Antony J. Lucas

[4] According to 2016 Age article even worse had occurred:"In 1915, a group of drunken soldiers, incensed that the Vienna Cafe bore the name of the enemy, stoned the premises and threatened its patrons.

The cafe was re-opened in only five months in November 1916 at a gala event attended by prominent Melburnians, including opera singer, Nellie Melba.

The guests were stunned by the arched quartz entrance, the piers with reliefs of Greek goddesses by Margaret Baskerville, the marble stairway to the grand banquet hall, the murals of Australian pastoral scenes by Bertha Merfield, and the avant-garde design of the furniture, among many other striking features.

[6] This and the rising global interest in silent films may have influenced Lekatsas, now known as Anthony Lucas, to join forces with the American Phillips brothers (who had been behind the development of Luna Park in seaside St Kilda), to demolish the Town Hall Cafe and build Melbourne's first large scale elaborate picture palace, known as the Capitol Theater.

[7] With reference to the journal The 200 years History of Australian Cooking, Tess Malos claims that Lucas also ran an open-air restaurant in the public gardens of the inner Melbourne suburb of Kew.

[9]"Initially residing on the top floor of the Town Hall Café, Lucas was wealthy enough by 1918 to purchase the Toorak mansion Whernside.

The compilation of this journal was primarily instigated and financed by Georgios Nikolaidis, who was also the founder of a short-lived Greek newspaper Okeanis in Adelaide and by G. Hetrelezis.

He personally donated £10,000 to a fund which he organised for Greek and British child war-victims and in 1939 was awarded the Golden Cross of Taxiarchon, an order initiated by Greece's King George I.

In October 1944 a special service to commemorate his birthday and the coincident liberation of Athens was conducted in the Greek Orthodox Church in Victoria Parade.