Theatre Royal, Scarborough

The Stage, 22 July 1915, listed Ernest R. Abbott as On Tour from both 26 July and 2 August at the Royal, Scarborough. However, a review in The Stage, 5 August 1915, suggests his company was performing only in the second of those weeks: ‘Monday saw the re-opening of the dramatic season at this popular house [the Royal, Scarborough]. A large audience assembled to witness Mr. and Miss Ada Abbott’s well-selected company in an admirable presentation of The Love Child. The drama is a wholesome, interesting work. The performance went with commendable smoothness. The company comprise Messrs John Johnston (Curley), Ernest R. Abbott (Ben Huxter), Frank Kelland (Lord Kingdon), Philip Layton (Rev. Peter Cordiner), Edward Keene (Butler), Alfred Harvey and Davis Brown (Crooks), Misses Glory Kelland (Lady Rose), Nellie Crowther (the Love Child), and others’.

‘Mr. and Mrs. Percy Brown are here with Remember Belgium. The work, as its title indicates, depicts with pathetic as well as dramatic effect the oppression this unfortunate country has undergone at the hands of the Germans'. The Stage, 12 August 1915.

When Arthur Hinton advertised in The Stage, 3 January 1918, for theatres for The Black Sheep of the Family his address for the following week was the T.R., Scarborough.

Performed here from 13-18 May.