Alhambra, Stourbridge

Mr C. Watson Mill is again visiting here. In Time of War was presented to two good houses on Monday. As usual, Mr. Mill is an outstanding figure as Captaini Russell Squires. He is ably partnered by Miss Lydia Andre as Diana Squires. Mr.Harry Scaddon is a powerful exponent of Baron Guggenheim, whilst Mr.Paul Neville is successful as Colonel Mars. Comedy is well represented by Mr.H.A. Whitmee and Mr.G.Chate as Erb and Percy. Miss Edith Gregory is a charming Princess Zarine, and Miss Edith Vine is a bonny Nurse Alice. Mr.Mill's recruiting speech between the acts is most effective. The Stage - Thursday 13 May 1915

‘For next week [at the Alhambra, Stourbridge] Mr. Phelps has booked Mr. Percy Brooks’ [sic] company in “Remember Belgium,” one of the most realistic productions on the road. As the title infers, it is a topical drama, which should prove of great assistance to the recruiting authorities’. Dudley Chronicle, 28 August 1915.

Featuring Leonard Mortimer (Slow), Violet Wilkinson (Gwendoline), Rupert Talbot (Geoffrey Gard), Ernest Stidwell (Noel), Henry G Gilpin (Otto Nuber), Louis Gaye (Peebles), Winifred Rees (Meegan Morgan), Ida Clifford (Blodwyn Jenkins), Whitchurch Welsh Quartette

The Dudley Chronicle, Saturday 1 April 1916, advertised at the Alhambra, Stourbridge, for Monday-Wednesday and Saturday of the following week ‘Ernest R. Abbott’s Well-known and Old-established Company’ in Neither Wife Nor Maid, ‘An Entirely New and Original Drama’. Sapho would be played on Thursday and Friday.

The Stage, 21 February 1918, published an advertisement by Winifred Maude, seeking to rehearse immediately and open on Monday, a gentleman for juveniles and a lady for chambermaids (capable of Lancashire dialect). Contact: Alhambra Theatre, Stourbridge.

The Era, 28 August 1918, noted, ‘Mr and Mrs E R Abbott’s company in “Neither Wife Nor Maid” on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, and in “Sapho” on Thursday and Friday’ at the Alhambra, Stourbridge.

The Era, 25 September 1918, noted, ‘Tom Major presents a new music comedy, “Rosy Island”’ at the Alhambra, Stourbridge.

Performed under the title 'Coming Home' from 9-14 December.

The Stage, 5 June 1919, listed On Leave For His Wedding as On Tour from 2 June at the Alh., Stourbridge. Edward F Furneau’s companies advertised Clifford Rean’s On Leave For His Wedding in The Stage, 5 June 1919: ‘This, A.T., Stourbridge'.

A ‘theatres wanted’ advertisement inserted by Ernest R. Abbott in The Stage, 11 March 1920, mentioned that The Passions, Sapho and Neither Wife Nor Maid had all been performed the previous week at the Alhambra, Stourbridge.