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THEATRES  |  ALHAMBRA THEATRE

THE OPENING

Updated:  29 September 2011 

After the reconstruction had been completed, the old Metropole Theatre was re-opened as the New Alhambra Theatre, with Mr Gwyther Eastlake Prance as its director.

The booking office opened on April 16th 1924, when it was announced that free gifts would be given away every Monday night and that all ticket holders for the first house would get a free picture show at 6pm.

Sir Gerald Fowler Burton opened what was described as 'The People's Theatre' on Easter Saturday, April 19th 1924.  Mr Prance announced that shows were take place at 2.45 and 7.30pm and that there would be reviews at first but it was intended to show the Charlie Chaplin film "A Woman of Paris" very soon.   That was followed by Mrs R H Wagner's review "Remnants", in aid of the Plymouth hospitals.

Mr Prance's announcement about starting times was immediately disregarded, as the opening week's production, 'the Screaming Comedy Review' "On the Go", starring Joe Boganny, started at 6.35 and 8.45pm.

 

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