MUSIC HALL RELICS
SECRETS OF LOCKED ROOM From tho night 'Miss Marie Lloyd collapsed in the Edmonton Empire music hall in London 10 years ago and was carried home to what was to be her death-bed, tho door of the dressing room she used, with a star nailed thereon, was kept locked until recently. Mr. Sidney Bernstein is now reconstructing this music hall into a cinema and the room has just been opened. In an old arm-chair was found a handkerchief with-the words “To Beloved Marie from an Admirer” embroidered upon it. Blocking up tho window were an old black-and-white sketch on canvas of Mario Lloyd and a photograph of the laying of tho foundation stone of the theatre by “My Fancy,” tho old music hall favourite who died a ievv weeks ago. Mr. Bernstein is keeping the, star found ou tho door.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 10
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143MUSIC HALL RELICS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 10
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