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SWANSEA

CINE VARIETY THEATRE
1934 Babes in the Wood

SWANSEA EMPIRE
1943 Aladdin

Elsie Percival

Fred Gwyn

Jackson Brownw

Percy Le Fre

Leo Dennis

Gay & Gay

Margherita Stanley

Lawrence Kingston

Nina Forster

Helen Craig

Mela Carter

Catherine Summerton

Jimmy Holmes

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SWANSEA EMPIRE
1944 Cinderella

Ford and Sheen


SWANSEA EMPIRE
1948 Goody Two Shoes

Sonny Jenks

Morecombe & Wise


SWANSEA EMPIRE
1950 Robinson Crusoe

Max Wall


SWANSEA EMPIRE
1952 Puss in Boots

Harry Seacombe


SWANSEA EMPIRE
1954 Babes in the Wood

Stan Stennett


SWANSEA EMPIRE
1956 Jack and the Beanstalk

Ossie Morris

Wyn Calvin

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1897 Robinson Crusoe

Tom Fancourt

Alice Dewent

Alice Percival

Maude Bowden

Ethel Neverton

1898 Blue Beard

Flo Varley

Nellie Merton

Steve Cooke 

John Cooper

Annie Hathaway

Will White 

Leslie Clare

George Rydon

George Harker ,

The Sisters Langley

1900 Cinderella

Harry Karr

Walter Kooney

Ada Shirley

Doris Leslie

Maud Lascelles

Fanny Homer

Madge Lascelles

Hetty Russell 

Mary Manners

Lydia Cosman

Jeanie Thomas 

1901 No pantomime

1902 Cinderella

Marian Ayling

Addie Love

Tilly Vaughan

Georgina Leonard

Frank Dunlop

J.W. Baxter

Arthur Godfrey

Hettie Letch

Minnie Duncan

1903 No pantomime

1904 Bluebell in Fairyland

Rosadie Jacobi

Daisy Markham

Minnie Mace

May Lawrence

Harry Herbert

Robert Milstead

Harry Bruce

Harry Douglas

Julia Yivers

1905 Sinbad

Florence Dillion

Ann Brenan

Laura Humphreys

Stephen Fitzgerald

J.R. Val

Denby and Dent

1906 Cinderella

Cissy Wade

Mary Sadie

King and Delane

Mayer and Bode

Denby and Dent

Laura Humpreys

Stephen Fitzgerald

Cissy Hilton

Frank Thatcher

1907 Little Red Riding Hood

Ella Willmer

Beatrice Varley

Fay Desmond

1908 Robinson Crusoe

Madelaine Du Val

Maggie Allwood

John Thompson

Billy Bracey

1909 Babes in the Wood

Irene Damdeoa

John Richard

 

 

 

1910 No pantomime

1911 Cinderella

Barry Howard

Dorothy Clark

Kitty Douglas

Damerell

Rutland and Cinda, Maria Ault

Miss B. Cadman

J.W. Hooper

1912 Aladdin

Daisy Hurdle

Leonard Teel

Hettie Critchley

Iris Vaughan

Vera Lennie

Marie Gilbert

1913 Mother Goose

Nellie Le Breton

Gladys Johnson

Reg London

William H. Wright

Nellie James

Hal Lester

Nellie James

1914 Babes in the Wood

Olive Sparke

Kathleen Severn

Dorothy Edwards

Lydia Williams

Alan Kennedy

Preston and Copper

Glanroy Troupe

1915 Aladdin

Lillie Lassali

Billy Evelyn

Gertie Orchard

Will Judge

Sisters Oxley

Hartley and Mellor

1916 Cinderella

Minnie Rayner

Maud Diamond

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1917 Dick Whittington

Ena Lestrange

 

 

 

 

1918 Babes in the Wood

Tina Frank

May Romayne

Frank Hood

 

 

 

1919 Humpty Dumpty

Pauline Gilmer

Dot Eden

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1920 Cinderella

Frank Leigh

Lorna Cherry

Evelyn Grace

Frank Johns

Pauline Rivers

Scholey and Scholey

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1921 Dick Whittington

Ada Wise

Frank Leigh

 

 

 

1922 Babes in the Wood

Ada Wise

Willie Cave

Kenna Brother

1923 Cinderella

Nita Jarche

Lorna Cherry

Kitty and Olga Sherry

Vanda Rees

Daisy Bartholomew

The Dainty Danes,

Queenie Edwards

Tom Wiles

Leonard Holford

Talberto and Douglas

Jack Murray

1924 Jack and the Beanstalk

Dorothy Brett

Lester Holwood

Fred Hutchings

 

 

1925 Robinson Crusoe

Leon Salbury

Val Edwards

Madame Tardy Thomas

1926 Aladdin

Bert Symes

Gwen Highley

Jay Highley

Rosina May

Simple and Smart

Koppah and Sloppah

1926/27 Dick Whittington

Gloria Gay

Nellie Ryan

Harry Gilmore

Charles Harvard

Wal Watson

Ivy Raymond

Archie Wallen

 

1927/28 Cinderella

Eva Renee

Ray Rayson

Billy Royll

Doris Pearce

Lily Rose

Zoie Sheld

Walter Cranbury

1928/29 Aladdin

Renda Rudd

Bessie Evans

Zena Carol

Billy Revell

Bobbie Hall

The Ventons

The Zeimar Brothers

1929/30 Cinderella

Tom Dixon

Angela Guilberte

Broadway Girls

Doris Tilly

Nell Campbell

Roy Walters

1931 Jack and the Beanstalk

Edward Houghton

Maisie Griffiths

Hazel Glenn

Archie Wallen

Betty Millar

Gene Durham

Smarte Brothers Clowns

1932/33 Puss in Boots

Billy Barr

Eileen Merrie

Betty Millar

Shaun Desmond

Pat Walcott

Oliver and Proctor

Joe Somers

Johnny Fel

1933/34 Babes in the Wood

Eileen Merrie

Rita Kerva

Rene and June Gray

Cecil Roche

Irene Walters

Shaun Desmond

Mary E. Wilkins

Charles Stevens

Fred Weedon

Fred Sylvester

Rosa Langue

1934 No pantomime

1935 No pantomime

1936 No pantomime

1937 No pantomime

1938 No pantomime

1939 No pantomime

1940 No pantomime

1941 No pantomime

1942 No pantomime

1943 No pantomime

1947/48 Babes in the Wood

Gus Elton

Jack Noyes

Irene Mansel

Joan Macfarlane

Clifton James

Zoe Wheeler

Sheila Money

Betty Long

Bobbie Pattison

Doreen Richards

Joyce Randall

1948/49 Dick Whittington

Avril Vane

Bobby Vernon

Jack Noyes

Dorothy Lorraine

Teddy Knox

Melville Birley

Bobby Pattison

Charles Regan

Irma Hanson

Derrick Kaye

1949/50 Aladdin

Eleanor Drew

Wilfrid Brambell

Jackie Lester

Pamela Reed

Antonia Pemberton

Paul Lee

Harry Davies

1950/51 Little Red Riding Hood

Maudie Edwards

Ossie Morris

Stan Stennett

Mary Sullivan

Fairies Snowflakes

Royston Smith

Frank James

Rita Page

Maurice Keary

The Welcome Singers

Marianne James

1951/52 Cinderella

Gladys Morgan

Joan Laurie

Wyn Calvin

Eddie Connor

Sylvia and Doreen Stephens

Bert Cecil

Frank Laurie

1952/53 Mother Goose

Maudie Edwards

Ossie Morris

Olivia Jevons

1953/54 Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Cyril Dowler

Rhoda Rogers

Marcia Owen

Hilda Heath

Norman McGlenn

1954/55 Little Bo Beep

Cyril Dowler

Rhoda Rogers

Joy Royston

1955/56  The Little Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe

Cyril Dowler

Rita Page

Rhoda Rogers

Monica Wood

Billy Shenton

Campbell and Rogerson

1956/57 Sleeping Beauty

Cyril Dowler

Joe O'Gorman

Phyllis Bartell

Angela Scott

1957/58 Cinderella

Des O'Connor

Jacqueline Farrell

1958/59 Aladdin

Ossie Morris

1959/50 Mother Goose

Stan Stennett

1960/61 Jack and the Beanstalk

Wyn Calvin

George Bolton

Rex Rashley

Haval and Byl

Alan Wells

Yvoe Marlow

Sylvia Norman

The Five Romas

Eddie Fields

Tom Kyffin

Elizabeth Richards

1961/62 Babes in the Wood

Kenneth Earle

Malcolm Vaughan

Phyllis Mellor

Stan Sanders

Howell Evans

Pat Evans

Ossie Morris

1962/63 Dick Whittington

Johnny De Lilttle

Johnny Stewart

Sylvia Norman

Peter Boyce

Jill Alison

Reginald Vincent

Linda Lee

Ted Gatt

Pat Somers 

1963/64 Cinderella

Johnny Stewart

Johnny De Little

Sian Hopkins

Grande & Mars

Jonathan Prince

Brian Freeman

Monty Bond 

Debbie Dean

Wendy Roberts