Forum Melbourne
Atmospheric nineteen-twenties picture palace with a starlit painted-sky ceiling and Moorish turrets.
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This guide to Forum Melbourne traces the Wurlitzer organ hauled here by twenty-seven lorries in 1929, snarling traffic so badly the theatre's owners were fined and published the fine as publicity. It follows architect John Eberson's design of a painted Florentine night sky overhead, and the opening-night crowds so large police had to clear the road. For decades, two organists performed together at twin consoles beneath that painted sky.
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