NAM.1998-01-64-2

Programme for the Bijou Theatre, 29 Nov 1917, from the papers of A C L Gummersall, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The program has the words The Bijou Programme Theatre, by kind permission of Lieutenant Colonel J H Campbell, DSO. Royal Army Medical Corps. Sketch of a WAAC in front of sketch of rural village/town. All in blue ink. Programme evening of 29/11/1917: Overture/ C.A.Bucknall, dancer/ H.Tomkins and his violin/ J.Edwards Immobile Comedian/ H.V.Perritt, Baritone/ D.Lenford, Comedian and Dancer/Don Steel, Monologue Artist/ Selection orchestra/ SECOND PART/ J. Welsh Coon Delineator/ Percy Seward Ballard Monger/ assisted by CA Bucknall, Dan Steel, Will Flynn/ Wilf Mitchell Entertainer/ Bert Chapman in a Three Act Dama/ Geo Dransfield Tenor/ SKETCH/ ‘COLLEEN BAWN’/ Characters/ Bunkam and Theatrical Manager Dan Steel/ Johnson and Jimson Two swells about town/ Bert Chapman/ Percy Seward/ God Save the King/ March out Viscount Nelson Orchestra/ Managing Director Bert Chapman Musical Director F.Hilton Printer NF Woodward.

World War One (1914-1918)