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Sunday Mercury quiz 1 WHO said: “No but a blockhead ever wrote except for money ? WHEN were muskets invented

... The People iai RITZ Bordesley Green E (ABC I VIC 1070 Today SON ALONE Philo Vance's (a) Mon: Maytime Mayfair (U) ROBIN HOOD THEATRE Hall (ABC Today: MISSISSIPPI U TOO 'Al Mon: THE HASTY HEART (U) BY TURNER to be ration Go on it’s all right they'd say I’ve ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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BIGGEST-EYER OUTPUT The bright lights the circus were Just for three-year-old Bobby Tuckwood yesterday avenue ..

... Malone 78 Elmcroft-road Yardley Birmingham Dick began his stage career in 1895 he won a clog-dancing competition at the Empire Theatre Dudley started trapeze artist but after a fall made up mind stick to comedy and dancing 44 years together A fortnight after ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Sir i&uitbap TELEPHONE: 8461 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Abroad: 3s 3d per quarter 13s per annum Airmail: Rates ..

... Hamilton’s ex-cursions a scenic panstereorama of passing events”) At Aston Theatre Royal the “celebrated machine gun” was being shown in “The Nihilists Retreat” Coutts' Theatre appealed to local sentiment with the pantomime “ Hands Across the Sea” while ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Variety and experiment in week’s V TTAPPY New Viewing to you all The TV programmes this week are richly varied

... Cherry Orchard” and has a vivid recollection of playing in the parks the Midlands with Basil Langton’s Touring Repertory Theatre during I I’ve heard of them of course Do you really think they would do me any good?” I can only say that personally I've ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1592 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

MERCURY January May all his COLDS be little ones! CAN HELP to Baby’s colds “little”— keep growing and getting ..

... Birmingham: Jane Willson (11) Banbury John Young (7) Yardley Birmingham Stand them up! TWIRLS who have made them-selves miniature theatres often find it difficult to get their paper figures to stand upright A stand made of thin cardboard is extremely easy to make ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1560 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

: Tm Mi:n I RV British city as star at MUCH lip-service throughout jv the years paid putting the Him

... enter tainment map That theatre endowed with a distinct personality which is sensed rather than analysed by patrons has become something very much more than a building containing plush seats ranged screen Also leaving the same theatre will be a team known ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1744 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ADERS SEND PICTURES ffUNDAY T'RY 1 January 1936 This unusual windmill Chesterton Warwickshire designed by Jones ..

... this picture whch was taken in early shows Cradley Heath womer chain-makers during their strike They are leaving Empire Theatre Cradley Heath loaves of bread given tlem ympathisers C Lincoln Porter 81 oldest J P in the Kidderminster sends this picture ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 427 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The Fork in the Road

... of Defence) in the New Year Honours. READERS' VIEWS (To the Editor of the Sentinel ) R.—Al though a keen lover of the Theatre.. am amused at the various suggestions pat forward with a view to prescut log live cnteramment again in the Potteries. flan} ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
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Ballet Performance

... Ballet Performance Parndoxicaly. in a district wiih ,, ut a theatre. one of the theatrical events of 3o \\ill ne the appearance :,( a ha net company, in the Ncis\ca.itle Municipal Halt !.irt:lig next Monday. The riv is the St James's, and it nppear: ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CROWN THEATRE

... CROWN THEATRE MON IVES WED Cont from 2.11 Clauiitt. o:is::t. ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 10 | Page: 2 | Tags: none