Wallis Cinemas

[2] In 1991, Hugh's son Bob Wallis bought the Barr Smith home, Auchendarroch House, at Mount Barker, and restored it, including adding a tavern and a seven-screen cinema complex.

[3] Bob Wallis died in 2007, and his wife Lorna and their daughter Michelle, and granddaughter Deanna continued to run the business.

[6][7] The Ozone Theatre in Glenelg, designed by Kenneth Milne (who was also responsible for the 1940–41 major refurbishment of the [8]), opened on 25 November 1937, with seating for up to 1,920 patrons.

[9] The Waterman family owned Ozone Theatres Ltd.[10] In February 1945, the Ozone was ranked second in terms of size among Adelaide suburban cinemas, with a seating capacity of 1,853; the largest was the Star Theatre / Hindmarsh Town Hall, part of the Clifford Cinema Circuit, with a seating capacity of 2,012.

[9] The Ozone Glenelg was featured in a photographic exhibition called Now Showing... Cinema Architecture in South Australia, held at the Hawke Centre's Kerry Packer Civic Gallery in April/May 2024.

[12] Wallis Theatres saved the Chelsea Cinema at Kensington Park from demolition, after taking over the lease from 1 January 1971.

[8] The company's growth continued when Wallis purchased a warehouse in Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide,[citation needed] and converted it into a twin cinema in 1976.

[14] Bob Wallis purchased the single-screen Forum Cinema at North Adelaide in 1983,[15] after it had closed in February of that year, to save it from demolition.

In 1878, Robert Barr Smith and his wife Joanna (sister of Sir Thomas Elder[23]), both Scottish immigrants to the colony of South Australia, paid £3000 for a piece of land in Mount Barker that included the Oakfield Hotel (opened 1860, owned by Lachlan MacFarlane[24]).

They planned and built a 30-roomed mansion in French Renaissance style around the existing hotel, to be used as their family's summer home, with the architect J. H.