“Apparently that was a mistake,” studies Nick, bringing up Patricia Frei’s accumulation Mervyn Jones and the Capitol & Civic Image Theatres: An Essay of Reminiscences (Canberra, 2008), the place the writer states, “Throughout its life, the theatre’s name was constantly misspelt, but the first spelling error appeared on the souvenir programme for the inaugural performance, spelling ‘capitol’ with a second ‘a’ instead of an ‘o’! The Canberra Times repeated the mistake in the first paragraph of its commentary on the opening. However, the community always knew it was spelt with an ‘o’ and that was more important, and the newspaper duly followed suit.”
