1906 Cinderella Christmas Pantomime Postcard
As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.
Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based and starred famous theatrical folk of the day.
This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Cinderella pantomime was produced by David Allen and Sons in December 1906 for the Broadway Theatre in New Cross, where:
"The Management have the pleasure of announcing that the Christmas Pantomime will be Cinderella, with the following Artistes: Miss Beatrice Edwards, Mr. Fred Cary, Miss Lucie Caine, the Sisters Sprightly, the Tally-Ho Trio, the Pollard Brothers and the Eight Sunrays."
There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:
"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"
That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!
1906 Cinderella Christmas Pantomime Postcard
As a child, Christmas time meant not only a time of Father Christmas and wish lists, magic and stories, gift giving and receiving, but also a time of joyous festivity and fun, including the British tradition of a Christmas panto (pantomime). I would always attend several over the Christmas and New Year period.
Christmas pantos have been a stalwart of British culture since the turn of the Twentieth Century, as this postcard attests and were usually faerie tale based and starred famous theatrical folk of the day.
This postcard from my large faerie tale postcard collection of a Cinderella pantomime was produced by David Allen and Sons in December 1906 for the Broadway Theatre in New Cross, where:
"The Management have the pleasure of announcing that the Christmas Pantomime will be Cinderella, with the following Artistes: Miss Beatrice Edwards, Mr. Fred Cary, Miss Lucie Caine, the Sisters Sprightly, the Tally-Ho Trio, the Pollard Brothers and the Eight Sunrays."
There was one theatre my Grandmother used to take me to when I was a child, where at the end of any panto, Christmas or otherwise where they sang the following:
"Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?
Oh I don't know! You don't know!
Oh don't you feel an ass?
Oh why does a brown cow give white milk,
When it only eats green grass?"
That silly song has stuck in my memory all these years, nearly half a century later!