St George's Hall

St George's Hall, in Langham Place, near Oxford Circus, London, was a venue that became closely associated with amateur theatre in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It was a venue that had a favourable reputation amongst the upper and middle classes, which was seen to be presenting respectable amusements under the leadership of Thomas German Reed (1817-1888) and Priscilla German Reed (1818-1895). They had begun the 'German Reed Entertainments' in 1855 at the Gallery of Illustration. In 1871, Thomas German Reed retired, passing the baton to his actor son Alfred (1846-1895) who moved the events to St George's Hall in 1874. Priscilla retired in 1877.

There were a number of prominent London-based clubs and societies who performed at St George's Hall and are included in the list of known activities below. These include the Busy Bees, the Strolling Players, the Irving Amateur Dramatic Club, the Romany Amateur Dramatic Club and The Whittington Dramatic Society. St. George's Hall was home to William Poel's experimental amateur productions, which were concerned with the original conditions of Shakespeare's theatre. In 1881, for example, he staged Hamlet at St George's Hall.

The programmes for the German Reed Entertainments included a page advertising the venue for amateur performances. One such programme from c.1888 when the venue was managed by Alfred and the entertainer and German Reed Entertainments regular Corney Grain, states 'The Hall can be hired for AMATEUR PERFORMANCES, CONCERTS, MEETINGS, READINGS, &c. &c., on the Evenings and Mornings which are not devoted to Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT, viz: Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings'. The document goes on to explain the terms of hire, which is inclusive of gas, scenery (and properties only as already in stock), and attendance. for dramatic performances, the cost was £15 15s.

In spring 1895 the German Reed Entertainments came to an end when both Corney Grain and Alfred German Reed died.

In 1899 W. G. Elliot, author of the book Amateur Clubs and Actors (1898), took on a term as manager of St George's Hall into 1900. He had earlier had a stint at management at the St James's Theatre. Elliot was educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. At Cambridge he became the President of the Amateur Dramatic Club.

Amateur Theatrical Events at St George's Hall

Records of the venue have brought to light the following amateur theatrical events and companies:

• 1884, 12 February - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club perform Lytton's Money.
• 1884, 16 February - The Owl Dramatic Society hold their twenty-first performance in aid of the society's funds. They performed Andrew Halliday's dramatised version of Charles Dicken's Dombey and Son entitled Heart's Delight and J. P. Woolers' one-act comedietta Orange Blossoms.
• 1884, 28 February - The first performance of the Kendal Amateur Dramatic Club was performed, in aid of the Royal Hospital for Incurables in Putney. The group performed Thomas and G. M. Morton's comic drama in two-acts, All that Glitters is not Gold, and a new operetta in one act by Sutherland Edwards and Isidore de Lara, Minna; or, The Fall from the Cliff. The cast of the latter included Charles Hayden Coffin who, after his various amateur appearances, would go on to become a famous actor.
• 1884, 15 March - The Strolling Players are in their ninth season. They perform Tom Taylor's four-act Henry Dunbar and John Maddison Morton's one-act A Regular Fix.
• 1884, 25 March - A playbill survives that looks like those of the Strolling Players and includes key members, but does not give the society name. The performance is for the funds of the reformatory ship "Cornwall", similar to the event in 1893. The amateurs perform W. S. Gilbert's three-act comedy On Guard and S. Theyre Smith's one-act comedietta Cut off with a Shilling.
• 1884, 17 May - The Philothespian Club performed John Poole's comedy in three acts, Paul Pry, and Watts Phillips' drama in two acts, His Last Victory. This club should not be confused with the Philothespian Society that was the forerunner to the Oxford University Dramatic Society (O.U.D.S.).
• 1884, 12 June - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club perform for the benefit of the University College Hospital. They perform Shakespeare's As You Like It. The cast includes the Princess Hellen Randhir Singh.
• 1884, 2 December - A party of amateurs perform a romantic play in three acts by Herman C Merivale called A Son of the Soil. The performance is in aid of the London Cottage Mission.
• 1884, 4-6 December - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club perform Love's Labour Lost on behalf of the Artists' Benevolent Fund. Originally it was advertised in their June programme that it would be A Winter's Tale. The cast includes Charles Hayden Coffin.
• 1884, 16 December - The Romany Amateur Dramatic Club have their first performance of the fifteenth season in aid of the funds of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. They perform Katharine and Petruchio, David Garrick's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Before this they have F. C. Burnand's two act drama The Deal Boatman.
• 1885, 30 April and 2 May - The Browning Society and the New Shakespeare Society unite to perform Robert Browning's tragedy A Blot in the 'Scutcheon and Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Arthur Ayers is in the cast, as is William Bell, another name that recurs regularly in the playbills of St George's Hall.
• 1885, 6 May - A matinee is performed for the benefit of Miss Edith Heraud who, the programme states, has been 'for five years incapacitated by illness [and has been prevented] from pursuing her profession'. The cast includes Sir Charles Young, Lady Monckton, the Beerbohm Trees and Cotsford Dick.
• 1885, 23 May - The Fireflies Dramatic Club perform in aid of the Egyptian War Fund. They perform two pieces, Conway Edwardes' and Edward Cullerne's farce Dreadfully Alarming and James Albery's three act comedy The Two Roses.
• 1885, 10 November - The Busy Bees, whose President was Hermann Vezin, perform T. W. Robertson's School. The Honorary Secretary of the Society was Mrs Lennox Browne. The cast includes T. W. Cope, Mrs Lennox Browne and Frank Bacon.
• 1885, 17 November - The Stanley Bicycle Club Dramatic Society gave an invitation performance consisting of Sydney Grundy's one act play In Honour Bound, Herman Hendrik's three act comedy, The Hurly Burly; or Number Seven Twenty Eight and Joh Maddison Morton's farce A Thumping Legacy.
• 1885, 19 December - The Whittington Dramatic Society perform Oliver Goldsmith's comedy in three acts, She Stoops to Conquer and Charles Selby's The Bonnie Fishwife. The cast included W. T. Cope and Frank Bacon.
• 1886, January - A 'semi-amateur' performance of the first and third scenes from Hamlet was mounted. It included the amateur Arthur Ayers.
• 1886, February - On 13 February the Owl Dramatic Society are pictured in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News performing at St George's Hall. The pieces presented were More than Ever and David Garrick.
• 1886, 13 February - The Strolling Players perform Conway Edwardes' Heroes, a comedy in three acts, and Bayle Bernard's one-act play His Last Legs.
• 1886, March - On 27 March The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News includes pictures of St Clement Dane's amateur theatricals at St. George's Hall. The pieces presented were Some of the Jury, Poor Pillicoddy and Withered Leaves.
• 1886, 3 April - The Strolling Players perform Shakespeare's A Merchant of Venice.
• 1886, 15 April - A performance was given in aid of the Mansion House Fund. The piece performed was Albery's adaptation of Bronson Howard's drama The Old Love and the New.
• 1886, 20 May - The Whittington Dramatic Society perform in aid of the fund for providing parish rooms for the church of St Thomas in Regent Street. They perform Oliver Goldsmith's four act comedy She Stoops to Conquer and Henry Arthur Jones's one-act comedy, An Old Master. The cast includes Arthur Ayres, a regular amateur actor in London.
• 1886, 1 July - The Artists' Regimental Dramatic Club performed F. W. Broughton's comedietta Withered Leaves and Palgrave Simpson's domestic drama, Broken Ties. The cast includes numerous military personnel including Col. Serjeant W. Merceron Hudson, Private F Graham-Moon and Captain Todd.
• 1886, 11 November - The Vaudeville Club performed an original comedy in five acts by Bronson Howard called The Old Love and the New. This had been performed at the venue in April.
• 1886, 7 December - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club performed on behalf of the Girls' Home in Charlotte Street. They performed Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I.
• 1886, 6 November - There was an amateur dramatic performance under the patronage of various notables, headed by the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in aid of the Middlesex Hospital Samaritan Fund. The entertainment consisted of an original comedietta in one act by Martin Bechter called Belling the Cat and Tom Taylor and A. W. Dubourg's comedy New Men and Old Acres.
• 1887, 4 June - A dramatic performance in aid of charity was mounted. The pieces were They're Smith's one act comedietta Uncle's Will, Frances Forbes-Robertson's two act fairy play As Pretty as Seven and John B. Buckstone's one act comic drama Good for Nothing. The cast includes Eric Forbes-Robertson and several presumably young member of the Dudgeon family.
• 1887, 11 June - The Strolling Players perform Herbert Gardner's three act comedy Time Will Tell and the one act farce The Area Belle. A note in the programme explains that the indisposition of Mrs Arthur Ayers has resulted in the productions of Sweethearts being postponed and The Area Belle being put in its place. The cast includes Ernest J. Enthoven, Captain A. FitzGeorge (R.N.), Arthur Ayers, Guildford Dudley and Charles H. Lamb.
• 1887, 26 May - A new and original four act play by Alfred D. Wilmot called Lady Deane was performed, most likely by amateurs. The cast included A E. Drinkwater, who also shared the role of stage manager.
• 1888, 12 January, the Busy Bees perform T. W. Robertson's three-act comedy Ours. The cast includes Mrs. Lennox Browne, Hilda Abinger, Captain West and Captain Thatcher. The performances also includes a significant orchestra. The Stage Manager is Carlotta Addison and Acting Manager is H. Chevalier Purkis.
• 1888, 2 February - An event in aid of the funds of King's College Hospital and King's College School East-end Mission took place. The programme was the farce Cupboard Love and W. S. Gilbert's Engaged.
• 1888, May, the Busy Bees perform H. Hamilton's four-act comedy Moths.
• 1888, 26 June - A performance in aid of the Recreative Evening Schools Association was given by a company called the Mummers. It included a play adapted from German called Woolgathering. The Society's President was Ellen Terry.
• 1888, 29 November - The Strolling Players perform Bronson Howard's four-act play Young Mrs Winthrop and Thomas J. Williams's comedietta in one act, I've Written to Browne. The cast includes Captain Enthoven (Royal Army), Hilda Abinger, Arthur Ayers, Captain A. FitzGeorge (Royal Navy) and Ernest J. Enthoven. The club orchestra is also in attendance.
• 1889, 25 April - The Private Banks' Dramatic and Musical Society give a performance in aid of the Bank Clerks' Orphanage. They perform the one-act piece Our Bitterest Foe and T. W. Robertson's Caste in three acts. The President of the society is Alfred de Rothschild and one of the Vice Presidents is Lord Archibald Campbell.
• 1889, 4 May - The Strolling Players perform an original drama in three acts called Comrades by Brandon Thomas and B. C. Stephenson. The cast includes Major W. Newnham-Davis.
• 1889, 20-21 December - The Strolling Players performed in aid of the Camberwell Dispensary. They performed a five act drama by William Gillette called Held by the Enemy.
• 1890, 20 February - The Strolling Players perform Charles Dance's comedietta in one act, Delicate Ground, and T. W. Robertson's comedy in three acts Home.
• 1890. 20 and 22 November - The Strolling Players perform in aid of St Ursula's Association for carrying on Working Girls' Clubs and kindred organisations in Whitechapel on 20 November and again two days later without the charity connection. Their choice of play is Sir Charles Young's romance of modern society in four acts, Jim the Penman. The programme notes that furniture for the event is supplied by Messrs. Oetzmann & Co.
• 1890, 9-11 - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club perform The Tempest in aid of the Medical Aid Society and the Cyprus Society.
• 1890, 18 December - G. E. M. Amateur Dramatic Club perform in aid of the Children's Convalescent Home in Tunbridge Wells. Their programme is in two parts: My Turn Next, a farce in one act by T. J. Williams and Stage Land, a comedy in two acts by G. R. Douglas.
• 1891, 5 February - The Lyric Club hold their 96th concert which includes Sydney Grundy's In Honour Bound and a musical farce called On Lease composed for the occasion by Cotsford Dick. The amateur cast includes Charles Colnaghi, Cotsford Dick, Viscount Glentworth, Lady Eleanor Harbord, Herman Herkomer and Hon. Gilbert Coleridge. The programme notes that on 1 March there would be an adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler by Justin H. McCarthy. (This may not have taken place at St George's Hall, as the below certainly did, but both events curiously include Charles H. Lamb).
• 1891, 5 February - The Strolling Players perform A Night Off; or, A Page from Balzac, an eccentric comedy in four acts by Augustin Daly.
• 1891, 25 April - The Strolling Players perform Tom Taylor's adaptation of Braddon's novel, Henry Dunbar.
• 1891, 19 June - Arthur M. Heathcote brings a company of amateurs to perform his comedy in three acts, Pentrobin. He is one of several Heathcote's to perform in the cast.
• 1891, 28 November - The Strolling Players perform Clement Scott and B. C. Stephenson's Diplomacy (a translation of Sardou's Dora).
• 1892, 2 February - dramatic performances by the staff of the London and South Western Bank and friends in aid of the Bank Clerks' Orphanage. The company performed Robertson's Caste and Mark Lemon's Domestic Economy.
• 1892, 16 February - The Folly Amateur Dramatic Club perform an entertainment in aid of the funds of the Waifs and Strays Society. The piece was Tawno's Bride; or The Maiden of Myrtlewood Manor, a new and original opera-burlesque in two acts by E. W. Bowles, G. R. Philips and T. Merton Clark.
• 1892, 28 April - The Strolling Players perform Tom Taylor's comedy The Overland Route.
• 1892, 19 May - The Romany Amateur Dramatic Club have their third performance of their twenty-second season in aid of the funds of the Harrow Mission. They perform the four act comedy by Sydney Grundy, The Glass of Fashion.
• 1892, 22 November - The Strolling Players perform a play in five acts by Bronson Howard, The Old Love and the New.
• 1893, 28 January - the eighteenth season of the Strolling Players. They perform Sydney Grundy's one-act comedietta Man Proposes and Joseph Derrick's three-act comedy Confusion.
• 1893, 1 and 7 February - The Irving Amateur Dramatic Club perform Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
• 1893, 2 February - The Old Love and the New by the Strolling Players.
• 1893, 29 April - The Strolling Players perform W. S. Gilberts comedy in three acts, Engaged, and a comedy sketch in two acts by Henry Arthur Jones called The Deacon.
• 1893, 16 November - The Strolling Players perform in aid of the funds of the Training Ship "Cornwall" in Purfleet. They performed Arthur Wing Pinero's play in three acts, Dandy Dick.
• 1894, date unknown - A society perform The Monk's Room, an original drama in prologue and three acts by John Lart. The society's President is Alderman Sir Joseph Renals. The perruquier on this occasion was Hans Hugo, of Covent Garden.
• 1894, 18 January - The Pinero Dramatic Club perform Tom Taylor and Charles Reade's comedy Masks and Faces in aid of the Teachers' Orphanage and Benevolent Funds. The President is Arthur Wing Pinero and the Vice Presidents include Ellen Terry and J. Forbes-Robertson.
• 1894, 27 January - The Burlington Dramatic Club perform in aid of the Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeyman Tailors, Haverstock Hill. They perform Dion Boucicault's five-act Irish drama, The Shaughraun. As with other amateur societies of the period, they have an amateur orchestra.
• 1894, 10 February - The Bancroft Amateur Dramatic Club perform The Glass Fashion by Sydney Grundy and Dream Faces by Wynn Miller. They are accompanied by the Bancroft Amateur Dramatic Club Orchestra. The club has S. B. Bancroft as the Honorary President and J. Forbes-Robertson, Fred Thorne, Mrs. Bancroft, Ellen Terry and Kate Rorke as honorary vice presidents. The committee includes women members.
• 1894, 22 February - The Strolling Players perform James Albery's comedy in four acts, Forgiven. On the reverse of the programmes the structure of the society is always listed and in this year we see that James H. Enthoven is one of the Vice Presidents and Ernest J. Einthoven is on the committee. Arthur Ayers is the Chairman of the committee. The society's leadership remains male-dominated.
• 1894, 12 May (year not certain) - An amateur dramatic performance was mounted in aid of the funds of the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children and the St Jude's Industrial Home, Chelsea. They perform the comedietta Dearest Mamma and the three-act comedy Love Wins. They are accompanied by Mr. Norfolk Megone's Amateur Orchestra. The cast includes Captain Walter James and Frank Gielgud - father of the famous actor John Gielgud.
• 1894, 24 May - The Romany Amateur Dramatic Club performed as part of their twenty-fourth season in aid of the Funds of the Great Northern Hospital. They performed Sir Charles L. Young's four-act romance of modern society, Jim the Penman. They were supported by Mr. Joyce's Orchestra.
• 1894, 26 May - The Bancroft Amateur Dramatic Club perform C. Haddon Chambers' four-act play The Idler and Thomas J. Williams' Who's to Win Him?.
• 1894, 1 December - The Strolling Players perform H. Hamilton's four-act comedy Moths.
• 1895, 7 February - The Strolling Players perform in aid of the funds of "The Hostel of God" (the free home for the dying). They perform William Gillette's five-act drama Held by the Enemy. The event was 'under the Direction and Stage management' of Charles H. Lamb and F. Hamilton Knight and a professional actress, Miss Marie Linden, was in the cast. Discussing the production, The Daily Telegraph reported that the play 'takes a high place among the few theatrical successes brought to our stage from America during the last few years', noting its plot being centred on the American civil war.
• 1895, 9 February - The Strolling Players perform William Gillette's five-act drama Held by the Enemy - this time without the charitable cause.
• 1895, 30 March - Members of the St John's Wood Dramatic Musical Society perform the one-act burlesque Blue Beard Re-Paired for the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables. The society announces in its programme that it has the intention of setting up an amateur orchestra. This society seems to be catering for a local Jewish community that grew between the two world wars. Their programme advertises well-known Jewish costumier William Clarkson and the tutor of 'gesture, attitude and stage and ballroom dancing', Albert Lacy Harris.
• 1895, 21 May - The Romany Amateur Dramatic Club perform in aid of the funds of the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate. They perform Arthur Wing Pinero's three-act farce The Schoolmistress.
• 1895, 28 November - The Strolling Players performed F. C. carton's three-act play Sunlight and Shadow, preceded by the one-act comedy Why Women Weep. The limelight, as in many other productions of the Strolling Players, was produced by Colin Docwra and Ernest Docwra - amateur experts in this form of lighting.
• 1896, 9 January - Bernard and Ronald Macdonald mount an amateur dramatic entertainment. It consists of A Complete Change by Bernard, All the Difference by Ronald and 'the new and original nautico-domestic drama of high life in three acts (one of which is a prologue) by Bernard Macdonald M.A. called For Family Fame; or The Sea and its Dead. The Macdonalds perform in all three pieces.
• 1896, 13 February - The Strolling Players perform Arthur Wing PInero's farce in three acts titled The Magistrate.
• 1896, 12 December - The Strolling Players perform C. Haddon Chambers' four-act play Captain Swift. The cast includes Arthur Ayers, Mrs Charles Sim, Hettie Duff Bruce, Charles H. Lamb and Lilian Braithwaite. The play is produced and under the 'Stage Management and Direction' of Walter S. Hersee and Charles H. Lamb.
• 1896, 11 May - The Strolling Players perform W. S. Gilbert's three-act drama Dan'l Druce, followed by S They're Smith's comedietta Mrs Hilary Regrets.
• 1896, 2 July - Marlowe's Doctor Faustus was 'produced under the direction of' William Poel by the Elizabethan Stage Society. It was 'acted by members of the Shakespeare Reading Society, on a Stage after the model of the Fortune Playhouse, designed by R. Minton Taylor'. The programme lists the designers of the stage (John Bull and sons) and how special costumes were created for the event by Clarkson and others. Poel lists the original sources used to help to stage the performance on the programme, as well as the academic experts who had advised. The poet, Swinburne, wrote a special prologue for the occasion. The programme also announces that the next performance will be of Twelfth Night in the Old Hall of the Middle Temple, in which the play was first acted.
• 1897, 27 February - The Strolling Players performed C. H. Hawtrey's farcical comedy in three acts, The Private Secretary. The cast includes Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven).
• 1897, 10 May - An amateur dramatic performance with a significant list of parts was given in aid of the Indian Famine Relief Fund. It consisted of a musical sketch entitled Orpheus Square, S. W. by G. L. Smith-Wright, who was also a performer in Our Boys by H. J. Byron performed afterwards. They were accompanied by mr. Spencer Curtis's Amateur Orchestra Band.
• 1897, 12 and 15 May - These events were performed by the Strolling Players and the first was in aid of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots. The performances were of B. C. Stephenson and W. Yardley's three act comedy The Passport. Gabrielle Enthoven was amongst the cast.
• 1897, 13 December - The Strolling Players perform C. Haddon Chambers' play in four acts, The Idler.
• 1898, 2 March - The Strolling Players performed the three-act farcical comedy Walker, London, by J. M. Barrie. The cast includes Ernest J. Enthoven and Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven).
• 1898, 12-13 May - A performance was held in aid of H.R.H. Princess Christian's Trained Nurses' Home at Windsor. They performed the four-act play The Home Secretary by R. C. Carton and were accompanied by the Ladies' Amateur Harp, Mandoline and Guitar Band. The performers included Lady Mary Pepys, Lady Helena Douglas-Hamilton, the Hon. Ethel Cadogan, Col. C. H. T. Marshall and Captain Ulick Browne.
• 1898, 6 December - The Strolling Players performed Henry Arthur Jones's three-act comedy The Case of Rebellious Susan.
• 1899, 23 January - An amateur dramatic musical performance was held in aid of the National Animals' Hospital Fund - founded by Our Dumb Friends' League, 1898 (a society for the encouragement of kindness to animals). The event was supported by Lady William Lennox's Ladies' Amateur Orchestra - conducted y Lady William Lennox. The pieces performed were The Decoy Duck, a political comedietta in one act by Hugo Ames and An Unchartered Voyage, a new and original burletta in two acts also by Hugo Ames.
• 1899, 2 March - The Strolling Players performed Sydney Grundy's three-act farcical comedy The Arabian Nights. The cast includes Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven) and regular leading performer Arthur Ayers, who acted as Chairman and often is listed as producing players under his stage management and direction.
• 1899, 15 May - The Elizabethan Stage Society performed Such Stuff as Dreams are Made Of, a drama taken from Calderon's La Vida es Sueño by Edward Fitzgerald, to be produced under the direction of William Poel. The group aimed to recreate Spanish life of the seventeenth century. Their next performance is advertised as being an Indian drama translated from Sanskrit by Sir William Jones. The society also advertises its office and costume studio in South Kensington.
• 1900, 19 February - The Strolling Players perform the three-act farce The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown by Robert Buchanan and Charles Marlowe. Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven) is in the cast. Interestingly the cast list is reversed here, putting female roles first.
• 1900, 21 February - Deutsches Theater in London (the German Dramatic Society) perform Heimath.
• 1900, 24 May - The Strolling Players are in their twenty-fifth season and perform J. Palgrave Simpson's three-act comedy A Scrap of Paper. The cast includes Leonard Trevor.
• 1900, 6-7 December - The Strolling Players perform Arthur Wing Pinero's three-act comedy The Squire. The cast includes Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven), Mr F. V. Enthoven and Lt.-Col. Newnham-Davis. The first evening of the performances was in aid of the Surrey Convalescent Home for Men, Seaford, Sussex.
• 1901, 14 February - An event 'under the direction of Charles Garth' included Herbert M. Farrington's one-act play Mingled Threads and Jerome K. Jerome and Eden Phillpotts' comedy in three acts The Prude's Progress. The former may have been performed by amateurs too, but the latter was performed by members of "The Wanderers" Amateur Dramatic Club. The costumes on this occasion were by Morris Angel and a selection of music was performed by Miss Vickers' Amateur Orchestra.
• 1901, 28 February - The Strolling Players perform Herr Von Moser's three-act farce On Change, arranged for the English stage by Miss Eweretta Lawrence. The cast includes Mr Leonard Trevor - presumably Leo Trevor, known for his involvement in the theatricals at Chatsworth House.
• 1901, 20 May - The Strolling Players gave a performance in aid of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association. They performed G. W. Godfrey's three-act comedy The Parvenu.
• 1902, 3 May (year not certain, but presumed) - The Wanderers' Amateur Dramatic Club perform Arthur Wing Pinero's comedy in four acts, The Times. It is accompanied by the St Mary's Amateur Orchestra.
• 1905, 8 December - The Strolling Players perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The President is Rear-Admiral Sir Adolphus Fitzgeorge, Arthur Ayers remains Chairman. Mrs Charles Enthoven (Gabrielle Enthoven) plays the part of Miss Prism.
• 1906, 28 March - The Strolling Players perform Arthur Wing Pinero's three-act farce Dandy Dick.