King’s Theatre poster, 18 February 1918
Poster
King’s Theatre poster, 18 February 1918
Object details
- Object type
- Poster
- Production date
- Feb 1918
- Dimensions
- 89.0 x 43.0 cm
- Museum number
- MH/KT/252
Source collection
Local History Centre Poster Collection, Dundee Central Library
The object’s story
Object Description
Colour-printed theatre poster advertising a week of variety entertainment at Dundee’s King’s Theatre. The programme is headed by celebrated comedienne Marie Loftus in Past and Present, alongside performers including Jack Clevoner, Freda Spry & B. S. Monti, the Three Morrellys, Austin Mahony, and Naughton & Gold.
Transcription
KING’S
THEATRE, DUNDEE
7 9
TWICE NIGHTLY
Early Doors, 6.30 & 8 o’clock.
Ordinary Doors, 6.45 & 8.45.
MONDAY, 18th FEB., 1918, and during the Week
The Famous Comedienne
MARIE LOFTUS
IN SONGS AND CHARACTER STUDIES, INCLUDING
HER ORIGINAL BURLESQUE SKIT
‘PAST AND PRESENT’
JACK CLEVONER
Wizard of the Concertina. England’s Champion All-Round Player
FREDA SPRY & B. S. MONTI
Entertainers Who Entertain
3 MORRELLYS
In Their Highly Gymnastic Act
PEGGY WALSH & MOLLIE MILNE
The Girls with Phenomenal Voices
AUSTIN MAHONY
The Irish Tenor
KINGSCOPE in EVENTS OF THE DAY
NAUGHTON & GOLD
Originators of All They Say and Do.
Next Week ‘ALADDIN’ PANTOMIME
PRICES
BOXES
Limited to Four Persons
2/- Tax 2d
Orchestra Stalls
1/6 Tax 4d
Pit Stalls
1/- Tax 3d
Grand Circle
1/- Tax 3d
PIT
6d Tax 2d
GALLERY
3d Tax 1d
LATE TRAINS
Leave Tay Bridge Station at 10.15 p.m. for Wormit, Newport and Tayport.
Leave Dundee East Station at 9.45 p.m. for Broughty Ferry, Monifieth, Carnoustie and Arbroath.
Note: A few lines of very small text in the theatre management and booking information sections are indistinct in the image and cannot be transcribed with complete confidence. The principal programme text has been transcribed as accurately as possible from the poster.