... National variety theatre finally becomes reality announced for VAF centenary gala by Alistair Smith Bernie Clifton , Frank Carson and Syd Little are among the stars lined up to launch the first ever National Theatre of Variety in Blackpool this month ...

... Hippodrome should house the Bard The London Hippodrome was built as a variety theatre with a circus ring and designed by the great theatre architect Frank Matcham . Though it suffered from unsympathetic as The Talk of the Town and in various other en ...

... the life of Freddie Mills and Randolph Turpin . I wonder if anyone has memories of them and their lives in the days of variety theatre . All help will be acknowledged . James Morton c / o Books Brettenham House Lancaster Place London WC 2 E 7 EN ...

... Abbott film . Page 4 Red alert EIF vows to recoup £ 1 m production spend . Page 4 Golden smile Blackpool Grand launches Variety Theatre . Page 5 rescue HQ partnership to save Southend Palace . Page 6 Holy jokes News feature : When comedy tackles religion ...

... Oxfords the same personnel as the Dynamos ? Secondly , an EJ Hingis production titled Ladies First was featured on many variety theatre stages in 1951 / 2 . Is there a list available that gives the theatre name , location and date when this production was ...

... logue of Beltona records which, between 1923-1975, issued some 3,000 78rpm records. Among them are items by Scottish variety theatre artists who seem to be unknown in England. Please does anyone have any biographical details or the actual records of any ...

... really a question on agreeing on wording . ” The Hippodrome opened in 1900 as a circus , later becoming a music hall and variety theatre . In 1958 , after interior reconstruction , it opened as the Talk of the Town , where stars such as Judy Garland and Matt ...

... End's leading k^ ^^Ptheatre stands a chance to be ^Hjjj^^Frenovated and modernised. ^^^^Frank Matcham's Grade II* working Variety Theatre has attracted support from the Arts Council Lottery Fund towards the £15m total. We've still got a further £4. 5m to find ...

... enough from passing travellers in the great depot to support a show , has proposed to utilise a corner of a building as an variety theatre . ( Chit Chat , March 12 , 1903 ) 50 YEARS AGO : A William Poel Memorial Prize has been founded , to be awarded in alternate ...

... studio purposely to see the statue . ( Chit Chat , July 27 , 1905 ) 50 years ago On the eve of its diamond jubilee as a variety theatre , the Chesterfield Hippodrome is to close on Saturday , July 30 . The 22 members of the resident staff have been given ...

... stage, and part of the old trapeze mechanisms still exists. Olympia once seated 3,750 on four levels and was the largest variety theatre in Britain, but over the years, it has seen its fortunes change. Since the mid-twenties it has housed cinema, variety ...

... would appear to be a constructive scheme . ” The Hippodrome was built in 1900 as a circus theatre , was turned into a variety theatre in 1905 and was converted into a club in the fifties . Peter Stringfellow took it over in the seventies and it has been ...