Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) the Alexander Theatre, Melbourne, thus attrib.

1892		Chronicle, South Yarra Gaz. etc. 4 June 12/2: Help one Another, a serio-comic Irish ‘drammer,’ goes up at the Alec.
1892		Chronicle, South Yarra Gaz. etc. 27 Aug. 8/2: The booking is almost phenominal [sic], the greater part of the spacious Alec Circle being reserved.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 3: Alec, - ‘going to the Alec’ - Alexander Theatre.
1900		Table Talk (Melbourne) 13 Sept. 17/3: [H]e took over the old Alec, and converted it into a fashionable theatre.
1911		W. Australian (Perth) 5 Aug. 9/5: Williamson first took over ‘The Old Alec’ and converted it into Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.