Hippodrome, Ilford

‘Harry Day’s revue, Passing Events, is the principal feature in Mr. George E. Well’s bill at the Ilford Hippodrome …Mention should also be made of Leo Stormont’s patriotic playlet, The Man Who Wouldn’t’. The Stage, 17 June 1915.

The Era, 6 December 1916, listed Gilbert Heron and Co. in Saved by Wireless in Calls for Monday 11 December at the Ilford Hippodrome.

‘The principal attraction in Mr. George E. Wells’s programme at Ilford is “The Girl of the Future,” played by Camille Clifford, Edgar Stexens [sic – Stevens], and H. Tripp Edgar’. The Stage, 29 March 1917.

The Era, 8 August 1917 carried advertisements for shows at the Ilford Hippodrome and the Olympia, Shoreditch in the week commencing 13 August, both including Harry Thurston in Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather’s ‘The Johnson ‘Ole’.

Advertised in The Era, 16 January 1918, and in the Eastern Counties’ Times, 18 January 1918.

Advertised in The Era, 20 February 1918, as ‘Messrs. Capt. E. C. Barker [sic] & Cecil Hadley present “A Cushy Job”‘.

‘E. Taylor Platt Co. in “The Man Who Stayed at Home”‘ was advertised in The Era, 27 February 1918, at the Ilford Hippodrome for the week commencing Monday 4 March.

Advertised in The Era, 2 October 1918, and in the Eastern Counties’ Times, 4 October 1918.

Last performance

This performance (theatre and start date) is included in a list of forthcoming performances of “Married on Leave” in The Stage of Thursday 1 August 1918. The Stage of Friday 27 December 1918 carried an advertisement for ‘Lew Lake’s Married on Leave by Dorothy Mullord’ which could be seen that week at the Hippodrome, Ilford.

The Stage, 8 May 1919, listed Jolly Times as On Tour from 12 May at the Hip., Ilford; and listed Harry Goodson’s Jolly Times, Rene Ralph and the Rae Duo in Calls for Next Week at the Ilford Hippodrome.

The Stage, 12 June 1919 listed under ‘calls for next week’ Andrew Melville’s “For England, Home and Beauty” at the Ilford Hippodrome.

‘Charles Austin, as full of breeziness as ever, and as resourceful in raising laughs as when he first created that wonderful character of variety “Parker” is delighting Hippodrome audiences this week with “The Adventures of Parker P.C.” The fact that he has introduced into this latest of a long list of successful productions an element of “sob stuff” of the heavy drama type, serves to accentuate his own vigorous merriment. But those who do not care for the dismal pathetic, slow-motion sort of ditties telling of life’s tragedies, that for some unaccountable reason find a place in most shows of to-day are not asked to tolerate many of them in “Parker P.C.” and there is ample diversity in the brightness of Alec Dane, Nancy Blackwood, Ruby Norton, and other members of a talented company to counteract any ill-effects may produce’. Eastern Counties’ Times, 25 October 1929.