[2] After Broome was established, a Chinatown area emerged after the town became home to a large Asian population.

Milner and Leonard R. Knight; their wives manning the box office and handling public relations.

Milner's wife continued to run the cinema on her own until Broome was evacuated in 1942, just two days before a Japanese air raid.

Army officers repaired it and used the cinema for themselves, but had difficulty changing reels, sometimes taking up to forty minutes to do so.

Other whites and Asians sat on the left side while "coloured people" were forced to sit on hard wooden benches on the right and enter through a separate door.

In 2009, the cinema hosted the premiere of the Western Australian made musical film, Bran Nue Dae.

The stars walked a red dirt carpet and Ernie Dingo performed the film's title song.