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1930 | |||
| 29th September | Opening Night - Gala Evening |  |
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| December | Taken over by Paramount and renamed “The Paramount Astoria” | |||
| 1931 | ||||
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| To promote Paramounts 1931 film "Follow Thru" a golf driving range was set up in the foyer, with professionals on hand to help! | ||||
| 12th June | Celebration dinner. For Islington Civic Week to mark the opening of Leyden Mansions, a nearby new modern housing estate |  |
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| 1932 | ||||
| w/c 6th February | Films - I Take This Woman & Finn & Hattie |  |
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| Live -Percivial Mackey, Norman Long, Pep Graham, Johnny Nit, Miss Topsy | ||||
| w/c 13th February | Films - Man of the World & The Conquering Horde |  |
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| Live - Miss Terry's Massed Troupes of Juvenile Artistes | ||||
| w/c 20th February | Films - Honour among Lovers & The Common Law |  |
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| Live - Giovanni, McRae & LePort, Al Manda, Nellie, Bogdanny's Comedians, Castella, Chiquitta, Andy, Mlle Gondin | ||||
| w/c 27th February | Films - The Unholy Garden & City Streets |  |
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| Live - Vivian Foster, The London Six, George Mozart, The Rego Twins, The Worth Brothers and Nina, Godowsky & his Boys | ||||
| w/c 27th May | Films - Up for the Derby & 70,000 Witnesses |  |
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| Live - The Ohayo Trio, Eddie Windsor, Ford & Seagrave, The Paramount Astoria Orchestra | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
| w/c 13th March | Film - Sleepless Nights |  |
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| w/c 20th March | Films - The Sporting Widow & One Way Passage |  |
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| Live - Rich & Galvin, Sanger Brothers, Nora & Peg St John, Anton & His Band | ||||
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| w/c 27th March | Films - Say it with Music & Blonde Venus | |||
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| w/c 8th May | Films - I am a Fugitive & Hot Saturday |
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| Live - Gilbert & French, Grace Hartington, The Three Aberdonians | ||||
| w/c 13th May | Films - Night after Night & For the Love of Mike |  |
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| Live - The Four Musketeers, Sametini, The Godowsky String Quartet | ||||
| w/c 22nd May | Films - Just my Luck & Madison Square Garden |  |
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| Live - Morris & Cowley, Van Dock, Diana Clare, The Godowsky String Octette | ||||
| 1937 | ||||
| 11th May | Evelyn Dall, The Ambrose Orchestra | |||
| 1939 | ||||
| 27th November | Taken over by Oscar Deutsch's Odeon chain of cinemas |  |
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| 1949 | ||||
| 6th February | Sunday Symphony Concert with RCP conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham |  |
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| 1955 | ||||
| 25th Anniversary week of classic films: |  |
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| Main Feature film was All that Heaven Allows starring Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson, supported by: | ||||
| 26th September | All about Eve | |||
| 27th September | The Blue Lamp | |||
| 28th September | A Night at the Opera | |||
| 29th September | The Cruel Sea | |||
| 30th September | A Foreign Affair | |||
| 1st October | The Road to Singapore | |||
| All films featured Louis Mordish on the Compton Organ. On the actual anniversary day, 29th September, Sir William Manchester (formally Alderman Manchester) who opened the theatre, attended the Astoria to watch Jack Hawkins present long service awards to members of the staff, from the stage | ||||
| 1956 | ||||
| 7th December | Tommy Steele & The Cavemen | |||
| UK stage debut, with rave revues “Britain’s answer to
Elvis” Tommy Steele makes his Variety debut. "...it seemed little short of a miracle that this 19-year-old youth could receive such a rapturous oration for the little musical talent he displayed" [Melody Maker, 8th December 1956] |
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| 1957 | ||||
9th December |
Marty Wild & His Wildcats, The Most Brothers, Colin Hicks & His Cabin Boys, The Carlo Sisters, Johnny Leslie (Compere) | |||
| 1959 | ||||
| Duke Ellington Band, Cyril Davis All Stars (with Alexis Korner & Nicky Hopkins) | ||||
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