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... Subsidised Variety SIR. With reference to James Towler's well-argued case for subsiding variety theatre (THE STAGE. February): Like Hughie Green. I champion free enterprise. But if the Arts Council and local governments are going to lash out enormous ...
... wonder if any of your readers can tell me where I might be able to acquire copies of the poems recited by that much-loved variety theatre comedian the late Billy Bennett Almost A Gentleman? R. Severn 26 The Haystacks High Wycombe Bucks. ...
... Time For Knitting WITH alt th various moans aboul the lack of sufficient hi I names to avoid repetition both in the Variety Theatre and on TV. I am ama/cd to read in Line* from Lanes recently that a first claas artist iike Avril Angers hat lime on her ...
... ALIVE! SIR.-- I feel I must write to say how very much alive the variety theatre still is. One reads so often that variety is dying these days. Lasi Saturday first house at the Finstoury Park Empire the show played to a packed audience. Billy Cotton and ...
... pathetic and ineffectual frater nity should be included in a new weekly TV series to be called Acts thai Killed the Variety Theatre. This would serve as a erim warn ing to the television powers that be. Yours sincerely. GERALD DEACON Albert Paiace Mansions ...
... The London Palladium. The list of artists is long and varied but, how can a show with the theme of the world's greatest variety theatre, not include the man who has held the box office record for two week variety seasons since 1952, the man who appeared ...
... lost touch many years ago with my grandmother, Harriet Mclnnes Richman and her husband Edgar B. Richman, who were in variety theatre. There are no records of their deaths in St. Catherine's House, so I wrote to Equity in the hope that they were now residents ...
... 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 ...
... You Moss help Due to my interest in variety theatre and in particular the Glasgow Empire Theatre, I have been in touch with many people who either appeared on the Moss Empires circuit or went to their local Moss Empires theatre. I think that a Moss Empires ...
... peop'e going to public houses or %rna!I citrt* where there is entertainment, fbe very people who might be Hired into a variety theatre by an attractive family I variety bin. JIMMY MAXFIELD. ...
... that traditional light enter tainment no longer represented a viable means of sustaining audience ratings and that variety theatre is long dead horrifies me, I feel that a por tion of the responsibility for these comments rests with theatre promoters ...
... Hippo memories The Ipswich Hippodrome was a thriving music hall and variety theatre from 1 904 to the fifties, later becoming a dance hall and ultimately a bingo hall, before demolition in 1986. Ensors Chartered Accountants (which has offices on the site ...