system, where a cinema would obtain exclusive rights to a film preventing other cinemas in the city from screening it.

The Playhouse had to rely on second runs and poorer quality films and by the mid 60s were struggling to fill the auditorium.

From the beginning Green's Playhouse had featured music either as Sunday classical concerts or in the ballroom where the top dance bands played to packed houses and now they started a programme of live music.

Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who,
T-Rex and Elton John all played to large and enthusiastic audiences and indicated the building's future.

were firmly established at The Playhouse and other Glasgow cinemas.

Green’s Playhouse cafes and tearooms were extremely popular both with passing trade and as part of the cinema-going experience and like the rest of building were finished to a high standard, the Sunshine Café featured stained glass and specially woven carpet with the famous slogan ‘It’s Good, It’s Greens’ and the Geneva Room included a mahogany surround fireplace and a grand piano.

Like all independent cinemas Green’s Playhouse had difficulty obtaining the best films because of the duopoly of the major circuits ABC and Rank and the "barring"

With talkies still two years away The Playhouse had its own orchestra to accompany films. An art form in its own right the musicians for the orchestra were carefully chosen and rather unusually, conducted by the theatre manager, William Hamilton. Provision was made for a theatre organ although this was never installed.

Although credit for showing the first talkie in Glasgow goes to The Coliseum who screened The Singing Fool in January 1929, The Playhouse screened a British Parlaphone sound-on-disc one reeler at the end of December 1928.

The sound on film system became the standard and by the end of 1929 talkies