The programme is for David Devant’s Entertainment ‘direct from Maskelyne and Cooke’s Egyptian Hall, London’. The ...
Devant and early cinema
The top of the front page has been left blank so that the name of future performance venues can be overprinted. ...
Pages 2 and 3, also illustrated here, show a specimen programme. Page 4 has a full page illustration advertising ...
Page 3 includes the Saturday Popular Concert on 11 December 1897 of Mr. David Devant's Cinematographe. See Devant ...
Page 1 mentions the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which was in June 1897, so the likely date is 1897 or 1898. Pages 2 ...
This early publicity piece for animated photographs allows us to realise just how novel the entertainment was at ...
The printer's date on the programme is 5 February 1898. The Devant advertisement is apparently hand-written along ...
This advertisement can be folded to show The Box Trick in action. The words explain: ‘The performer enters the box ...
This is a programme from Devant's cinevariety tour 1898-1899. The programme tells us that Devant was actually ...
This item could act as advance publicity, as well as serving as a brief programme. The show was cinevariety, ...
This was one of the venues for Devant's touring cinevariety show. See Devant and early cinema for similar items.
The information about the show makes use of a glowing report from the Herne Bay Argus, 20 August 1898. It is ...