Hippodrome, Wednesbury

Advertisement, p. 38, The Stage, 28 October 1915. Mrs. Frank Bateman's New Production. No performance dates but following venue to Theatre Royal Sheffield ca. 28 October 1915.

Performed here for three weeks.

The Era, 27 September and 4 October 1916, listed The Unmarried Mother as On The Road from 2 October at the H., Wednesbury. Similarly The Stage, 28 September and 5 October 1916.

The Era, 8 and 15 November 1916, listed The Little Grey Home in the West as On The Road from 13 November at the H., Wednesbury.

Performed by Will Casey and company.

When Charles Locke advertised in The Stage, 13 December 1917, for a theatre for Christmas week for the ‘real success’ For Motherland, his address that week was the Hippodrome, Wednesbury.

The evidence for this week is that The Stage, 19 and 26 September 1918, listed The Queen and the Knave as On Tour from 23 September at Wednesbury; and that when Miss Emma Litchfield advertised The Queen and the Knave in The Stage, 19 September 1918, the address for the following week was the Hippo., Wednesbury.

Will H. Glaze's Repertory Company. Also presented during the week was 'His Mother's Rosary' by Eva Elwes. ('The Era', 23 March 1921, p. 20)