West Cliff Saloon, Whitby, Programme of Entertainment, September 1893

A 5.5 inch by 8.5 inch image of West Cliff Saloon, Whitby on an approximately 8 inch by 10.25 inch paper, with the programme of entertainment for 19th September printed on the reverse. The evening's entertainment, organised to raise funds to enable Willie Holloway 'the favourite circus clown, whose health has failed' to emigrate to a warmer climate, included Mr G du Maurier and Miss du Maurier singing, various other singers and music and characterisations, with Tableaux and Living Waxworks under the direction of Mr Edmund Humphrey. Willie Holloway, described as a world famous clown in his wife's obituary, performed with both the Barnum and Bailey's circuses. The premises for the performance were lent by the local MP, George W Elliot, who had built the saloon, together with the adjacent theatre and pleasure gardens at West Cliff in Whitby a few years earlier. The paper has been folded into eight, showing the consequent creasing - along which there are short cracks from the edge (not affecting image or printing) in two places, and gentle edge wear.