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Variety Theatre of China. Princes

... Variety Theatre of China. Princes THIS astonishing troupe includes what must surely be some of the most remarkable feats of juggling and acrobatics in the world. A man who stands on his head while keeping, in each hand, three ordinary plates whirling ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1956
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

ROYAL VARIETY THEATRE

... ROYAL VARIETY THEATRE GLASGOW ALHAMBRA--A HISTORY TO BE PROUD OF SINCE Howard and Wyndham acquired Glasgow Alhambra, the accent has been on pantomime and summer revue, notably Stewart Cruiksbank's successful Five Past Eight One pantomime lasting four ...

Published: Thursday 10 July 1958
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VARIETY THEATRE REOPENS

... VARIETY THEATRE REOPENS I EF. LAWRENCE lead the variety 1 bill with which Huddersfield Palace reopened on Monday last During the months the theatre has been closed, the owners, the Mac- naghten Vaudeville Circuit, have had it redecorated and improve ments ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1955
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Variety Theatre of China

... Variety Theatre of China Princes This, in a sense, is living in the purple. These are variety artists of a royal bounty. They do not merely suggest the lengths to which they might go if they had time. They go beyond them, doing the impossible without ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

MOSCOW VARIETY THEATRE

... MOSCOW VARIETY THEATRE P>R the first time, the Moscow State Variety Theatre are to visit London. The company are to divide their four-week season equally be tween South and North London. For the first two weeks, from June 24 to Julv 6. they will appear ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GARAGE BECAME A VARIETY THEATRE

... GARAGE BECAME A VARIETY THEATRE `Dress' request went with invitations ! MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS of hammering coming from a garage at the side of a house in Warwick-road. Ealing, had puzzled residents for the last week or two The mystery was solved last Saturday ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1957
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 394 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A Variety Theatre Opens

... A Variety Theatre Opens HADLEIGH, Canvey Island, is staging shows at the kingsway Cinema from August 1. The change from cinema to variety is a welcome but surprising one these days. Manager Gus keeling says. There will be a star-studded i bill which ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Major facelift for variety theatre

... Major facelift for variety theatre AN OLD VARIETY theatre in railway town Eastleigh, which has been used as a cinema in recent years, is to undergo a facelift costing over £90,000, reports NICK RALLS. And with the ambitious revamping proposals will come ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A FUTURE FOR THE VARIETY THEATRE?

... A FUTURE FOR THE VARIETY THEATRE? VARIETY as an entertainment form, has been on the decline for several decades now, although it has refused to disappear altogether. But without any subsidy, its future is very precarious. James Towler asks why, when so ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 903 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FIRE AT LONDON'S OLDEST VARIETY THEATRE

... Fire at London's Oldest Variety Theatre Collins Music Hall in Islington is Badly Damaged by a Blaze in an Adjoining Timber Yard I IBw.--. W II r T WMB M I I a I k- BW mmmwm n FIRE CLOSES COLLINS MUSIC HALL Firemen standing on the roofs of adjoining buildings ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Plan for a Dickens Variety Theatre

... Plan for a Dickens Variety Theatre THIS is Dickens Year, marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and David Shure, writer, broadcaster and owner of the Old Curiosity Shop in Porttk-?^ Street, Holborn, wants to mark the occasion with ...

Published: Thursday 29 March 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 1 | Tags: none