Press Clippings Archive for the year 2003
A random selection of cuttings
from newspapers and magazines
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WEEKS ENDING: Entertainments in Brighton, June 1865; The Kiralfys, Carrie Collier, Mr and Mrs Melville et al in water, nautical and 'Scotch' ballet at the refurbished Alhambra, London, November 1866; Columbus; or, the Original Pitch in a Merry Key, a burlesque, Gaiety Theatre, London, 17 June 1869; Mdlle. Lillian as Mazeppa, London, 1869; Kate Bella, Kate Garstone, Walter Laburnum, the Chantrells, the Onzalos, and The Great Vance et al at the Oxford music hall, London, January 1870; The Brothers Raynor, Ada Clarisse, Minnie Gough, Henri Clark et al at the Royal music hall, London, July 1874; Action against Amy Sheridan, Second Court of Exchequer, London, 25 January 1875 15 February 2003 Annie Baldwin and Company in Aberdeen, September, 1878; The Internation Vaudevilles, New York, August 1890; Kate Paradise, ballet mistress at the Lyric, London, 1895; Katie Lawrence deputises for Marie Collins, Tivoli music hall, London, 4 April 1896; Albert Chevalier at Coster & Bial's, New York, 1896; Marie Lloyd loses a diamond brooch, London, 1896; Happy Fanny Fields at the Tivoli music hall, London, 1902; Aida Overton Walker in London, 1903 22 February 2003 Joe Lawrence in London, 1885 Ada Cavendish's mishap, Hyde Park, London, 1894 Marie Kendall at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1894 Evie Greene at the London Palladium, 1916 Regine Flory in Paris, 1918 1 March 2003 Dion Boucicault's Love in a Maze, Princess's Theatre, London, 1851 Rezene and Robini at the Raglan music hall, London, 1883 Rezene and Robini in London, 1887 The Phydoras at the Washington music hall, Battersea, London, 1888 The Great Northern Troupe at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1894 8 March 2003 Sarah Bernhardt in Frou-Frou, Gaiety Theatre, London, Monday, 31 May 1880 Charles Collette 'At Home' at the Alhambra, London, 1887 Charles Coburn entertains at the New Club, London, Sunday, 30 January 1887 Mme. Jane Hading at the Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, 1906 Ben Greet's Shakespearean company visits the East End of London, 1918 15 March 2003 Stage Dora; or, Who Killed Cock Robin, a burlesque by F.C. Burnand of Sardou's Fédora, Toole's Theatre, London, Saturday, 26 May 1883 Katie Seymour, London, 1887 La Belle Amoros at the Royal Trocadero music hall, London, 1891 22 March 2003 Lurline, Avenue Theatre, London, Saturday, 24 April 1886 London theatre composer-conductors, 1906 The death of Charles Warner, New York, 11 February 1909 Fred Kitchen in the revue, Look Who's Here!, London Opera House, 17 July 1916 Percy Honri and Vernon Watson at the Connaught Rooms, London, Saturday, 5 October 1918 29 March 2003 Mrs Stirling and Leigh Murray inThe Ladies' Battle; or, Un Duel en Amour, at the Haymarket Theatre, London, November 1851 Fanny Stirling as Miss Vandeleur in Does He Love Me?, Haymarket Theatre, London, 7 January 1861 Agnes Huntington leaves Marjorie, Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, January 1890 Irene Castle on Jazz and the Origin of Popular Dances, London, 1918 By the Way, Apollo Theatre, London, 22 January 1925, transferred to the Shaftesbury, 9 November 1925 5 April 2003 Dion Boucicault's version of George Colman jnr's comedy, John Bull, Gaiety Theatre, London, Gaiety Theatre, London, 8 July 1872 Royal Cambridge Hall of Varieties, Commercial Street, Bishopsgate, London, Saturday, 29 September 1888 The Barrister, a farcical comedy by George Manville Fenn and J.H. Darnley, revived at the Royalty Theatre, London, 17 May 1890 The new fashion in Paris: doll collecting. Mlle. Lyska Kostio of the Théâtre Michel, a follower of the new Parisian fashion in pets 12 April 2003 Charles Mathews in The Game of Speculation, London, Lyceum Theatre, Thursday, 2 October 1851 Mrs Bancroft appears as a reader, London, 1877 The Star music hall, Bermondsey, London, week beginning 6 April 1885 19 April 2003 Watts Phillips's Not Guilty and other items at The Royal Marylebone Theatre, Edgware Road, London, week beginning Monday, 6 March 1876 On the disappearance of music hall chairmen, London, 1887 Ballet skirts cause a controversy, Paris and London, 1903 Martin Harvey's presentation of Max Reinhardt's production of Sophocles's tragedy, Œdipus Rex, Covent Garden, London, 15 January 1912 26 April 2003 Spanish dancers at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1851 Grandmother Grizzle, Haymarket Theatre, London, 10 September 1851 Observations at the first night of a revival of J. Sheridan Knowles's tragedy, Virginius, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 25 April 1881; including mention of George Augustus Sala and Oscar Wilde in the audience Nobody's Fault, a play by Arthur Law, with music by Hamilton Clarke, St. George's Hall, London, Monday, 5 June 1882; and Corney Grain in Small and Early Mdlle. Marville, the graceful hippomobilist of the Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1903 3 May 2003 At Wilton's music hall, London, 1865 Professor Anderson, 'The Wizard of the North,' and Family, and Frederic Maccabe at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, London, September 1865 The death of J.L. Toole's only son, London, December 1879 J.H. Haverly's Negro Minstrels, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, August 1881 Gabrielle Ray joins the cast of The Lady Dandies, Daly's Theatre, London, late January 1907 10 May 2003 Renton Nicholson's Judge and Jury Society, Garrick's Head, Bow Street, London, 1850 The Boisset Troupe at the Middlesex music hall, London, July 1894 Jenny Valmore's rise and fall, 1887 to 1899 Ethel Levey in Little Johnny Jones, New York Theatre, New York, 1905 Bessie Clifford returns to England, 1917 and 1918 Nat C. Goodwin's fifth divorce, New York, 1918 17 May 2003 An appeal on behalf of Ramo Samee's Widow, London, 1850 Callender's Coloured Minstrels at the Holborn Theatre, London, 1884 Charmion at the Alhambra, London, 1898 Marie Lloyd at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1900 Charlot's Revue, Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, 1925 24 May 2003 Royal Marionette Theatre, Adelaide Gallery, Adelaide Street, Strand, London, 1852 Romulus and Remus; or, The Two Rum'uns, revived at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, December 1874 / Leona Dare's accident, Princess's Theatre, Valencia, Spain, 1884 Royal Theatre of Varieties, Holborn, London, Week beginning Monday, 28 August 1899, with Mdlle. De Dio, Arthur Lennard, Charles Bignell, Paul Martinetti, Lily Morris, Lily Burnand, et al Nora Bayes at the London Palladium, 1926 Palladium Pleasures, a revue at the London Palladium, 1926 31 May 2003 A review of Lettre de M. Charles Mathews aux auteurs dramatiques de la France, London, 1852 The Great Vance and the Lauri Family at the London Pavilion, September 1864 Louie Sherrington, Miss Fitzhenry et al at the Royal Cambridge music hall, London, 1868 Isobel Elsom on stage and screen, London, 1925 Alice Alanova, a specialist in Spanish dancing, at the Theater des Westens, Berlin, 1926 7 June 2003 The Writing on the Wall, melodrama by Thomas and J.M. Morton, Haymarket Theatre, London, 9 August 1852 The wonderful Donato and his 'Danse avec Manteau,' in the Covent Garden pantomime, London, 1864/65 An execrable exhibition: a tightrope walker, London, 1869 What is a 'cellar-flap break-down' ? Three burlesques compared by Judy, London, 1870: G.A. Sala's Wat Tyler, Gaiety, 20 December 1869, W.S. Gilbert's The Princess, Olympic, 8 January 1870, and Arthur O'Neil's Abon Hassan, Charing Cross, 11 December 1869 Marie Lloyd at the Middlesex Sessions, London, 1917 14 June 2003 J.R. Planché's The Mysterious Lady; or, Worth Makes the Man, 18 October 1852, and other plays at the Lyceum, London Sir George and A Dragon; or, We are Seven, a burlesque by F.C. Burnand, Strand, London, 31 March 1870 Death and Obituary of Minnie Walton, Australian actress, 1879 21 June 2003 Watts Phillips's drama, The Huguenot Captain, Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London, 2 July 1866 L'Amour, a ballet, Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, 11 June 1906 New songs for Dora Lyric and Madeline Rees, London, 1908 28 June 2003 The Alhambra music hall, Shoreditch, re-opening, October 1864 George Alexander and Ellis Jeffreys in The Misogynist, a curtain-raiser, St. James's Theatre, London, 23 November 1895 Gaby Deslys to star in Suzette, a 'musical affair,' Globe, London, 1917 5 July 2003 The Theatrical Carte de Visite - A letter to the Editor of The Era, London, 1868 Marie Lloyd Winks Her Other Eye at the Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, 1891 The Brothers Russell, 'The Original Irish Servant Girls,' at the Tivoli and Oxford music halls, London, 1900 12 July 2003 Rena Goldie, the victim of a police blunder, London, 1907 19 July 2003 Metropolitan music hall, London, August Bank Holiday, 1883 Trixie Friganza at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, 1909 Chappell's music shop, Bond Street, London, 1925 26 July 2003 Entertainment at Highbury Barn, near London, September 1864 Katti, The Family Help, a comedy by Charles S. Fawcett, Strand Theatre, London, 25 February 1888 Pauline Chase in The Girl From Up There, Duke of York's Theatre, 1901; her first London appearance 2 August 2003 'Twas I, Olympic Theatre, London, March 1876, with Maud Branscombe George Beauchamp at the Middlesex music hall, London, July 1891 Sophie Tucker at the American music hall, New York, January 1910 Arthur Bourchier in Treasure Island again, Strand Theatre, London, Christmas 1925 9 August 2003 G.H. Chirgwin in London, Autumn 1881 Sister Mary with Leonard Boyne and Julia Arthur, American Theatre, New York, 15 May 1894 Ada Reeve divorces Bert Gilbert, London, 1900 Robert L. Dempster, a rising young American actor, 1910 16 August 2003 Alhambra; or, The Three Beautiful Princesses a burlesque extravaganza by Albert Smith, Princess's Theatre, London, 21 April 1851, with Alfred Wigan, Robert Keeley, et al On Wilson Barrett's Theatrical Fund Dinner speech, London, June 1883 Disturbance at the Alhambra Theatre of Varieties, London, 1886 Walter E. Perkins in My Friend from India, United States of America, 1896 The Sisters Archer's brother granted a licence to appear with them at the Star music hall, Bermondsey, 1899 The Klein Family of trick cycle riders at the Hippodrome, London, 1902 23 August 2003 The Royal Alhambra Palace, Leicester Square; Frederick Strange's alterations, December 1864 Corney Grain with Mr & Mrs German Reed at St. George's Hall, London, 1881 A Night in Wales, a new musical sketch at St. George's Hall, London, Monday, 1 June 1885 Frightful suicide of Lydia Manton of the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1891 Millie Hylton at Collins's music hall, London, October 1899 30 August 2003 Alfred Wigan and Rosa Bennett in a revival of Thomas Holcroft's, The Road to Ruin, Haymarket Theatre, London, 7 October 1852 Mdlle. Beatrice in the title role of J. Palgrave Simpson's historical drama, Marie Antoinette, first produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, Monday, 12 October 1868 Lily Harold at the Metropolitan music hall, London, May 1896 'Bonnie' Kate Harvey and Fred Fordham, music hall artists, at the Divorce Court, London, 1896 6 September 2003 Joe Lawrence at the Middlesex music hall, London, March 1882 Phyllis Broughton assumes the role of Josephine in W.H. Risque's curtain-raiser, Round a Tree, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 16 January 1897 The Girl on the Film, Gaiety Theatre, London, 5 April 1913 Gladys Cooper in the film version of Edward Knoblock's successful play, My Lady's Dress, London, 1917 13 September 2003 The reopening of the Chateau d'Eau featuring the Colonna Troupe, Paris, September 1872 Mdlles. Judic and Thérésa in Paris, December 1872 Alice Maydue at the Royal music hall, London, October 1890 Nora Delaney, London, 1913 – 'From Hallo Girl to Principal Boy' 20 September 2003 William Edward Love in 'Love's Entertainments,' London, 1851 Rose Hersee and Marie Tempest in Hervé's comic opera, Frivoli, Drury Lane Theatre, 29 June 1886 Walton & Lester's burlesque trick, 'The Amputated Head,' 1890 Ada Lundberg at the Metropolitan music hall, London, 1893 The Sisters Leamy at the Empire, Leicester Square, London, 1899, with their 'Electric Revolving Cycle Trapeze' act 27 September 2003 Maude Adams goes shopping in New York The Two Bobs and the Boom in Ragtime, London, May 1912 The 50th anniversary of Enrico Cecchetti's debut as a ballet dancer celebrated at the Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, 5 January 1922 4 October 2003 Constance Loseby in retirement, 1896 Atalanta at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1899 Harry Fragson entertains at Oddenino's, London, 1912 11 October 2003 Miss Hale, Pio Whatkins, Harriet Coveney et al at Deacon's music hall, London, November 1864 Henri de Vries in A Case of Arson, London, 1905 The Theatre Guild's production of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 3 February 1931 18 October 2003 The Sisters M'Nulty at Gatti's, Westminster Bridge Road, London, March 1897 Kate Carney at Hammersmith, March, 1897 Kitty Beresford at the Camberwell music hall, South London, February 1900 Florrie Gallimore's plans to visit Australia and the United States, 1902-1903 Mdlle. Saunay and Truly Shattuck at the London Coliseum, March 1909 Stanley Logan and Mabel Green at the Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, January 1923 25 October 2003 M. Saqui's 'Sons of Neptune' at the St. James's Theatre, London, April 1851 Esther Austin & Troupe with G.W. Craig, and The Boissets, Mdlle. Stena, and Professor Finney and Mdlle. Le Grand at the Canterbury music hall, London, March/April 1886 Jolly John Nash, Peggy Pryde, Henri Clarke, Leo Stormont et al at the Royal Victoria Hall, London, April 1886 Kate Vaughan in Around the World, Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London, 1886 1 November 2003 South London music hall, week beginning Monday, 12 September 1864, with Professor Thomas, the Champion Swordsman, Emma Kerridge, J.G. Forde, Mr and Mrs Villiers, and Signor Rimoleno, the trapeze artist The end of the Winchester music hall, London, 1882 A New York photographer on celebrity portraits, 1884 8 November 2003 Dancing at the Bal Mabille, Paris, 1867; Mdlle. Irma, a can-can dancer Gatti's music hall, London, week beginning Monday, 10 August 1868, with Kate Santley, Nelly Power, Harry Rickards, Harry Liston, et al Adeline Genée dances in public again at the Association of Operatic Dancing Matinee, Gaiety Theatre, London, 8 November 1923 15 November 2003 M. Bat discomposes Marie Sass during a performance of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, at the Paris Opera, 1866 'A new and clever and fascinating actress': Janet Alexander in London, 1901 Max Dearly in the French version of A Country Girl, Olympia, Paris, October 1904 Vesta Tilley at the Palace Theatre of Varieties, London, 1910 22 November 2003 Maud Branscombe as Georgette in 'Twas I, Olympic Theatre, London, March 1876 Cymbra; or, The Magic Thimble, a comic opera by Harry Paulton at the Strand Theatre, London, 24 March 1883 Lionel Mackinder and Dorothy Parry in The Captain of the School, Edward A. Parry and Frederick Mouillot's 'Story of Public School Life,' Gaiety, London, 10 December 1910 29 November 2003 Adah Isaacs Menken at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Birmingham, January 1866 Nelly Power at the Surrey Theatre, London, March 1875 Crusoe the Second, a sketch at the Surrey Theatre, London, March 1875, with Susie Vaughan and W.B. Fair Maud Allan returns to dance at the Palace Theatre, London, 10 February 1911 6 December 2003 'Theatrical Nudities' in England, 1869 The Lorrison Sisters at the Palace Theatre of Varieties, London, July 1897 Gus Elen at the Royal music hall, London, September 1897 Leslie Barker at the Empire Theatre, Leeds, April 1915 13 December 2003 Thoughts on the passing of old music halls, London, 1887; with caricature of Harry Fox, for 25 years chairman and manager of the Middlesex Music Hall, Drury Lane King Doo-Dah, the Christmas pantomime, 1900, at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, London Elsie Janis's imitations of Sarah Bernhardt, London, 1915 20 December 2003 'Monster Fairs' in and around London, 1851 King Doo-Dah, the Christmas pantomime, 1900, at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, London 'My Daily Mail' by Marie Tempest, London, 1902 Winifred Ward at the Victoria Palace, London, week beginning Monday, 5 April 1915 27 December 2003 E.T. Smith in court, London, 1856; the cost and consequences of advertising on stage The Oxford music hall, London, Christmas, 1886 Evie Greene and May Leslie Stuart in a revival of Florodora, Lyric Theatre, London, Saturday, 20 February 1915 * * * * * * * *
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