MELBOURNE’S

Capitol Theatre

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Image #5      The luxurious dress circle foyer and lounge featured an Elizabethan grand piano.

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" Almost as impressive as the ceilings (in the auditorium) are the giant sandstone pillars in the foyers, which are used as frames for wall mirrors, mural decorations and sculptures. light sienna in tone, they are multi-sided, with the tops and bases relieved by broad dual shoulders painted in brown and bronze. Let into the faces of these pillars are risen squares of plaster, the spaces between the squares being decorated in gold leaf.

Extract from the Capitol Theatre 10th Anniversary publication, 1934.