A week ago last week the Toronto Star carried the following headline and byline; Revue Cinema rescued
Closed theatre bought by
working-class hero from
Liverpool, who lets
film society take over.
The story concerns ex-pat Danny Mullin who has been in Canada since 1959 and owns a substantial real estate portfolio in Toronto. His properties include the theatre on Roncesvalles Avenue which opened in 1912 and lays claim to being one of Canada's oldest cinemas.
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Mullin, 79, came to Canada from his home town of Liverpool, in 1959 but still has a "Scouse" accent you could cut with a knife. Describing how he met his wife Mullins, who was a bartender at the U of T faculty club says "I gave her the auld Scouse wink and told her I will marry her. She didin't know what hit her."
Mullins, who was a docker in his native Liverpool and worked a 52 hour week has in his years in Canada been a waiter, bartender, garbage collecter and a cleaner.
I have since learned that Danny Mullin was from Hunter Street and lived facing Charlie Evan's stables a few doors down from Rose Place, the street of my birth.
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