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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

... Grub of the cranefly (7-6) 17. Small adhesive labels designating that carriage has been paid (7,6) 20. Music hall or variety theatre (10) 22. Witty saying, a wisecrack (4) 24. Colourless liquid hydrocarbon (7) 25. Person from Carson City perhaps (7) 26 ...

SHOWCALL

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 2001
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 643 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

SHOWCALL

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 2001
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 645 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

The Giant Double Crossword _]

... (10) B.Tea (3) 9.11 n a deeply moving way (10) 13. Gets ready for action (6,3,5) 15. Humorously (9) 16. Entangle (6) 18. Variety theatre (10) 19. Woolly animal (6) 22. Extremely 15. Sugar'-croated sweet 9) 17. Artisan (14) 20. Unwell (3) 21. Completed (9) ...

Sentenced to purgat(iry by telling words and phrases

... n, this constant search for the telling and original phrase. Early symptoms of the pre-occupation can be seen in old variety theatre bills on which the names of the various acts were usually followed by little slogans designed to sum up the delights on ...

Published: Monday 10 April 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 746 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

BB R S O S TR T sIl

... NORRIS Anchorsholme Lane West Thornton Cleveleys THE loss of the Palace was a sad time for Blackpool. It housed a fine variety theatre and a magnificent ballroom, the balcony held up by semi nude male figures, in each enclave a mirrored back ground, the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 2003
Newspaper: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 646 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

) the celebrities who have graced our stages 7

... Albert Modley, Dave Morris, Norman Evans, Frankie Vaughan, Morecambe and Wise. Max Bygraves and Norman Wisdom. As for the variety theatres: many were demolished to make way for offices, stores, car parks. Sadly, that’s what happened to the Palace at Blackpool ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 2002
Newspaper: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 699 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ale a Stvie?

... and other performers? rooms and was working at Speedak Photography in Coronation Street. His clients followed him. But variety theatre was dying and, in 1967, we moved to Leeds where he turned to fashion photography - accepted as an Associate of the Institute ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 2003
Newspaper: West Lancashire Evening Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 701 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

cheat helped me buy flats, Cherie

... Scotland's most popular entertainers team up to present an evening of laughter and song in the finest traditions of Scottish Variety Theatre, with the incomparable Peggy O'Keefe Me. Johnny's hilarious comedy routines allied with Peter's distinctively warm-voiced ...

Published: Friday 06 December 2002
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 661 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

Hoe down

... variously described as hut , a potting shed , a dump and even a benighted shack . But for a period – after the closure of the variety theatre , the Palace and when the idea of the Theatre Royal was still being resisted , line by line , in the council chamber – ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 865 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Research leads to possible Val Parnell link

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 2003
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 735 | Page: 22 | Tags: none