Everybody's Out of Step....... - Page 11

cashman · 14-12-2011, 19:45

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

How did you know that? We also found a little room at the top of the theatre with oddly sloping walls. It was only when we poked a big hole in the plaster and looked through it that we realised that we were looking down into the theatre from the top of the proscenium arch

Easy we were never out of yon,

sadly lost one of our little mates down yon,

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 19:56

Pretty dangerous place. But fun nevertheless.

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 20:02

I don't recall any doors leading under the stage. I do remember that the main curtain had fallen across the orchestra pit and lay draped there in a tangled soggy mess. I also remember there being a painted lady on the walls of the gents above the urinals, a bit reminiscent of Vargas.

cashman · 14-12-2011, 20:40

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

I don't recall any doors leading under the stage. I do remember that the main curtain had fallen across the orchestra pit and lay draped there in a tangled soggy mess. I also remember there being a painted lady on the walls of the gents above the urinals, a bit reminiscent of Vargas.

I seem to recall 2 of em, perhaps they were removed after the accident, which would have been around 62 ish, i know they tried to secure the place afterwards to prevent kids goin in. seems it didn't work.

mobertol · 15-12-2011, 14:48

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

He certainly was hunny.

here's another tid-bit from "42nd Street" (1933) featuring the utterly divine Ruby Keeler and the so so soigne Dick Powell.

At the end of the show Dick Powell pulls down the safety curtain, you will note that it has 'ASBESTOS' written on it, which reminds me of my misspent childhood. I managed to get into the old Hippodrome Music Hall in Accy, and there was an enormous safety curtain there too, made of woven asbestos. Being kind of dumb then, I have always had a healthy disregard for Elf-n-Safety, we cut holes in it so that we could use a rope from the fly tower to swing through the safety curtain out over the orchestra pit.
Ahhh, happy days - wot fun!

Looks like you had the safety elves watching over you A-B!

I don't remember the Hippodrome at all -before my time obviously.

They don't make films like that anymore - Early 30's was when my Grand-parents were courting so I like to imagine they would have gone to the cinema to watch them. They both always loved musicals and the Saturday night variety programmes that used to be on in the 60's and 70's like the Black and white minstrels....

mobertol · 18-12-2011, 08:29

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Originally Posted by garinda

I usually think he's a bit of a prat, but Christopher Hitchens makes some interesting points, about the fiasco we're seeing unfold before out eyes in Europe.

EU summit victory? Not while we're in the clutches of Angela Merkel's giant vampire squid | Mail Online

Not wanting to nit-pick...

Saw yesterday that Christopher Hitchens had died of cancer.

Remembered this post and thought "Oh, maybe it was his last ever article..." I'll go and re-read it...

It's actually by a Peter Hitchens .. perhaps that's why you found this article OK!!

Gordon Booth · 18-12-2011, 12:52

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Not wanting to nit-pick...

Saw yesterday that Christopher Hitchens had died of cancer.

Remembered this post and thought "Oh, maybe it was his last ever article..." I'll go and re-read it...

It's actually by a Peter Hitchens .. perhaps that's why you found this article OK!!

They were brothers! Strongly different opinions but they had some cracking arguments( and still remained friends).