In 1883 Daniel Connor, a successful merchant and pastoralist (one of Perth's leading financiers and landholders),[5] purchased the hotel from Lucas' widow, Jane Mary.

In April 1930 a fire broke out at the Savoy Hotel, severely damaging the roof, ceiling and fittings of the kitchen.

[11] In October 1931 the Betts & Betts shoe store moved into the ground floor shops fronting Hay Street,[12] previously occupied by Fisher Beard & Co.[13] In February 1933 Thomas Davy, the MLA for West Perth (Attorney-General and Minister for Education), died unexpectedly of a heart attack while playing cards with his wife and friends at the hotel.

In 2002 the exterior of the Savoy Hotel building was refurbished, in conjunction with the development of the adjoining David Jones site.

Its appeal was particularly to shoppers and others with a short time to spare in the city, so it advertised nursery, powder rooms, free cloak and parcel depository.

[23] The introduction of television brought this to an end, by providing similar programmes free in viewers' own lounge rooms.

Even this was difficult to sustain, and the cinema drifted more and more into sensational programming, after the success of films such as London in the Raw, presented in June 1965, to which children under 16 were not admitted.

When Marsden had difficulties with film supply, he sold it to Ken Hill who installed video projection and in February 1987 began to run it as an adult cinema, with topless usherettes.

The Savoy Hotel has also been placed on the State Heritage Register and is listed on the City of Perth's Municipal Inventory.