Empire Theatre, Barnsley

The Stage Thursday 10 June 1915 p4 Barnsley Empire Palace David Blair, Gaby Fay and Reg. G. Turner, in a dramatic episode, Among the Missing, are very successful, all three acting cleverly. The Stage Thursday 10 June 1915 p2 David Blair and Gaby Fay This, Empire Barnsley Next, Lyceum Theatre, Govan, Glasgow

The Era, 2 and 9 February 1916, listed The Little Grey Home In The West (South) as On The Road from 7 February at the Emp., Barnsley. Also The Stage, 10 February 1916. Also: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Vaughan’s company give a pleasing interpretation of Mrs. F. G. Kimberley’s domestic drama, “The Little Grey Home in the West"' (The Era, 9 February 1916). Reported in The Stage, 10 February 1916. Named cast members were Edward E. Ashby as Cecil Standing, St. John Stewart as Robert Standing, Vera Grafton as Mary Bryant, Beatrice Shirley as Mrs. H. Standing, Georgie Hall as Mrs. Bryant, Paul Courtney as the boy Duggie, George Fry as Dick, P. J. Dewhurst as Jack Hartley as Nana Davey as Peggy Bryant.

‘A stirring war drama The Enemy is Our Midst is proving a popular attractive at the Empire this week. Written and produced by Mr. J. [sic – G.] Carlton Wallace. who also appears in the caste, it is a startling play and deals with the spy peril. Hermann Klost, a naturalised Englishman, and Mrs. Stanhope, who is of German descent, scheme against England, but the plans in connection with a Zeppelin raid are frustrated in a sensational scene where a German Zeppelin is destroyed. Prominent artistes in a strong caste are: Miss Evelyn Carleton (Elsie Carstone), Miss Lydia Mannington (Mrs. Stanhope). Mr. J. [sic – G.] Carlton Wallace (Basil Stanhope), Mr. Norman M. [sic – A.] Overton (Hermann Klost), whilst Miss Phyllis Evelyn and Billy Owen are responsible for humourous interludes’. Barnsley Independent, 15 April 1916.

‘Major and Magini present here [the Empire Palace, Barnsley] “Stop Press,” played twice nightly. The revue, which is in seven scenes, is excellently staged and dressed, the music is bright, and the singing, acting and dancing are good. The strong cast includes Lily Ennis, Kitty Major, Fred Anderson, Amy Pollard, Nelly Gannon, Betty Mayne, Nelly Ginnell [sic - Nellie Gwinnell], and Sam Shirke, who are successful in their different rôles. The Dorothy Troupe are responsible for several pleasing items’. The Stage, 13 September 1917.

Advertisement for Home From The Trenches, ‘the play with the human touch’, by Arthur Jefferson: ‘This, Emp., Barnsley'. The Stage, 31 October 1918.

The Barnsley Independent, 15 February 1919, advertised at the Empire Palace, Barnsley, on Monday 17 February1919 and during the week ‘Fred Karno Presents Len Kilroy in Rations. A Revuette by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, including A Queue of Quaint Quipsters and Winnie Collins’.

This was the Midland company.