1912
December 16-21: Eugene Stratton, The Sands o’ Dee, with Ruth Maitland, Rupert Stutfield,
Stephen Sorley; Harlequinaders, Bella Davis and her Cracker-Jacks, Holdin’s Mannikins,
Green and Wood, Larola, Christine Roy
December 23-28: The Sands o’ Dee, with Ruth Maitland, Rupert Stutfield, Stephen Sorley;
Olga, Elgar and Eli Hudson, Maude Tiffany, James Stewart, Bowden and Stol, Conway
and Leland, Speedwell, Walter Aubrey
December 30-January 4: The Sands o’ Dee, with Ruth Maitland, Rupert Stutfield, Stephen
Sorley; Joseph Adelman Family, Grotesques, O’Gust, Josephine La Barte, Doroswami,
Raffin’s Monkey, Chas Kasrac
1913
January 6-11: The Sands o’ Dee, with Ruth Maitland, Rupert Stutfield, Stephen Sorley;
Goliath the Great Horse, Conway George, Albertos and Millar, Carlisle and Wellmon,
Rinaldo, Four Elles, Deborah Volar and company, Bioscope: England v South Africa
rugby
January 13-18: Instinct, with C Aubrey Smith, Lilian Braithwaite; Sara Melita, Foot-gers,
Sydney James’s Strolling Players, Cooke and Three Rothers, Leipzig, Hurland Ford,
Five Symphony Girls
January 20-25: The Wriggley Rag, with Wilkie Bard; Canova’s Living Porcelains, Lorna
and Toots Pounds, William Furness, Merry and Glad, Frederick Sylvester and company,
Barton and Ashley, Monkey Music Hall
January 27-February 1: Chung Ling Soo, Ludwig Amann, Zenga Troupe, Coram, The Wicked
Witch’s Wish, with The Delevines; Myfanwy Newell, Marcas and Gartelle, Bioscope:
Mammoth life savers
February 3-8: Bohemia, with Percy Honri; Wild Australia, with “real Australian bushmen
and women”, Frank Joy; Daisy Sloan, Drawee, Hambo and Frisco, Inez and Pim, Percy
Hayden, Haidee de Rance
February 10-15: Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Macbeth, Nora Lancaster, W F Grant; Hayman
and Franklyn, Cruikshank, Lotto, Lilo and Otto, Sisters Royce, Daisy Taylor, Vandinoff,
Arthur Lennard
February 17-22: Happy Fanny Fields, May de Sousa, Alfred Lester, Molly Wells, Hinton
and Wotton, Len Manti, P T Selbit, Lydia and Amelya, Tom Wootwell
February 24-March 1: The Redskin, George Layton, Perry Corwey, Bert Errol, Stylo
Duo, Cooper Mitchell, Jean Robb, Gintaro
March 3-8: The Redskin, Alice Esty, Lapia, Three Collegians, Guy and Grahame, Smite
and Smote, Master Frank Wilson
March 10-15: The Redskin, Irene Dillon, Royal Gothams, Ethel Arden and George Abel,
Campbell and Barber, Fred Land, Agnes Treacy
March 17-22: Anna Eva Fay, Bert Gilbert, Tom Foy and company, Ina Hill, Queenie Leighton,
Arthur Woodville, Harry Moore, John Weil, Bioscope: animated putty
March 24-29: The Original American Ragtime Octette, Their Point of View, with Beryl
Mercer, Cecil Bevan, Willie West; The Great Fregolia, Tom Jones, Fred Russell, Lupino
Lane, Marie Novello, Vera Wootton, Bioscope: rearing greyhounds
March 31-April 5: The Broken Mirror, with Schwarz Brothers; Laura Leycester and company,
Helena Frederick, Wilf Burnand, “Territorials”, with The Wonderful Craggs; Alice
Liebman, The Van Der Koors, Sisters Finney
April 7-12: The Borstal Boy, with Nancy Price, Clare Greet and company; Zona Vevey
and Max Erard, Josie Delaine, Charles Norton, Woodhouse and Wells, Alex Piccad and
company, Arthur Argent and Lilian Gwynne, La Maze Trio
April 14-19: Eustace Gray’s Palladium Minstrels, The Great Banjo Band, Charles Clarkson,
Joe Morley
April 21-26: Mexico, with J G Kelly, Matt Powell, W Albini; Oswald Williams and Winifred
La Barte, Pyck, Tholl and Taylor, Barry Lindon, Alexandra Dagmar, Tom Stuart, Brothers
Webb
April 28-May 3: Mexico, with J G Kelly, Matt Powell, W Albini; Gobert Belling and
his Animal Arena with football-playing mule, Lily Leonhard, Billy Howard and Kathryn
Harris, Charlie Carr’s Original American Rag-Timers, Frank and Vesta, Albert Letine
May 5-10: Mexico, with J G Kelly, Matt Powell, W Albini; Albert Le Fre, Mlle Roshanara,
Briff, Braff, Broff, Alma and Ella, Torbay, Alberta Flahey
May 12-17: Mexico, with J G Kelly, Matt Powell, W Albini; Three Rascals, Daras, Five
Petleys, Chiti, Kara, Minnie Love
May 19-24: Pantaloon, with Pauline Chase; James A Watts, Dusty Rhodes, Romanys, 12
Olympia Girls, George French, Mr Hymack
May 26-31: Lolotte, with Lydia Yavorska and company; John Harrison, George Mozart,
Larry Lewis, Violet Stockelle, Pipifax and Panlo, Willard Hutchinson
June 2-7: Her Ladyship, with Marie Studholme; Terpsichore’s Dream, with Mdlle De
Dio; Jan Colquhoun, Three Buckleys, Rich Taylor, Jack Lane, Howard Brothers, Marjorie
Lawrence
June 9-14: George Formby, The Pekin Mysteries including Hang Ping Chien, Pedersen
Brothers, Bert Harrow, La Tostia, Thornbury, Jack Shires, Four Sisters Amaranth,
Blanche Tomlin, Bioscope: The Derby
June 16-21: Clarice Mayne and “That”, Everybody in Search of Fortune, with Ernest
Eldersten’s company; J H Scotland, Herbert Clifton, Amos Howard, Anartos, Manchester
Mites, Elsie Malpass, Bioscope: European championship boxing - Carpentier v Wells
June 23-28: What Ho! Ragtime; Veronica Brady, Five Vernons, Charles Baron’s Menagerie,
with the Racing Cats; famous works of art with Henriette de Serris and company
June 30-July 5: A Sister to Assist ‘Er, with Fred Emney, Miss Sydney Fairbrother;
HMS Perhaps, with Six Brothers Luck; Luncognita, Carter Livesey, Jane Ayr, Lillie
Soutter, Les Videos, Max Laube, Brennans, Bioscope: Royal Show
July 7-12: Dick Turpin, with R A Roberts; Cole De Losse, Lipinski’s 40 Dog Comedians,
Edith England, Fred Shephard, Marie Brayman, Kate and Tom Major, Austen Temple, Diana
and Len Grey
July 14-19: “Rosalind”, with Irene Vanbrugh, Donald Calthrop, Dora Sevening; Australian
Woodcutters Jackson and McLaren, Elsie Hall, Sergeant Brennan, Wheeler and Berkeley,
Caselli Sisters, Dennisons, Billy Rex and Margaret Bradley, Bioscope: adventures
of a bad shilling
July 21-26: W C Fields, Captain Fred Woodward’s Sea Lions, Perli Barti, Cuthbert
Hicks, Tom Parker, Chris Richards, Bert Errol, Cissie Lupino, Irene Penso, William
Pringle, Marjory Carpenter, G Acton Dix, Bioscope: Vitagraph screenplay Under the
Make-Up, with Florence Turner (in person next week)
July 28-August 2: The Vitagraph Girl Florence Turner, Ina Hill of Royal Carl Rosa
Opera Company, Gilday and Fox, Royal Zanettos, John Earl, Beatie and Babs, Falcons,
Selbini Troupe, Society Quartette, Bioscope: Strike riots in Johannesburg
August 4-9: Saharet, Antonet and Grock, Hickey’s Comedy Circus with world’s smallest
performing ponies, Harry Thornton and Emma Wagner, Phil Percival, Carr’s American
Juvenile Ragtimers, Iva Voyce, Chris Van Bern, Haydee’s Miniature Vaudeville Theatre
August 11-16: Mdlle Liane D’Eve, Anna Dorothy, Cinemopera - synchronised singing
and pictures, Shields and Rodgers, Fennel and Tyson, Le Claire and Sampson, Johnson
and Bert, Henry Helme, Alma Gray
August 18-23: Neil Kenyon, Three Meers, Hylands and Held, Maud Courtney and Mr C,
Bert Lloyd presents What a Pal; Carbrey Boys, Siems, Lucille Benstead
August 25-30: Whit Cunliffe; Just Like a Woman, with Yorke Stephens and Margaret
Moffat, Brown and Nevarro, Pasquali Brothers, Anita Barone, Reno, Little Zola, Victor
and Louis, Norah Delany
September 1-6: A Lamb on Wall Street, with Bert Coote, J C Aubrey, Ada Russell; Cinquevalli,
Horelik’s Imperial Russian Dancers, Roma and Romani, Dorma Morgan, Drew and Alders,
Katie K and George G, Harry May Hemsley, Jack Smiles, Bioscope: his ups and downs
September 8-13: Koffo of Bond Street, with George Graves and company, Louis Hardt,
Three Merrills, Griff, Dexter, Edith Leitch, Haytors, Lilian Rigby, Folly-Bask
September 15-20: Cheyenne Days, with American broncho busters, cowboys, lassoers
and riders; Harry Emeric and Nan Ainslie, Hanlon Brothers, Helen Charles, Fyne and
Hurley, Hal Russ, Juggling Nelson, Jessie Templeton
September 22-27: Evie Greene, William Burr and Daphne Hope, Harry Webber, Romanoff,
Brothers Dean, Solo, Harry Herbert, Elsie Ellis
September 29-October 4: Margaret Cooper with her piano, Thornley Dodge, Lorch Family,
Frank Le Dent, Vera and Syd, Milly Cornelius, Melt and Bray, Carl Lynn
October 6-11: Albert Chevalier, Ike and Will Scott, Four Holloways, James Stewart,
J P Carrol, Bradnas, Rawsons, Elsie Kerry
October 13-18: “Dr Johnson”, with Arthur Bourchier, Mary Dibley; Scamp and Scamp,
Jen Latona, Kirbys, Harry Grey, Fuji Troupe, Olive Armidale
October 20-25: The Follies, with H G Pelissier company; The Slave Dealers, with Mirza
Golem; Bedfellows, with Miss Beaumont Collins, David Baird, J R Spurling and company;
David Paget, Rene Ralph, Hope Charteris, Harold Baker
October 27-November 1: La Dame aux Camelias, with Sarah Bernhardt, M R Joube and
company; An Olde Time Hallowe’en, with Ye Colonial Septette, John S Leick and Mabel
Keith; Arthur Leslie, Les Legays, Jock McKay, Doreen and Ivey Aberdare, Signorina
Maliella, Bioscope: gathering rubber in Indo-China
November 3-8: The Soldier and the Maid, with Maie Ash and Fred Allandale, C W and
J R Poole’s The Loss of the Titantic, Beatie and Babs, Tourbillon Troupe of Lady
Cyclists, Dorothy Varick, Harry Thurston, Clarke and Glenny, Victor Courtney
November 10-15: Florence Smithson, Dolores Vallecita’s Imperial Indian Leopards,
12 Sunshine Girls, Harry Brown, Daley Cooper and Mabel Lait, Six Ceylons, Harold
Heath, Dion Wade
November 17-22: Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, Ernest Shand, Jackson’s 16 English Dancers,
Lumars, Lupino Lane, Evelyn Stall, Thora, Talbot and Pearce, Bi-Bo-Bi
November 20 (daytime): Grand Benefit Matinee on Hippodrome manager N Preston-Hillary’s
resignation, with Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, May Henderson, Woodhouse and Wells,
Lumars, Bi-Bo-Bi, Thora, Beth Tate, and artists at Bristol, Cardiff and Newport Empires
and Bedminster Hippodrome
November 24-29: Her Wedding Night, with Violet Vanbrugh, Roland Pertwee; Merian’s
Canine Dramatic Company, Carlisle and Wellmon, Hal Bert, Harry Leybourne, Bryan O’Sullivan,
Crisps, Renee de Bauga
December 1-6: And Very Nice, Too: As you Were - 1855, As you Are - 1913, As you May
Be - 1923, with George Leyburn, Sims Reeves; O’Gust, Daunton Shaw Troupe, Edna Lyall,
Ray and Zack
December 8-13: I Should Worry!, with Jake Friedman, Zellar, Tom Payne, Vera Hilliard,
Bonny Browning, Alec Hassell, Jack Wayho, Lola Patey; Little Freddie Hackin, Carl
Howard, Miles-Stavordale Quintette, Captain Frank Taylor’s Dog and Monkey Actors
December 15-20: Herbert Brookes, “Lucky Jim”, with Jane Courthope and company; O
Hana San, Four Vagabonds, Francini Olloms and his Page, Stelling and Revell, Amos
Howard, Forestell
December 22-27: The Flood, with Reginald Davis, Horace Custins, Richard Norton, Miller
Brothers, Lottie Stone’s Dancers; His Last Night, with Charles Hanbury and Johnny
Schofield; Charles Norton, Coram, Park’s Eton Boys and Girton Girls, Christine Roy
December 29-January 3: The Flood, with Reginald Davis, Horace Custins, Richard Norton,
Miller Brothers, Lottie Stone’s Dancers; Harlequinaders, Cissie Curlette, Early Closing
Night, with Nita Crystal and Geoffrey Saville; Le Grohs, Four Wards, Bioscope: how
a railway line is made
1914
January 5-10: The Flood, with Reginald Davis, Horace Custins, Richard Norton, Miller
Brothers, Lottie Stone’s Dancers; The Girl in Possession, with Stanley Brett and
Billie Sinclair; Charles Stevens, De Wynne Brothers, Musical Johnstons, Three Lascelles,
Piquo
January 12-17: The Flood, with Reginald Davis, Horace Custins, Richard Norton, Miller
Brothers, Lottie Stone’s Dancers; Terry Twins, Olga Tcharna, Green and Wood, Gaieties,
Sisters Jerome, Leonard Gautier’s Animated Toy Shop
January 14 (daytime): Grand Matinee: The Flood, with Reginald Davis, Horace Custins,
Richard Norton, Miller Brothers, Lottie Stone’s Dancers; Dorothy Millar, Naughton
and Gold, Thelma Waldron, Walter Clifford, Terry Twins, Olga Tcharna, Green and Wood,
Sisters Jerome, Leonard Gautier’s Animated Toy Shop, in aid of Lord Mayor’s Hospital
Fund
January 19-24: Fred Karno’s The Steam Laundry, with Harold Wellesley; Daphne Wynne,
Ernest Scharff, Harry Radford and Mlle Valentine, Cliff Berzac’s Comic Circus with
ponies and mule, J A Wilson, Ellis Barrieton, Richard Wally
January 26-31: Say When, with Leonard F Durell and company; Martini Trio, Pat Trevor
and Ethel Ware, De Breans, Devon and Earle, Walter Williams
February 2-7: Say When, with Leonard F Durell and company; The Elder of the Kirk,
with Allan Macdonald and company; Won by a Leg, with Gordon Eldrid and company; Signorina
Melita, Alvaretta, Rego and Stoppit, William French
February 9-14: Say When, with Leonard F Durell and company; G H Chirgwin, Milner
and Storey, George Jackley and Louis Le Sine, Dusty Rhodes, Four Cherries
February 16-21: What Ho! Ragtime, with Snooky Ookum Couple, Beauteous Bathing Girls;
Cooper Mitchell, Walter Bellonini, Whittakers, Marie Terry, Bioscope: Our baby
February 23-28: Malcolm Scott, Campbell and Scott, Three Royal Dreadnoughts, Hyde
and Cody Trio, Arthur Lennard, Brothers Webb, Rosie Fitzgerald
March 2-7: Alice Up-to-Date, Clown Zertho, Kitty Colyer, Haidee de Rance, Harry Marlow,
Sinclair’s Three Diamonds
March 9-14: Fred Karno presents Flats, with Stanley Brett, Billie Sinclair; The First
of April, with Tom Foy and company; Foot-Gers, Denziloe Trio, Les Andres, Nervo,
George Rae, Dorothy Cameron
March 16-21: Her Ladyship, with Marie Studholme and company; The Prince of Monte
Carlo, with Harry Roxbury and company; Cinquevalli, Daisy Sloan, L Martinek, Marriott
Edgar, Bioscope: A Small Town Act
March 23-28: It Snow Use, with Harry Weldon; Fred Sylvester and company, Ethel Cadman,
Goodfellow and Gregson, Billy Arlington and company, Miss Octavio’s Zoological Pot-Pourri,
Seven Ragged Gipsy Girls, Dublin Desmonds, Arthur Woodville
March 30-April 4: The Grotesques, Arthur Prince and Jim, Margaret Ismay, Joe Boganny
and company, George Crotty, Inez and Pim, Vera Wootton
April 6-11: Should a Woman Tell?, with E Story Gefton, Mary Deverall, Alfred Brandon,
George Corke; Gaston Chevalier and company, Royal Gothams, Lillie Soutter, Campbell
and Barber, Telma Waldron, Mabel Sinclair
April 13-18: Sweet Williams, with Walter Passmore, Johnny Danvers, Agnes Fraser and
company; Dick Turpin’s Ride to York, with Fred Ginnett’s company; The Spirit of the
Waves and other art dances, with La Pia (The Enchantress); Johnson Clark, Alfredo,
Ketos, Dan O’Scott, Sisters Reeve
April 20-25: Happy Days, with Hope Charteris, Alfred Wellesley, Aimee Bebb, Fred
Tooze, Reginald Adair, Spenser Lloyd, Hugh Weybrance, George Horrocks, William Ellis,
Hugh Wakefield; King and Benson, Herr Doring’s Pigeons, Fred Land, Master Frank Wilson,
Bioscope: The Tangram
April 27-May 2: Fred Karno presents Perkins in Paris, with Albert Bruno; Osnato Troupe,
Molly Wells and Frank Mayban; Two Flats, with George Barrett and company; Louis J
Seymour, Marie Wright, Woodhouse and Wells
May 4-9: Keep Smiling, with Lulu Valli, Hilda Stuart, Paul England, Frank Attree,
Harry Johnstone, James Davis, Eight New Saxones, Kitty Edwards, Lilian Davies, Bertie
Wright; Doroswami, Cecil Lyle, Nellie Boden
May 11-16: Vesta Tilley, Arthur Winckworth, Henry Clive and Mabel Bunyea, Mongadors,
Thorpe and Coe, Gaston Morel, Three Avenue Girls, Billy Bennett
May 18-23: Splash Me, with Dan Clark, Reg Amber, Enid Harcourt, Ethel Pearce, Tom
Mostoi; Pip Powell and Kate Vesey, Conava’s Living Porcelains, Nathal, Jenny Castelle,
Conway George
May 25-30: Adeline Genée, Alexander Volinin and Corps de Ballet, Cuthbert Clarke;
Cornalla and Eddie, Albert Le Fre, Sharp’s Tromboneers, Dorothy Millar, Nash and
Noel, Cabaret’s Dogs, Bioscope: The Derby
June 1-6: What Price London?, with Frank Esmond, Jock Hood, Henry Deas, Mark Daly,
Margaret Stuart, Two Cures, Six Mascots, Jack Williams; James A Watts, Nan C Hearne,
Charles Norton
June 8-13: The Hairdresser, with James Learmouth, Ruby Ralland, George Ricketts and
company; Triumph of the Boyards and Tartars, with J Alexandroff’s troupe; Cullen
and Garthy, Henry Helme, Stein Esthor Trio, Dorothy Anderson, Alec Regan, Charles
Torbay
July 15-20: A Sister to Assist ‘Er, with Fred Emney, Sydney Fairbrother; Olga, Elgar
and Eli Hudson, Aeroplane Ladies, Drawee, Hambo and Frisco, Bert Harrow, Veronica
Brady, Holden’s Mannikins, Will, Jack and Tig Bernhardt, Bioscope: Sammy is too Cautious
June 22-27: On the Move, with Lily Iris, Ouida Macdermott, Florrie Robina, Stephen
Adeson, Scott Russell; Jack Lorimer, Albert Flahey, Will Hay, Stella Stahl
June 29-July 4: Unsealed Orders, with Six Brothers Luck; The Concealed Bed, with
Graham Moffat’s company; Rinaldo, Lydia and Amelys, Ian Colquhoun, Will Gardner,
Larola, Elsie Malpas
July 6-11: Fred Karno presents The Hydro, with Syd Chaplin, Victor Smith, Lily Griffen,
O Silverstone, Elsie Skillings, Fred Westcott; Moran and Wiser, Maud Tiffany, Alice
Weir, O’Keefe, Silbon’s Comedy Circus, Frank and Billy Bass, Four Elles
July 13-18: The Village Fire Brigade, with Alfred Lester, Buena Bent; A Careless
Lassie, with Jean Aylwin, Adelaide Grace, Ernest Paterson, Denis Cowles; Finney Sisters,
Famous Craggs, Rosie Archer, George Crowther, Le Petit Brunet
July 20-25: Extract from Javotte, with Lydia Kyasht and Serge Litavkin; Frank and
Vesta, Hedges Brothers and Jacobson, Albert Letine, Kate Rozner, Fred Russell, Great
Alberto, Bioscope: Cinessino’s Fairy Story
July 27-August 1: De Bierre, Two Anartos, Lorna and Toot Pounds, Griff, Gladys Parkinson,
Jack Shires, Bioscope: A Halt in the Jungle
August 3-8: Do it Now, with Geoffrey Saville, Florence Ray, Gertie Lestrelle, Arthur
Dandoe, Fred Forbes, Zena Melrose; Mozzetto, Anna Dorothy, J H Scotland, Maud Rochez’s
Monkey Music-Hall, Les Videos, Bioscope: A Wise Old Dog
August 10-15: Clarice Mayne and “That”, George French, Maximo, Chasing Chickweed,
with Alex Keith and company; Brennans, Marjorie Lawrence, Win and Windle
August 17-22: Oswald Williams, Clay Smith and Christine Neilsen, Van-Bern, Cecilia
and Lina Lallier, Alexandra Dagmar, Harry Russell
August 24-29: Wilkie Bard, Ludwig Amann, Bert Errol, Jane Ayr, Krakes, Du Calion,
Ray Hartley, Bioscope: military subjects
August 31-September 5: A Lamb on Wall Street, with Bert Coote and company; Four Holloways,
Vera and Syd, Geoffrey Seabroke, Conway and Leland, Millie Jillson, Nava and Minton,
Stefanos
September 7-12: Roshanara, Florence Turner, Ernie Mayne, Charles Hart, Selbinis,
Adam Tomlinson, Ruby Rowe, Pat, Doris and Avice
September 14-19: Miss Paris in London, with Olive Plant, Aubrey Welsh, Louie Beckman,
Ernie Sefton, Charles Berkeley, bathing and diving belles; Ina Hill, Johnson and
Bert, Tom Jones, Bioscope: War pictures
September 21-26: And Very Nice, Too! - As you Were 1855, As you May Be 1924, As you
Are 1914; The Kirbys, Ella Erskine and company, Romanoff, Bioscope: Harry Furniss’s
war drawings
September 28-October 3: David Devant, Thornton and Wagner, Harry Herbert, Dorothy
Varick, Gayto
October 5-10: Saharet, Wee Georgie Wood, J Milton Hayes, Livesey and Roseberry, Cosgrove
and Burns, Yates and Sydney, Arthur Albert, La Martine
October 12-17: A Year in an Hour - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Football, Winter, with
Herbert Franklyn, Mdlle Cerrero, Frank Benson, Fred Horton, May Dalton, Mollie Drew;
Leeds and Le Mar, Lily Lister, 12 Wezzans, Gintaro, The Arab Tumblers
October 19-24: The Red Hussars, with Jimmy Learmouth, Ruby Ralland, George Ricketts,
Gerald Williams; Lily Lena, Dion Wade, Britannia’s Honour in seven tableaux
October 26-31: The Honeymoon Express, with George Gregory, Rosie Pink, Alec Fraser;
Red Ria, with Muriel Pratt, Esther Phillips, Lola Duncan, Patrick S Murray; Rene
Ralph, Harry Moore
November 2-7: A Mixed Grill, with Ida Crispi, Fred Farren, John Humphries; Tom Stuart,
Frank Le Dent, Hinton and Wooton, Nell Derry
November 9-14: A Lucky Miss, with Florence Wray, Jean Allistone, Thomas Pauncefort,
Frank Randell; Beatie and Babs, Jen Latona, Harry Thurston, Alf Leonard Trio, Mannie
Gilbert, Richard McClelland
November 16-21: The Key of the Flat, with George Graves, Aubrey Ashton, Carlotta
Silvano, Gus Wheatman; Three Van Dammes, George Bass, Mme Montjoie - La Chanteuse
Belge, Winnie Wayne, Melbahs, Sister Gaye
November 23-28: Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, with Edgar Cooke, Jimmy Russell; Captain
Woodward’s seals and sea lions, Victor and Louis, Irene Penso, Tom E Hood, O’Wray
and O’Dare, Fred Milner, Bioscope: Lord Roberts’ funeral
November 30-December 5: Fleurs D’Orange, with Theodore Kosloff and his company of
The Imperial Russian Ballet; Melt and Bray, Mlle Berthe, Grogie, Carlton Brough,
Ruby Roya, James Stewart
December 7-12: G H Elliott, Great and Good, Griffiths Brothers, Trumpet-Major Wix,
Cissie Curlette, France and Stewart, Emilie Hayes, Hal Bert
December 14-19: Whit Cunliffe, Fred Karno’s The Steam Laundry, with Harold Wellesley;
Cyclinis, Siems, Miles-Stavordale Quintette, Fantomas, with Albert Brouett and company;
Daphne Wynne, Brothers Ford
December 21-26: September Morn, with Jack Barty, Constance Jarrett; Bedfellows, with
Beaumont Collins, David Baird and company; Hayley’s Juveniles, Hunter and Bob, Bryan
O’Sullivan
December 28-January 2: Say When, with Leonard F Durell’s company; Tom and Baby, Park’s
Eton Boys and Girton Girls, Bob Miller, Van Camp’s Pigs, Hamamura Family
1915
January 4-9: Say When, with Leonard F Durell’s company; Pauline Travis, Ernie Ream,
Oscar Layton, Royal Bartle Quartette, Essie and Babs, Drew and Alders
January 11-16: Say When, with Leonard F Durell’s company; A Dream in an Opium Den,
with Six Ceylons; The Case of Johnny Walker, with Harry M Vernon’s company; Thora,
Forest Tell, Bella and Jules Terry
January 18-23: The Contemptible Little Army, with Lauderdale Maitland, Janet Alexander,
Raymond Wood; Papering a House, with Will Collinson and company; Carlisle and Wellmon
and two grand pianos, Louis J Seymour, George Crotty, Grace Brothers, Lily Flexmore,
Three Ernests
January 25-30: For Russia, with Lydia Yavorska (Princess Bariatinsky) and company;
The Boy Army - The Army of Tomorrow: Fred Ginnett presents English and Belgian boy
scouts; Denziloe Trio, Christie Duo, Hue and Coe, Wallace Lupino, Matthew Boulton,
Agnes Knights, Chatham
February 1-6: Kultur, with Georgina Milne, Ellis Holland, Dick Harcourt, Cecil Du-Gue,
Marie Kildare; Willie Robbins, Evans and Holland, Fred Arthur; The Girl with the
Wink, with Violet Black and company
February 8-13: Kultur, with Georgina Milne, Ellis Holland, Dick Harcourt, Cecil Du-Gue,
Marie Kildare; Lillian French, Bert Lytton, Stanley Brett, Zoe Gordon and Grand Star
company
February 15-20: Kultur, with Georgina Milne, Ellis Holland, Dick Harcourt, Cecil
Du-Gue, Marie Kildare; The Woman who Knows, with Malcolm Scott; Daley Cooper and
Mabel Lait, Blanche Tomlin, Bioscope: British and Belgian troops skirmishing in Flanders
February 22-27: The Red Heads, with Arthur Aiston, Laurence Legge, Ethel Oliver;
Ernest Shand, Four Powers, The Toyshop, with Viviana, Mark Lupino and company
March 1-6: Wilkie Bard, Little Freddie Hackin, Marriot Edgar, Zelinda Davis, Newhouse
and Ward, Phil Rallis Trio, Billy Simpson, Roya and Rejane
March 8-13: Till Sunday, with Arthur Roberts, Nellie Townshend, Betty Duroy, Dorothy
Vernon, H J Worth, Harry Huddlestone; The End of the World, with Joe Hayman and Milfred
Franklin; Maie Ash and Fred Allendale, Harry Reynolds, John Tiller’s Eight Sunshine
Girls, Doris Melrose, Terry Twins, Two Drominos, Charles Lewis, Carl and Tommy Howard
March 15-20: Der Tag, with Lilian Braithwaite, Norman McKinnel and company; Tom Foy,
Harlequinaders, Pasquali Brothers, Jeanette Denarber, Alice Craven, Helen Charles,
Topliss Green, Bioscope: Sinking of the Dresden
March 22-27: Go to Jericho!, with George Bass, Stanley Lupino, Will Benaland, Connie
Emerald, Josephine Horton, Olive Robinson; Yamacata, Fyne and Hurley, Josie Delaine
March 29-April 3: All French, with Hugh E Wright, R N Cary, Cyril Dane, Cora Lingard,
Evelyn Vernham; Fun in a Bakehouse, with Joe Boganny and his comedians; Eric Godley,
Albert Letine, Bioscope: North Somerset Yeomanry at the Front
April 5-10: Little Tich, Oyra and Dorma Leigh, Trevor and Ware, Five Petleys, Dexter,
Daisy Sloan, Norman Payne, Nelson Trio
April 12-17: Albert Whelan, Jack Pleasants, Hooray, with Henry Clive and Mabel Bunyea;
Four Swifts, Clark’s Comedy Cyclists, Ackroyd-Melita Trio, Dan O’Scott, Irene Pearse,
Howards
April 19-24: Neil Kenyon, Marie Dainton, How she Fell (Head First), with Archibald
Forbes and company; Sisters Reeve, W L Rowland, Hugh Hughes, Joe and Willy, Ray and
Jack
April 26-May 1: Florence Smithson, Cooper Mitchell, Jay Whidden and Billy Kuming,
Fred and Gus McNaughton, Mongadors, Three Van Dammes, Daisy Stratton, Dolly Victoria
Troupe
May 3-8: 1,000,000 Dollar Girl, with Florrie Groves, Tubby Edlin, G S Melvin, May
Tomlinson, Alex Chentiens; Three Meers, Barry Payne, Baker and Bunn, Betty Boden,
Bioscope: Yeomanry at exercise; convalescent Indian soldiers at physical exercise
May 10-15: Very Soft, with Walter Almero, James Stillwell, F Callando, J G Kelly,
Matt Powell, Ernest Le Butt, Ada Webb, Gwen Thayer; Alice Liebman, Quaint Qs, Sinclair’s
Three Diamonds, Three Wolkens, Leslie Elliott, Bob Morrison
May 17-22: Very Soft, with Walter Almero, James Stillwell, F Callando, J G Kelly,
Matt Powell, Ernest Le Butt, Ada Webb, Gwen Thayer; Queenie Essex, Four Vagabonds,
Benedetti Brothers, Inez and Pim, Nellie Boden, Scott Gibson
May 20 (daytime): Grand Fashionable Matinee: Very Soft, with Walter Almero, James
Stillwell, F Callando, J G Kelly, Matt Powell, Ernest Le Butt, Ada Webb, Gwen Thayer;
Inez and Pim, Calland Trio, Queenie Essex, Albert Foster, Bristol Glee Singers, Nellie
Boden, Four Vagabonds, Scott Gibson, Harold Clutterbuck, Clarke and Cambridge, Thelma
Waldron, in aid of Lord Mayor’s Hospital Fund
May 24-29: Very Soft, with Walter Almero, James Stillwell, F Callando, J G Kelly,
Matt Powell, Ernest Le Butt, Ada Webb, Gwen Thayer; Pat, Doris and Avice, George
Goodfellow and Jennie Gregson, Frank Maura, George Laird, Sam Walsh, Dorothy Millar
May 31-June 5: I’ve Seen the ’Arem, with Jimmy Kurry, Dan Clark, Tommy Mestol, Bijon
Dreno, Mabel Lamont, Faresha Troupe; Cecil Lyle, Lowe and Loman, Ian Colquhoun
June 7-12: Parker Catches the K****r, with Charles Austin; Molly Wells and Frank
Mayban, Vera Wootton, Leeds and Lemar, The Jackson and Charles Trio, The Dennisons,
Australian Alberto, Percy Hayden
June 14-19: Hetty King, Bluebottles, with Ernie Lotinga and company; Frederick Sylvester
and company, Elsa Cowie, My Fancy, Radford and Valentine, The Eleven Mariners, Auber
June 21-26: Mon Amour, with Amelia Stone, Armand Kalisz; Effie Mann, Talbot O’Farrell,
De Wynne Brothers, Belle Davis’s Cracker-Jacks, Billy French, Les Videos, Bert Harrow,
Bioscope: Pathé’s Animated Gazette
June 28-July 3: It’s Snow Use, with Harry Weldon; The Honey Girl, with Ralph Lynn
and company; The Prize, with Julien Henry, Florence Barrow; Winifred Ward, Edris
Coombs Trio, Jack Lane, Bi-Bo-Bi, Jock Mills
July 5-10: The Ghost and the Girl, with Dan Rolyatt, Constance Worth and company;
Johnson Clark, Four Richies, Eight of the Old Boys play Tipperaries of Other Days,
Four Clovelly Girls, Reece Duo, Billy and Frank Bass, Ost
July 12-17: Something Doing, with Dubon, Mike Johnson, Cyril Kempster, Connie Moore,
Jennie Lamonte, Winnie Sloane; James A Watts, Larry Lewis, Violet Stockelle, Laurie
and Elsie
July 19-24: Marie Lloyd, Jessie Broughton and Dennis Creedon, Campbell and Barber,
Du Calion, Vivian Foster, Jenny Castelle, Bright Brightie and Hartley Carlyon, Three
Curtises
July 26-31: Duty, with The Irish Players - Eithne Magee, A Sinclair, J A O’Rourke,
F O’Donovan, J M Kenigan, S J Morgan; Ernie Mayne, Pip Powell and Kate Vesey, Conway
George, Lily Soutter, The Ketos, Moon and Morris, Mexican Wonders, Bioscope: Parish
fasion
August 2-7: Ever been Had?, with Nat Lewis, Jennie Hartley, Leslie Dean, Irene Shamrock;
Mozzetto, Charles Norton, Cyclery Buffoons
August 9-14: Beauties, with Gregory Stroud, Harry Cole, Winifred Hall, W Wilson Blake,
Peggy Doyle, Bruce Winston, Signorina Carita; Tom Clare, Cornalla and Eddie, Cissie
Lupino, Campbell and Scott
August 16-21: Don’t Tempt Me, with George Goodfellow and Jennie Gregson, Guy Vivian,
Sybil Coulthurst; Lightning Vinettos, Jack Austin and Lena Lawton, Jack Straw, Harry
Russell
August 23-28: Sugar and Spice, with Austin Melford, Claire Romaine, Gilbert Childs,
John Latham, Gwen Kenrise; Four Seltinis, Harry Fields, Helen Moray
August 30-September 4: The New World, with Helen Haye, O B Clarence, Geoffrey Wilmer,
Ethel Wellesley; The Imperial Russian Ballet, with Rita Zalmani, Anna Bromova, Serge
Morosoff, M W Wania; Dusty Rhodes, Dick Tubb, Elsie Malpass, Ray Hartley, Aldon and
Loupe, Bert Errol, Bioscope: the war in pictures
September 6-11: Get Away, you Boys, with Tom and Marie Motramo, Margaret Stuart,
Albert Darnley; Bransby Williams, Dudley Dale and Those Two Boys, Maudie Ford
September 13-18: Gertie Gitana, Jay Laurier, The Grumblers, Andos Japs, Fred Ginnett’s
Rejected Remounts, Laura Novea, Arthur Lewis, Cedar and Elgar, Lois and Percy Tarling
September 20-25: Kiss Me, Sergeant, with Lyuba Liskoff, Sam Walsh, Doris Chard, Charles
Hanbury, O E Lennon, Emily Stevens, Yvonne Mehro, Wylie and Tate Chorus; Esa Japanese
Troupe, Sam Barton, Pat Lynch, Millie Jillson, Bioscope: Winston Churchill addressing
military workers; latest Paris fashions
September 27-October 2: Extract from Javotte, with Lydia Kyasht and Serge Litavkin
and company; Developing a Photograph, with Will Evans and company; Mysterious Wishart,
Tom Jones, May Sherrard, Harry Leybourne, Taylor-Monzo Trio, Bioscope: war pictures
October 4-9: Le Petit Cabaret, with Hilda Glyder, Nan Foster, The Dorane Sisters
and Wood; Olga, Elgar and Eli Hudson, Will Gardner, The Stevanos, Bioscope: Arrival
of Germans taken prisoner at Bassée
October 11-16: Merry Moments, with Hal Jones, Nora Stockelle, Marriott Edgar, Walter
Williams, Nora Emerald; Fred Barnes, The Merrills, J H Scotland, Lilian Rigby
October 18-23: Mark Sheridan, Wee Georgie Wood, The Prizewinner, with Macdonald Watson,
Nell Barker, Robert Drysdale; J Cosgrove and Burns, Little Beryl Clifford, Samoroff
and Sonia, George Jackley and Louis Le Sine, R A Speedwell, Bioscope: Pathé’s Animated
Journal
October 25-30: Search Me, with Jack Edge (as Charlie Chaplin), Lorna and Toots Pounds,
Rose Hamilton, Dolf Wheeler, Barry Baldrick, The Peach Bloom Girls; Lily Lena, Dion
Wade, Rexhart
November 1-6: Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, with Edgar Cooke, Jimmy Russell; Diving
Belles featuring Daphne, Ruby Roya, Anna Dorothy, Two Anartos, Romaine and Dainton,
Albert Foster, Adam Tomlinson, Bioscope: King reviews troops in France; St Paul’s
memorial service for nurse Cavell
November 8-13: She’s a Daisy, with Dan Rolyat, Kathleen Kingston, Albert Levine,
Paul Relph, Finnie Hearn, Chevalier and Le Noir, Irene Shamrock; Daunton Shaw Troupe,
George E Rymer, Leslie Glenroy
November 15-20: Longshoreman Bill, with Alfred Lester, Buena Bent, Sydney Young;
Two Rascals and Jacobson, Grock and Partner, Frank le Dent, Naval Quartette, Fred
Milner, Hope Charteris, Mlle Doria
November 22-27: Saucy, with Arthur Roberts, Licienne Dervyle, Helen Lenaine, Nellie
Townsend, Amy Preston, Bluff and Tough; Grogie, André Romanoff, Martini Trio - Alfred
Pratt, Janet Hemsley, Madeline Harbert, Bioscope: war pictures
November 28: 6th Gloucesters’ Recruiting Concert
November 29-December 4: Clarice Mayne and “That”, Clarissa Saharet and Senor Florido,
Jock McKay, Lockhart’s Elephants, Chatham, Carlton Brough, The Kirbys, Katie Butler
December 6-11: Beatie and Babs, Carlton, Jack Lane and a piano, Five Jovers, In the
Moonlight, with Mme Glinka, M N Korsakoff, Anna Kova; Syd Sydney, Margaret Stuart,
Lotto, Lilo and Otto, Bioscope: war pictures
December 13-18: R G Knowles, Whit Cunliffe, R A Roberts, Houssien Family, Mannie
Gilbert, Joe and Betty Binns, Alcide Capitaine, The Junes
December 20-24: Carrying On, with Jack and Evelyn; The Palace of Orpheus, with Elliott
Savonas; The Messenger Boy from Broadway, with Charley Manny and Bob Roberts; Miss
Cashmore with horses, dogs and a monkey, Eddie Howard, Thornley-Dodge, Dublin Desmonds,
Eric Godley
December 27-January 1: The Two Bobs, The (K)night in Queer Street, with Janet Alexander,
Lauderdale Maitland; Warsaw Brothers, Selbinis, Flying Mars, Harry Hudson, Dorothy
Grey, Amos Howard, Trumpet-Major Wix, Bioscope: German prisoners; how photographs
are taken of enemy positions
1916
January 3-8: Fred Karno’s Hot and Cold, with A W Baskcomb, Dorothy Frostick, Honor
Cornall, Herbert Bolingbroke, Eric Thorne; Jen Latona, Bert Lytton, Alaskas, Bioscope:
war pictures
January 10-15: Betty Barclay and a Baritone, Harmony Four, The Seven Nobodies, The
Famous Craggs, Trombettas, Madam Doris and her performing Russian bears, Four Casionos,
Ida Long
January 17-22: Step this Way, with Elven Hedges, Billy Leonard, Gordon James, Isabelle
Dillon, Ivy Howard, Peggy Hope, Tom Bryant, Alf Leonard; Charles Whittle, Frank and
Vesta, Loie Conn, Bioscope: war pictures
January 24-29: De Bierre, Fred and Gus McNaughton, The Charladies, The Avolos, Frank
Murphy and Hal Mack, Marini, Bioscope: war pictures
January 31-February 5: Ladies First!, with Larry Channon, Dusty Rhodes, Eileen Lawler,
Archie McCaig, Sisters Jensen; Newhouse and Ward, Pauline Travis, Eve Dore and Henri
Nicoli, Bioscope: war pictures; Dutch floods
February 7-12: Always Tell your Wife, with Ellaline Terriss and Stanley Brett, Ida
Mann, Mabel Mann; The Toy Shop, with Viviana and company; Mark Lupino, Allan Shaw,
The Three Prodigies - Mildred, Dorothy and Baby Langley, Solo, Lucy Coventry, Charles
Meteor Trio, Bioscope: war pictures
February 14-19: Cheer Up, with Veronica Brady, Frank Nava, Max Rivers, Mamie Sullivan,
Beatrice Willey, Dorothy Minton, Will Hindson; Harry Thurston, Violet Grey, Rebla,
Bioscope: war pictures
February 21-26: Du Theatre au Champ D’Honneur, with Sarah Bernhardt; Van Dock, Zelinda
Davis, Jack Terriss and Martin Romaine, The Whittakers, Edna Maude, Clay Smith and
Edith Drayson, Bioscope: exclusive pictures from The Empire, London: The Truth about
Gallipoli
February 28-March 4: G H Elliott, Match Boxes, with Mabel Knowles, James Gelderd,
Rita Jonson, Harry Cane; Sisters Aberdare, Zara Wolinkski, Hunter and Bob, Keystone
Troupe, Van Bern, Gillie Potter, Bioscope: war pictures
March 5: Marie Hall, Lilian Dillingham, Sybil Arundale, Gertrude Winchester, Maurice
D’Oisly, Percy Heming, Sam Walsh, in aid of Inky Imps (Evening Times and Echo) Soldiers’
Club Scheme
March 6-11: Love Birds, with Jennie Hartley, Woolmer Young, Hal Bert, Tom B Davies,
Gracie Rivers, Cyril Smith; Olga and the Four Diving Norins, Alfredo, Clarissa Talbot
and Albert Pearce, Bioscope: war pictures
March 13-18: George Formby, Petite Nina and her Motor-Cycling Sea Lions, Noblett,
Norman Payne, Alberta Flahey and her Tenor, Sharp’s Tromboneers, Magleys, Takiners,
Bioscope: war pictures
March 20-25: Jingle Bells, with Harry Welchman, Jean Allistone, Josie Leys, Edward
Rigby, Johnnie Fields, Bernard Dudley; The Joannys, Belle Mora, Harry Herbert, Bioscope:
war pictures
March 27-April 1: Liane D’Eve, Malcolm Scott, “The Girl with the Wink”, with Violet
Black and company; Five Petleys, Denziloe Trio, Coram, Ivor Vintor, Dolly Varden,
Bioscope: war pictures of Russian army
April 3-8: Amy Evans, Ella Shields, Mr Hymack, Will Tyler, Arthur Ferris, Clown and
Rosa Barker’s Miniature Circus, The Ryemodes Trio, Fyne and Hurley, Bioscope: war
pictures
April 10-15: S’Only a Rumour, with Arthur Rigby, Mabel Osborn, Harold Thornley, Augus
and Escott, Eight Maringy Girls; The Villions, Ralph and Nellie Howard, W L Rowland,
Pathé’s Animated Gazette: war pictures
April 17-22: Oswald Williams, Jack Pleasants, Maie Ash and Fred Allandale, Phil Rallis
Trio, Roya and Rejane, The Royal Bartle Quintette, Ada Cerito, Lennie Hill, Bioscope:
war pictures
April 24-29: A Smart Wedding, with George Mozart; Mad Dog, with Six Brothers Luck;
Clark’s Comedy Cyclists, Albert Weston and Nelly Lynch, Harry Reynolds, Little Freddie
Hackin, Dainty Doris, Victor and Louis, Bioscope: war pictures
May 1-6: In Trouble Again, with Tom Foy; The Great Wieland, The Mikado Family, Mills
and Carlotti, Clown Cruikshank, Bruce Green, Daisy Sloan, Diana and Len Grey, Bioscope:
war pictures
May 8-13: Margaret Cooper with her piano, Tom Hearn, Ted, Dick and May Hopkins, The
Goodalls, Conway George, Haley’s Juveniles, Auber, Thorne and Leopold, Bioscope:
war pictures
May 15-20: High Explosives, with Robert Reilly, Harry Maxim, Kitty Emson, Lulu Copping;
Lillian Barnes and Dave Lee, Warwick Pryce, Pasquali Brothers, Bioscope: war pictures.
May 18: Matinee in aid of Lord Mayor’s Hospital Fund
May 22-27: Hello! Bristol, with Victor Crawford, Mark Daly, Madge Vincent, Ruby Wentworth,
Will Bishop Junior; Dolly Victoria Troupe of Lady Cyclists, Leslie Elliott, George
Newburn, Bioscope: war pictures
May 29-June 3: Hetty King, Ernie Lotinga, Dick and Jim, Nellie Boden, Benedetti Brothers,
Ian Colquhoun, Franco, Hartley Wonders, Bioscope: war pictures
May 31 (daytime): John Foster Fraser lecture: What I Saw in Russia
June 5-10: Parker’s Wedding, with Charles Austin, May Moore Duprez; Yamagata Japanese
Troupe, Sam Walsh, Sinclair’s Three Diamonds, Bert Weston, The Real McKays, Cecil
Lyle, Bioscope: war pictures
June 12-17: Arrival of a Rival, with Fred Emney, Maurius Jerrard; The Red Heads,
with Nell Carter, Gregory Stroud, Joe Milton, Hanna Hart; De Busse, Dennisons, Bioscope:
war pictures
June 19-24: Neil Kenyon, Daisy Dormer, Du Calion, Fred and Gus McNaughton, Four Vagabonds,
Elsa Cowie, Hall and Turn, Miles-Stavordale Quintette, Bioscope: war pictures
June 26-July 1: The Pretty ’Prentice, with Adeline Genée, Madame Zangretta, M Givre;
Australian Alberto, Dainty Danes, Thora, James Mooney and Ida Holbein, Odette Myrtil,
“Kleptomaniacs”, with Fred Edwards and May Yates, Bioscope: war pictures
July 1 (daytime): Ben Tillett lecture How to Win the War, chaired by the Lord Mayor
in aid of his charities
July 3-8: Ducks and Quacks, with Walter Passmore, Johnny Danvers, Agnes Fraser, Millicent
Edwards, Arthur Denton, Florence Phillips, Doris Crighton; Fred Barnes, Holsons,
Alice Craven, Bioscope: war pictures
July 10-15: Marie Lloyd, Giodano, Brightie and Carlyon, Lawrence Barclay, Ray and
Zack, Flying Wolkens, Jock McPherson, Ackroyd-Melita Trio, Bioscope: German prisoners
arriving in England
July 17-22: Gertie Gitana, Julien Henry Trio, Ernest Shand, Les Videos, Sam and Fanny
Trio, Mazuz and Mazette, Billy and Frank Bass, The Food Inspector, with Wilson and
Waring, Bioscope: war pictures
July 24-29: Girl Wanted, with Stanley Lupino, Larry Channon, Archie McCaig, A Scott
Cullen, Connie Emerald, Ena Dale; Clifford and Grey, Jay Whidden and Billy Kuming,
W V Robinson, Bioscope: war pictures
July 31-August 5: Keep to the Right, with Jimmy Learmouth, Lily Moore, Florence Williams,
Edward Pollard, Lottie Stone’s dancers, D’Amato’s Neapolitan Singers; Frank H Fox,
Nixon Grey, Jessie Boughton and Dennis Creedon, Bioscope: war pictures
August 7-12: The Radium Girl, with Alva York, Syd Howard, Ada Martini; Four Mexican
Wonders, Quaint Qs Comedy Quartette, Bioscope: war pictures
August 14-19: Mabel Mann, T E Dunville, The Meanest Man on Earth, with Ethel Hart,
Richard Oliver, Naylor Grimson; Good Morning, Conductor, with Fred C Glover, Alex
Keith, Sammy Johns, Sisters Motramo, Lloyd Mackenzie, Olive Dent; Cyclery Buffoons,
Joe and Willy, Claude Lester, Rene Ralph, Bioscope: war pictures
August 21-26: The Great Redding Street Burglary, with C V France, Helen Haye, Norman
Forbes, Norman Page, Athene Seyler; Tom Stuart, Willie Stopit Trio, Comedy Meisters,
Milton Brothers, Connie Kay, Rallis, Laurie and Elsie
August 28-September 2: Fred Karno’s Parlez vous Francais?, with Syd Walker, Reginald
Adair, Albert Brouett, Joe Clarke, Jessie Ewart, Kitty Collinson; Le Bas Duo, Lydia
and Francis, Bioscope: Mandie’s little love affair
September 4-9: Wilkie Bard, Claude Golden, Brooklyn Comedy Four, Cornalla and Eddie,
Little Chipp, Anna Hana, Frank Maura, Bioscope: Pathé’s Animated Gazette
September 11-16: Mark Sheridan, For those in Peril, with Beaumont Collins, Drenlincourt
Oslam, David Baird, James Mannering; Ben Taylor and Bonnie Browning, Merrills, Bessie
Slaughter, Elsie Malpass, George Bray, George Jackley and Louis Le Sine
September 18-23: Little Miss Mustard, with Ivy Ray, Bert Gilbert, Eric Randolph,
La Martine; Effie Mann, Agda and company, Cissie Lupino, Bioscope: Pathé’s Animated
Gazette, Vitagraph film with Frank Daniels
September 25-30: My Lonely Soldier, with Marguerite Sualtiel, Betty Ward, Christopher
Steele; Winifred Ward, Vera Wootton, Novelty Minstrel Revue, Barts Trio, Walter Bellonini,
Reece Duo, Noland and Kiddie, Bioscope: war pictures
October 2-7: Honi Soit, with Pip Powell, Mona Glym, Paul Clerc, Martin Davison, Winnie
Collins, Olly Moody; Grumblers, May Sherrard, C J Johnson, Bioscope: war pictures
October 9-14: Introduce Me, with Harry Scott and Eddie Whaley, Harry Bailey, Barry
Mills, Molly Drew, Cyril Kempster; Belle Davis and her Cracker-Jacks, Tom Jones,
Beryl Clifford, Bioscope: Pathé’s Animated Gazette
October 16-21: Golda Quartette, Two Rascals and Jacobson, Imperial Russian Ballet,
with Anna Bromova and Serge Morosoff, Brothers Egbert, Nicol and Martin, Jock Mills,
Millie Jillson, McLean Lassies, Bioscope: war pictures
October 23-28: Le Petit Cabaret, with Billy Doust, Alec Gillette, Nan Foster, Phyllis
St Clair, Olande Anderson, Dorane Sisters and Wood; Grock and Partner, May Huxley,
Harry Moore
October 30-November 4: Robert Fulgora, Betty Barclay and Baritone (George Glover),
Lily Lena, Mozelles, Edivictas, Archie Naish, F C Henneguin, Five Olracs, Bioscope:
war pictures
November 6-11: Look who’s Here, with James Learmouth, Jennie Hartley, Arthur Roberts,
Dorothy Grey, Billy Caryll; Irene Pearse, Hal Bert, Bioscope: war pictures
November 13-18: Nights of Gladness, with Uty Rowlands, Tom Kelso, Winnie Collins,
J H Wakefield, Maude Esmond; Vivian Foster, Jack Lane, Darty and Partner, Bioscope:
Pathé’s Animated Gazette: war pictures
November 20-25: Clarice Mayne and “That”, Jerry and company (Willie, West and McGinty),
Agustin and Hartley, Halma, Anna Dorothy, Four Astors, Chester Kingston, Syd Sydney,
Bioscope: war pictures
November 27-December 2: Frolics, with Marriott Edgar, Arthur Reece, Dorothy Levey,
Jos Alexandre, Isabelle Dillon, Dorothy Vernon; Fred Milner, Four Ritchies, Bioscope:
war pictures
December 4-9: Bransby Williams, Step in the Office, with Joseph Coyne, Louis Payne,
Muriel Barnby, Lennox Pawle, Ernest Joyner; Lawrence Wright Ensemble - Gertrude Hart,
Eric Godley, Kathleen Grahame, Poppescus, Grogie, Fred Curran, Gaye Gordon, Speedwell,
Bioscope: war pictures
December 11-16: R G Knowles, Margaret Moffat, O B Clarence, Beatrice Ainley, Tucker,
Thornley Dodge, Peter Donald and Meta Carson, Will Gardner, Decars, Merry Four
December 18-23: Beautiful Mrs Blain, with Frederick Kerr, Winifred Izzard; Charles
Whittle, Les Trombettas, Famous Junes, Laura Novea, Three Van Dammes, Duncan and
Godfrey, Four Clovelly Girls
December 21 (daytime): Grand Matinee Concert, with Bristol Royal Orpheus Glee Society,
Phyllis Lett, Adela Verne, George Riseley, in aid of Inquiry Bureau for assistance
and entertainment of wounded soldiers
December 26-30: Carl Hertz, Rosie Lloyd, Van Dock, Gicardo, Eddie Ford, Kenna Brothers,
Jack Birchley, Daphne Wynne
1917
January 1-6: Elliott Savonas, J Francis Dooley and Corrine Sales, Sylvesters, Woodward
and Page, Adam Tomlinson, Those Four Kids, Allan Shaw, Florence Rattray, Widden and
Kuning
January 8-13: The Kodak Girl, with Barry Mills, Ernestine Cotmore, H V Surrey, Nora
Guy, Garry Lynch, Hugh Robinson; Cooper Mitchell and a piano, Bonaudo, Eileen Boyd
January 15-20: Vo-Cell-Ano Trio - Marie Novello, W H Squire, Carmen Hill; Bert Coote
and company, Swanstone and Hammond, Tom Clare, Ted and May Hopkins, Three Huxters,
Frank and Vesta
January 22-February 3: The Hula Girl, with George Gregory, Brothers Griffiths, Jennie
Hartley, Ian Colquhoun, Olga and the Diving Norins, Gracie Vicat, Beatrice Rochester,
Ellalain Mills, Fred Tooze, Donaldson Brothers, Arthur Bright, Judith Espinosa Troupe
February 5-10: His Own Way, with Florence Wray, Lewis Fielder, Adrian Gordon, Charles
H Hobson; Sammy Shields, Charles Cohan, Joe and Betty Binns, Jovers, Two McKays,
Alcide Capitaine, Ida Long
February 12-17: Selling a Pup, with G P Huntley, Evan Kelly, George de Lara, Nootie
(the pup); Jen Latona, George Goodfellow and Jennie Gregson, Roxy La Rocca, Alaskas,
Marcelle Molray, Bobby Thornton
February 19-24: The Two Bobs - Bob Adams and Bob Alden, Four Swifts, Cruikshank,
Albert Weston and Nellie Lynch, Manuel Vigo, Three Prodigies - Mildred, Dorothy and
Baby Langley, Tom E Hood, Carpatti Brothers
February 26-March 3: The Fourth of August, with Arthur Bourchier, Clifton Alderson;
Barrett and Knowles, Phil Ray, Mongadors, Nell Wigley, Bell Brothers, Paul Witt and
Teddie Butt
March 5-10: G H Elliott, Miss Cashmore, Tillett Brune and company, Jimmy Fletcher,
Keystone Troupe, Neil Gow, Emilie Hayes, Kelos, Louis Payne
March 12-17: Half Past Eight, with Fred Edwards, Yvonne Granville, Tommy Mostol,
J G Taylor, Marie Minto; Zelinda Davis, Alec Regan
March 19-24: Malcolm Scott, Carlton and his Satellites, Amy Evans, Six Qs, Harry
Herbert, Mozzetto, Joannys, Leona and Vince
March 26-31: Little Tich, Gothams, Romanoff, Frank Hemming and Marie Free, Jennie
Hartley, Sharp’s Tromboneers, Bert Beale, Dolly Varden
April 2-5, 7: “Dick Turpin”, with R A Roberts; Frederick Sylvester and company, Stanley
Kirkby and Harry Hudson, Fyne and Hurley, Rex Romaine and Doris Dainton, Ada Cerito,
Gicardo
April 6: Good Friday Concert, with R A Roberts, Maurice Alexander, Charles Tree,
Adela Verne, Felice Lyne, Charles Read, Cecilian Choral Society, in aid of Lord Mayor’s
Hospital Fund
April 9-14: Doctor O’Toole, with The Irish Players; Jack Pleasants, A Busy Day, with
Maie Ash and Fred Allandale; Hope Charteris, Alfredo, De Breans, Lily Hartley
April 16-21: George Formby, Shirley and Ransome, Jack Terriss and Albert Romaine,
Mabel Mann, Dainty Doris, Loie Conn, Vardel Brothers, Sam Springson
April 23-28: Ruth Vincent, Vernon Watson, Hunting Troubles, with Tom Foy; Hymack,
Jack Win and Nora Windle, Byewoods Trio, Mollie Butler, Patti Loftus
April 30-May 5: Fred Karno’s Hot and Cold, with A W Baskcomb, Ethel Oliver, Dorothy
Frostick, Harold Clemence, Arthur J Denton; Blodwen Butcher, Mullaney Brothers, Mme
Renee
May 7-12: Ernie Mayne, Extra Special, with Ray Kay, John McMahon, Harry Collins,
Violet English, Poppy Asquin, Albert Rees, Betty Bush, Ros Webster, Mamie Watson,
Honor Bright; Roy Mex, Lennie Hill
May 14-19: The Poet of Dunrobin, with Neil Kenyon; The Major’s Reflection, with Murphy
and Mack; Four Vagabonds, Hartley Wonders, Frank Varney and Marie Brett, Biff Girls,
Jack Smiles, Stidder
May 21-26: Ella Shields, Three Sisters O’Hara, Pasquali Brothers, Lockhart’s Elephants,
Haley’s Juveniles, Ian Colquhoun, J G Taylor, Rosa Hamel
May 28-June 2: George Mozart, Fun in a Bakehouse, with Joe Boganny’s comedians; Ina
Hill, Leslie Elliott, Tom D Newell, Revueland, with Black and White Octette; Yetta,
Katie Butler
June 4-9: “Elegant Edward”, with Charles Hawtrey, Gladys Maude, E Gulson, Patrick
Quill; Lupino Lane, Gaby Revette, “Smith VC”, with Edith Carter and company; Dalmere’s
Table Circus, Elsa Cameron, Olga Verney, Er May and Ray
June 11-16: The Lucy Nuttall Quartet - Lucy Nuttall, Rose Hardy, Edith Penville,
Fred Royle; Scotch Kelly, Bruce Green, Mikado Family, Anita Edis and Fred Forbes,
Dainty Danes, Signor Nevotti, Great and Good
June 18-23: Margaret Cooper with her piano, Frank Van Hoven, Marini de Busse, Poppy
Ginnett and company, Ernest Shand, Great Wieland, Lynda Martell
June 25-30: “Father”, with Pimple, Joe Evans; Rinaldo, Sisters Reeve, Sinclair’s
Three Diamonds, Lawrence Barclay, Pierce and Roslyn, Morgan and Burke
July 2-7: Gertie Gitana, Takio and his £1,000 film, George Schreck and Mabel Percival,
Nelson Jackson, Jack Hayman and Jimmy Lowe, Hanlon Charles, Daisy Sloan, Milton Brothers
July 9-14: Whit Cunliffe, In the Trenches, with Harry Buss; Carmen Hill, Dan Whitley,
Two Anartos, Baisden, Hilda Newsome
July 16-21: Parker’s Wedding, with Charles Austin and company; Miles-Stavordale Quintette,
Holson and Bert, Alice Craven, Delson and Good Trio, Myra Christian, Ernest Hastings
July 23-28: Coram and “Jerry”, McNaughton Brothers, Fred Ginnett’s Talking War Horse,
Sandy Powell and Katie Hughes, Mlle Regal, Yamagata Family, Howard Bellman
July 30-August 4: Nellie Wallace, Khaki Boys, Nixon Grey, Benedetti Brothers, Mazuz
and Mazette, Grahams, Laurie and Elsie, Bioscope: (from second house, July 31, Special
Volunteer Night) The Volunteer Review, Durdham Down
August 6-11: Hetty King, T E Dunville, The Ghost of the Girl, with Dan Rolyat, Constance
Worth, Fred W Hawes; Florence Meredith, Elven Hedges, Clifford and Grey, Six Musical
Navvies
August 13-18: What a Lady!, with George Graves, Winifred Wing, E Heren Brown, Gus
Wheatman; Caron Troupe, Daisy Wood, Harry Leybourne, Molly Wells and Frank Mayban,
J H Scotland, Atherton and Hyde
August 20-25: Zomah, Julien Henry, Annie Walker, Margaret Wooler, John Barton and
Annie Ashley, Rene Ralph, Sergeant Brennan, Edgar Curtis, Norman Field, Cyril Clensy
August 27-September 1: Florence Smithson, Sarah Sleeps Out, with Charles Windermere,
Pauline Hugen and company; David Poole, Three Merrills, Tom Reno, Eddie Martyn, Harry
Taylor
September 3-8: Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, with Jimmy Russell, Billie de Vey; Daly
and Healy, Lily Morris, Shawlene, My Fancy, Akebona Troupe, Sisters Webb
September 10-15: Vo-Cell-Ano Trio - W H Squire, Lily Fairney, Marie Novello; Arthur
Roberts, ‘Opkins on Fatigue, with Billy Danvers, Winifred Roma and company; Nellie
Anderson and Pat Nash, Anna Hana, Lydia and Francis, May Sherrard
September 17-22: The Marriage will not Take Place, with Mary Clare, Henry Fibart,
A Harding Sterr; Effie Mann, Brooklyn Comedy Four, Gregory Troupe, Thornley Dodge,
Lola Patey, Bandmaster Morris, Billy Wells and Eclair Twins
September 23: Grand Military Concert, with Canadian Military Choir, Military Sextette,
Bristol Hippodrome Orchestra under Howard W Galpin, in aid of Canadian war charities
and War Seal Foundation Fund
September 24-29: Marie Lloyd, George Goodfellow and Jennie Gregson, Winifred Ward,
Fred Barnes, Helen Moray, Fields and Doreen, La Bas Duo
October 1-6: The Bathchair Man, with Wilkie Bard; Jerry and company - Willy, West
and McGinty; The Grumblers - Lois Barker, Percy Tarling; Australian Alberto, Three
Ascots, Ethel Hook, Little Edna Maude
October 8-13: Fred Karno’s Three Bites, with Jack Gallagher, Beatrice Allen, T Lionel
Ellis, Alice Maydue, Gerty Adams; Carlton Trio, W V Robinson, Halma, Dancing Madcaps
October 15-20: Max Darewski, Lily Lena, Quaints Qs, Money and Misery, with Fred Rex
and company; Alexander Prince with his concertina, Millie Jillson, Gaumond Brothers,
Sam Hilton
October 22-27: The Lads of the Village, with Bob Stevens, Wilfred Essex, Victor Roberts,
Bert Linden, James Cowley, Savoy Quartette, Bella Mora, Emmie King, Wilbert Gamble,
Lester Jerome, Fred Maxwell, Dave Royston, Bioscope: Soldiers’ matinee at Bristol
Hippodrome
October 29-November 3: “Jimmy Josser and Company”, with Ernie Lotinga and company;
Music at Home, with George Carvey, Nan Stuart, Doris Cloud, Dolly Daintree; Joe Hayman,
Mildred Franklyn, Maura, Horace Barnes, Veronica Brady, Mozelles, Phil Rallis Trio
November 5-10: Oswald Williams, Rae Warwick, Two Rascals and Jacobson, Father and
Son, with Tom Waters and Eddie Morris; The Get-Away, with Bert Lloyd and company;
Winifred Davis, Grogie, Two Conns and Lloyd
November 12-17: Bubble and Squeak, with George Carney, George Hughes, Vesta Pine,
Florence Lynn, Minnie Pine, Malvina Gluzavona; Cornalla and Eddie, Cissie Lupino,
Bioscope: Royal visit to Bristol
November 19-24: Wild Bill Drives the Gold Stage, with Bransby Williams; Vera Wootton,
Armstrong and Howarth, Syd Sydney, Vera Caine, Anne Godfrey, Joe and Willy, Austen
Temple, Irene Vincent
November 26-December 1: Tim’s Pal, with Wee Georgie Wood; Tom Clare, May Erne and
Erne Chester, Cosgrove and Burns, Edivictas, Pat Lynch, Laura Novea
December 3-8: Overtones, with Mrs Langtry, Georgina Wynter, Fay Temple, Lilian Warde;
Flora Mann and Lilian Berger, James Loft, Poppescus, Adam Tomlinson, Madame Walker’s
Juveniles, Nelson Jackson
December 10-15: Scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Ellen Terry, Edith Evans,
Roy Byford, Audrey Cameron; Diving Belles featuring Daphne, Elven Hedges, Donald
and Carson, Marjorie Fulton, Rene, Hall and Turn
December 17-22: Kitchen Frolics, with Beatie and Babs; Roxy La Roca, Three Merrills,
Wilson and Waring, Those Nondescripts, Herbert La Martine, Marcelle Caron
December 24-29: The Old Lady Shows her Medals, with Irene Rook, G H Mulcaster; Ethel
Fenton, Mazuz and Mazette, The Jees, Fred Milner, Meredith and Adnil, Frank Whitman
December 31-January 5: “Johnson ‘Ole”, with Harry Thurston; His Own Way, with Florence
Wray and company; Jack Lane, Tucker, Brazilian Trio, Loupe and Ladies, Sylvia Van
Dyck
1918
January 7-12: Ruth Vincent, Money Talks, with John Barton and Annie Ashley; Dan Rolyat,
Daunton Shaw Troupe, Yelson Trio, Ed E Ford, Four Swifts
January 9 (daytime): The Serbian Trek, lecture by The Hon Evelina Haverfield; Beatrice
Allen, Arnold Richardson, Ruth Vincent, Vladimir Carnikoff, Monsieur Rosing, children’s
ballet Butterflies by pupils of the Misses Parnall, Grand Military and Orchestral
Bands of Royal Engineers (Inland Waterways and Docks), in aid of Serbian Red Cross
and Scottish Women’s Hospital Funds
January 14-19: The Palace of Orpheus, with Elliott Savonas; Bracelets, with Nell
Carter; David Poole, Ian McLean, Kavanaghs, Gladys Peel, Ragolio, Bioscope: War Office
Topical Budget
January 21-26: Zomah; A Soldier, a Girl and a Jolly Jack Tar, with Duncan and Godfrey;
Rosie Lloyd, Royal Bartle Quartette, Kenna Brothers, Rich Hayes, Ethel Castaldini
January 28-February 2: The Great Indian Rope Trick, with Carl Hertz, Emilie D’Alton;
His Wedding Morn, with Dare Austin and company; May Henderson, Flying Banvards, Foreman
and Fannan, Lewis Douglas, Mary Wynne Hulm
February 4-9: Ritchie Troupe, Elsie Spain and Randell Jackson, Frank and Vesta, Agda
and company, Estelle Rose, Billy Bennett, George Prince
February 11-16: Frills and Drills, with George Gregory, Lorna Della, Nellie Dade,
Will Hindson, Physical Culture Beauties chorus; May Hopkins and her two Taffies,
Bonaudo, Walter Bellonini
February 14 (daytime): Grand Matinee: Military Torchlight Tattoo!, with RE military
band, White City, 100 torch-bearers, conductor Major J Mackenzie Rogan, in aid of
YMCA Huts Fund; Frills and Drills
February 18-23: What a Lady!, with George Graves and company; Nixon Grey, Flora Cromer,
Enzers, Alaskas, Bi-Bo-Bi, Isa Wise
February 25-March 2: R G Knowles, In the Trenches, with Harry Buss; Marcelle and
Partner (sea lion), Rosa Dallow, Torino, Tom E Hood, Ida Long, Bioscope: War Office
Topical Budget: General Allenby
March 4-9: Six Days’ Leave, with Vesta Tilley; La Pia, Will H Fox and a piano, Dalmere’s
Table Circus, with performing dogs, rats, cats; W B Raby, May Edney, Manuel Vega
March 11-16: Ching Wu, Stanley Kirkby and Harry Hudson, Phil Ray, Belle Davis’s Cracker-Jacks,
Nellie Wigley, The Bells, Ivor Vinter
March 18-23: A Double Escape, with W T Ellwanger, Frank Henry, Mary Livingstone;
La Petite Nina and her Motor-Cycling Sea Lions, Takio and his £1,000 film The Living
Jungle, Campbell and Brady, Nina Wood, Jubb and Jerome, Lee White and Clay Smith
March 25-30: A Story of Waterloo, with H B Irving and company; Fred Barnes, The Soul
Kiss, with Alfred Leonard Trio; Jack Birchley, Olga Sydney, Ketos, Decars and Tomato
(donkey)
April 1-6: Fred Duprez, Jen Latona, Royal Gothams, Brinn and his comedy sailor, Ruby
Roya, Joe and Betty Binns, Haydee’s Marionettes, Alcide Capitaine
April 8-13: Little Tich, Mabel Mann, Winifred Ward, Radford and Valentine, Biff Girls,
Three Osrams, Wintle and Bunny
April 15-20: His Number’s Up, with George Ali; Fun in a Bakehouse, with Joe Boganny’s
comedians; Paul Gordon, Carrie and Evelyn, Neil Gow, Three Prodigies - Dorothy, Mildred
and Baby Langley, Costa and Geo
April 22-27: Clarice Mayne and “That”, Sammy Shields, Fyne and Hurley, Smiles, with
Mary Moran and company; Zellini, Dolly Varden, Belle Mora
April 29-May 4: Jack Pleasants, The Trap, with Herbert Waring, Miriam Lewes and company;
Niblo and Doris, Harry Moore, Emilie Hayes, De Breans, Tom D Newell
May 6-11: The Two Bobs, George Bass, Billy O’Connor, Qs, Wallace Selkirk’s Juvenile
Spectacle: The Clans of Bonnie Scotland, with a host of Bristol children; Dainty
Doris, Frank Hemming and Marie Free, Bioscope: War Office Topical Budget. May 8:
Special matinee, organised by Bristol Rotary Club, in aid of Lord Mayor’s Hospital
Fund
May 13-18: George Formby, Ernest Hastings, Joe O’Gorman, Two Real McKays, M’Lita
Dolores, Themos Amoorgis and Biddy Page, George Ackroyd and Pianist. May 15: Matinee:
G H Elliott, Emilie Hayes and main programme, in aid of Italian Red Cross Fund
May 20-25: “MacCrae, The Stoker”, with Neil Keynon; Alfred Haines’ English Ballet,
Head First, with Charles Crawford, Frances Midgley and company; Wardini, Molly Butler,
Five Jovers, Gaye Gordon
May 27-June 1: Whit Cunliffe, Gaby Revette, The Major’s Reflection, with Murphy and
Mack; Great Wieland, Sisters Reeve, Loie Conn, Mullaney Brothers
June 3-8: The Lucy Nuttall Quartette - Lucy Nuttall, Rose Hardy, Valda Oswald, Fred
Leslie; Malcolm Scott, Austin Rudd, Oswald Bemand and his Pigeons, Four Vagabonds,
Frank Varney and Marie Brett, Monzos
June 10-15: George Mozart, Lupino Lane and Horace Mills, Lockhart’s Elephants, Leslie
Elliott, J Olrac and company, Raie and Rosie Walters
June 17-22: G H Chirgwin, Daisy Wood, Tom Stuart, Nan Saunders, Siems, Ian Colquhoun,
Four Elmores
June 24-29: Daisy Jerome, “Bert and ‘Erb On an Island”, with Fred Edwards and company,
Arcadian Beauties chorus; Bruce Green, Three Sisters O’Hara, Katie Butler, Morgan
and Burke
July 1-6: “Queues”, and “Laying a Carpet”, with Will Evans; Queenie Leighton, Rinaldo,
Scotch Kelly, Sara Melita, Three Campbells, Lowe and Loman
July 8-13: Nixon Grey, Ina Hill, Carlton and his Satellites, Two Cures, Pierce and
Roslyn, Patti Loftus, Evelyn and Clayton
July 15-20: The Lads of the Village, with Bob Stevens, Wilfred Essex, Wilbert Gamble,
Fred Maxwell, Emmie King
July 22-27: Harry Weldon, Spessell Brothers and Mack, Those Four Kids, Alice Lilley,
Tambo and Tambo, Annie Rooney, Wilfred Burnard
July 29-August 3: Daisy Dormer, Tom Clare, Penrose and Whitlock, Ed J Baisden, Charles
Rich, Brooklyn Four, Anartos, Hamamura Family, Bioscope: Topical Budget: war pictures
August 5-10: Koffo of Bond Street, with George Graves and company; Jennie Hartley,
Renee Ralph, Norman and Leslie, Dan Whitley, Makido Family, Billy Wells and Eclair
Twins
August 12-17: Jack in the Box, with George Hestor, Dorothy Millar, Harold Wellesley,
Albert Goodwin, Alec Chentrens, Helena Carmen, Eunice McGlenn, Blanche Mayne; De
Busse, Hector and Lolletta
August 19-24: Florence Smithson, David Poole, The Mandos, Mlle Doria, Peter Bernard,
Hilda Newsome, Ernie Whitmee
August 26-31: Music at Home, with George Carvey, Carda Walker, Doris Cloud, Dolly
Daintree; T E Dunville, May Sherrard, Elven Hedges, Leo Cudd’s Six Musical Navvies,
Captain Kettle, Clifford and Grey
September 2-7: Hetty King, Ernest Shand, Caron Troupe, Delson Duo, Laura Novea, J
G Taylor and Dorothy Summers, Five Bombays
September 9-14: Max Darewski, Carmen Hill, Fred Russell, Lydia and Francis, Willie
Rolls, George Jackley, Roy Dove, Edgar Curtis
September 16-21: Mumming Birds, with Fred Karno’s company; Percy Honri, Mary Leighton,
George D’Albert, My Fancy, Dinnie Sisters, Frank Whitman
September 23-28: Grock and Partner, Florence Yaymen, Nelson Jackson, Royal Gothams,
Selwyn, Yelson Trio, Kitty Sinclaris and Harry Dalva
September 30-October 5: Coram and “Jerry”, May Moore Duprez, McNaughtons, Frank and
Vesta, Miles-Stavordale String Quintette, Sinclair’s Three Diamonds, Allan Shaw
October 7-12: The Sugar Baby, with Harry Scott and Eddie Whaley, H E Ford, Jennie
Hylton, Babs Mills, Willie Black, Paul Murray, J Kennedy; Molly Wells and Frank Mayban,
Sam Hilton
October 14-19: W H Squire, Lily Fairney, Marie Novello, Yvonne Granville, Marvellous
Merrills, Sam Wilbur and Eddie Ross, Jack Shires, Great and Good, Millie Jillson,
Bioscope: Topical Budget: Eastern Allies against Turks
October 21-26: Zomah, Lily Lena, Jessie Broughton and Dennis Creedon, Bob Anderson,
Alice Craven, Ernest Roma, Gaumond Brothers, Bioscope: Topical Budget
October 26 (daytime): Matinee of the Year, with Edyth Olive, Ivy Jeanes, Little Rene,
Lilian Tows, Estelle Dudley, Marjorie Norledge, Margaret Caddick, Edna Maude, Bobbie
Andrews, Elsie Adams, Thelma Waldron; fairy ballet Butterflies, by pupils of the
Misses Parnall; Genee and Peggie Andrews, in aid of Actors’ Church Union Hostel Memorial
Appeal
October 28-November 2: Want a Wife, with Ernie Lotinga and company; Mazuz and Mazette,
Little Edna Maude, Ethel Hook, Armstrong and Howarth, Halma, Dainty Danes
November 4-9: George Formby, Alice O’Brien, Ernest Krake and company, Mr Hymack,
Harry Hemsley, Ruby Roya, Jack Kellino
November 11-16: Jack Pleasants, Money Talks, with John Barton and Annie Ashley, J
H Scotland, Susie Marney, Page’s Animated Dolls, Fields and Doreen, Frank Maura,
Bioscope: Portraits of leading generals, Marshal Foch, George V
November 18-23: Parker’s Appeal, with Charles Austin and company; Haley’s Juveniles,
Hilda Nelson, Omega Trio, Archie Glen, W H Brand, Woodward and Page
November 25-30: Rameses, Cornalla and Eddie, Femina Quartette - Lillian Burgiss,
Ina St Clair, Maud Bell, Yvonne Beryl; Forest Tell, Adam Tomlinson, Fred Ginnett’s
Rejected Remounts, May Erne and Erne Chester
December 2-7: Seven Ages of Man, with Bransby Williams; George Bass, Mme Walker’s
Juveniles, Fisher and Lea, Bert Elliott, Dolly Victoria, Italian Oreste
December 9-14: Beatie and Babs, Jack Lane, Effie Mann, Clark’s Comedy Cyclists, Roy
Mex, Australian Alberto, Haywood and Hay
December 16-21: A Change of Tactics, with G P Huntley; Tom Clare and a piano, Takio,
Alexander Prince, Estelle Rose, Julot and Piero, Fayre Four
December 20 (daytime): George Robey’s Concert, with Tom Clare, Rupert Hazell, G P
Huntley and company, Dolly Mewse, Alexander Prince, George Robey, Harry Singer, Elsa
Stralia, W H Squire, Olive Sturgess, Lieutenant Godfrey Tearle, Takio, Daisy Wood,
Bioscope: Topical Film Company: The Story of HMS Vindictive, in aid of an endowment
fund for aged and convalescent members of The National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union
December 23-28: Linga Singh, Brown and Potter, Fred Lindsay, Syd Sydney, Rene, Amy
Richards, Benedetti Brothers
December 30-January 4: Dan Rolyatt, In the Trenches, with Harry Buss and company;
Diving Belles, Nora Blaney and Gwen Farrar, Fred Milner, Joe Willy, W V Robinson
1919
January 6-11: Margaret Cooper and her piano, Harry Ford, Duncan and Godfrey, Three
Jees, Vivian Foster, Maggie Carr, Brazilian Trio, Sergeant Brennan
January 13-18: Marcelle and Partner (sea lion), One Fleeting Hour, with Albert Vivian
Peake, Nellie Ryan, Patricia Flanagan, Avice Brown, Amy Russell; Goodfellow and Gregson,
Annie Rooney, Royal Crests, Herbert La Martine, Foreman and Fannan.
January 18: Grand Belgian Matinee, with Maurice Alexander, Herbert Parsons, Amy Lavington,
Miss Land and pupils, Roland de Preter, Mabel Smith, Charles Thomas, G Gardiner,
K Jackson, N Scofield, C Hillman, Olga Grey, Euby Blick, E Schwalin, Mrs Warren-Brown,
in aid of Disabled Belgian Soldiers’ Fund
January 20-25: Elgar-Hudson Quintette, Alfred Leonard, Yvette Valerie, Fyne and Hurley,
Four Swifts, Van Dock, Vera Caine, Four Dancing Madcaps
January 27-February 1: Max Darewski, Hayman and Franklin, Quaint Qs, Ray Wallace,
Agda and company, Betty Bruce, Dick and Jim
February 3-8: Coram and “Jerry”, Ching Wu, Decima and Eddie McLean, Florence Mann
and Lilian Berger, May and Francis, Auber, Allan Stuart
February 10-15: W H Squire, Lily Fairney, Dorothy Davies, Malcolm Scott, Zetta Mor,
Rich Hayes, Poppescus, Three Avenue Girls, Alec Kendall
February 17-22: Fred Barnes, Carrie Laurie’s Juveniles, Anna Dorothy, Frank Whitman,
Flying Banvards, Wilson and Waring, Paul Den and Walter Mark
February 24-March 1: Wilkie Bard, Ethel Hook, Dalmere’s Table Circus - rodents, rabbits,
cats, dogs, doves, monkeys; Flora Cromer, Kuming and Windsor, Bi-Bo-Bi, Ed E Ford
March 3-8: Ringing the Changes, with R A Roberts; Violet Essex, Three Neslos, Holson
and Bert, Eileen Molyneux and Arthur Margetson, Gicardo, Tom E Hood, Bioscope: Marriage
of Princess Patricia
March 10-15: Father, with Pimple; Elsie Spain and Randall Jackson, Deguchi Troupe,
Jack Kellino, Bonaudo, Edna Francis, Bert Terrell, Carrie and Evelyn
March 17-22: Koffo of Bond Street, with George Graves and company; Hal Bert, Spessell
Brothers and Mack, Gwen Rogers Quartette, Mary Mackie, Zanettos, Buff and Franklin
March 24-29: Whit Cunliffe, Jack Thompson, Annie Walker, Cecilia Johnson, Renee and
Godfrey, Nellie Wigley, The Sports Shop, with Stan Kavanagh and company; Delvaine’s
Marionettes, Paul Gordon
March 31-April 5: The Glory of HMS Vindictive at Zeebrugge and Ostend, with Vivian
G Poole; Petite Nina and her Motor-Cycling Sea Lions, Stanley Kirkby and Harry Hudson,
Grogie, Dolly Elsworthy, Kathleen Starling, Harry Herbert
April 7-12: Black Hand George, with Wee Georgie Wood; Noni and Horace, Ben Osborne
and Nelly Perryer, J H Wakefield, Cosgrove and Burns, Elsie and Foy, Fred Morris
April 14-19: Crystals, with Ernie Lotinga and company; Hope Charteris, Brinn and
his funny sailor, Will Gardner, Johnny Fuller, Francini and Elsie Olloms, Olga Sydney,
Bioscope: British Relief Force to Russia, royalty in the slums, French troops in
Luxembourg
April 21-26: Ernie Mayne, Haines’ English Ballet, with Nina Warburton, Alfred Haines,
Edyth Mayal; Niblo and Doris, O’Gorman Brothers, Nicol and Martin, Vera Caine, Patti
Loftus, Neil Gow
April 28-May 3: The Boy Comes Home, with Godfrey Tearle, Amy Coleridge, Arthur Bawtree,
Maud Scott, Helen Hardy; Vernon Watson, The Great Maximillian (chimpanzee), Marcelle
Molray, Real McKays, Orpheus, Cole and Rags
May 5-10: Three Pips and a Petticoat, with Huntley Wright, Herbert Barrs, Claudia
Guillot, Mary Fraser, Ann Farrell, Henry G Bright; Griffiths Brothers and Lutie Griffiths,
Joe O’Gorman, Mabel Mann, Laurelsa Quintette, Delino, Bromley Carter. May 10 (daytime):
Grand Matinee of week’s programme, organised by Bristol Rotary Club, in aid of Lord
Mayor’s Hospital Fund
May 12-17: Little Tich, The Winning Way, with Charles Windermere, Marjory Carpenter,
Harry Phydora, Guy McKenzie; Clifford and Grey, Fyne and Hurley, Marcelle De Vere,
M’Lita Dolores, Stidder
May 19-24: Clarice Mayne and “That”, Jock McPherson, Proveani Troupe, Roy Rell and
Chris Butt, Molly Butler, Wardini, Joyce and Shields, Bioscope: Nurse Cavell’s obsequies,
arrival and departure of Peace Conference delegates
May 26-31: George Bass, The Palace of Orpheus, with Elliott Savonas; Gaby Revette,
Tom Stuart, Will H Fox, Alpho, Ida Long
June 2-7: George Mozart, Daisy Dormer, Torino, Qs, The Prize-winner, with Macdonald
Watson, Joseph Barker, Nell Barker; Leslie Elliott, Fred Stafford
June 9-14: Walter C Kelly, Bessie Slaughter, Ristori and Partner, Austin Rudd, Jack
Sterzelly, Lola Patey, The Bells
June 16-21: Ernest Hastings, Du Calion, Pasquali Brothers, Great Wieland, Pierce
and Roslyn, Hinsle, The Balladmongers - Marjorie Vernon and Doyle Crossley
June 23-28: The Lincoln Highwayman, with Derwent Hall Caine, Jack O’Shea, H St Harbe
West, Mary Dean; Oswald Bemand, Wish Wynne, Ernie Warsaw, Paula Ruby, Four Vagabonds,
Mutt and Jeff, Goodfellow and Gregson
June 30-July 5: Selling his Motorcar, with Harry Tate; Edie Veno, Decima and Eddie
McLean, Alcide Capitaine, George Calver, Frank Le Dent, Joe and Betty Binns, Bruce
Green
July 7-12: Hetty King, It’s up to You, with E D Nicholls, Stella Carson, Rita Sponti,
Ada Lucelle; Nixon Grey, Herbert Winter and Bunny, Fuji Family, Jubb and Jerome,
Will Lacey
July 9 (daytime): Bioscope: Unique film of garden city housing scheme
July 14-19: The Lost Umbrella, with Will Evans, Evelyn Poole, Arthur Conquest; Naval
Quartette, Sam Barton, Two Rascals, Pearl Mitchell and Sister, Decars and Tomato
(donkey), Herbert La Martine. July 19: Victory Pageant
July 21-26: Daisy Wood, Jovers, Fayre Four, Mark Daly and Woolmer Young, Three Sisters
O’Hara, Dimple Sisters - Ferguson and Mack, Stellios and their Three Nuts (white
terriers)
July 28-August 2: De Biere, Queenie Leighton, Peter Bernard, Murphy and Mack, Lowe
and Loman, David Poole
August 4-9: George Formby, Penrose and Whitlock, Two Anartos, Caron Troupe, Harry
Moore, Tambo and Tambo, Dainty Danes, Bioscope: Victory leaders
August 11-16: Jack in the Box, with George Hestor, Edgar Cooke, Alec Chentrens, Nora
Dwyer, Helena Carmen, Pynkie Ansell, orchestra under Herbert J Waller; Tom D Newell,
Rene Ralph
August 18-23: Tom Edwards and Alice Melville, Egbert Brothers, T E Dunville, Three
Ernests, Anita Edis and Fred Forbes, Margaret Norton, Gilbert and French
August 25-30: The Lads of the Village, with Harold Wellesley, Emmie King, Fred Maxwell,
Harold Vincent, Charles Algar, Laurence Gosling, Noel Dainton, Savoy Quartet
September 1-6: Peace, Perfect Peace, with Fred Kerr; Sammy Shields, Five Petleys,
Miles-Stavordale Quintette, Alice Craven, Dan Whitley, Knut Brook
September 8-13: A Little Camouflage, with Lord Lyveden, C Stafford Dickens, Dorothy
McBlain, Charles Aldred; Coram and the new recruit “Jerry”, Mlle Cameo and M D’Avignor’s
Living Statuary, Herbert Cave, Allan Shaw, The Doves, Violet Levey
September 13 (daytime): Blind Musicians’ Concert Party, organised by Lady Pearson,
in aid of St Dunstan’s Hospital, for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war
September 15-20: “Caroline”, with Irene Vanbrugh, Dion Boucicault, Catherine Legh,
Ethel Wellesley, Rose Hearn; Ethel Hook, Jock McKay, La Pia, Captain Kettle, Fred
Lake and Tom Barrasford, Charlie Rich
September 22-27: Max Darewski, Yvonne Granville, Harry Ford, Billy O’Connor, Damsel
and Boy, Kitchen Comedy Four, Costa and Geo
September 29-October 4: Fred Karno’s Mumming Birds, with Jimmy Russell, Cyril Cooke,
Cyril Aske; Hayman and Franklin, Mary Leighton, Wilfred Burnand, Fields and Doreen,
Daring Dinnies, Twelve Trees Trio, Doris Delman and Billy, Damsel and Boy, Mary Mackie,
Lionel Dore
October 6-11: W H Squire, Lily Fairney, Gladys Millage, Texas McLeod, McNaughtons,
Selkirk’s Juvenile Spectacle - Clans of Bonnie Scotland, Percy Harvey, Edgar Curtis,
Manuel Vega, Jock Mills
October 13-18: Lew Lake presents Sons of the Sea, with Bob Stevens, Arthur T Leonard,
Frank Harwood, Carmen Judah, Grace Lester, Doll Dee, Charles Stevens, Leo Cudd’s
Jazz Band, May McGuffin’s Twelve Twirlers
October 20-25: Malcolm Scott, Jen Latona, Rinaldo, Little Edna Maude, Papering a
House, with Will Collinson and company; Claude Lester, Mlle Doria, Morgan and Burke
October 23 (daytime): The Navy League (Bristol branch) Trafalgar Day Celebrations:
Meeting to raise funds for sea-going training ship for West boys, addressed by Admiral
of the Fleet Earl Beatty, accompanied by Lady Beatty, with the Duchess of Beaufort,
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Clifton, Rear-Admiral
Ronald A Hopwood (Navy League general secretary), Rear-Admiral Elliott, Sir William
Howell Davies and Lady Davies, J Havelock Wilson MP, the Duke of Somerset (Navy League
president) presiding over collection
October 27-November 1: Hedges Brothers and Jacobson, Lily Lena, Suther, Ernest Roma,
Charles Norton, Mart and Pep, Constance Groome
November 3-8: Florence Smithson, Terry Twins, Marvellous Merrills, Grogie, Jack Shires,
Halma, Page’s Animated Dolls. November 8: Grand Matinee of evening performance, organised
by Bristol Rotary Club, in aid of Lord Mayor’s Hospital Fund
November 10-15: The Punctual Sex, with Eva Moore, Athol Stewart, Marjory Clarke;
Jessie Broughton and Dennis Creedon, The Right Key but the Wrong Flat, with Billie
Reeves, Carroll Chicis, Annie Webb; Nathano Brothers, Graham and Cullen, Matsuyama,
Three Mahers
November 17-22: Beatie and Babs, Mandos, Cruikshank, Jack Kellino, Westwoods, Harry
Hemsley, J S Taylor and Dorothy Summers
November 24-29: Great Aunt Elizabeth, with Violet Vanbrugh, Scott Sunderland; Jack
Lane, Cornalla and Eddie, Alice Lilley, Takio, Fisher and Lea, Will Tyler, Eddie
and Clare Carruthers
December 1-6: Ruth Vincent, The Magical Milliner, with Cecil Lyle and company; Veronica
Brady, Seven Hamamuras, Hal Wright, Woodward and Page, Kelly and Drake
December 8-13: Ben Davies, “Misery and Co.”, with Bruce Drysdale and J W Cuningham
and company; Syd Sydney, Southwood and his Pink Lady, Adam Tomlinson, Bandmaster
Morris, Otorasan
December 15-20: Parker’s Appeal, with Charles Austin and company; Fred Russell with
“Coster Joe”, Amy Evans, Dolly Victoria, Julien Vedey, Yetta, Frank Whitman
December 22-27: The Great Rameses, The Quaints, Denis O’Neil and Pat Thayer, Alexander
Prince, Isa Wise, The Electric Tramcar Conductor, with Ernest Krake and company;
Sinclaris and Dalva, Mazuz and Mazette
December 29-January 3: Odds On, with W H Kirby, Gwen Clifford, Hyde and Cody Trio,
Edith Beverley, Dene Williams; Mary Leighton, Tom Fagan
