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1911 Moody Manners Opera Company Jan 9th Grand Opera in English The Girl in The Train Jan 16th Starring Daisy Burrell, Webster Millar and Lionel Victor Tantalizing Tommy Jan 30th Lyn Harding and Sidney Cooper’s Company starring Nellie Lonnen and Hastings Lyn Priscilla Runs Away Feb 6th J.E. Watson and Leslie Owen’s Company starring Beatrice Lindlay. Leslie Owen and J.E Pearce The Merry Widow Feb 13th George Edward’s Company Arsene Lupin Feb 20th Emma and Percy Hutchison’s Company starring Lilias Earls The Captain Of The School Feb 27th Frederick Mouillot’s Company Starring his wife the actress Gertrude Mouillot, and also written by Mr Mouillot and Edward Parry The Chocolate Soldier Mar 6th F.E. Whitney’s Company Darcy Of The Guards Mar 13th Ernest E. Norris And Company Smith Mar 20th Emma and Percy Hutchison’s Company The Ruin Of Her Life Mar 27th Mrs Chas Sugden and Company The Arcadians Apr 3rd Robert Courtneidge and Company starring his daughter Cicely Courtneidge who went
on to play the mother of Reg Varney in the first series of “On The Buses” in 1969.
She also appeared on the opening night in 1969 when the Grand Theatre re- Charley’s Aunt Apr 10th Brandon Thomas’s London Company preceded by one- The Boy King Apr 17th Alfred Paumier and Walter Howard’s company Iolanthe Apr 24th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Just To Get Married May 1st Janette Steer and Company preceded by one- The Sins Of London May 8th Walter Melville’s Company starring Anston Milroy and Ethel Bracewell A Woman’s Way May 15th Tom B. Davies and Company starring Mabel Love The Speckled band May 22nd The Man From Mexico May 29th Stanley Cooke’s Number 1 Company Her Love Against The World Jun 5th Walter Howard and W.H. Hallat’s Company starring Ellen Snow and Fred Emery The Sailor’s Wedding Jun 12th Frank Bertram and Company in a Repertory Season of English and American Plays The Convict’s Daughter Jun 19th Frank Bertram and Company The Little Mother Jun 26th Frank Bertram and Company starring Gwendolen Verschoyle Through Death Valley Jul 3rd Frank Bertram and Company The Gambler Of The Golden West Jul 10th Frank Bertram and Company A Homespun Heart Jul 17th Frank Bertram and Company The Little Prospector Jul 24th Frank Bertram and Company starring Marie Alexander, one of the shows this week included
a benefit night for Frank Bertram preceded by one- Her Fatal Marriage Jul 31st Travis Green and Mrs and Mrs Arthur Hinton’s Company Sadly On Aug 4th Frederick Mouillot Died at the age of 47. (His widow, Gertrude lived on for another 50 years. She was 91
when she died in November 1961. She never re- A Message From Mars Aug 7th Fred Mouillot’s Company What The Butler Saw Aug 14th Lionel Rignold’s Company written by Frederick Mouillot and Judge Parry East Lynne Aug 21st J.Pitt- Beau Brocade Aug 28th Edward Lytton’s Company A Royal Divorce Sep 4th W.W. Kelly’s Company starring Beta Elliott and Juan Buonaparte an Actor who is listed as being Napoleon’s Great Grandson further investigation reveals that this was probably a publicity exercise, never the less he was probably related to Napoleon in some way. The Beggar Girls Wedding Sep 11th Walter Melville’s Company starring Sybil Hare and J.W. Dale Florodora Sep 18th Charles Constant’s No.1 Company Peggy Sep 25th George Dance’s Company The Witness For The Defence Oct 2nd George Alexander’s Company starring Rupert Lister and Maj Congdon Laurence Irving And Mabel Lucy Hackney’s Company The Unwritten Law Oct 9,12,14th The Lily Oct 10,11,13,14th Our Miss Gibbs Oct 16th George Dance’s Company Brewster’s Millions Oct 23rd Percy And Emma Hutchison’s Company The Chocolate Soldier Oct 30th R.F. Whitney’s Company Inconstant George Nov 6th Ida Molesworth and Mark Blow’s Company The Dollar Princess Nov 13th George Edwards’s Company Passers By Nov 20th Frank Curzon And Gerald Du Maurier’s Company A Butterfly On A Wheel Nov 27th Arthur Hardy’s Company The Bishop’s Move Dec 6th Theatre closed until Dec 27th Doyly Carte Opera Company Iolanthe Dec 27th The Mikado Dec 28th The Yeoman Of The Guard Dec 29th The Mikado Jan 1st |
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1912 The Last Of Luxembourg Jan 8th George Edward’s Company Mrs Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch Jan 15th Gaston Mayor’s Company The Quaker’s Girl Feb 5th George Dance’s Company The Sign Of The Cross Feb 12th William Greet’s Company King Of The Wild West Feb 19th Starring Young Buffalo and his American Company including Caroline May Blaney and George M. Ballinger presentation The Perplexed Husband Feb 26th Frank Curzon’s Company The Whip Mar 4th George Dance’s Company The Balkan Princess Mar 11th Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company Merrie England Mar 18th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Baby Mine Mar 25th William Greet and Weedon Grossmith’s Company The Passing Of The Third Apr 1st Floor back Ian Robertson and Company The Lifeguardsman Apr 8th Walter Howard’s Company Tantalizing Tommy Apr 15th Lyn Harding and Sidney Hooper’s Company Starring Hastings Lynn preceded by one- The Arcadians Apr 22nd Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Girl In The Train Apr 29th Herbert Rallend’s Company starring Stella Castelle Cavaliere F. Casteliano’s Italian Opera Company Il Trovatore May 6th Maritana May 7th Faust May 8th I Pagliacci and May 9th Cavaleria Rusticania The Barber Of Seville May 10th Faust May 11th Carmen May 11th Madam Adelina Patti advised the then Manager Thomas Garret Byrne that she would like to see this company’s performance of “Faust”, she however could only make the Saturday Matinee performance. He then hurriedly substituted “I Pagliacci and Cavaleria Rusticania” for “Faust” and she and her Husband Baron Cederstrom were then accommodated in the Box of the Grand Circle. Baron Cederstrom was embarrassed by a docker from his homeland who knocked the door of the Box and insisted on shaking his hand; Adelina was heard to say, “I’m glad he didn’t want to shake my hand” The Mousme May 13th Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Easiest Way May 20th From Queen’s Theatre London starring Miss Tittle- The Glad Eye May 27th Louis Meyler’s Company starring Amy Ravenscroft preceded by one- Ida Molesworth and Mark Blow’s Company Under Two Flags Jun 3rd Brought To Book Jun 6th starring Agnes Verity and George R. Montford For Wife And Kingdom Jun 10th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company Home Sweet Home Jun 17th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company A Soldier Of France Jun 24th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company The Guiding Star Jul 1st Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company A London Actress Jul 8th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company starring Hettie Zillwood and Fred Osmond Rogues and Vagabonds Jul 15th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company Siberia Jul 22nd Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company The Ticket Of Leave Man Jul 29th Matthew. H. Glenville and Fred Osmond’s Company King Of The Gypsies Aug 5th Arthur Hinton and Leila Zillwood’s Company The Silver King Aug 12th Polini and Melford’s Company starring Arthur L. Rooke, Viola March, H.Elliot Ball and Alfred Terris East Lynne Aug 19th J. Pitt Hardacre and Company Bunty Pulls The Strings Aug 26th Cyril Maud’s Scottish Players Find The Woman Sep 2nd Arthur Bourchier’s Company starring Florence Lloyd The Prince and The Beggar Maid Sep 9th Walter Howard’s Company The Bear Leaders Sep 16th Robert Burnett and Company A White Man Sep 23rd Herbert Sleath and Company The Hope Sep 30th George Dance’s Company The Sunshine Girl Oct 7th George Dance’s Company When Knights Were Bold Oct 14th James Welch’s Company preceded by one- A Butterfly On A Wheel Oct 21st Arthur Hardy’s Company The Chocolate Soldier Oct 28th Phillip Michael Faraday’s Company Milestone Nov 4th Vedreme and Kadia’s Company A Country Girl Nov 11th From The Daly’s Theatre A Waltz Dream Nov 18th George Dance’s Company Laurence Irving And Mabel Lucy Hackney’s Company The Unwritten Law Nov 25th The Barber Of Seville Nov 27th The Lily Of Hamlet Nov 29th Bella Donna Dec 2nd George Alexander’s Company starring Stephen T. Ewart and Hilda Moore Amateur Dramatic and Drama Week Dec 9th With Edged Tools Dec 16th H. Montague Ashley and Campbell Goldsmid’s Co Kismet Dec 26th George Dance’ s Company |
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1913 The Count Of Luxemburg Jan 6th George Edward’s Company The Gay Gordon’s Jan 20th Robert Macdonald’s Company Little Miss Llewellyn Jan 27th Hilda Trevelyan and Edmund Gwenn’s Company The Quaker Girl Feb 3rd George Dance’s Company George Edward’s Company The Dollar Princess Feb 10th The Merry Widow Feb 15th Ready Money Feb 17th Alan Aynesworth’s Company The Whip Feb 24th George Dance’s Company Les Cloches De Cornville Mar 3rd Swansea Amateur Operatic Society The Barrier Mar 10th H. Armitage and Arthur Leigh’s Company Every Woman Mar 17th Milton Bode and Edward Compton’s Company The Midnight Wedding Mar 24th Alfred Paumier and Walter Howard’s Company Miss Hook of Holland Mar 31st Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company starring Fred J. Little Moody Manners Opera Company Faust Apr 7th Carmen Apr 8th Elijah Apr 9th Bohemian Girl Apr 10th Tannhauser Apr 11th Il Trovatore Apr 12th Maritana Apr 12th The Glad Eye Apr 14th Louis Meyer’s Company The Pink Lady Apr 21st Phillip Michael Faraday’s Company starring Fred Wright Junior A Royal Divorce Apr 28th Starring Violet Ellicott and Juan Bonaparte who again is listed as being the Great
Grandson Of Napoleon. This was the play that first used the phrase "Not Tonight,
Josephine" - The Easiest Way May 5th Ida Molesworth and Mark Blow’s Company The Miracle May 12th Alfred Denville and John Maclaren wrote and personally presented this show under the banner of Denville’s Company Raffles May 19th From the Comedy Theatre in London starring Claude Allister who went on to play Algy Longworth in The Bulldog Drummond Film Series and was the voice of the Rat in “Wind and The Willows” in 1949, preceded by A Comedietta Sexton Blake May 26th Miss Horniman’s Repertoire Company Candida Jun 2nd Cupid And The Styx Jun 5th Hindle Wakes Jun 9th Max Allen’s Company the first time in Swansea Nature’s Zoo Jun 16th Francis, Clare and Bamberger’s Company starring Cherry Kearton. A wildlife photographer and Documentary maker. On September 27th 1940 as he was leaving Broadcasting House where he had just broadcast a children's programme about animals he collapsed and died in the street The Master Of The Mill Jun 23rd After Midnight Jun 30th Starring P.C. William Spearing Convict 99 Jul 7th Hush Money Jul 14th Tracked By Wireless Jul 21st Allah’s Orchard Jul 28th Arthur Hinton and Leila Zillwood’s Company starring Arthur Hinton, Florence Zillwood, Dennis Clyde, Annette Howard and Pauline Haydon The Flag Lieutenant Aug 4th Lyn Harding and Sidney Cooper Oh! Oh! Delphine Aug 11th Robert Courtneidge’s Company. East Lynne Aug 18th J Pitt Hardacre and Company Bunty Pulls The Strings Aug 25th Cyril Maud’s Company Find The Woman Sep 1st Arthur Bourchier and Company The Duke Sep 8th Weedon Grossmith and Company A Scrape O’ The Pen Sep 15th Mr And Mrs Graham Moffatt and Company preceded by one- Oh I Say Sep 22nd From The London Criterion Company Eliza Comes To Stay Sep 29th Henry.V. Esmond Criterion Company starring Eva Moore who was Esmond’s Wife. They had two children, one of whom was Jill Esmond the future wife of one of Britain’s greatest ever actors Laurence Olivier A Waltz Dream Oct 6th George Dance’s Company Open Windows Oct 13th H. Hamilton Stewart’s Company The Sunshine Girl Oct 20th George Dance’s Company The Typhoon Oct 27th Laurence Irving, the son of Sir Henry Irving, and his wife Mabel Lucy Hackney appeared for the last time in Swansea. They both later drowned on the Empress of Ireland disaster on May 29th 1914. It was a transatlantic ocean liner owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company that sailed between Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and Liverpool, United Kingdom. She sank on the early morning in the St. Lawrence River after colliding with the Storstad in a disaster which claimed 1,012 lives, making it the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history (see Ghostly Grand) Man And Superman Nov 3rd B. Iden Faynes Company A Butterfly On A Wheel Nov 10th Arthur Hardy’s Company Bought And Paid For Nov 17th Lyn Harding’s Company starring E. Vassal Vaughan and Dorothy Dix The Girl In The Taxi Nov 24th Philip Michael Faraday The Chocolate Soldier Dec 1st Philip Michael Faraday His Indian Wife Dec 8th Hinton And Zillwood’s Company Theatre closed until Boxing Day The Quaker Girl Dec 26th George Dance’s Company |
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1914 Gypsy Love Jan 5th George Edward’s Company Peter Pan Jan 19th J.A.E. Malone’s Company Bella Donna Jan 26th Alban B. Limpus’s Company starring Mary Forrest and Stephen T. Ewart Officer 666 Feb 2nd Percy Hutchison and Company preceded by one–act play “The Drums Of Oude” The Moody Manners Opera Company Maritana Feb 9th Carmen Feb 10th Romeo And Juliet Feb 11th The Puritan’s Daughter Feb 12th The Dance Of Death Feb 13th Elijah Feb 14th The Bohemian Girl Feb 14th The Sign Of The Cross Feb 16th William Greet’s Company The Pearl Girl Feb 23rd Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Girl From Utah Mar 2nd George Dance’s Company The Glad Eye Mar 9th Louis Meyer’s Company Mr Wu Mar 16th Louis Meyer’s Company starring William F. Grant and Haydee Gunn The Dancing Minstrels Mar 23rd George Dance’s Company The Girl On The Film Mar 30th George Dance’s Company Theatre Closed For The Week The Soldier Princess Apr 13th Walter Howard and Annie Saker and Company The Whip Apr 20th George Dance’s Company featuring 40 tonnes of scenery, 4 racehorses, foxhounds and 50 artistes’, Jockey’s and Mechanics. Within The Law Apr 27th Tree and Faraday’s Company Elsie Golding and Pringle Robert’s Company The Easiest Way May 4th Inconstant George May 7th Preceded by one- Milestones May 11th Vedrenne and Eadie’s Company The Gondeliers May 18th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society The Scarlet Pimpernel May 25th Fred Terry And Company Bunty Pulls The Strings Jun 1st Cyril Maud’s Scottish Players starring Kate Moffat A Place In The Sun Jun 8th J. Edward Whitty’s Company Preceded by one- The Turning Point Jun 15th Cecile Barclay and Rupert Lister’s Company The Master Of Iron Jun 22nd Cecile Barclay and Rupert Lister’s Company Change Jun 29th Welsh National Drama Movement Sorrows of Satan Jul 6th On the Friday a performance of “Nana” was given by Madam Sarah Bernhardt The theatre was closed From The July 13th until July 27th for re- East Lynne Jul 27th J. Pitt- The Outbreak Of World War 1 came on 28th July 1914 The Maid Of The Mill Aug 3rd E. Vivian Edmonds and Company starring Gladys Ford Howitt The Speckled Band Aug 10th Somerset and Cecil Marshal’s Company starring C.W Somerset The Beggar Girl’s Wedding Aug 17th Andrew Emm’s presents Walter Melville’s Company. The advert for this advised that notice was served that any War news (World War 1 had just begun) would be conveyed to the audience if and when the need arose The Three Musketeer’s Aug 24th Sybil Ruskin’s Company Monte Cristo Aug 31st Andrew Emm’s Company. Oh Oh Delphine Sep 7th Robert Courtneidge’s Company Mr Wu Sep 14th Louis Meyer’s Company starring Lewin Mannering and Gwynne Wahren Oh I Say Sep 21st Criterion Farce Company starring Arthur Stanley and Gladys Ivery The Arcadians Sep 28th Robert Courtneidge’s Company starring Nancy Rickland, Gwen Clifford, Patricia Musgrave, Dan Agar, Fred Evison, Charlton Morton, Captain Scott In The Antarctic Oct 5th Herbert G. Ponting’s moving Picture Lecture The Girl In The Taxi Oct 12th Philip Michael Faraday’s Company A Pair Of Silk Stockings Oct 19th Alan Aynesworth and Bronson Albert’s Company Raffles Oct 26th George Alexander’s Company The Ever Open Door Nov 2nd Bransgrove and Slaughter’s Company On November 5th and 6th there were special matinees showing footage of the War Brewster’s Millions Nov 9th Percy and Emma Hutchison’s Company starring Henry Hampson The Land Of Promise Nov 16th Albert B. Limpus’s Company starring Evelyn Ormonde and Henry Ludlow The Dollar Princess Nov 23rd Macdonald and Young’s Company The Coastguards Daughter Nov 30th J.A. Campbell’s Company Jessica Walters and Company Mary Goes Forth Dec 7th The Dust Of Egypt Dec 10th The Blindness Of Virtue Dec 14th Marcus Draper and Company Four nights of War footage Dec 21st The Story Of The Rosary Dec 28th Walter Howard and Company |
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1915 Pygmalion Jan 4th Charles Macdonald’s Company The Marriage Market Jan 11th George Edward’s Company Mr Wu Jan 18th Starring Miss Hutin Britton and her husband Matheson Lang preceded by one- Gypsy Love Jan 25th George Edward’s Company Three Little Briton’s Feb 8th The Pearl Girl Feb 15th Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Girl From Utah Feb 22nd George Edward’s Company Mr H. Hamilton Stewart and Company Sherlock Holmes Mar 1st Alias Jimmy Valentine Mar 4th Charley’s Aunt Mar 8th The Brandon Thomas Company preceded by the one- Grumpy Mar 15th Cyril Maud’s Company starring Horace Hodges The Count Of Luxembourg Mar 22nd Macdonald and Young’s Company The Second Mrs Tanqueray Mar 29th Robert Burnett’s Company starring Louise Hampton Eliza Comes To Stay Apr 5th Eva Moore, H.V. Esmond and Company preceded by the one- Moody Manners Opera Company Carmen Apr 12th The Daughter Of Apr 13th The Regiment Faust Apr 14th Lily Of Kilarney Apr 15th The Puritan’s Daughter Apr 16th The Bohemian Girl Apr 17th Maritana Apr 17th Diplomacy Apr 19th Lionel Rignold and Charles Macdona’s Company Potash and Pearlmutter Apr 26th George Grossmith and Edward Laurillard’s Company F.R Benson’s Shakespeare Company The Merchant Of Venice May 3rd Hamlet May 4th Henry The Fifth May 6th Richard The Third May 8th Henry The Fifth May 8th The Gay Parisian May 10th Charles Macdona’s Company Armitage and Leigh’s Company Lucky Durham May 17,19,20th Leah Kleshna May 18,21st The Barrier May 22nd The Theatre being very popular at this time with playgoers, decided that for the
next three weeks each play would be performed twice- Little Miss Ragtime May 24th Isa Bowman and Charles Constant’s Company Searchlights May 31st Alick Chumley and A. Russel Davis’s Company The Younger Generation Jun 7th Edwin Heys and Max Allen’s Company starring Stanley Drewitt End of twice- Cherry Kearton Jun 14th A film presentation of “Across Central America” A Royal Divorce Jun 21st W.W. Kelly’s Company The White Girl Slave Jun 28th Hilda Beverley’s Company preceded by a short film “The Royal Naval Division At Work And Play” What Every Woman Wants Jul 5th Marcus Draper’s Company Broadway Jones Jul 12th Personal appearance of Seymour Hick’s and Company Passers By Jul 19th Claud Allister and Dorothy Overend and Company Three Spoonfuls Three Jul 26th Mark Blow’s Company preceded by a humorous pianologue by Harold Montague Florodora Aug 2nd J. Bannister Howard’s Company starring Evie Green and Edward Lewis It’s a Long Way To Tipperary Aug 9th Henrietta Schrier and Lodge Percy’s Company The Land Of Promise Aug 16th Thomas C. Dastall’s Company starring Eveleyn Ormonde Oh I Say Aug 23rd Mark Blow’s Company starring Jess Sweet and Glass Archbutt Bella Donna Aug 30th Frank Weatherby’s Company starring May Forrester A Pair Of Silk Stockings Sep 6th Alan Aynesworth and Bronson Albery’s Company preceded by one – act play “A Man Of Ideas” Gamblers All Sep 13th Lewis Waller’s Company starring Martin Roland, H Longdon Bruce, J.J Bartlett and Chris Vincent Quinney’s Sep 20th Frederick Harrison’s Company The Spanish Main Sep 27th Oscar Asche and his wife, Lily Brayton’s Company. Oscar Asche was later to appear with Seymour Hick’s as the ghost of Christmas past in the 1935 film “Scrooge” A Country Girl Oct 4th George Dance’s Company Tonight ‘s The Night Oct 11th Laurilliard and Grossmith’s Company A Little Bit Of Fluff Oct 18th James Welch And Company Outcast Oct 25th Robert Bennett’s Company starring Louise Hampton The Cinema Star Nov 1st Robert Courtneidge’s Company Hindle Wakes Nov 8th Max Allen’s Company The Man Who Stayed At Home Nov 15th E. Taylor Platt’s Company A Butterfly On The Wheel Nov 22nd Lewis Waller’s Company George Edward’s Company Gypsy Love Nov 29th The Merry Widow Dec 1st The Great Adventurer Dec 6th Elijah Dec 12th A benefit show for the Daily Post’s Prisoner Of War Fund starring Clythe Hine, Beatrice Burnett, Maurice Clarke, W. Dawson and Charles Moorhouse The Second In Command Dec 13th Frank Weathersby’s Company Armitage and Leigh’s Company Lucky Durham Dec 20th The Lion And The Mouse Dec 23rd Sealed Orders Dec 27th Emma and Percy Hutchison’s Company This play ran for two weeks |
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1916 Thomas Garret Byrne was manager of the Grand from 1916- Betty Jan 10th George Edward’s Company Peg O’ My Heart Jan 31st Alfred Butt’s Company Brewster’s Millions Feb 7th Percy And Emma Hutchison’s Company The Arcadians Feb 14th Robert Courtneidge’s Company Potash and Pearlmutter Feb 21st Edward Laurilliard and George Grossmith’s Company Pygmalion Feb 28th Charles Macdona’s Company Diplomacy Mar 6th Lionel Rignold and Charles Macdona’s Company More Mar 13th Charles B. Cochran and Harry Gratton’s Company starring Yvonne Granville, Winnie
Volt, Victoria Victor, Phyllis Norman, Lance George, Edward Steadman, Norman Bowyer,
Andre Randal, C. Powell- Stop Thief Mar 20th Percy and Emma Hutchison’s Company The Taming Of The Shrew Mar 27th Oscar Asche and his wife, Lily Brayton’s Company. Grumpy Apr 3rd Alfred Turner’s Company starring Horace Hodges The Scarlet Pimpernel Apr 10th Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Company H.M.S. Pinafore Apr 13th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Britain Prepared Apr 17th Kinematographic review of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces The Story Of The Rosary Apr 24th Walter Howard’s Company The Belle Of New York May 1st J. Bannister Howard’s Company starring Johnnie Schofield who went on to make over a hundred films and was the grandfather of John Altman – famous for playing Nasty Nick Cotton in Eastenders, and who also himself appeared in Panto at the Grand in “Aladdin” in 1994/95. The Marriage Market May 8th Macdonald and Young’s Company The Rosary May 15th John Glendinning The Love Thief May 22nd C.M. Brune’s Company preceded by one- Uncle Tom’s Cabin May 29th Charles Harrington’s Company The Chaperon Jun 5th Herbert Darnley and Arthur Gibbon’s Company Are You A Mason? Jun 12th My Artful Valet Jun 19th James Welch’s Company starring American Actor A.C. Keith preceded by one- Somewhere A Voice Is Calling Jun 26th Joseph Millane’s Company East Lynne Jul 3rd J. Pitt- A Mill Girls Wedding Jul 10th Herbert Shelley and Company The Land Of Promise Jul 17th T. C. Dagnall’s Company with Evelyn Ormonde Sunday Jul 24th Lodge Percy and Henrietta Schrier’s Company A Father Of 90 Jul 31st Arthur Samson’s Company with Herbert Darnley starred in, and also wrote the play The Girl On The Film Aug 7th J. Bannister Howard’s Company Romance Aug 14th Murray King And Charles Clarke’s Company Peg O’ My Heart Aug 21st Alfred Butt’s Company Nobody’s Daughter Aug 28th Claude Alister, Dorothy Overend and Company The Silver King Sep 4th C.W. Somerset and Company Betty Sep 11th George Edwardes’ Company A Little Bit Of Fluff Sep 18th Preceded by a one- My Lady Frayne Sep 25th Robert Courtneige’s Company Maskelynes Mysteries Oct 2nd Conjurers from St Georges Hall In London The Rotters Oct 9th Arthur Gibbon’s Company which was preceded by a one- Caroline Oct 16th Percy Hutchison’s Company starring Lilias Earle preceded by the one- Once A Thief or Kick In Oct 23rd Mr A.J. Gatti’s Company The Case Of Lady Camber Oct 30th The Spring Song Nov 6th Sidney Blow’s Company starring Douglas Hoare, Ada Blanche, Hannah Jones, Eve Balfour, E.M. Robson, Bruce Winston and Ralph Lynn The Birth Of A Nation Nov 13th From Drury Lane In London for two weeks The Basker Nov 27th Cecile Barclay and Rupert Lister’s Company The Confessions Of A Wife Dec 4th Joseph Milane’s Company The Dumb Girl Of Portici Dec 11th Starring Anna Pavlova in an Eight Reel picture show When The Heart Is Young Dec 18th Joseph Milane’s Company Romance Dec 26th Murray King and Charley Charles’s Company starring Violet Farebrother, Frank Freeman, Frank Laag |
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1917 Potash And Pearlmutter Jan 1st Edward Laurilliard and George Grossmith’s Company The Happy Day Jan 8th George Edward’s Company Potash And Pearlmutter in Society Jan 22nd George Dance’s Company Mrs Pomeroy’s Reputation Jan 29th Violet VanBrugh and Company It Is For England Feb 5th Baronesse Helene Gingold Phillips and Carol’s Company Woman Power Feb 12th Patriotic Syndicate Company A Sense Of Humour Feb 19th Preceded by the one- The Rotters Feb 26th A Message From Mars Mar 5th Horfield And Woodward Co. The Old Country Mar 12th Frank Fenton And Company Her Husband’s Wife Mar 19th Charles Macdona Company The Black Sheep Of The Family Mar 26th Arthur Hinton Ltd and Ethel Monton The Ware Case Apr 2nd Margery Fane Sacred Concert in Aid Of Apr 8th Daily Post War Prisoners Fund Peg O’ My Heart Apr 9th Alfred Butt’s Company Hobson’s Choice Apr 16th David Garrick Apr 23rd Martin Harney Harrison Frewin Opera Company Rigoletto Apr 30th La Bohemme May 1st Il Trovatore May 2nd Martha May 3rd Two Little Wooden Shoes May 3rd Madam Butterfly May 4th Cavalleria Rusticana May 5th Bohemian Girl May 5th All Of A Sudden Peggy May 7th Forbes Russell ‘s Company preceded by “The Gainsboro Duo” Evelyn Erol and Lindsay Fincham Ye Gods May 14th Charles Windermere’s Company General Post May 21st Percy Hutchison and Herbert Jay’s Company starring Dawson Millward, Cecil Mannering, Sybil Carlisle and Mary O’Farrell Tiger’s Cub May 28th Taylor Platt and Sam Livesy’s Company Jerry Jun 4th Vivian Grantham’s Company starring Lytton Grey Quinney’s Jun 11th Edward Irving’s Company Damaged Goods Jun 18th Charles V. France in an Adult Only play Alias Jimmy Valentine Jun 25th Leonard Laurence and Company starring Dorothy Westsymes Her Only Son Jul 2nd Vivian Edmond’s Company starring Mary Kinloch, Ronald Graham and Violet Hawthorne For Love Of Peg Jul 9th Mr And Mrs Lodge- Under Two Flags Jul 16th Mr And Mrs Lodge- The Crackswoman Jul 23rd Mr Barnes Of New York Jul 26th The Birth Of A Nation Jul 30th The Pearl Girl Aug 6th Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company The Cinema Star Aug 9th Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company Intolerance Aug 13th Caste Aug 20th Alfred Waring’s Company starring Albert Chevalier in a return visit from opening week in 1897 The Barton Mystery Aug 27th Arthur Bertram’s Company Inside The Lines Sep 3rd Bernard Hishin Direct’s The Misleading Lady Sep 10th Horsfield and Woodward’s Company His Mothers Rosary Sep 17th Will H.Glaze’s Company Peg O’ My Heart Sep 24th Macdonald and Young’s Company San Toy Oct 1st Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company A Greek Slave Oct 5th Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company Tina Oct 8th Frederick G Lloyd’s Company starring Bertie Wright Ghosts Oct 15th Neville Graham and E. Lewis Waller’s Company Sherlock Holmes Oct 22nd H.Hamilton Stewart’s Company Bluff Oct 29th Oswald Gray’s Company starring H.A.Saintsbury Young England Nov 5th Robert Courtneidge’s Company starring C. Hayden Coffin, Charles Courtney, Reginald Crawford, Horace Lingard, Rex London, Madeleine Spicer, Dorothy Jay, Roy Wilson and Gertrude Kaye For Sweethearts and Wives Nov 12th Full London Company Baby Mine Nov 19th Keith Kenneth’s Company with Betty Fairfax Ann or Thro’ The Window Nov 26th Sir Charles Wyndham’s Company Beauchamp and Beecham Nov 29th Sir Charles Wyndham’s Company Three Weeks Dec 3rd The Moody Manners Opera Company Cavalleria Rusticana & Dec 10th I Pagliacci Tannhauser Dec 11th The Bohemian Girl Dec 12th Tosca Dec 13th Rigoletto Dec 14th Rigoletto (mat) Dec 15th Lady Of Killarney Dec 15th Moonshine Dec 17th Mrs Evelyn Gleave the Swansea authoress of this children’s fairytale directed, which had a cast of local schoolchildren Seven Days Leave Dec 26th This play appeared the following week also |
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1918 The Maid Of The Mountains Jan 7th George Edward’s Company London Pride Jan 21st Frank Curzon and Gerald Du Maurier’s Company Tonight’s The Night Jan 28th George Dance’s The Girl From Ciros Feb 4th Lewis Waller and Neville Graham’s Company Eliza Comes To Stay Feb 11th W. Payne Seddon’s Company My Lady Frayle Feb 18th Robert Courtneidge’s Company. Cicely Courtneidge, his daughter was also appearing up the road at The Empire in Oxford Street at the same time The Arcadians Feb 25th Robert Courtneidge’s Company Broadway Jones Mar 4th Seymour Hicks’s Company Charley’s Aunt Mar 11th Brandon Thomas’s Company Wild Heather Mar 18th Violet Graham, Charles Barret and Company Bubbly Mar 25th Ralph Haslam’s Company Five Nights Apr 1st W. Warden and K.F. Cooper’s Company General Post Apr 8th Percy Hutchison and Herbert Jay’s Company Betty Apr 15th George Edward’s Company Cook Apr 22nd Herbert Jay and Anthony Ellis’s company Damaged Goods Apr 29th Monty’s Flapper May 6th Apollo Theatre Company with Haldane Crichton Romance May 13th Murray King and Charles Clark’s Company starring Frances Dillon The Little Brother May 20th Lyn Harding, Cicely Byrne, Fisher White, Evelyn Walsh Hall and Ben Nathan Remnant May 27th Betty Fairfax, Keith Kenneth and Company Oh I Say Jun 3rd A.E Story and Company with Gladys Archbutt A Royal Divorce Jun 10th W.W. Kelly’s Company Florodora Jun 17th Pearl Lyndon The Silver King Jun 24th C.W. Somerset Theatre closed for renovation until August 5th Nothing But The Truth Aug 5th Gilbert Miller’s Company The Yellow Ticket Aug 12th Murray King and Charles Clark’s Carminetta Aug 19th Lewis Waller and Neville Graham’s Company Inside The Lines Aug 26th My Old Dutch Sep 2nd Albert Chevalier And Company The Maid Of The Mountains Sep 9th George Edward’s Company their second visit this year The Story Of The Rosary Sep 16th Walter Howard’s Company The Boy Sep 23rd Macdonald and Young’s Company The Thirteenth Chair Sep 30th Albert De Courville Betty At Bay Oct 7th Cecil Barth’s Company High Jinks Oct 14th J.A.E. Malone’s Company with Rowland Hill Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Tales Of Hoffman Oct 21st Madam Butterfly Oct 22nd Faust Oct 23rd Carmen Oct 24th Mignon Oct 25th Tales Of Hoffman (mat) Oct 26th Il Trovatore Oct 26th By Pigeon Post Oct 28th Stage Enterprises Ltd Seven Days Leave Nov 4th Walter Howard’s Company World War 1 ends on November 11th 1918 The Man From Toronto Nov 11th Robert Courtneidge’s Company A Cigarette Makes Romance Nov 18th N. De Silva and Company With Martin Harvey The Burgomaster Of Stilmonde Nov 20th N. De Silva and Company With Martin Harvey The Rapperee Troopers Nov 23rd N. De Silva and Company With Martin Harvey The Professors Live Story Nov 25th The Lilac Domino Dec 2nd Macdonald and Young’s Company Hearts Of The World Dec 9th D.W. Griffiths’s Company retained for a second week The Bing Boys Are Here Dec 16th George Dances Company for nine nights |
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1919 Hindle Wakes Jan 6th Max Allen and Edward T. Heys Company Peter Pan Jan 13th J.A.E. Malone’s Company Aladdin Jan 27th Arthur Roseberry’s Merry Cheerio Victory Pantomime with Hettie Gale, Fred Regent and Kitty Taynton Fair And Warmer Feb 3rd Alfred Butt’s Company with Stanley Cooke and Edna Best Yes Uncle Feb 10th George Dance’s Company C.O.D. Cash On Delivery Feb 17th Seymour Hick’s Company with Stanley Brett The Fatal Wedding Feb 24th Frank Liston and Ernest Grant’s Company Going Up Mar 3rd Macdonald and Young’s Company A Southern Maid Mar 10th George Edwards’ Company with Lionel Victor, Archie Graham, Robert Needham, Yvonne Phillip and Marie Hancock Billeted Mar 17th Taylor Platt’s Company each performance preceded by “The Bathroom Door” The Luck Of The Navy Mar 24th Percy Hutchison’s Company with Marjorie St Aubyn and Richard Scott Telling The Tale Mar 31st John Wyndham and Leo A. Lion’s Company with George Gee, Mamie Watson and Cedric Percival Toto Apr 7th With Louis Bradfield and Doris Lee Eliza Comes To Stay Apr 14th Mark Blow’s Company with F.T. Cooper and Marjorie Clark Dear Brutus Apr 21st Frank Curzon & Gerald De Maurier’s Company Daddy Long Legs Apr 28th Gilbert Miller’s Company with Beatrice St Vincent and Norman Partriege A Country Girl May 5th Frederick C. Lloyd’s Company with Elsie Bennett and Mabel Medrow His Last Leave May 12th Will H. Glaze’s Company Henry Of Navarre May 19th Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Company The Christian May 22nd Stanley Carlton’s Company Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Tales Of Hoffman May 26th Cavalleria Rusticana & May 27th I Pagliacci Il Trovatore May 28th Mignon May 29th Carmen May 30th Tales Of Hoffman (mat) May 31st Maritana (Eve) May 31st Soldier Boy Jun 2nd Macdonald and Young’s Company with Ripley Evans, Cecil Rutland, Bert Murray, Elsie Steadman and Isabel Scott Sailor Lad Jun 9th Joe Elvin And Company Les Rouge Et Noirs Jun 16th All Army Cast In The Night Watch Jun 23rd Charles B. Cochrane’s Company My Old Dutch Jun 30th Albert Chevalier And Company The Girl From Ciro’s Jul 7th Leslie Kyle presents Mabel Hirst, Nellie Bouverie and George Bealby All Aboard Jul 14th Ventom Swift Presents Randolph Sutton, Olive Aubrey, Evelyn Simms, Reeve And Moreton, Jimmy Rich, Jackson Moore, Madge Douglas, Chris Baker and The Great Reano Orchestra By Pigeon Post Jul 21st Arthur Hardy’s Company starring Vernon Fortescue and Marjorie Murray The Compton Comedy Company The School For Scandal Jul 28th As You Like It Jul 29th She Stoops To Conquer Jul 30th The Merchant Of Venice Jul 31st The Rivals (mat) Aug 1st The School For Scandal Aug 1st The Law Divine Aug 4th H.V. Esmonde’s Company A Chinese Honeymoon Aug 11th Frederick G. Lloyd’s Company starring Lillie Soutter, Lola Raine, Eleanor Wilson, Reginald Crompton, Clifford Barclay and Victor Crawford Roxanna Aug 18th Murray King and Charles Clark’s Company Starring Doris Keane A Temporary Gentleman Aug 25th Herbert Jay and Frank Littler’s Company Les Rouges Et Noir Sep 1st Every Artist a Soldier, Every Soldier an Artist from The Savoy Theatre in London Arlette Sep 8th George Dance’s Company The Maid Of The Mountains Sep 15th George Edward’s Company starring Harold Thorley, Josh Dixon, George Miller and Doreen Langton Peg O’ My Heart Sep 22nd Alfred Butt’s Company Scandal Sep 29th Arthur Bourchier’s Company. Although due to start on the 29th the performance was cancelled due to the rail strike at the time as all vehicles were required for government traffic and the company was left stranded in Llandudno. They did reach Swansea on the Tuesday and the show began then. The Plaything Of An Hour Oct 6th Oswald Gray’s Company The Yellow Ticket Oct 13th Murray King and Charles Clark’s Company Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Tales Of Hoffman Oct 20th Faust Oct 21st Maritana Oct 22nd The Three Monks Oct 23rd The Marriage Of Figaro Oct 24th The Daughter Of The Oct 25th Regiment (mat) Il Trovatore Oct 25th With William Boland The Merry Widow Oct 27th J.A.E. Malone’s Company Gypsy Love Oct 30th J.A.E. Malone’s Company starring Edwin Dodds, James Davies, Robert Needham, Ada Thomas and Frue Temple Shanghai Nov 3rd Macdonald and Young’s Company The Luck Of The Navy Nov 10th Percy Hutchison and Alfred Butt’s Company Daddalums Nov 17th Louis Calvert and Company The Purple Mask Nov 24th Murray King and Charles Clark’s Company starring Hayden Coffin The Freedom Of The Seas Dec 1st Thomas C. Dagnall’s Company Starring Evelyn Ormonde The Female Hun Dec 8th Walter Melville’s Company The Yeoman Of The Guard Dec 15th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Oh Joy Dec 22nd J.A.E. Malone’s Company in an eleven- |
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1920 Seven Days Leave Jan 5th Walter Howard’s Company with Henry Lonsdale and Millicent Hallatt The Arcadians Jan 26th Robert Courtneidge’s Company Daddies Feb 2nd Robert Courtneidge and Mollison Kidd’s Company The Lilac Domino Feb 9th Macdonald and Young’s Company His Little Widows Feb 16th Bernard Hishin’s Company Tails Up Feb 23rd Frederick G. Lloyd’s Company with Phillip Valentine, Jack Leopold, Lionel Halfpenny, Marie Dix, Evelyn Robson and Alison Maclaren A Southern Maid Mar 1st George Edward’s Co Lionel Victor, H.R. Pearce, J. Rice Cassidy, George Byrne, Mabel Munroe and Doreen Langton Uncle Sam Mar 8th Macdonald and Young’s Company High Jinks Mar 15th J.A.E. Malone’s Company La Tosca Mar 22nd Ethel Irving and Company with Jerrold Robertson and Vincent Clive Blodwen Mar 29th Cymric Opera Company produced and staged by Thomas Byrne the Manager of the Grand. Three performances in English and then Three in Welsh. Written by Joseph Parry who had written Myfanwy in 1878 it was sung as an encore at the end of each performance Yes Uncle Apr 5th George Dance and Company La Poupee Apr 12th Frederick G Lloyd’s Company with Stella Gastelle, Harry C Parker, T. Edgar, John Morley, C. Rivers Gadsby and The Grosvenor Singers Little Women Apr 19th William Holles and Norman J.Norman’s Company The Man From Toronto Apr 26th Robert Courtneidge’s Company in a play produced by Sir Charles Hawtrey With W. Boyd, Patricia Selbourne, Madge Langton, Emma Stockley, Leslie Irving and Herbert Williams The Doyly Carte Opera Company The Gondoliers May 3rd Iolanthe May 4th The Mikado May 5th The Gondoliers May 6th Iolanthe May 7th The Mikado (mat) May 8th The Mikado May 8th The Naughty Wife May 10th Charles Hawtrey, Gilbert Miller, Frank Curzon and Gladys Coopers Company Carl Rosa Opera Company Tannhauser May 17th Rigoletto May 18th Cavalleria Rusticana & May 19th I Pagliacci Romeo And Juliet May 20th The Tales Of Hoffman May 21st Faust (mat) May 22nd Bohemian Girl May 22nd Martyr’s May 23rd Swansea And District Royal Male Choir Nurse Benson May 24th Taylor Platt’s Company Swansea Shakespeare Festival The Merchant Of Venice May 31st Hamlet Jun 1st Twelfth Night Jun 2nd The Taming OF The Shrew Jun 3rd The Tempest Jun 4th Julius Caesar (mat) Jun 5th Hamlet Jun 5th A Sinner In Paradise Jun 7th Frank Gerald and Val Gurney’s Company The Divorce Question Jun 14th Oswald Grey and Royal Raceford’s Company A Fools Paradise Jun 21st Lena Ashwell and The Celebrated War Players The Girl For The Boy Jun 28th Goodson and Shurley Ltd Company The Natural Law Jul 5th Charles Harrington’s Company Never Say Die Jul 12th Charles Hawtrey’s Company O’Mara Opera Company Il Trovatore Jul 19th Maritana Jul 20th The Rose Of Castille Jul 21st Lohengrin Jul 22nd Samson and Delilah Jul 23rd La Traviata (mat) Jul 24th Lilly Of Killarney Jul 24th Toto Jul 26th Alexander Humphrey’s Company Paddy The Next Best Thing Aug 2nd Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Bird Of Paradise Aug 9th Macdonald and Young’s Company Abraham Lincoln Aug 16th The Birmingham Repertory Company The Jest Aug 23rd Henry Ainley and St James’s Theatre Company Scandal Aug 30th Arthur Bourchier’s Company Mr Pim Passes By Sep 6th Dudley Stuart’s Company Tilly Of Bloomsbury Sep 13th J.A.E Malone’s Company A Southern Maid Sep 20th George Edward’s Company Rose Of Araby Sep 27th Frederick G. Lloyd’s Company Lord Richard In The Pantry Oct 4th Thomas C. Dagnall’s Company The Cinderella Man Oct 11th Macdonald and Young’s Company with Owen Nares Kissing Time Oct 18th T.C. Wray’s Company Charles Doran and His Shakespeare Company The Taming Of The Shrew Oct 25th Macbeth Oct 26th The Merchant Of Venice Oct 27th Hamlet Oct 28th As You Like It Oct 29th The Tempest (mat) Oct 30th Macbeth Oct 31st The Boy Nov 1st Macdonald and Young’s Company The Merry Widow Nov 8th J.A.E Malone’s Company Gypsy Love Nov 10th J.A.E Malone’s Company The Private Secretary Nov 15th Lytton Gray and Charles Hawtrey’s Company Carnival Nov 22nd Murray King and Charles Clarke’s Company with Stephen Ewart, Norman Howard and Vida Flower Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company La Tosca Nov 29th Mignon Nov 30th Suzanne’s Secret and Dec 1st I Pagliacci The Tales Of Hoffman Dec 2nd La Boheme Dec 3rd Madam Butterfly (mat) Dec 4th Carmen Dec 4th Princess Ida Dec 6th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Frederick G. Lloyd’s company in Dorothy Dec 13,17th Les Cloches Dec 14,16,18th De Corneville Tom Jones Dec 15th Merrie England (mat) Dec 18th The Young Person In Pink Dec 20th Murray King and Charles Clarke’s Company with Owen Cassidy, Helen Ferrers, Marjorie St Aubyn and Drussillia Willis Chu Chin Chow Dec 27th George Grossmith and Edward Laurilliard’s Company running for twelve nights |
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1921 Our Peg Jan 10th George Edwards’ Company A Pair Of Sixes Jan 17th Percy Hutchison and Queen’s Theatre Company Catch Of The Season Feb 7th Geoffrey Saville, Molly Vivyan, Nellie Sheffield, Mabel Burrel, Gordon Paine, Stephen Langton, Arthur Turner, Mollie Brown, Joan Hector, Dorothy Crane and Minnie Crawford Tilly Of Bloomsbury Feb 14th George Grossmith and Edward Laurilliard’s Company The Passing Of The Feb 21st Third Floor Back Forbes Robertson and Company with Josephine Middleton, Frank Heath Saunders, Edith Cruikshanks, Minnie Waterford, Constance Pollard, Agnes Davidson, Corothea Stuart, Frank Milray, Walter H. Humphreys, Dennis Barry and J. Leonard Perney Afgar Feb 28th E. Lewis Waller Tours Ltd with Phyllis Neilson Terry Romance Mar 7th Murray King and Charles Clarke’s Company with Cathleen Doyle Tatters Mar 14th Mrs Kimberley and Frank Liston’s Company The Cymric Opera Society Blodwen Mar 21,22,26th Elijah Mar 23,24,25,26th With Flintoff Moore Irene Mar 28th Macdonald and Young’s Company starring Dorothy Horsee and Eric Algar Warriors Day Mar 31st Macdonald and Young’s Company starring Dorothy Horsee and Eric Algar Daddy Long Legs Apr 4th Macdonald and Young’s Company starring George Howard and Olga Lindo Doyly Carte Opera Company The Yeoman Of The Guard Apr 11th The Mikado Apr 12th The Gondoliers Apr 13th Iolanthe Apr 14th The Mikado Apr 15th The Yeoman Of (mat) Apr 16th The Guard The Gondoliers Apr 16th Starring Bernard Manning Hullo America Apr 18th Jack Goodson’s Company The Right To Strike Apr 25th Robert Hale and Arthur Rigby’s Company Peg O’ My Heart May 2nd Macdonald and Young’s Company with Laurette Taylor Charles Doran and his Shakespearian Company Macbeth May 9th As You Like It May 10th King Henry V (mat) May 11th The Tempest May 11th Hamlet May 12th King Henry V May 13th The Merchant Of (mat) May 14th Venice Julius Caesar May 14th Charley’s Aunt May 16th Mrs Brandon Thomas’s Company Scandal Mar 23rd Arthur Bourchier’s Company with Ida Stratham and William Home Morocco Bound May 30th J. F. Young’s Company Oh Julie Jun 6th Jack Goodson’s Company A Mother Should Tell Jun 13th Dorothy Mullord and Company and Charles A. Baker Tarzan Of The Apes Jun 20th Arthur Carlton and Arthur Gibbon’s Company starring Ronald Adair and Alice Moseley At The Hour Of Midnight Jun 27th J.F. Carlisle’s Company An Unmarried Mother Jul 4th Oswald Gray’s Company The Plaything Of An Hour Jul 11th Charles Macdona’s Chief Company Pygmalion Jul 18,19,20,23rd Fanny’s First Play Jul 21,22nd Toto Jul 25th Alexander Humphrey’s Company Don Q Aug 1st Morris Usher’s Company French Leave Aug 8th Clarence Hirst’s Company with Alexander Bradley and Mary Royter At The Villa Rose Aug 15th Arthur Bourchier’s Company with Davy James Rose Of Araby Aug 22nd Frederick G. Lloyd’s Company starring Kenneth Ware, Dick Evans, Carmen Dale and Lilly Moore The Garden Of Allah Aug 29th Lillian Hallows, Hamilton Stewart and Stephen T. Ewart The Knave Of Diamonds Sep 5th Stella Patrick Campbell The White Headed Boy Sep 12th J. B. Fagan and H. M Harwood’s Company with Sara Allgood – Allgood was an Irish Actress who tragically lost her Husband, actor Gerald Henson and their newborn daughter to Influenza in 1917. She continued and had a long career. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Beth Morgan in the 1941 movie “How Green Was My Valley” Kissing Time Sep 19th T.C Wray’s Company The Blue Lagoon Sep 26th T.C Wray’s Company Mary Rose Oct 3rd Frederick Harrison’s Haymarket Company Sybil Oct 10th George Edward’s Company Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Carmen Oct 17th Cavalleria Rusticana and Oct 18th I Pagliacci Tannhauser Oct 19th Rigoletto Oct 20th Il Trovatore Oct 21st Tales Of Hoffman (mat) Oct 22nd The Daughter Of Oct 22nd The Regiment Lord Richard In The Pantry Oct 24th Thomas C. Dagnall’s Company with Miles Clifton and Lillie Soutter The Man Who Came Back Oct 31st Charles B.Cochran and William Brady’s Company with George Manship And Grace Sweeting Paddy The next Best Thing Nov 7th Robert Courtneige’s Company A Night Out Nov 14th T.C Wray’s Company A Bill Of Divorcement Nov 21st Violet Farebrother and Company. Farebrother went on to appear in three movies with Alfred Hitchcock, “Downhill”, “Easy Virtue” and “Murder” The Ninth Earl Nov 28th H.W Phillip’s Company Haddon Hall Dec 5th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society The Sign Of The Cross Dec 12th William Maclaren and Company with Lily C. Bandman Seven Nights In London Dec 19th Walter Saltoun and Aimee Gratton- Clyndes Company The Savage And The Woman Dec 26th Andrew Melville’s Company presenting Cowboy Actor Young Buffalo, Cynthia Gordon, Felicity Dawson and Gladys Ford |
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1922 A Safety Match Jan 2nd Robert Courtneige’s Company with Cathleen Macarthy and A.E. Winnington- The Edge Of Beyond Jan 9th Julian Frank’s Company The Very Idea Jan 16th Albert De Courville’s Company with Haldane Crichton Bulldog Drummond Jan 23rd Lionel Bute’s Company with Lewis Mannering, C. Road Night, Jane Graham, Tom Shelford and Edith Cartwright The Wrong Number Feb 13th Taylor Platt’s Company The Birmingham Repertory Company The Romantic Young Lady Feb 20th Getting Married Feb 21st The Romantic Young Lady Feb 22nd Getting Married Feb 23rd Getting Married Feb 24th The Importance Of Feb 25th Being Ernest (mat) The Romantic Young Lady Feb 25th Peddlers Pie Feb 27th Lewis Rihll’s Company Woman- Murray King and Charles Clarke’s Company with Marcelle Roche, Lilias Waldergrave, Ernest Benham and Henry Lonsdale My Nieces Mar 13th Donald Calthrop’s Company Grand Guignol plays Mar 20th The Medium What Did Her Husband Say The Vigil Private Room Number 6 E and O.E On the Saturday “Private Room Number 6” was replaced by “The Old Woman” The Sign On The Door Mar 27th Lionel Bute’s Company Uncle Ned Apr 3rd Henry Ainley and Company. Henry Ainley was a successful Shakespearian Actor who was the father of Anthony Ainley who, as all Doctor Who fans will remember, as being the second Actor to play the Master in the show The Naughty Wife Apr 10th Macdonald and Young’s Company with Bernard Merfield and Grace Illingworth The Belle Of New York Apr 17th J. Bannister Howard’s Company A Little Bit Of Fluff Apr 24th Herbert Jay and Anthony Ellis The Scarlet Pimpernel May 1st Fred Terry and Violet Farebrother Frank Forbes Robertson and Company The Passing Of The May 4th Third Floor Back Of Mice And Men May 5th David Garrick (mat) May 6th The Call Of The Room May 6th Charles Doran and His Shakespearian Company The Merchant Of Venice May 8th As You Like It May 9th A Midsummer Nights May 10th Dream (mat) Hamlet May 10th Julius Caesar May 11th Ralph Richardson A Midsummer Nights May 12th Dream King Henry V (mat) May 13th Hamlet May 13th Seven Days Leave May 15th Walter Howard’s Company Up In Mabel’s Room May 22nd Betty Fairfax and Company with Keith Kenneth Nightie Night May 29th Percy Hutchison and Company preceded by the one- Polly With A Past Jun 5th Nelson Keys Company with Gwyneth Keys and Cyril Cunningham Joseph O’Mara Grand Opera Company Lily Of Killarney Jun 12th Carmen Jun 13th Lohengrin Jun 14th Il Trovatore Jun 15th Martha Jun 16th Samson And Delilah (mat) Jun 17th Faust Jun 17th The Skin Game Jun 19th Penrhyn Foster’s Company with Ernest K. Nelson A Mother Should Tell Jun 26th Dorothy Mullord and Company with Charles A. Baker At The Villa Rose Jul 3rd Arthur Bourchier’s Company The Mormon And His Wive’s Jul 10th Oswald Gray’s Company Three Wise Fools Jul 17th Ben Prima Productions Mrs Winterbottom’s Woes Jul 24th Sydney Farebrother The Private Secretary Jul 31st Sir Charles Hawtrey’s Company with Fred Lewis and Arthur Stratham Sally Aug 7th F. Leslie Morton and Guyton Heath’s Company Brown Sugar Aug 14th Leon M. Lion’s Company with Eileen Beldon If Winter Comes Aug 21st Owen Nares, B.A Meyer and Company The Garden Of Allah Aug 28th Wylie- J.A.E. Malone’s Company The Merry Widow Sep 4th Gypsy love Sep 7th The Faithful Heart Sep 11th W.Payne Seddon’s company David Copperfield Sep 18th Bransby Williams And Company The Bat Sep 25th Gilbert Miller’s Company Doyly Carte Opera Company The Mikado Oct 2nd The Gondoliers Oct 3rd The Yeoman Of The Guard Oct 4th The Gondoliers Oct 5th Trial By Jury And Pirates Oct 6th Of Penzance The Mikado (mat) Oct 7th The Yeoman Of Oct 7th The Guard The Lady Of The Rose Oct 9th George Edwards’ Company Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Samson And Delilah Oct 16th Cavalleria Rusticana and Oct 17th I Pagliacci Lohengrin Oct 18th Tannhauser Oct 19th Tales Of Hoffman Oct 20th Mignon (mat) Oct 21st Maritana Oct 21st Paddy The Next Best Thing Oct 23rd Robert Courtneidge’s Company Mary Oct 30th Macdonald and Young’s Company Ida Stratham, Martin Roland and Company Scandal Nov 6th Butterfly On A Wheel Nov 9th With Vincent Sternroyd Peg O’ My Heart Nov 13th Macdonald and Young’s Company Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure Nov 20th Thomas C. Dagnall’s Company with Beresford Lovatt and Shirley Huxley Tons Of Money Nov 27th Tom Walls and Leslie Nelson’s Company Martha Dec 4th The Cymric Amateur Operatic Society with Mabel Dennis and Flintoff Moore Made In England Dec 11th Jack Goodson’s Company Theatre Closed From The 18th to The 26th Dec Pedlars Pie Dec 26th Lewis Rihll’s Company featuring the Italia Conti Dancers |
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1923 French Leave Jan 1st With Percy Foster, Frida Gerrard and A. Hylton Allen Bulldog Drummond Jan 8th Frank Curzon & Gerald De Maurier’s Company Loyalties Jan 15th Dee Gee Tours Company Swansea Amateur Operatic Society present Gilbert And Sullivan Operas The Mikado Feb 5th, 7th, 8th & 10th Patience Feb 6th, 9th &10th The Sign On The Door Feb 12th Lionel Bute The Beggar’s Opera Feb 19th Taylor Platt And Wilfred Eaton Charley’s Aunt Feb 28th Mr Brandon Thomas’s Company The Edge Of Beyond Mar 5th The Dover Road Mar 12th Lionel Bute The Way Of An Eagle Mar 19th Daniel Mayer Company Ltd Old Bill M.P. Mar 26th Seymour Hicks’s Company The Co- The Co- Through Romantic India Apr 9th Lowell Thomas Travelogue The Wandering Jew Apr 16th Mattheson Lang’s Company Frank Forbes Robertson’s Company The Call Of Apr 23rd, 25th, 27th The Road Of Mice And Men Apr 24th Rosemary Apr 28th The Passing Of Apr 29th The Third Floor Back (Mat) David Garrick Apr 29th The Love Habit Apr 30th Seymour Hicks And His London Company preceded by Warwick Pryce at the piano. Joseph O’Mara Opera Company Limited Mignon May 7th Rigoletto May 8th Carmen May 9th Lily Of Killarney May 10th Madam Butterfly May 11th Il Trovatore (matinee) May 12th Bohemian Girl (evening) May 12th Charles Doran And His Shakespearian Co. Macbeth May 14th King Henry V May 15th Macbeth (matinee) May 16th Othello (evening) May 16th A Midsummer Nights Dream May 17th Othello May 18th Julius Caesar (matinee) May 19th The Merchant May 19th Of Venice (evening) The Swansea Welsh Drama Society Castel Martin May 21st Y Ddraenen Wen May 22nd & 26th Marchogion Y Nos May 23rd & 26th Beddau’r Proffwydi May 24th Dwywaith Yn Blentyn May 25th Ffrois May 25th Y Dieithryn May 25th Lass O’ Laughter May 28th Alfred Butt And Company Quality Street Jun 4th The Macdona Players with Alice Bowes and Oliver Johnston If Winter Comes Jun 11th Owen Nares And B.A. Meyer in conjunction with Frank Curzon Eliza Comes To Stay Jun 18th Miss Eva Moore’s Company Are You A Mason Jun 25th Compton Comedy Company School For Scandal Jul 2nd She Stoops To Conquer Jul 3rd The Rivals Jul 4th School For Scandal Jul 5th Caste Jul 6th & 7th The Sheik Jul 9th Pollandra Productions Raffles Jul 16th Comedy And Wyndham’s London Theatre Company with Cecile Barclay and Rupert Lister Monsieur Beaucaire Jul 23rd Charles Macdona Company Mrs Patrick Campbell And Her London Co. Magda Jul 30th , 31st & Aug 1st The Second Mrs Aug 2nd & 4th Tanqueray Uplifted Aug 3rd Gabrielle Aug 6th Frederick W. Warden Company La Poupee Aug13th Herbert Ralland Secrets Aug 20th Macdona Company The Cat And The Canary Aug 27th T.C.W. Productions Ltd The Happy Ending Sep 3rd Martin Roland and Violet Farebrother Tons Of Money Sep 10th Tom Wallis, Lesley Henson And Company The Bad Man Sep 17th Murray King And Company with Loan Byford, Ernest A. Duval and Lewin Mannering The Marriage Of Kitty Sep 24th Graham Brown and Complete London Company with Marie Tempest and Graham Brown The Cabaret Girl Oct 1st T.C.Wray Company The Lady Of The Rose Oct 8th The George Edwards Daly’s Theatre Production Company The Dancers Oct 15th Frank Curzon And Gerald Du Maurier’s Company The Bat Oct 22nd Gilbert Miller And His Principal Company The Maid Of The Mountains Oct 29th The George Edwards Daly’s Theatre Production Company with Harold Thorley, Arthur Filmer, Edgar Stanmore, Edith Cecil and Charles Simms Polly Nov 5th Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Laughing Lady Nov 12th Charles Kenyon And Charles Garth’s Company with Douglas Vigors, Claire Lindsay and Jane Wood Bluebeards 8th Wife Nov 19th Lionel Bute’s Company The First Kiss Nov 26th William J. Wilson Company with Desiree Ellinger, Roy Emerton, Alfred Byron, Gilbert Dunkerley and V. Barratt Leonard Tom Jones Dec 3rd Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Her Temporary Husband Dec 10th Mathew, Tully And Sabine Company with Maisy Darrell, Geoffrey Saville and W.J Mannering The Sign Of The Cross Dec 17th Mr & Mrs William Maclaren’s Company Battling Butler Dec 26th Jack Buchanan And Company with Arthur Riscoe and Marie Brian |
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1924 Omar Khayyam Jan 7th Charles Raike’s Company Paddy The Next Best Thing Jan 14th Robert Courtneidge’s Company The Story Of The Rosary Feb 4th Annie Saker Good Luck Feb 11th Wylie- Grand Orchestral Concert Feb 17th M. U. Symphony Orchestra The Rat Feb 18th Starring Ivor Novello, Madelaine Seymour and Hannah Jones. Ivor Novello became a superstar and major celebrity of the age. The Lie Feb 25th Sybil Thorndike’s Company with Dora Barton and Gracie Edwards The Magician Mar 3rd Dickson- Catherine Mar 10th Robert Courtneidge’s Company Romance Mar 17th Murray King and Charles Clarke’s Company Friend Of The People Mar 24th H.A. Saintsbury A Cousin From Nowhere Mar 31st Gwyneth Keys and Company with Jimmy Godden Our Betters Apr 7th Ida Stratham and Company The Honourable Mrs Tawnish Apr 14th Dennis Neilson- Outward Bound Apr 21st The London Theatre Guild Welsh Drama Week Beddau’r Proffwydi Apr 28th Y Pwllgor Troi- Y Die Ithryn Apr 29th Gwyntoeth Croesion Apr 30th Troi- Doctor Er Ei Waethaf Y Pwllgor May 2nd Ble Mai Fai Potsiar Gwyntoeth Croesion (mat) May 3rd Ble Mai Fai Potsiar May 3rd Doctor Er Ei Waethaf The Scarlet Pimpernel May 5th Fred Terry, Violet Farebrother and Company Frank Forbes Robertson’s Company Sweet Lavender May 9th The Passing Of The May 10th Floor Back (mat) The Yellow Poppy May 10th The Yellow Ticket May 12th Walter Saltain’s Company What A chance May 19th Guy Mundy’s Company with Charles Windermere, Emmie King and Ralph Nairne A Royal Divorce May 26th Arthur Gibbon’s Company with Ashley Page and Evelyn Hope Brown Sugar Jun 2nd Stanley Ravenscroft’s Company The Prince And The Beggar Maid Jun 9th Seven Days Leave Jun 16th The Langley- Boy O’ My Heart Jun 23rd The Langley- Why Men Love Women Jun 30th The Langley- The Walls Of Jericho Jul 3rd The Langley- Her Love Against The World Jul 7th The Langley- The Life guardsman Jul 14th The Langley- Confusion Jul 17th The Langley- The Witness For The Defence Jul 21st The Langley- The Walls Of Jericho Jul 25th For one night only the Langley- The Langley- The Hawk Of The Desert Jul 28th The Hawk Of The Desert Jul 29th Leah Kleshna Jul 30th The Hawk Of The Desert Jul 31st Under Two Flags Aug 1st The Hawk Of The Desert Aug 2nd Theatre closed to the public due to Ancient Order of Foresters holding their High Court The Return Aug 11th With Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes Her Temporary Husband Aug 18th Fred Randall’s Company with Rex Alderman, Betty Nelson and W.J. Manning Betty Aug 25th George Edwards’ Company White Cargo Sep 1st Ida Molesworth and Temple Powell’s Company The Green Goddess Sep 8th Gilbert Miller’s Company Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company Il Trovatore Sep 15th Tales Of Hoffman Sep 16th Faust Sep 17th Maritana Sep 18th Madam Butterfly Sep 19th The Bohemian Girl (mat) Sep 20th Tales Of Hoffman Sep 20th Bella Donna Sep 22nd Phyllis Neilson Terry and Company Doyly Carte Opera Company The Mikado Sep 29th The Yeoman Of The Guard Sep 30th Cox and Box and Oct 1st H.M.S. Pinafore The Mikado Oct 2nd Ruddigore Oct 3rd Ruddigore (mat) Oct 4th Ruddigore Oct 4th Toni Oct 6th George Edwardes’ Company Katinka Oct 13th Macdonald and Young’s Company Bluebeard’s 8th Wife Oct 20th Lionel Bute’s Company Who’s My Father Oct 27th Stanley Lupino and Company the first time performed on any stage The Fake Nov 3rd Dorothy West- The Lillies Of The Field Nov 10th Beryl Sidney Mrs Done’s Defence Nov 17th Harold V.Neilson’s Company with Ethel Irving and Henry Hallatt The Blue Butterfly Nov 24th Mademoiselle Margot The Last Waltz Dec 1st Robert Courtneidge’s Company with Eileen Moody Irene Dec 8th Foster Productions The Rebel Maid Dec 15th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society The Sport Of Kings Dec 22nd Robert Courtneidge’s Company for 8 nights |
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1925 Peter Pan Jan 5th J.A.E. Malone’s Company Madam Pompadour Jan 12th George Edwardes’ Company Tons Of Money Feb 2nd Tom Wallis and Leslie Henson’s Company The Sea Urchin Feb 9th Peggy O’Neil and Company Sally Feb 16th F. Leslie Moreton and Guyton Heath’s Company Stop Flirting Feb 23rd F. Leslie Moreton and Guyton Heath’s Company The Merry Widow Mar 2nd George Edwardes’ Company The Rising Generation Mar 9th Gerald Mirrielees Company The Private Secretary Mar 16th Cecil Bath’s Company The Creaking Chair Mar 23rd H. Brough- Production’s Ltd The Farmers Wife Mar 30th Clifton Alderson and W. Payne Seddon’s Company The Maid Of The Mountains Apr 6th Macdonald and Young’s Company It Pays To Advertise Apr 13th Welsh Drama Week Y Potsiar Apr 20th Doctor Er Ei Waethaf Y Ddraener Wen Apr 21st Y Figer Newydd Apr 22nd Doctor Er Ei Waethaf Pelenni Pitar Apr 23rd Ffrais Apr 24th Liddo Cesar Troy R Tir Y Ddraener Wen (mat) Apr 25th Pelenni Pitar Apr 25th The Outsider Apr 27th Charles Buckmaster and Betty Williamson’s Company Swansea Amateur Players Nothing But The Truth May 4,5,6th Witness For The Defence May 7,8th Nothing But The Truth (m) May 9th Witness For The Defence May 9th Charles Doran’s Shakespeare Company Twelfth Night May 11th Julius Caesar May 12th Merchant Of Venice (mat) May 13th As You Like It May 13th Macbeth May 14th A Midsummer Nights Dream May 15th A Midsummer Nights (mat) May 16th Dream Merry Wives Of Windsor May 16th Mrs Patrick Campbell And Company The Thirteenth Chair May 18,19,20th The Adventurous Are May 21,22,23nd The Second Mrs (mat) May 23rd Tanqueray Gypsy Princess May 25th William J. Wilson and Company with Ethel Cadman and Denier Warren Plus Fours Jun 1st Vaclell and Simpson’s Company So This Is London Jun 8th W.T. Elwanger and Company Three Weeks Jun 15th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Lilian Hallows A Butterfly On A Wheel Jun 22nd Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Barbara Everest The Land Of Promise Jun 29th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Barbara Everest The Woman In The Case Jul 6th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Barbara Everest and Cecily Davies In The Night Jul 13th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Barbara Everest The Man From Toronto Jul 20th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company with Barbara Everest Bought And Paid For Jul 27th Frank G.Cariello and London Rep Company Patricia Aug 3rd White Cargo Aug 10th Murray Carrington, Rothbury Evans The Right Age To Marry Aug 17th From the London Playhouse Possessions Aug 24th Kate Carew and R. Claud Pascoe Carl Rosa Opera Company Cavalleria Rusticana and Aug 31st I Pagliacci Madam Butterfly Sep 1st Il Trovatore Sep 2nd Faust Sep 3rd Carmen Sep 4th Maritana (mat) Sep 5th Samson and Delilah Sep 5th Educating A Husband Sep 7th Muriel Martin Harvey and Harold V. Neilson’s Company and Garry Marsh The River Sep 14th Thomas C. Dagnall’s Company with Clayton Breen and Maureen Shaw Lilac Time Sep 21st Macdonald and Young’s Company with Courtice Pounds No 17 Sep 28th Arthur Hardy and William Biddlecombe’s Company with Patrick Ludlow, Nesta Elizabeth, Fred Ross and Tarka Penna The Street Singer Oct 5th Macdonald and Young’s Company with Maisy Bell, Juliette Te Gai, Daisy Revett, Elizabeth Vaughan, John Carrodus, Hilary
Fisher- The Folly Of You Oct 12th Phyllis Neilson- Monsieur Beaucaire Oct 15th Phyllis Neilson- Alf’s Button Oct 19th Martin Henry’s Company with Jerry Verno and Ambrose Thorn Just Married Oct 26th Lionel Bute’s Company with Arthur Mack and Honor Byrne Primrose Nov 2nd Leslie Moreton and Guyton Heath’s Company Little Nelly Kelly Nov 9th Macdonald and Young’s Company Julie Neilson and Fred Terry’s Company Sweet Nell Of Old Drury Nov 16th The Bride Nov 19th Dora Barton, Arthur Grenville, Doris Sainsbury His Highness Below Stairs Nov 23rd Lyn Harding and Company No No Nanette Nov 30th Macdonald and Young’s Company The Margate Peddlers Dec 7th Leslie Fuller’s Company Iolanthe Dec 14th Swansea Amateur Operatic Society Theatre closed from 20th Dec until Boxing Day Stop Flirting Dec 26th Leslie Moreton and Guyton Heath’s Company |
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