Empire Theatre, Finsbury Park

‘The Finsbury Park Empire will present this week the revue, “5064 Gerrard,” with Geo. French and Anna Dorothy in cast’ (The People, 5 March 1916). Reviewed in The Stage, 9 March 1916, and the Holloway Press, 10 March 1916, with no mention of the tribunal sketch ‘What Would You Do’.

The play is performed this week and is last on the bill which lists: Grook & Partner, Terry & Lambert, Manny & Roberts, Caryle Hyde, 5 Olracs, Miss Ellis Drake & Co in "Wullie" (see 'The Stage' 18 June 1916)

One of the best variety twice nightly programmes of the year will be found at Finsbury Park next week. It is an all star bill. There are no more resourceful couple of comedians than the Poluski Brothers who will present their comicalities on Monday next. There is nothing in variety quite like Van Hoven neither can there be. The eccentricities of this American artiste could never be duplicated with the effect that he produces. Nixon Grey has natural qualities that undoubtedly help him to be really funny. The turn of Duncan and Godfrey in their coster studies is familiar to all North London audiences. They will appear next week in an entirely new act entitled "A Soldier, a Girl and a Jolly Jack Tar." Frank and Vesta, two American artistes will present their speciality dancing act brimful of novelty. Lovers of sweet music, vocal and instrumental will have their fill in the act of the Five Symphony Girls. Hal Skelley and Eunice Sauvain will introduce for the first time here the "Black Dog Trot." The Daunton Show Troupe present one of the finest trick cycling acts to be seen. (Holloway Press - Friday 7 July 1916)

Performed for the week by George Hestor (actor) as Nosey Parker, Hugh Webb (actor) as Jack Smart, ‘a man of many aliases’, Jack Mann (actor), Chas. Hammel (actor), Norman Carn (actor), George Farnley (actor), Winnie Collins (actress), Dorothy Frostick (actress), Ethel Arden (actress), Marie Ellis (actress), Joan Hestor (actress), Billie Jeffries (actress), Nellie Hill (actress). Also on the bill were Harry Champion, the O’Hara Sisters, Dora Lyric, the Sisters Langley, and J. G. Taylor, the philosophic jester.

Grock and Patrner a French turn comparatively new to British variety head the list of attractions at the Empire next week. Grock is unique in his comedy at the piano. There is no one quite like Grock, who introduces some marvellous acrobatting into his act. The Partner is a violinist who acts as an excellent foil to this ultra eccentric artiste's business. Two charming ladies are Nora Blaney and Gwen Farrah, they describe themselves as purveying "Mirth, Music and Melody," and they more than live up to their promise. A very welcome return visit to the Empire is that of the marvellous child artiste, Kiddy Kennedy. This little wonder from Wales, though only eleven years old, is in every way a finished actress and singer. The turn of Duncan and Godfrey in their coster studies is familiar to Finsbury Park audiences, and next week they return with their act entitled "A Soldier, a Girl and a Jolly Jack Tar." James Fawn, the convivial comedian, The Marvellous Merril, in a sensational comedy cycling act; Ricardo and Mountford, and the latest war films complete the bill. (Holloway Press - Friday 9 August 1918)

‘“The Johnson ‘Ole” heads the bill at the Finsbury Park Empire, Harry Thurston appearing in his original part of “Old Bill”’. The People, Sunday 8 September 1918.