Ultimate Picture Palace February 1911 as the Oxford Picture Palace. In 1917 the manager was conscripted to serve in the First World War. The cinema was closed and stood unused for many years before being turned into as a furniture warehouse. In 1976 Bill Heine and Pablo Butcher reopened the cinema as the Penultimate Picture Palace. They added a sculpture of Al Jolson's hands by John Buckley to the façade. The first film to be shown was "Winstanley". Under the new management the cinema gained a reputation for showing an eclectic and provocative range of films that set it apart from the mainstream
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz by Denny herself. The cover photograph by Gered Mankowitz depicts Denny in an old style image in the Edwardian style. The album's lyrics were reproduced in the gatefold. A single of "Whispering Grass / Friends" was released in a sepia picture sleeve in the style of the album cover. The album did not chart in the UK or elsewhere. In a contemporary review for "The Village Voice", music critic Robert Christgau gave "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz" a "C+" and said that, apart from the "masterpiece" in "Solo", it is a "sluggish album". In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Brett Hartenbach