Empire Theatre, Stratford

Performed by the Six Brothers Luck company.

"Hot and Cold," one of the best-mounted and thoroughly well-played revues which has the support of Stratford patrons was worth a visit to the Empire on Monday and some innovations in the cast and business will be noticed. Besides the inimitable A.W.Bascombe and Herbert Bolingbroke, there is a notable newcomer in the cast, Hylton Warde. Miss Ethel Oliver and Dorothy Frostick, the clever dancer, are filling the leading ladies parts, and the big beauty chorus has lost none if its bright attractiveness. Duncan and Godfrey will appear next week in an entirely new act entitled "A Soldier, a Girl and a jolly Jack Tar," a comedy conception replete with topical allusion expressed in their own typical cockney way. James Fawn and Jackson Potter (the famous baritone, featuring some fine numbers from a widely varied repertoire), are also at the Empire. (Eastern Post - 24 June 1916)

‘Stratford Empire top-liner will be Camille Clifford (the Hon Mrs. Lyndhurst Bruce), in her delightful fantasy, “The Girl of the Future,” supported by Harry Welchman and Mr. Tripp Edgar’ (The People, 12 November 1916). ‘Following upon her successful reassociation with the stage at Finsbury Park Empire, Miss Camille Clifford will, after playing “The Girl of the Future” at the Stratford Empire this week, commence a tour of the Moss Empires provincial halls, opening at the Empire, Newcastle’ (Sunday Mirror, 12 November 1916).

‘The programme at Stratford Empire is topped by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather’s sketch, “The Johnson ‘Ole.” Harry Thurston will appear in it in his original part of “Old Bill”’. The People, Sunday 27 January 1918.

‘Heading the bill at the Empire, Stratford, is Fred Karno’s “Rations.” Robb Wilton is the comedian of the piece. The bill is completed by Kirkby and Hudson, the Mongadors, and Bell and Betty’. The People, 7 July 1918.

Cast for this performance are listed as including: Dorothy Roseveare, Ennis Parkes, Jimmy Leslie, J C Piddock, and Ambrose Thomas.

Duncan and Godfrey The famous Cockney Comedy Couple in their successful scena "A Soldier, a Girl and a Jolly Jack Tar." (The Era - Wednesday 28 August 1918)