{"id":3641,"date":"2016-06-23T20:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2016-07-04T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:59:54","slug":"leslie-baguley-up-date-22-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Baguley (Up-date) 22 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEEDS PLAY BILLS<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

I was delighted to come across the website of Leeds Play Bills, where I found copies of old posters advertised for sale.\u00a0 Amongst them, was\u00a0this posters of Jack Parnell\u2019s presentation from Monday, 13th December 1954.\u00a0 The show was presented by Stanley Dale and included Leslie, playing piano for Tony Brent at The Empire Theatre, Leeds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Brent, Columbia’s Sensational Singing Star<\/span><\/p>\n

ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2003911_63860721<\/span><\/p>\n

Theatre:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Empire<\/span><\/p>\n

Year:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1954<\/span><\/p>\n

Description:\u00a0 Monday, 13th December, 1954.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tony<\/p>\n

This Week at the Empire Theatre, Stanley Dale Presents a variety of performances including: Tony Brent, Columbia’s Sensational Singing Star<\/span>, with Leslie Baguley at the Piano; Gladys Morgan, ‘…Britain’s famous comedienne with her laugh & company’; Billie Anthony, ‘…the new singing star, glamorous recorder<\/span> of the big sale record ‘This ‘Ole House’; Eddie Arnold, ‘…impersonating the stars’; Duo Russmar, ‘…beauty in the balance’; Syd & Paul Kaye, ‘…young laughter raisers’; Kay & Katrina, ‘…steps in rhythym’ and finally, Brian Andro, ‘…on the wire’. There will be two performances every evening, at 6.00pm and at 8.15pm. Actors include: Tony Brent, Gladys Morgan, Billie Anthony, Eddie Arnold, Kay and Katrina, Brian Andro, Syd and Paul Kaye, Duo Russmar<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“\u00a9<\/b> Leeds Library and Information Service\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It has given me much pleasure to obtain this poster\u00a0for our website, for all\u00a0Leslie’s relatives and\u00a0friends to see.\u00a0 I am sure you will also love their website and to discover all the various posters they have thought to retain and have copies on sale. \u00a0\u00a0Well done Leeds Library and Leondis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their site is making available all the playbills in the Local Studies Library collection from a wide range of Leeds Theatres, such as The City Varieties, The Grand, The Princess and the Theatre Royal.\u00a0 The site also contains some circus bills, such as those from Pablo Franque\u2019s Circus.\u00a0\u00a0 They also have an image by Louis Le Prince. It is claimed Le Prince filmed the first ever moving images on Leeds Bridge in 1888.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Leeds Playbills site is part of the Leodis digitisation project funded by the New Opportunities Fund.\u00a0 <\/strong>Leodis is a photographic archive of Leeds. It is a project delivered by Leeds Library & Information Service. All images are \u00a9 Leeds Library & Information Service unless otherwise specified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All very fascinating and well worth a look.\u00a0 Go to <\/strong>www.leodis.net\/playbills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Larger(LtoR) Girl unknow, Diane (just behind Leslie), Keith Grant, Elaine Dunnell (landlady of Bull Hotel, Wrotham, Kent)\u00a0and Ann-Marie (her young daughter, sporting a fun hat). circa 1985, (Leslie played every Sunday lunchtime – sometime with Keith on drums).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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