Hippodrome, Maidenhead

The evidence for this performance week is the following notice inserted in The Stage, 6 March 1919: ‘Delayed Scenery. On Leave for His Wedding company, journeying from Maidenhead to Jarrow on Sunday last [i.e 2 March], were unable to open on Monday evening owing to their truck of scenery being lost sight of by the railway company in transit and nor reaching Jarrow till 7.30 on Monday night, this in spite of the fact that it left Maidenhead on the *Saturday afternoon. We understand that Mr Edward F. Furneau intends to continue the arguments he has had with the railway company on the matter in the Law Courts, and the issue, no doubt, will be of much interest to his brother managers who may have had similar experiences’. The Stage, 6 March 1919. * This implies that On Leave For His wedding was not performed on the evening of Saturday 27 February. When Mr and Mrs Cyril Grier, heavy leads in the Lest We Forget company, inserted a theatrical card in The Stage, 27 February 1919, their address was the H., Maidenhead. And Edward F Furneau’s companies advertised Clifford Rean’s Lest We Forget in The Stage, 27 February 1919, claiming, ‘Monday, Maidenhead, turned hundreds away’. Were both companies in Maidenhead this week?