Hippodrome, Putney

Presented by Lew Lake. Advertisement in The Stage (15 April 1915) pronounced it 'A Performance without Flaw or Blemish'

Performed by the Six Brothers Luck company.

Reviewed in The Era, 20 September 1916 ('one the many sketches which owe their origin to the war'). The cast was: Henry Oscar (Jack), Ernest Burton (Doctor), Rosamond Croudace (Nurse) and Violet Barnett (Coppernob).

6.30 & 9pm The Didn't Want To Do It Charlie RIch, Freddie Malcolm, Claude Gardner, Forest Teller, Elsie Roby, Princess D'aryaba, Ted Waite. (The Era - Wednesday 15 November 1916)

Twice nightly 6.30 & 9 pm Duncan and Godfrey in a Cockney conversation concerning, "A Soldier, a Girl and a Jolly Jack Tar." (The Era - Wednesday 15 November 1916)

The Era, 23 May 1917, advertised Gilbert Heron & Co. in Saved by Wireless at the Putney Hippodrome in the week commencing 28 May.

Horace Hunter advertised in The Era, 11 July 1917 the ‘Greatest Sketch Attraction of the Moment. Reprisals. A Powerful One-Act Play expressing the Sentiment of the People. Will draw Hundreds. Six in Cast. Written and Produced by Horace Hunter’. The Stage, 26 July 1917, reviewed Reprisals, ‘a dramatic sketch, in three scenes, by Horace Hunter’, produced at the Putney Hippodrome on Monday 23 July. The cast was: William Garside, Arthur Page; Jessie Garside, Shirley Stuart; Rosie, Little La Coupe; Mrs. Voschman, Ethel Percival; Jimmy Perkins, Daisy Snow; P.C. Dawson, Charles Derwent. Scenes 1 and 3 were set in William Garside’s sitting room on the fifth floor of an East End tenement house; and scene 2 was set in the roof and attic section of Mrs. Voschman’s rooms on the top floor of the same building. The review continued: ‘It has always been something of an open question as to whether the stage, variety or dramatic, should be used as a channel for pubic “complaints.” Recently we had the problem of profiteering before us in sketch form, and this week the more important question of reprisals has to be faced. In the sketch under notice, the author, Mr. Horace Hunter, who has fathered such capital sketches as “The Man from Manchester” and “Under Suspicion,” has a good axe to grind, and he tells a homely and, at the same time, straightforward story. If the sketch did not quite grip at its first representation, the fault lies with the players engaged, and not with the author. No doubt by the time these lines appear this matter will have been set right, and those responsible will have settled down to their work. The character of P.C. Dawson, also, must be remodelled; a. comic policeman is out of place in such a scene. The story is one of the favourite “spy” themes ... It is in the dialogue that Mr. Hunter scores. Here, as in all the author’s work, he does not mince matters, but calls a spade a spade. The bomb and aircraft effects are of the most simple and undisturbing kind; and the play has been produced by the author in a very able manner’

The Stage, 21 and 28 February 1918, listed The Man Who Stayed at Home as On Tour from 25 February at the Hippo., Putney.

Advertised, and listed in Next Week’s Calls, in The Era, 6 March 1918.

Advertised in The Era, 28 August 1918 (performances at 6.15 and 8.30).

Advertised in The Era, 16 October 1918.

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 Era of Wednesday 25 December 1918 carried an advertisement for Dorothy Mullord & Co. in “Married on Leave” at the Putney Hippodrome at 6.15pm and 8.30pm with no mention of a matinée. The Stage of Friday 27 December 1918 carried an advertisement for ‘Lew Lake’s Married on Leave by Dorothy Mullord’ which could be seen the following week at the Hippodrome, Putney.

The Stage, 30 January 1919, listed Jolly Times as On Tour from 27 January at the H., Putney.

Advertised in The Era, 23 April 1919.