CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

The Lyric began as the Lyric Summer Gardens Pictures open air theatre in 1912, adjacent to Paradise Picture Gardens, St Kilda. In 1913 it was converted to a hardtop and reopened in May 1913 under Callen and Stuart. It closed around 1922. The old Lyric reopened as the Earl's Court Theatre in the early thirties and screened films for a few years. (Matthews, p. 8)

Other Information
According to Foggarty the Lyric was replaced by a dancing saloon in 1928. Opened in 1932 as Earl's Court (dance hall).

References
Cinema & Theatre Historical Society 1997, CInema index : Melbourne cinemas, suburban cinemas, Victorian drive-ins. CATHS, Victoria.

Fogarty, P 2003, The Screening of St Kilda: a history of St Kilda's cinemas, The St Kilda Historical Society, Balaclava, Vic.
Available at http://www.skhs.org.au/cinemas.htm

Matthews, C 1986, 'Early theatres of St Kilda', Kino: journal of Australian theatre historical society, No. 17, pp. 6-11.

1918, 'Look who's here- at the St Kilda Lyric', Prahran Telegraph, December 14, p.5.- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
1914, 'St Kilda by the sea annual', p.70.- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
1915, 'St Kilda by the sea annual', p.93.- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
1916/17, 'St Kilda by the sea annual', p.15- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Street view photograph- 1915, 'St Kilda by the sea annual', p.126. in Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Advertisements in 'The Prahran Telegraph', November 29, 1913- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Advertisements in 'The Prahran Telegraph', December 6, 1913- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Advertisements in 'The Prahran Telegraph', August 8, 1914- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Advertisements in 'The Prahran Telegraph', October 10, 1914, p.5- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).
Advertisements in 'The Prahran Telegraph', November 9, 1918, p.8- Bertrand, I Cinema file: St Kilda (unpublished research).