Panto Collection (page 16)

The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M Dell
Promotional postcard for The Way of an Eagle adapted by Ethel M. Dell from her novel, first published 1912, of the same name. First produced Adelphi Theatre, 20th June 1922. Artist: E. P. Kinsella

A Warning to Women by G Watson Mill
Promotional postcard for A Warning to Women by C. Watson Mill. First produced Lyceum Theatre, Eccles, 28th May and Theatre Royal, Stratford, 23rd July 1906

The Wandering Jew by E Temple Thurston
Promotional postcard for The Wandering Jew by E. Temple Thurston. First produced at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, 23rd August and New Theatre, 9th September 1920

A Waltz Dream adapted by Adrian Ross
Promotional postcard for A Waltz Dream adapted by Adrian Ross from the German of Felix Doermann & Leopold Jacobson (Carltheater, Vienna, 2nd March 1907); music Oscar Straus

The Walls of Jericho by Alfred Sutro
Promotional postcard for The Walls of Jericho by Alfred Sutro. First produced Garrick Theatre, 31st October 1904. The walls of London Society crumble in the background as the angel blows his trumpet

The Voice From The Minaret by Robert Hichins
Promotional postcard for The Voice From The Minaret by Robert Hitchins. First produced at the Globe Theatre, 26th August 1919. Set in Damascas and Drobridge-on-Sea it is the story of unrequited love

Virginia by Herbert Clayton D Furber & Burt Lee
Promotional postcard for Virginia by Herbert Clayton, Douglas Furber, R. P. Weston and Bert Lee; music Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge. First produced at the Palace Theatre, 24th October 1928

Ruth Vincent
Promotional postcard for Ruth Vincent, the star of Veronique is now starring at the Queens Hall, as advertised on this flyer as The Famous Operatic Star

The Village Blacksmith by G Carlton Wallace
The Village Blacksmith by G. Carlton Wallace. First produced Theatre Royal, Bury, 20th February 1903 and Theatre Royal, Stratford, 1st August 1904. Date: circa 1904

Victoria Palace Theatre programme
Inside pages of a theatrical programme for the Victoria Palace Theatre, London for the week commencing July 28th, 1919. Date: 1919

Veronique by Henry Hamilton
Promotional postcard for Veronique adapted by Henry Hamilton from the French of Albert Van Loo & Georges Duval (Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, 10th December 1898); music Andre Messager

The Tyrant by Rafael Sabatini
Promotional postcard for The Tyrant by Rafael Sabatini. First produced Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 9th March and New Theatre, 18th March 1925

The Tyranny of Tears by C Haddon Chambers
Promotional postcard for The Tyranny of Tears by C. Haddon Chambers. First produced at the Criterion Theatre, 6th April 1899. A comedy replete with delicious humour

Typhoon by Melchior Lengvel
Front and back pages of a promotional flyer for Typhoon by Melchior Lengvel (1909); English version by Laurence Irving. First produced at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle, 3rd October 1912

Two Women by Robert Hughes
Promotional postcard for Two Women by Robert Hughes. First produced at the Colonial Theatre, Cleveland, 15th November and Lyric Theatre, New York 29th November 1910. For one of the Schubert Theatres

Two Runaway Girls
Promotional postcard for Two Runaway Girls - described as a farce but probably only part of a music hall bill. It was being played 1905/6. For Brian McCulloughs Company. Date: circa 1906

Two Little Drummer Boys by Walter Howard
Promotional postcard for Two Little Drummer Boys by Walter Howard. First produced New Theatre, Loughborough, 23rd October 1899

Two Lancashire Lasses in London by Arthur Shirley &s Vane
Promotional postcard for Two Lancashire Lasses in London by Arthur Shirley and Sutton Vane. First produced as A Path of Thorns Camden Theatre, 31st August 1903. Date: circa 1903

The Truth by Clyde Fitch
Promotional postcard for The Truth by Clyde Fitch. First produced in England at the Comedy Theatre, 6th April 1907. Celebrated actress and singer Decima Moore, pictured

Trilby by Paul M Potter
Promotional Christmas card for Trilby by Paul M. Potter from George Du Mauriers novel (1894). First performed in England at the Theatre Royal, Manchester 7th September and Haymarket Theatre

Treasure Island adapted by James Bernard Fagan
Reverse page of a promotional flyer for Treasure Island from Robert Louis Stevensons story (1883) by James Bernard Fagan. First produced Strand Theatre, 23rd Janaury 1922

Marlborough Theatre, Holloway Road
Promotional postcard for the Marlborough Theatre, 383 Holloway Road. Although first proposed in 1899, the Theatre didn t actually open however, until well into the 20th-century. It was built for F

The Toreador by James T Tanner
Promotional postcard for The Toreador by James T. Tanner and Harry Nicholls; music Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 17th June 1901. R. C

Topsy and Eva by Catherine Chisholm Cushing
Promotional postcard for Topsy and Eva by Catherine Chisholm Cushing; music R. and V. Duncan. First produced in England at the Hippodrome, Lewisham, 20th August and Gaiety Theatre, 4th October 1928

Top Speed
Promotional postcard for Top Speed The New Era Production presents. The Unique High Class Revue. Touring to Palace Theatre, Lincoln, 15th February 1920. Date: 1920

Tonights The Night by Fred Thomson
Promotional postcard for Tonights The Night by Fred Thomson from Les Dominos Roses by Alfred Hennequin & Alfred Delacour (Theatre du Vaudeville, Paris, 17th April 1876); music Paul Rubens

Tommy Atkins by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck
Inside pages of promotional flyer for Tommy Atkins by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck. First produced at the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, 16th September 1889. Date: 1889

The Tivoli, London
Promotional postcard showing the Tivoli Theatre of Varieties in the Strand, London in 1908. Date: 1908

Tina by Paul Rubens and Harry Graham
Promotional postcard for Tina by Paul Rubens and Harry Graham; music Paul Rubens & Haydn Wood. First produced Adelphi Theatre, 2nd November 1915. For Frederick G. Lloyds Co

Vesta Tilley (1864 - 1952)
Promotional postcard for Vesta Tilley (1864-1952). Vesta Tilley was the leading male impersonator on the music halls of her day, and not usually shown in womens clothes

The Tigers Cub by Charles Giblyn
Promotional postcard showing sketches of characters from The Tigers Cub by Charles Giblyn, 1915. Date: 1915

Tiger Rose by Willard Mack
Promotional postcard for Tiger Rose by Willard Mack. First produced in England, Bournemouth, 6th October and the Savoy Theatre, 16th October 1919. For the Savoy

The Three Musketeers by Henry Hamilton
Promotional postcard for The Three Musketeers by Henry Hamilton. Showing Edward Dunstan, who is given star billing, as DArtagnan. Touring to Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, 9th March 1911 Date: 1911

The Three Musketeers by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck
Promotional postcard for The Three Musketeers by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck. First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, 8th November 1911. For the transfer to Princes Theatre, 26th December 1911

That Little Old Mother of Mine by F G Kimberley
Promotional postcard for That Little Old Mother of Mine by Mrs F. G. Kimberley. First produced Junction Theatre, Manchester, 20th October and Elephant & Castle Theatre, 24th November 1919. Artist: E

That Brute, Simmons by H C Sargeant and Arthur Morrison
Promotional postcard for That Brute, Simmons by H. C. Sargeant and Arthur Morrison from Morrisons short story of that name, first published in Tales of Mean Streets (1894)

Thank You, Phillips! by A L Burke
Promotional postcard for Thank You, Phillips! by A. L. Burke. First produced at the Apollo Theatre, 10th November 1921.Phillips is the valet who is in such complete control of his master

Thark by Ben Travers
Promotional postcard for Thark by Ben Travers. First produced at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, 27th June and Aldwych Theatre, 4th July 1927

The Terror by Edgar Wallace
Promotional postcard for The Terror by Edgar Wallace. First produced Winter Garden, New Brighton, 21st February, and Lyceum, 11th May 1927

A Temporary Gentleman by H F Maltby
Promotional postcard for A Temporary Gentleman by H. F. Maltby. First produced at the Pier Theatre, Brighton, 17th March and Oxford Theatre, 9th June 1919

The Sportsman, sketch starring Will Hebden
Promotional postcard for The Sportsman starring Will Hebden. A music hall sketch first performed at the Camberwell Empire, 10th June 1907. Date: circa 1907

Harry Tate
Promotional postcard for Flying starring Harry Tate. Harry Tate (1872-1940) was a popular music hall artist, who made his debut in 1895. He specialised in comic sketches. Flying was one of them

Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton
Promotional postcard for Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton, adapted from La Petite Chocalatiere by Paul Gavault. (Theatre de la Renaissance, Paris, 23rd October 1909)

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Promotional postcard for The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Starring Oscar Asche as Petruchio, and his wife, Lily Brayton, as Katherine in a production at the Adelphi Theatre

Sybil by Harry Grattan
Promotional postcard for Sybil by Harry Grattan from the Hungarian of M. Brody & Ferenc Martos (Budapest, 27th February 1914); music Victor Jacobi

The Swineherd and the Princess by Alfred England
Reverse of a one-page promotional flyer for The Swineherd and the Princess by Alfred England, Sidney Cubitt and Otto David, from Hans Andersens story; music Carl St. Amory

Mabel Love as Suzanne
Promotional postcard of popular Victorian/Edwardian actress Mabel Love playing the character of Suzanne. Mabel Love (16 October 1874 15 May 1953), was a British dancer and stage actress

The Sunshine Sisters by Ivor Novello and Richard D Rose
Promotional postcard for The Sunshine Sisters by Ivor Novello and Richard D Rose. Fist produced at Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 8th November 1933 and toured extensively afterwards

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"Panto: A Timeless Theatrical Extravaganza" Step into the enchanting world of panto, where classic tales and beloved characters come to life on stage. From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw to The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, it has always been a celebration of theatrical brilliance. In the Land of Christmas Plays by Pauline Baynes, audiences are transported to a magical realm filled with laughter and joy, and is here that Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were awarded the prestigious Joint Showbiz Award by Variety for their outstanding contributions to this cherished art form. The Waldorf Theatre in London stands as a testament to the grandeur productions throughout history. Its hallowed halls have witnessed countless performances that have left audiences spellbound. A Scrape of the Pen by Graham Moffatt showcases the wit and humor that define pantomime. La Poupee by Arthur Sturgess brings forth delightful puppetry that adds an extra layer of charm to these whimsical shows. No discussion about panto would be complete without mentioning Dan Leno, known for his iconic portrayal Dame characters. His larger-than-life presence continues to inspire performers today, as they step into extravagant costumes and bring laughter to all who watch. Even renowned actors like John Inman find themselves captivated by the allure of panto. As he gets fitted for his role in Mother Goose at Empire Theatre in Liverpool, we witness firsthand how this genre transcends boundaries and attracts talent from all walks of life. On and Off by Fred Karno takes us behind-the-scenes, revealing the dedication and hard work put into creating seamless performances night after night. No detail is too small when it comes to delivering unforgettable experiences for audiences young and old alike. Finally, Man And Superman written once again by George Bernard Shaw proves that even esteemed playwrights recognize the magic within pantomime's colorful world.