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[Dora Winocour]] (nee Silver, died in 1970 at the age of 73 in Glasgow).

She married [[Harry Winocour]] in Milton, Glasgow in 1919. Harry was a proprietor of Cinemas and a theatre.

:In 1931 one H Winocour was lodging at 8 Moray Place. This was [[Harry Winocour]], born [[Hersz Winokur]] in Poland, and naturalised in 1947. Harry was a very well known independent cinema proprietor. In 1931 he was a co-director of the new Astoria Picture House Paisley, with brother [[Claude Winocour]], and [[Henry Maitles]]. It had opened in 1909 as the Astoria Roller-Skating Rink but was reconstructed by the Winocours.<ref>Trade Finance. Kinematograph Weekly [Internet]. 1931 Apr 30; Available from: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003237/19310430/177/0031; Astoria Cinema in Paisley, GB - Cinema Treasures [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/66962; The Only Way is Paisley [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: https://www.facebook.com/TheOnlyWayIsPaisleysPast/photos/a.530151403677313/2400481073310994/</ref> The same year he also took over the Coatbridge Theatre Royal, and the following year built Calder Cinema in Calder Street [12]. His firm owned several cinemas in the West of Scotland.

:In 1936 he built the Embassy Cinema in Kilmarnock Road, Shawlands, by architect James McKissack. It was opened by special guest Harry Lauder on 3 February, playing Al Jolson’s Cafe de Paree (aka Go Into Your Dance). The cinema was demolished in 1965 to make way for Shawlands Arcade, and the Sir John Stirling Maxwell pub now sits on the site. Harry later moved to 219 Nithsdale Road but died suddenly on holiday in Cannes in 1950.<ref>Lost Glasgow [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Embassy tipped to welcome a star. Available from: https://www.lostglasgow.scot/posts/embassy-tipped-to-welcome-a-star-225/ ; Embassy Cinema in Glasgow, GB - Cinema Treasures [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/17863</ref> He left £235,000.<ref>https://bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/8-moray-place/</ref>
==See also==
*[[Winocour family]]
*[[Dora Winocour Foundation]]
==Notes==

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 ==See also==
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