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When Hoyts was Hoyts

Published 27 Jul 1963

First published in the Bulletin Magazine, 1963.

Arthur Russell Buster Keaton Clara Bow Hoyts John McCormack Lola Montez Melbourne Regent Theatre Ronald Colman Russell Street Savoy Theatre St Georges Hall Temperance Hall The Imperial Hotel The Odeon Whelan the Wrecker

In this tenth chapter of the first book of memoirs, 'No Brains at All', Keith recalls the three decades he wrote a daily column for Melbourne's Sun News Pictorial newspaper. 'A place in the Sun' was the name of that column, or APITS.

6 Oclock swill Allan Wilkie Anti-Football League Brian Fitzpatrick Collins Street Dame Nellie Melba Douglas Wilkie Eastern Market Ernie Sigley Frank Daly Young and Jacksons Hotel J. Stewart Legge Jeff Hook Kooyong Melbourne Melbourne Architecture Melbourne Cup Melbourne Heritage Melbourne Hotels Michael Davie Noel Hawken Sir Keith Murdoch South Yarra Sun News-Pictorial The Age The Herald Whelan the Wrecker