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Hippodrome, Aldershot

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The Hippodrome was a theatre in the town of Aldershot in Hampshire. [1]

62 relations: Acker Bilk, Aldershot, Arthur Askey, Arthur English, Arthur Lucan, Bertie Crewe, Chas McDevitt, Chris Barber, Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, Cicely Courtneidge, Circus, Clapham and Dwyer, Cleo Laine, Davy Kaye, Ella Shields, Eric Delaney, Felix Yusupov, Florrie Forde, Gene Krupa, George Martin (comedian), George Robey, Google Books, Google News, Gracie Fields, Harry Bidgood, Harry Champion, Humphrey Lyttelton, Hylda Baker, Jack Haig, James Mason, Jane (comic strip), Joe Loss, John Dankworth, Kinemacolor, Kingston upon Thames, Kitty McShane, Lonnie Donegan, Marie Lloyd, Max Miller (comedian), Mike & Bernie Winters, Musical theatre, Nancy Whiskey, Neville Kennard, Old Mother Riley, Pantomime, Pathé News, Peter Jeffrey, Peter Sellers, Phyllis Dixey, Princes Hall, ..., Proscenium, Repertory theatre, Robertson Hare, Sabrina (actress), Terry Scott, The Herald (Glasgow), The Western Brothers, Theatre Royal, Aldershot, Tom Leamore, Tommy Trinder, Wee Georgie Wood, West End Centre, Aldershot. Expand index (12 more) »

Acker Bilk

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinettist and vocalist known for his appearance – goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat – and breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.

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Aldershot

Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England.

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Arthur Askey

Arthur Bowden Askey, CBE (6 June 190016 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor.

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Arthur English

Arthur Leslie Norman English (9 May 1919 – 16 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.

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Arthur Lucan

Arthur Lucan (16 September 1885 – 17 May 1954) was an English actor who performed the drag act Old Mother Riley on stage, radio and screen, with a series of comedy films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Bertie Crewe

Bertie Crewe (1860 – 10 January 1937 in London) was one of the leading English theatre architects in the boom of 1885 to 1915.

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Chas McDevitt

Charles James McDevitt, (born 4 December 1934) is a British musician, one of the leading lights of the skiffle genre which was highly influential and popular in the United Kingdom in the mid-to-late 1950s.

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Chris Barber

Donald Christopher Barber OBE (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist.

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Chrystabel Leighton-Porter

Chrystabel Leighton-Porter (11 April 1913 – 6 December 2000) was the model for the Second World War Daily Mirror newspaper cartoon heroine Jane which boosted morale during the Blitz.

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Cicely Courtneidge

Dame Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge, (1 April 1893 – 26 April 1980) was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Clapham and Dwyer

Clapham and Dwyer, Charles Clapham (1894-1959) and William Henry Dwyer (1891-1943), were a British comedy duo in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Cleo Laine

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range.

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Davy Kaye

Davy Kaye MBE (born David Kodeish, 25 March 1916 – 3 February 1998) was an English comedy actor and entertainer.

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Ella Shields

Ella Shields (September 27, 1879 – August 5, 1952) was a music hall singer and male-impersonator.

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Eric Delaney

Eric Delaney (22 May 1924 – 14 July 2011) was an English drummer and bandleader, popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Felix Yusupov

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (Князь Фе́ликс Фе́ликсович Юсу́пов, Граф Сумаро́ков-Эльстон; – 27 September 1967) was a Russian aristocrat, prince and count from the Yusupov family.

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Florrie Forde

Florrie Forde (16 August 187518 April 1940), born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and Music hall entertainer.

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Gene Krupa

Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an American jazz and big band drummer, band leader, actor, and composer.

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George Martin (comedian)

George Frederick Martin, billed as "The Casual Comedian" (26 February 1922 – 4 November 1991), was a comedian, musician, composer, scriptwriter and broadcaster.

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George Robey

Sir George Edward Wade, CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 November 1954),Harding, James.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Google News

Google News is a news aggregator and app developed by Google.

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Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedian and star of both cinema and music hall.

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Harry Bidgood

Henry "Harry" Bidgood (189815 November 1957), was an English composer, dance band leader and musical director for films.

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Harry Champion

William Henry Crump (17 April 1865 – 14 January 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was an English music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, whose onstage persona appealed chiefly to the working class communities of East London.

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family.

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Hylda Baker

Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedienne, actress and music hall performer.

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Jack Haig

Jack Haig (born John Cecil Coppin, 5 January 1913 – 4 July 1989) was an English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in Television comedy, he was best known for playing Monsieur Roger LeClerc in the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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Jane (comic strip)

Jane was a comic strip created and drawn by Norman Pett exclusively for the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror from 5 December 1932 to 10 October 1959.

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Joe Loss

Joshua Alexander "Joe" Loss LVO OBE (22 June 1909 – 6 June 1990) was a British musician popular during the British dance band era, and was founder of the Joe Loss Orchestra.

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John Dankworth

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinetist and writer of film scores.

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Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Kitty McShane

Kathleen "Kitty" McShane (19 May 1897 – 24 March 1964) was an Irish actress, best known as the wife and acting partner of Arthur Lucan, with whom she appeared in a series of Old Mother Riley stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Lonnie Donegan

Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians.

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Marie Lloyd

Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress.

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Max Miller (comedian)

Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963), best known by his stage name Max Miller and also known as "The Cheeky Chappie", was an English comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation.

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Mike & Bernie Winters

Mike & Bernie Winters were English brothers who formed a comedy double act, consisting of Mike Winters, born Michael Weinstein (15 November 1926 – 24 August 2013) and Bernie Winters, born Bernard Weinstein (6 September 1930 – 4 May 1991).

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nancy Whiskey

Nancy Whiskey (born Anne Alexandra Young "Nancy" Wilson, 4 March 1935 – 1 February 2003) was a Scottish folk singer, best known for the 1957 hit song, "Freight Train".

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Neville Kennard

Neville Kennard (1900 – 30 December 1963) was a twentieth century variety entertainer from England, most active in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

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Old Mother Riley

Old Mother Riley was a music hall act which originally ran from about 1934 to 1954 played by Arthur Lucan, and from 1954 to the 1980s played by Roy Rolland.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Pathé News

Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 until 1970 in the United Kingdom.

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Peter Jeffrey

Peter Jeffrey (18 April 1929 – 25 December 1999) was an English character actor, starting his performing career on stage, he would later have many roles in television and film.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Phyllis Dixey

Phyllis Dixey (10 February 1914 — 2 June 1964) was an English singer, dancer and impresario.

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Princes Hall

The Princes Hall in Aldershot, England is a 600-seat theatre / receiving house which presents a varied programme of music, ballet, comedy and pantomime.

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Proscenium

A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.

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Repertory theatre

A repertory theatre (also called repertory, rep or stock) can be a Western theatre or opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.

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Robertson Hare

John Robertson Hare (17 December 1891 – 25 January 1979) was an English actor, who came to fame in the Aldwych farces.

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Sabrina (actress)

Norma Ann Sykes (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as Sabrina or Sabby, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor film career.

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Terry Scott

Owen John "Terry" Scott (4 May 1927 – 26 July 1994) was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Western Brothers

The Western Brothers were an English music hall and radio act, who were popular from the 1930s to the late 1950s, performing self-written topical songs which often lampooned the upper classes.

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Theatre Royal, Aldershot

The Theatre Royal was a theatre in Aldershot in Hampshire which opened in 1891 and was demolished in 1959.

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Tom Leamore

Thomas Leamore (24 August 1866 – 6 September 1939) was an English popular variety comedian, dancer and singer.

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Tommy Trinder

Thomas Edward Trinder CBE (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989), known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre- and post-war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.

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Wee Georgie Wood

George Wood OBE (17 December 1894 in Jarrow, County Durham – 19 February 1979), known professionally as Wee Georgie Wood, was a British actor and comedian who appeared in films, plays and music hall revues.

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West End Centre, Aldershot

The West End Centre is an entertainment venue and arts centre located on Queens Road in Aldershot.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome,_Aldershot

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