxy Theatre opened on 6th
February 1930 with a packed audience coming to watch Maurice Chevalier’s,
Innocents of Paris. An interested
crowd of several thousand observed the proceedings in the street opposite. The Roxy is one of the few remaining examples of the
“Picture Palaces” that were built between the wars.
