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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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