Chelsea Palace, London

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"On Friday afternoon, in connection with the Chelsea branch of the Navy League, and in aid of the naval training ships on the Thames and prizes for naval history in local schools, a charity matinee was given at Chelsea Palace". "The main theme of the playlet was to show that through the ages the spirit of Nelson and Drake still lives on and is to-day the dominant spark in the hearts of our sailors. [...] After the fall of curtain there were calls for the authors and Mrs Steel addressed few remarks to the assembly" "Chelsea News & General Advertiser" 27 April 1917.

Advertised in the Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 25 May 1917.

The Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 18 January 1918, advertised at the Chelsea Palace from Monday 21 January ‘Captain Bruce Bairnsfather presents Harry Thurston in his original character of “Old Bill” the Walrus, in “The Johnson ‘Ole”’.

‘The most substantial item [at the Chelsea palace last week] was a “topical comedy sketch” entitled “The Hon. Gertrude.” Henry Seton wrote it, W. G. Fay produced it, and Esmé Beringer and Mary Brough are acting in it. The Hon. Gertrude is a V.A.D. nurse who has become engaged to her patient, Pte. Herbert Briggs, V.C. He became smitten with her when suffering from shellshock, and she promised to marry him in order to save his life. But, though each holds the promise binding, and would not hurt the other’s feelings for worlds, neither now loves the other so that the dénouement of the social inequality knot is easily contrivable. But there is some good, broad comedy first, especially in the scenes between the two mothers, one so Hyde Parkish and the other so Hampstead Heatherish, and managers who want an effective curtain […] for their autumn production would do well to communicate with Esmé Beringer, whose company (completed by Annie Esmond and Gerald Valentine) makes a first-class team’ (The Era, 4 September 1918).

The Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 30 August 1918, advertised at the Chelsea Palace on Monday 2 September and during the week a bill that included Constance Drever & Co. in A Wife’s Dilemma.