... Guardian yesterday , picking up on reports in The Stage , ran a feature about it : “ The historic North Pier , home to a variety theatre for 129 years , has been mothballed and in The Stage newspaper the make equally grim reading – ‘ Cannon and Ball show ...

... famous acts including Charlie Chaplin , Harry Lauder and , more recently , Billy Connolly , and has always served as a variety theatre . Its programme includes visiting performers such as Ken Dodd , while it regularly stages its own musical comedy productions ...

... upstairs, used as an administrative HQ. The Water Rats, whose membership consists of show- business personalities from variety, theatre, film and television, has been based in Gray's Inn Road for 12 years. Its roll call has included Charlie Chaplin, Laurel ...

... last, the East End s leading heatre stands a chance to be movated and modernised, nk 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 ...

... – to bring to life a dead subject . His play is about entertainers struggling to make a living in the fifties as the variety theatre circuit collapses under the onslaught of television . They perform in a phoney calypso style well past its date and their ...

... Beverley Playhouse , Yorkshire ( 2 ) Concen , Tower Arts Centre , Winchester ( 7 ) PATSY PETERS Christmas Show , Seebrite Variety Theatre , Hackney , London Royal Airforce Base , Henlow ( 3 ) Notts City Golf Club , Bulwell , Nottinghamshire ( 2 ) Eyres Monsell ...

... complex and housing. The 1 24-year-old theatre was saved from being razed 25 years ago when it was restored and became a variety theatre starring top showbusi- ness stars. But more recently it has been the victim of two major fires. Since then it has become ...

... Chance Newton ' s Idols of the Halls - the bible of the last days of the variety profession . In Walsh was at the Scotia Variety Theatre in Glasgow . His billing read : engagement of , and welcome return of Patsy Walsh , The Circle Walker of the World . ' ...

... with most success in his native Wales . Actor , comedian , panto dame and noted speaker , Calvin is one of the greats of variety theatre . “ I was born in 1928 in Narberth , Pembrokeshire , in the far west of Wales as a result of deep economic depression ...

... British Legion , Mayes House , ( 20 ) TERRY PEARSON Aladdin , Solihull Arts Complex PATSY PETERS Christmas Show , Seebrite Variety Theatre , Hackney , London DEE QUEMBY Sutton Court Hotel , Sutton Coalfield ( 19 ) Wigston Royal British Legion , Leicestershire ...

... Bridge House , Yatton , near Somerset ( 15 ) TERRY Aladdin , Solihull Arts Complex PETERS Christmas Show , Seebrite Variety Theatre , Hackney , London Royal British Legion , Leicestershire ( 12 ) Coombe Working Club , Coventry ( 15 ) DAVE RAWSON Powys ...

... something to do with the . It could , in fact , only refer to Val Parnell , manager of the London Palladium , the greatest variety theatre in the world . The wedding certificate stated in black and white that Valentine Charles occupation was music hall agent ...