Empire, Mountain Ash

When G. Carlton Wallace’s companies advertised The Enemy in our Midst in The Era, 3 and 10 May 1916, the address for communications for this week was the Empire, Mountain Ash.

The Era, 13 September 1916, listed Somewhere a Heart is Breaking as On The Road from 18 September at the Emp., Mountain Ash.

‘This week we have [at the Empire, Mountain Ash] Emma Litchfield’s company in “Home Once More.” The leading parts are well undertaken by Emma Litchfield, Conrad E. Stratford, Geoffrey Chate, Chas. Edwards, Lionel Balmont, Lily Livesey, Edith Giddings, Tom H. Solly, and Wm. Barrett. To-night (Thursday) the same company stage “The King of the Gipsies”‘. The Stage, 22 February 1917.

Various issues of The Stage and The Era listed Always Welcome as On Tour / On The Road at the Empire, Mountain Ash, in the weeks beginning 25 March and 1, 8, 15 and 29 April and 6 and 13 May 1918. But there is no other evidence that Always Welcome was performed.

Venue and date mentioned in an advertisement in The Stage, 27 June 1918. It is The Broken Trail that is listed as on tour at the E., Mountain Ash from 24 June in the Stage, 20 and 27 June 1918.

Performed for the week.

Performers: Harry Foxwell (Company)

When Joseph Millane’s Companies advertised in The Stage, 6 February 1919, for theatres for Love, Honour and the Woman (‘cast includes Florence Churchill’), the contact was Vincent W. Carlyle, that week and the next at the Empire Theatre, Mountain Ash. When Joseph Millane’s Companies advertised in The Stage, 13 February 1919, for theatres for Love, Honour and the Woman (‘cast includes Florence Churchill’), the contact was Vincent W. Carlyle at the Empire Theatre, Mountain Ash. The Stage, 20 February 1919, advertised The Man, The Woman And -? as having been ‘produced last week at Mountain Ash. After the first night not a seat to be had, and hundreds turned away. More than a success – a triumph’. Otherwise, performing what?