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Granville Theatre, Ramsgate, 29 August 1898, containing a rare photograph of Mr Walter R. Booth

The programme is for David Devant’s Entertainment ‘direct from Maskelyne and Cooke’s Egyptian Hall, London’. The performance included songs, dancing, a ventriloquial sketch, animated photographs and Devant’s Zauberwunder!. The reader is warned that ‘this programme is subject to frequent alteration’. Mr Walter R. Booth provides the vent. sketch and is also part of Zauberwunder. The back page names Mr Booth as the Stage Manager for Devant’s animated photograph entertainments. The photograph of Booth in the programme is significant because, as at 2020, it is one of only two known photographs of him which allows early cinema historians to identify Booth when he appears in early films. It had long been suspected that a magician in the films was Booth, but there was no firm evidence. For more information, click on the name Walter Booth below.

Item Details

Size 155 x 250mm, four pages.
Year
Date 29 August 1898
Theatre
People , , , ,
Acts Miss Violet Grey; Mr. Edward Kent; Miss Mabel Melville; Mr. Walter R. Booth; Animated Photographs; Devant's Zauberwunder!
Category
Ref no N1928 Pr.Other15