Page 9 - Palace Theatre @ 100

In around 1880
these cottages
stood on
Alcester Street,
between Queen’s
Street and where
the Palace
Theatre stands
today.

A parade in
Alcester
Street.
The cottages
in the
background
are those
demolished to
build the
Palace
Theatre.

The Palace Theatre will open for its first performance at
3pm on Monday next – Bank Holiday. The evening
performances are at seven and nine pm and these times are
fixed for all future evening performances. There will be an
entire change of programme twice weekly – Monday and
Thursdays. The “star” piece for the first three days of the
opening week will be a 3,000 feet film, the popular comedy
“In a fix”.. There will, of course, be many other pictures in
addition. The artistes who will give variety turns at intervals
are Charles Paton, comedian; Enid Marshall, soprano
vocalist; and Jean Allistone, dancer and comedian.’

So the start of a Redditch Institution was announced to
the world in the local paper. Now, 100 years later, we
celebrate that institution’s centenary.

1913
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