Hippodrome, Aldershot

The Stage, 1 April 1915, listed Kitts and Windrum in Calls for Monday 5 April at the Aldershot Hippodrome. Performing 'The Slacker'?

Fred Clayden's Mystery Gun, The Mozelles, Jack Francis, Andie Lace, Barnard Family, Ferguson and Stuart, Tom and Neil.

Performed by Oswald Waller and Gloria Laurence. Variety acts on the same bill were: Sisters Holman, Krick and Krock, Melt and Bray, Margo and Mascotte, Ernie Mayne, Mazuz and Mazette.

Performed by Miss Beaumont Collins.

There is a fine varied programme at the Aldershot Hippodrome this week, and full houses have been the order on each evening. One of the best turns is a delightful comedy sketch, "The Borstal Boy," which, however, has its aesthetic side. John McNally, in the role of Albert, scores a great success. Gwenda Wren is no less successful as 'Liza, his wife, and Arthur Budd and Fred Bington, as Charlie (Liza's brother), and Bell, the pugilist, are given hearty applause. Mart and Pep are two splendid acrobatic hand-to-hand balancers and tumblers, and Eileen Wayne a popular comedienne, is a great success in her song, "My Own Iona." Warner gives a ventriloquial sketch, entitled "The Castaway," which contains some novel features. The Bam-Bam, a pair of real American cowboys, mystify the audience. One of the cowboys, with his hands tied, is placed behind a black curtain, and mysterious hands which play the tambourine which is handed to them, hand out flowers through slits in the curtain. The knots are examined by members of the audience, and are intact! Michael E. Fitzgerald and his club-juggling girls give an enjoyable item, and Duncan and Godfrey are irresistibly encored for their Cockney comedy conversation, concerning a soldier, a girl, and a jolly Jack Tar. The most interesting feature of the Pictorial gazette is an official war film showing Rheims Town Hall four months ago and as it is now. (Aldershot News - Friday 03 August 1917)

Advertised in the Aldershot Military Gazette, 15 March 1918, as ‘Captain Baker presents his Burlesque Recruiting One-Act Comedy Playlet, A Cushy Job. An Excellent Caste of 10 [sic], including Fanny Wallace, Howard Law, Fred Hill, and Captain Baker’. Also, ‘Messrs Baker and Cecil Hadley presented “A Cushy Job,” a one act comedy by Captain Baker, [which] proved productive of unqualified pleasure and success. The various roles were well portrayed by Captain Baker, the author, Misses Mary Allen, Molly Suffield, Lillian Wallace, and Fanny Wallace, also by Messrs. Howard Law, Fred Hill, and Andrew Storm. “A Cushy Job” was quite a piece to dispel the “blues,” and if for no other reason it deserves praise’ (Aldershot Military Gazette, 22 March 1918).

The Era, Wednesday 1 January 1919, and The Stage, Thursday 2 January 1919, both listed Harry Thurston and company in The Johnson ‘Ole in calls for the following week, Monday 6 January, at the Aldershot Hippodrome.

‘An excellent variety company fills the bill at the Aldershot Hippodrome this week. The star item of the programme is Mr Godfrey Tearle and his London company in a topical play “The Boy Comes Home” The story is deeply interesting, concerning Uncle James, who has made a pile of money during the war, and his nephew Philip, who has been away fighting for four years and who, returning self-reliant, refuses his irate uncle’s offer to take him into his jam business. The laughable way in which he turns the tables on his blatant uncle assures the play of success'. Aldershot News, 16 May 1919.