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
I'm Old Fashioned "I'm Old Fashioned" has been recorded by John Coltrane as a sensitive hard bop ballad in 1957 for his album "Blue Train", featuring trombonist Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan on trumpet and Kenny Drew on piano. Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker recorded the song several times, at first in 1958 on the album "(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You". On the British tv series Are You Being Served, Mrs. Slocombe hums and sings this song in the episode The Apartment (1979). Nevertheless, the song has been predominantly interpreted by pianists like George Shearing, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Rowles,