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LEIGH
Jean-Claude SEGUIN
Leigh est une ville d'Angleterre (Grande-Bretagne).
1898
L'Eventograph de Charles W. Poole (Theatre Royal, <16> décembre 1898)
LEIGH THEATRE ROYAL.
Quite delightful change has been made this week in the programme at the Leigh Theatre Royal, and Mr. Dewhurst has evidently hit the popular fancy by engaging Mr C. W. Poole’s myriorama, for crowded audiences have been assembling nightly. The entertainment is sufficiently varied to please the most fastidious. The combinations of splendid paintings with dioramic effects is alone sufficient to constitute a capital evening's entertainment, for the audience are shown scenes Scotland, London, and Paris, and are then taken in imagination to the picturesque Alpine village of St Michel, and up Mount Blanc. The storm In the Alps, the Grands Motets, which form one of the halting-places on the way to the summit, the Glacier de Boisson, are sufficiently shown, and then we reach the summit. Subsequently views are shown of Venice, Rome, with the city illuminated for Easter, ruins of the Coliseum, Pompeii, Brindisi, Crete, Constantinople, the Pyramid and Sphinx, Cairo, the battle of Omdurman, Khartoum, the Benin expedition, Madagascar, Johannesburg, several scenes in India, including a capital tiger hunt, in which a very realistic picture is shown of the tiger creeping through the jungle, the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, Pekin, Niagara by moonlight, Klondyke, and several scenes in the recent Spanish-American war and the Jubilee procession. There were several capital music-hall turns during the evening. Miss Daisy Graham gave charming songs, and created roars of laughter by the comical antics of her clever dog Nap.” Mr Harry Stewart proved a very versatile comedian and excellent quick change artist, and was received with great cheering. Scott, the ladder king: Miss Verbena, a steel rope walker; the Satelle acrobats, and the Ladas troupe were all worth seeing. Mr Bob Desmond gave a marvellous exhibition of bone-playing, his imitations of an express train being splendid. The eventograph, or exhibition of living pictures, was another very interesting item, Mr Gladstone’s funeral and several comic scenes being shown. To crown all, Boswell’s Circus occupied the stage at the close, and the riding lessons at the close sent the house into convulsions.
Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser, Leigh, vendredi 16 décembre 1898, p. 8.
1900
Le Cinématographe (Theatre Royal, <13 juillet 1900)
Un cinématographe présente un spectacle de vues animées au Theatre Royal en juillet :
LEIGH THEATRE ROYAL.
Owing to the holidays and the hot weather, the Leigh Theatre Royal has not this week been so well patronised, although the entertainment provided is light and enjoyable. Mr Chalmers shows some excellent cinematographic views, including Henley Regatta, washing sheep, Red Cross sisters on the battlefield, a skirmish with the Boers, review of soldiers at Hyde Park, the old battleship "Victory’’ firing a salute, Kruger’s dream of empire, the shoe-black. the rag picker, bathing, going to the picnic, ballooning, the jealous painter, a pillow fight between girls, scene in blacksmith’s shop, Blackpool promenade, Ally Sloper’s donkey ride, a comic cricket match, the Queensbury Tunnel with engines passing through, a series of views of the Paris Exhibition, and Leigh holiday makers on their way to the seaside. In addition to the cinematograph there are several capital music ball artistes.
Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser, Leigh, vendredi 13 juillet 1900, p. 1.
