Why it was on so late after it was released I don't know, did it take 8 years to make it to South Australia? It is advertised as "The Biggest Show in Town" so you would take from that that it hadn't been shown beforehand. It is the largest ad by far taking up nearly a 1/4 of the page. So what else could you see if you had already seen Tillies.
There is Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Under (c 1920) or Never Weaken (1921). Douglas Fairbanks could be seen in When the Clounds Roll By (1919) , this is advertised as his new big picture, but it was nearly 3 years old in 1922. Mary Miles Minter could be seen in The Little Clown(1921).
The Sheik too was playing, which I assume was the 1921 Valentino movie, not the 1922 British made movie, it is "advertised as "The Grand Farewell Screening of", so I think I am correct in my assumption. If you were feeling a little patriotic and you wished to see an Australia Made movie you were in luck, A Daughter of Australia (1922) was playing at the Grand. This last weekend I went to the local public library and looked through some local papers of the early and later 20's period trying to see how many locally made films were advertised, I only found a few sadly, and it really is not that much different today.
Looking through the local papers of this era is fascinating, it would seem that Vaudeville was on the way out with only one theatre advertising a full line up. Several concerts are advertised and The Comic Opera was putting on "The Merry Widow" At Thebarton Oval carnival week was in full swing, and the Adelaide Repertory Theatre was putting on two new plays, The Uusal Thief and Prince Peter's Half Mile. If none of those interested you there is two dances advertised.
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