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Description: | It commemorates the third anniversary of the opening of the Grand Theatre, which had stood on the corner of Park Street and Station Street in Walsall town centre from 1890. It was later converted into a cinema, but burned down in 1939. The souvenir programme is printed with an image of the theatre on the front, and describes the Grand Fashionable Night, announced by Mr W. H Westwood (Proprietor) on the other side. The following acts were to appear: Chips in Japan, Keene and Reeves Combination; Miss Lillian Hall, Descriptive Vocalist; Messrs. Evalo and Roisso, Clown and Turk; Miss Nellie Darrell, Burlesque Actress; Mr Henry Towers, Comedian and Vocalist; Miss Kate Westwood, in a Skirt Dance; Mr J. H. Cruise, The Walsall Favourite; Miss Maud Vernon, a Serio-Comic Vocalist; Brothers Nolan, Irish Comedians; Mr Charles Godfrey, in all his Latest Successes; Miss Chrissie Angus, Burlesque Actress and Vocalist; Matt Brown. Comedian and Dancer; Great Fred Kelmar, Ventriloquial Entertainer; Sisters de Grey, The Bells of Harmony; Mr H. Burton, Tenor Vocalist; Cyrus and Maude, Musical Grotesques; Professor Faudelle, Troupe of Trained Dogs; and Clifford and Clarke, Negro Comedians.
Souvenir programme, printed on silk, dated November 16th, 1893. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Dance Actors Walsall Grand Theatre Leisure Music Anniversary celebrations Entertainment Comedy Souvenirs Singers Theatre | Temporal: | 1893
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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