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Probably not
                   politically
             correct today.


                      Courtesy:
                  Colin Wheeler








                                                                                            Colin  Wheeler

                                                                                          Remembers.......

                                                                                     “Many  years  ago,  long

                                                                                     before  the  scourge  of
                                                                                     political      correctness
                                                                                     entered     our     society,
                                                                                     Midget Town, came to the
                                                                                     Palace.  I  recall  my  late
                                                                                     father  recounting  a  tiny
                                                                                     lady  announcing  to  the
                                                          A Poster for               audience  that  she  had
                                                          the pantomime              willed herself to the stage
                                                          'Jack and Jill'            and  invited  any  man  to
                                                          at the Palace              come up on stage and she
                                                          Theatre,                   offered £5, a large sum in
                                                          Redditch  in               those  days,  to  any  man
                                                          January 1951.              who  could  lift  her  from

                                                                                     the floor, none could.”
                                                                   Courtesy:
                                                                Paul Hughes.


















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