Gabrielle Ray – H. J. Hitchins – The Stage – Thursday 9th March 1911
The matinee at the Empire on Thursday, March 16, in aid of the widow of the late Mr. H. J. Hitchins, will be on a large scale. The list of artists is a sufficient indication of this, among those who have promised to appear being Messrs. Edmund Payne, Arthur Bourchier, Hayden Coffin, Joseph Coyne, Kenneth Douglas, Robert Evett, Harry Grattan, George Grossmith, junr. G. P. Huntley, Harry Lauder, Misses Kate Cutler, Phyllis Dare, Constance Drever, Clare Evelyn, Lydia Kyasht, Grace Lane, Olive May, Gertie Millar, Gabrielle Ray, Elsie Spain, Violet Vanbrugh.
The Stage – Thursday 9th March 1911
Over £1800 was realised as the result of the testimonial matinee to the widow of the late Mr. H. J. Hitchins at the Empire on Thursday afternoon.
The Stage – Thursday 23rd March 1911
Emmy Wehlen – The Merry Widow – The Sketch – Wednesday 31st March 1909
MADE A MERRY WIDOW BY THE “FLU.”: MISS EMMY WEHLEN, WHO IS PLAYING SONIA AT DALY’S.
When last we published some portraits of Miss Wehlen it was uncertain when Londoners would see her. The uncertainty no longer exists, for the young actress is playing Sonia, Miss Lily Elsie’s part, in “The Merry Widow,” at Daly’s. Miss Elsie is out of the cast for a fortnight, that she may have opportunity to recover from a sharp attack of “flu,” and Miss Wehlen is appearing in her stead for that time. On Miss Elsie’s return Miss Wehlen will understudy her. The new Merry Widow was born at Mannheim, has acted with much success in musical plays at Munich and other places on the Continent, and made her greatest “hit” as a comedienne in “Mitternachtsmadchen.” In five months she has learned to speak English well.
The Sketch – Wednesday 31st March 1909
Aimee Webster – £150 – The Sketch Wednesday 16th May 1917
A JOCK ON LEAVE: AN “ALLEGORICAL PANTOMIME.”
ALL AMONG THE FLAPPERS AND THE FISHER – GIRLS AND THE NURSES, AND DREAMING OF HIS HIGHLAND LASSIE: M. LEON MORTON AS THE SCOTCH SOLDIER, IN “£150,” AT THE AMBASSADORS’.
SHOPS IN AND AFTER WAR: PRESENTS AND FUTURES.
1. SOME SWEET THINGS IN LINGERIE SOLD IN BOXES MADE FOR OTHER SWEET THINGS: WAR ECONOMY IN PRESENTS EXEMPLIFIED IN “£150,” AT THE AMBASSADORS’.
2. WHAT THE BIG STORES WILL BE LIKE AFTER THE WAR: A SHOP WALKER (MR. MURRI MONCR1EFF), A CUSTOMER, AND A COMMISSIONAIRE (M. LEON MORTON) IMBUED WITH THE MILITARY SPIRIT.
The new “war economy revue,” at the Ambassadors’, “£150,” was so named because that was the limit set by Mr. Cochran to the cost of production. In a slip inserted in the programme on the first night, he facetiously apologised for having exceeded the estimate by £4 15s.! The acting of M. Leon Morton is the chief feature of the new show; indeed, one critic, Mr. Herbert Farjeon, goes so far as to say that “any revue with Morton in it is better than any revue without Morton.” We illustrate here three of the scenes. On the left-hand page he is seen as a Scottish soldier– a “Jock,” in the popular phrase – “journeying from the trenches to his home among the heather” (in the words of the programme) in a scene curiously called “an Allegorical Pantomime.” The first photograph shows him among the Flappers (Misses Elsie Gregory, Kathleen Maude, Joan Emney, and Elaine Wells) the second, with the Fisher Girls (Misses Ena Strange, Siddons Saharet, Dolly Cullin, and Maisie Walsh); the fifth, among the Nurses (Misses Irene Russell, Mona Fraser, Ann Furrell, and Aimee Webster). In the fourth photograph (lower left) are, from left to right M. Morton, Mile. Madeleine Choiseulle as His Highland Lassie, and Mr. J. M. Campbell as An Elder. It represents the soldier’s dream of finding his girl as another man’s bride at the kirk door. On the right-hand page the upper photograph shows the scene entitled “The Temptations of the Modern Sweet-Shop.” Here are sold ostensible chocolate-boxes which gallant swains may buy for their lady friends. In reality they contain articles of lingerie. The scene called “A Dream of the Past and the Future, showing the interior of a great shop” is in two parts, before and after the war. The lower photograph shows the second part, when the military spirit is supreme. The staff are all retired Colonels and so on, and the Commissionaire, covered with medals, shoots off a button with the aid of his revolver.
The Sketch – Wednesday May 16th 1917
Eric Loder – The Sketch – Wednesday 10th March 1920
A Good Win.
The Bath Club Squash Rackets Handicap, in which the Prince of Wales reached the final, is really an important contest from the athletic point of view, for the members of the “Bath” play squash pretty assiduously, and many of them are first class performers in good practice. The Prince had to fight his way all through to reach the final against Captain Eric Loder, who has been described as the “fittest man in town.” He is so keen on athletic sport that when in London he has a game of squash practically every day, and there is no game more certain to keep one fit. The Prince, by the way, did not have a big handicap, and there were plenty of other competitors who got more than he did.
The Sketch – Wednesday 10th March 1920