PROVINCIALLY PRINTED PROGRAMME
[PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]
‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday, February 19th, 1914.’
[Scunthorpe, 1914.]
Squarish broadside on crepe paper (approx. 372 x 380 mm), letterpress printed with a decorative block-printed border in gilt, pink, purple, green, and orange; creased at edges and where once folded, else very well preserved.
A rare broadside programme for a benefit performance at the Palace Theatre in Scunthorpe, printed on crepe paper with a charming block-printed floral border.
Besides several musical pieces, accompanied on the piano by Mrs Willie Boothroyd, are comic performances – one Charles F. Hill, ‘The Dumb Droll, in a Wordless Sketch’, and Harry Shirley and May Ransome ‘in their delightful episodes, depicting comedy and pathos of Cockney life’ – and theatrical, including an Indian romance ‘with Effects’ and Mr W. Austin St Clair ‘in Characters from Dickens’. It is unclear what, exactly, one might expect to see from ‘Adkin, the Motoring Vent’.
The Palace Theatre opened on Cole Street in Scunthorpe in 1912. It was renamed the Savoy Theatre in the 1930s, closed in the ’70s, and eventually demolished.
