The Dover Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society which
was formed as a result of the successful performance of the comic opera ‘HMS
Pinafore’, during the Cricket Week, will give their inaugurative performance
on December 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and
9th at the Royal Hippodrome, Snargate Street, when they will produce
the ever popular Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Mikado’.
The booking opens at Messrs Golden and Winds, 5 Cannon Street, Dover.
Lord Brassey and his party; Sir W H Crundall, and many other well-known
people hope to be present at the opening performance on Tuesday evening, the
5th December. The Company
are working hard at the rehearsals and the opera promises to be a very great
success.
There will be a matinee on Saturday the 9th December,
at 2.30, when children under twelve will be admitted half price.
This does not apply to other performances.
The orchestra will consist if members of the Royal Garrison
Artillery String Band.
Subscribers to the Dover operatic and Dramatic Society will
receive a 3s ticket for each 5s ticket subscribed. Mr F Hoare, Hon. Treasurer, Capital and Counties Bank, Dover,
will be pleased to receive subscriptions.
By Line – In an advertisement for this event in the same
newspaper dated 1st December, ticket prices were published as follows:
Boxes £2 2s & £1 11s 6d; Reserved seats, Dress Circle 5s, 4s, 3s; Orchestra Stalls 4s; Pit Stalls 2s; Unreserved Seat, Pit 1s, Gallery 6d. Early doors 6d extras, Gallery 3d extra.