Regent Theatre, Yarmouth

‘A very strong attraction is heading the bill next week, when Gilbert Heron (late Royal Marine Artillery) and Jessie Danvers are presenting by arrangement with Kitts and Windrum, “The Slacker,” the playlet which has achieved so remarkable a success in London and the provinces. The characters are aptly described as the wife, the maid, the big man, the little man, the taximan, the shadow, and the slacker. The sketch abounds with strong situations and amusing comedy; further it is bang up-to-date in a topical sense, and the name of Gilbert Heron is one which is always associated with distinction in acting and production’ (Yarmouth Independent, 8 January 1916). ‘Gilbert Heron and Jessie Danvers are doing well with their various sketches, including that playlet The Slacker’ (The Stage, 13 January 1916).

‘The chief attraction at the Regent next week is the special and expensive engagement of Cissie Langley and No. 1 company, in the great war sketch, toured her in all the principal theatres of the United Kingdom, “Nurse and Martyr,” pronounced to be one of the finest sketches ever written’. Yarmouth Independent, Saturday 27 July 1918.

Advertisement: ‘Book these in connection with the Gt. Yarmouth Hospital Saturday Fund, Friday, Aug. 30th – Regent Theatre, New Comedy, “Kitty Breaks Loose.” [plus other shows elsewhere on 31 August]’. Yarmouth Independent, 24 August 1918. ‘Hospital Saturday. We would remind our readers of the several efforts that are to be made at the week end and on Sunday, in aid of the Hospital Saturday Fund. To-night (Friday) [sic] the performance of the new comedy, “Kitty Breaks Loose,” should draw a big audience to the Regent Theatre’. Yarmouth Independent, 31 August 1918.

Performed by Cora Duncan & Albert Brasque. Other acts on the same bill: Miss Alice Vernon -Queen of brass instrumentalists, Fred Hutchins -Famous comedian.

'Sydney and Melbourne ... present 'Mr. and Mrs. John Bull at Home' their latest comedy, a patriotic interlude, original in conception and the only one of its kind on the British Stage.' (Yarmouth Independent, 23 November 1918)