Grand Theatre, Hull

also on bill: The Attack Performers: Cecile Barclay, Rupert Lister

The Hull Daily Mail, 4 February 1915, advertised at the Grand Theatre from Monday 8 February ‘The Vedrenne and Eadie Company in “The Man Who Stayed At Home,” the successful Royalty Theatre spy play. George Tully as “The Man Who Stayed At Home,” Mary Merral as “Molly Preston.” The Play of the Moment. Thrilling. Amusing’. The Hull Daily Mail, 9 February 1915, published a lengthy review of the play: ‘a cheery, sensible and often exciting drama … One noticed the becoming khaki all over the theatre; unless we mistake not, it is a tint that will become more prominent as the week progresses … a quick-pulsed, manly, and well-knit play which remains at a high level of good workmanship … The acting is proficient throughout. Mr Geo. Tully is very diverting as Brent, who uses his monocle and pipe eloquently (to descend for a moment to details). Miss Esty Marsh (a daughter of Madame Alice Esty) plays the part of Mrs Leigh with charm and vividness. Molly Preston is prettily impersonated by Miss Mary Merrall. An able character is that of Miss Lola Duncan as Fraulein Schroeder. Mr Charles Grenville’s Fritz is a capital type of foreigner. Others who render valuable service are Miss Mary Relph as Mrs Sanderson, Miss Florence Harwood as Miss Myrtle, Miss Valerie Richards as Daphne Kidlington, Mr George Martin as John Preston, J.P., Mr George Bailey as Carl Sanderson, Mr A. R. Whatmore as Private Pennienick [sic - Pennicuik], and Mr George Hewetson as Corporal Atkins’.

Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 28 April 1915 p4 Grand Theatre, Hull 30 April 1915 Mr. FRANK FENTON and his Company. TO-NIGHT (Wednesday) and THURSDAY EVENING and SATURDAY AFTERNOON and EVENING, Sir GEORGE ALEXANDER’S Greatest Success at the St. James Theatre, London, by Sir Arthur Pinero, “HIS HOUSE IN ORDER,” FRIDAY NIGHT, at 8.5, The Haymarket Theatre Success, “DRIVEN,” Preceded at 7.30 by the One-Act Comedietta, “THE MAN WHO STAYED AT A HOTEL.” Hull Daily Mail – Friday 30 April 1915 p4 Mr. FRANK FENTON and his Company. TO-NIGHT (Friday) at 8.5, The Haymarket Theatre Success, “DRIVEN,” Preceded at 7.30 by the One-Act Comedietta, “THE MAN WHO STAYED AT A HOTEL.”

"B" Company

The Era, 14 February 1917, listed The Man Who Stayed at Home (Red) as On The Road from 12 February at the Grand, Hull. ‘“The Man Who Stayed at Home” pays a return visit to the Grand Theatre next week. Such a play needs a fine company, and the name of Taylor Platt, who presents it, is a sure guarantee of the efficiency of the players. The cast includes:- Clifford Marle, Charles H. Mortimer, Arthur Grenville, C. Laverack-Brown, Russell Bendle, Malcolm Cumming, Valerie Richards, Christine Cooper, Hilda Francks, Frances Waring, Ethel Coleridge and Edith Cuthbert’ (Hull Daily Mail, 9 February 1917). ‘It is the singularly good luck of “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” which a fairly large audience witnessed last night, that the submarine campaign is proceeding. For the pivot of the drama is nothing less than U-boats and signals from the coast [Germany had just resumed a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare]. Many current questions are deftly exploited in the course of it' (Hull Daily Mail, 13 February 1917). Noted in The Era, 14 February 1917.

Performed evenings at 7pm with matinees on Thursday and Saturday.

The Hull Daily Mail, Thursday 20 September 1917, advertised A Kiss for Cinderella at the Grand Theatre, Hull in the following week. The Hull Daily Mail, 21 September 1917, published a preview of the production: Gertrude Lang was to play Miss Thing and Mr. Pennington-Gush the policeman/prince. The Hull Daily Mail, 25 September 1917, published a review of the production: ‘It is quite a whimsical, weird, unearthly thing, although it is connected with the war’.

Performed as a matinee and evening performance.

Performed for one night as part of a week's repertoire by the company.

A personal visit by Percy Hutchinson and the full West-End company.