The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 17

17 NEW. CWA TO OPEN WALLER HOOD Phone 93 3410 Are Happy to be. associated with Prentice Builders in i he supply of Counters and Joinery for Hoyts Cinema Centre HOYTS THEATRES LTD. on the opening of the Cinema Centre. Saqitary Plumbing Installed by A.

G. WEBB PTY. LTD. Plumbing Contractors 412 Bridge Rd, Richmond. Phone 42 3023.

THE AGE, Thursday, June 5, 1969 FOR PUBLIC jjgy I DID YOU KNOW 3 faced (Film Distributors) Australia Pty. Limited Congratulate i HOYTS ll' i 11 i ss VIVIAN'S "ROTAVISION" SIGN AT THE CINEMA CENTRE IS. SEEN IT? Biggest of its kind in the world First in Australia to be an integral part of a building First with removable vanes for positive message changing (patent pending) First to be built to engineering tolerances First with emergency safety features 48 ft. long 4 ft. high you what's on at each cinema every 7 i seconds THEATRES Last night 2450 people watched three Alms in the southern hemisphere's most modern theatre complex, They were guests at the premiere of new $4.5 million, Cinema Centre in Bqurke Street, which will open to the public tomorrow.

The first night guests were treated to top star entertainment in new releases featuring Hollywood favorites Steve McQueen, Sidney Poltier and Genevieve i Cinema Centre offers the moviegoer the very best in cinema developments. The boasts a fine licensed restaurant and modern liquor shop as well as eight storeys of office space yet to be occupied. Centre Is the largest of several projects undertaken by Hoyts in the past four years. In April, Hoyts opened a LIMITED THE AUDITORIUM I theatre In Adelaide. Two new theatres in: Bourke Street, and one in Perth' will be opened late next, year.

the Managing Director of 1 Hoyts Theatres- JJale Turnbull) said recently, "A multi-mUliori plan conceived four years ago to establish modern air-conditioned cinemas seating 1000 or fewer to replace out-moded and uneconomic ones in important areas around Australia is becoming a reality. T'We have embarked, on this extensive programme to give the best possible effect to the exciting and varied forms mdtion picture production is taking today. "Our confidence is based on the public's acceptance of such exceptional films as The Sound of Music, Zorba the Greek, 'the Heat of The Night, Bonnie and Clyde and Bedazzled. "In the remaining months of 1969 Hoyts will be presenting such fine films as For Love, of Ivy, The Thomas Crown Affair, Joanna, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Battle of Britain, Wait Until Dark and Che. 'These are top class films, rich in entertainment, and we are pleased that in Australia moviegoers will be able to see them in cinemas as modem and comfortable as any in the world." actors star in Top Designed, and Manufactured in Australia by VIVIAN EXPOSITIONS PTY.

LTD. 406 Wellington Clifton Hill. Phone 4891710. FOR HOYTS' MAGNIFICENT NEW CINEMA CENTRE BOURKE STREET of Cinema of the three theatres ln the Cinema Centre. Accommodating 884 people, it has purple cerise curtains and oiled, slatted woodwork decor.

On The Opening Of The New Milestone in Cinema Entertainment THE CINEMA CENTRE MELBOURNE inaugural shows three films which earned Academy Awards for the actress in leadine roles: Staff Of 70 for Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo, Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 and Shirley ri .1 Centre Computer can run programing Twentieth Century Fox is proud to be associated with Hoyt3 Theatres Limited in the opening of THE CINEMA CENTRE step into the Future in the world of motion picture presentation ClNEMA Centre employs a permanent staff of 70. The three theatres have 20 usherettes and 12 projectionists. The rest of the 70 is made up of four managers, six booking office clerks, vnhuf cleaners, six cashiers, three telephonists, two commissionaires, two' doormen, two cadets, three group sales representatives and one secretary to the senior manager. The centre also employs 10 casual usherettes. -J.

HE -world's top box-office attraction, Negro actor Sidney Poitier, will play an important part in the opening of Cinema Centre. Poicier's latest film, For the Love of Ivy, has been chosen to open Cinema Three. Alongside Poitier, in Cinema Two, another favorite, Steve McQueen, will star in The Thomas Crown Affair. Cinema One will open with Joanna, with South African actress Genevieve Waite and Calvin Lock-hart. 1 Last year Sidney Poitier "was named top box-office' He won movies goers' favor with a series of fine performances in To Sir With Love, In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Poitier wrote the story For Love of Ivy. It was adapted for the screen by Robert Aurthur. Unlike Poitier's usual style of film, it is a romantic comedy. It was filmed in color entirely in New York. Poitier plays a debonair man-about-town a swinging trucking executive with a clever, but illegal, business on the side.

When two youthful matchmakers from affluent suburbia trick him into a love affair with their maid, Ivy, the stage is set for comedy and romance. Abbey Lincoln plays Ivy. Director Daniel Mann's achievements have included ilUDIENCES fn the three theatres at Cinema Centre could watch an entire show without any staff working in the' projection Thp hnilR llohtc mrraine Duuui in Dactt Lime Sheba. Popular Steve McQueen plays an interesting role in The Thomas Crown Affair. Rich, urbane, he gets his kicks by robbing banks.

Out to catch him is Bonnie and Clyde's Faye Dunaway, a chic, beautiful career crime fighter employed by an insurance company. The third film, Joanna, will be "everything you have wanted to see in a film" according to the producer, Michael S. Laughlin. "It's much, larger than life," he says. ''It's wildly rqniantic arid glamorous on a massive scale, with a cast of magnificent situations, glorious soundtrack and strip scenes." Joanna is a contemporary comedy-dramaMt was filmed in London and the surrounding area.

Without using a studio, director Michael Same took his cast and crew to 85 location sites, as well as to Tangier for a week of exotic settings. South African Genevieve Waite was chosen to play the title role. Glenna Forster-Jones, appearing in her first feature role, plays Beryl, the counterpoint to Joanna, who teaches the girl from the provinces how to "make it" in London. Supporting roles are played by Christian Doer-mer, Calvin Lockhart and Donald Sutherland. CONGRATULATIONS TO HOYTS THEATRES LTD.

on tie opening of their exciting new venture THE CINEMA: CENTRE a courageous enterprise which will add beauty and lustre to the motion picture industry of Australia. We wish them great and screening of the films ran ha nrnffifimmpri hu1 computer 'then left to run Cinema uieuiseives. The programming procedure takes about 90 min utes. Eight-track stereophonic sound operates in each the atre. Audiences are surrounded by 25 speakers in each theatre.

The Cinerama screens in Cinema One and Cinema Two are-behind the normal Todd AO screens. The Todd screens can be rolled out of the way for Cinerama films. The Cinerama tarrAAnc art. KEITH H. MOREMON for the directors of THE GREATER UNION ORGANISATION PTY.

LTD. Centre about 50 ft. wide. Todd screens are 40 ft. i Hoyts Theatres' 4 million dollar showcase; THE CINEMA CENTRE' OPENS TOMORROW! PA10MAR PICTURES INItRNATIONAL "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN -HoliAlprt rxf Arthur Kfttfht, (Iwin mil i rum tm mKttammtr i iinwiinwir niiiiiMiM 1 The Mmsch Cofpofiion Presents I -4 FaDunawagr.

(. I A Norman Jewison Film THE, CINEMA CENTRE Three cinemas designed from the first brick to the last carpet tack using the comfort and convenience of the patrpn as the guide line. Three cinemas under one roof-yet totally individual in concept and decor. Colours that vibrate and excite, seating that soothes, air-conditioning that i Three cinemas true cinemast-equipped to project the full cycle of-film mediums from small screen black and white to the enormous colour and sweep of Cinerama. I Three cinemas with' one aim to present to the cinema-going public of this color1 "fw li 1 ri mwt iUihrCCNtVIEVE WAlTCISirN OOERMCR I I7TU1.

I COIOR by Doluc J2-Jg UmttaHrtnll Piedoce by MICHACL S. LAUGH X) ttr6 ti MlCHAf SfiNt PAnavision COLOR if MUM Suitable- Only for ArfylliT FH. 1 Not Suildblf for Children Jf V1 Not Suitable for children Sessions dally at 11 tiiy iiib uoBi iH tMueiiaiiimeni iu ue enjgyea in sneer luxury. Iri 'ivtxufLKiTDL I Sessions daily al 11 a.m., 2, 4.50 (feature at 5.34) 8 p.m. Bookings at theatre, Myer's Hotel Aust.

THECINI-AIACKNTREl CUM EM A I MO KKIRKF. ST 6KI 33M I Sessions daily dt 11 a.m., 2, 4.50 (feature at 5.S1) i p.m. Bookings at theatre. Myer's Hotel Aust CINEMA CINEMA at 5.40) 8 p.m. lH Bookings at theatre, 1441 IHH'KIM-.

Mkl .1303 Myer noiei ausi. THE CINEMA CENTRE centre of Melbourne's entertainment world. FOR CROUP BOOKINGS (21 OR MORE). PHONE 663 3303. FOR (ROUP BOOKINGS (20 OR MORE), PHONE 663 3303.

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