“Apparently that was a mistake,” reviews Nick, citing Patricia Frei’s e-book Mervyn Jones and the Capitol & Civic Image Theatres: An Essay of Reminiscences (Canberra, 2008), the place the creator states, “All through its life, the theatre’s identify was consistently misspelt, however the first spelling error appeared on the memento programme for the inaugural efficiency, spelling ‘capitol’ with a second ‘a’ as a substitute of an ‘o’! The Canberra Occasions repeated the error within the first paragraph of its commentary on the opening. Nonetheless, the group at all times knew it was spelt with an ‘o’ and that was extra vital, and the newspaper duly adopted swimsuit.”
