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eandehistory
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 Posted - 29 Mar 2005 : 2:32:35 PM
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Perhaps my most vivid memory of the Rembrandt was the RAF Guard of Honour mounted outside the cinema for the first showing of the film of Douglas Bader’s life ‘Reach for the Sky’.
I remember the seat prices painted on the flagstones 1/9 for the stalls and 2/6 for the circle! In those days if you took a girl friend out you automatically went into the stalls, but if you felt she was rather special you went to the added expense of going up to the circle!
Seems positively ancient thinking for today’s standards! Those were the days when values were far better than today. Perhaps that is a contributory reason for why the cinemas failed? You saw two films, the news, a cartoon, apart from the trailers and the national anthem was always played as well.
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eandehistory
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Posted - 29 Mar 2005 : 2:37:55 PM
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From the autobiography of the playwrite John Osbourne
.....I went inside to see if any of the girls were there. Only one was left. Lily in the box office with her dark ringlets and strawberry lips and green dresses, who had allowed me in for nothing and let me take her home, had left to get married. The girl who had replaced her looked at me, coldly, barring me the privilege I had known before. There were no occasional free Cambridge steaks to be had in the restaurant upstairs and only the one usherette left to sit beside you cosily among the old-age familiars before the ice-cream interval |
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eandehistory
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Posted - 29 Mar 2005 : 3:01:05 PM
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The late president of the Cinema Theatre Association, Tony Moss, quoted in the local press on the closure of the Rembrandt.
I remember visiting the Rembrandt during the war years while I was living in Tadworth and during the early 1950s I remember a touring Hammond organ coming to visit the cinema. I’m very upset that it’s closing as it’s one of the few surviving local cinemas. My most vivid memories are of the huge crystal chandeliers that hung inside and how little the original decor was affected when the cinema got its second screen in 1971.
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