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On Sunday morning I had a telephone call from
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outside the
Palladium's entrance became congested with a mass of unlucky patrons who'd been turned away at the box office. By headlining top-notch homegrown stars on the bill, Black secured continuous success through the remainder of the '20s and throughout the '30s. In defence of his entertainment
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he'd previously owned a string of thirteen cinema theatres, which he'd sold for £300,000. Although the
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and rose to the rank of Lance-Corporal. After the war, Black helped his father establish the first permanent motion-picture theatres in the UK. Black was a grafter and learnt about the entertainment business from his father. One of Black's initial jobs in his father's cinema was to show films on a
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and its ballroom benefited greatly from this arrangement as their premises were used for shows in rehearsal and for the launch of national tours. Black was president of the VAA (Variety
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had a side-bet arranged, based on which of the comics would be on when one dropped. It was always Tommy! I had my turn too: one night in the middle of singing ‘Rhumboogie’ a bomb fell so near to the theatre that all the stalls heavy double-plated doors burst open and the whole auditorium shook.
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After George Black Sr.'s death in 1910, the Black brothers controlled a chain of twelve cinemas. In 1916, their original cinema (the
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George Black (b. 1891) had two sons, Alfred (b. 1913 d. 2002) and George Jr. (b. 1911 d. 1970) who both entered show business and followed in their father's footsteps as successful producers and impresarios. Together they founded Black
Brothers TV Ltd. It was George Jr. who gave
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was a dead duck, they'd tried everything there – circuses, films, plays. It was going through a terribly bad patch and they said to my Dad, 'That's yours, what are you going to do with it?' Dad said, 'I'll make it the number one
Variety theatre of the
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variety circuit in 1932. He was then in charge of the new company Moss Empires Group and was in control of a chain of 53 theatres all over the UK. In 1938, he became the joint managing director of
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who appeared in many films throughout the 1950s. Roma Beumont's cousin was the dancer/singer Roma King (b. 1934 d. 2013) who appeared in several West End musicals including
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theatre in the UK. On 3 September 1928, he re-opened the theatre with a superb variety bill that included
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Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star
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dominated the Palladium scene until the war years; then subsequently at the
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3239:People from Birmingham, West Midlands
3138:The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall
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2331:"Merton Park stage star passes away"
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1198:(1935) – Christmas Pantomime at the
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859:The Fourth Crazy Month
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849:The Third Crazy Month
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2809:Strike a New Note
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2165:978-1-907195-22-8
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