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BP01 Panopticon Museum Vol 1
Subject
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Social History
Music Hall
Waxworks
Creator
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[A. E. Pickard]
Source
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Pickard's Scrapbooks collection at Royal Scottish Conservatoire Archives.
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Pickard's Papers project. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust / University of Glasgow / Heritage Lottery
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Pickard's Papers Project, processed by Berta Ramos
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Original: Hard-bound paper scrapbook
Language
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English
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Text
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BP01
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Edwardian
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This scrapbook covers the early history of the Britannia Panopticon under Pickard's management.
Newspaper cutting
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THE PANOPTICON.
" At '• OF ENTERTAINMENT.
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TEE BRITANNIA PANOPTICON.
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Si-nr o :h«-, ;. : ys when the Britannia Theatre
oi v &x»et: s in the Trongate had only one
riv tv l in Glasgow, it .has passed through-
tin any vicissitudes. A few months ago Mr A.L
•Ih Rickard took it over, and in the interval]
; he' has converted it into a unique place of j
penterrainuient. The Panopticon, as the]
.place has been named, was ripened yester- ■
’] day, the first performance being given in
. i presence of a party of pressmen, reprosen- ♦
i tatives of public bodies, and friends of (he *
& prdnrietor.
tS The programme informs us that Mr t
; Pickard has spared neither nains nor ex- f
| pc-nse to make the old “ Brit.” and Panop- [
-d ticon the most attractive place of amusement |
-j — as well as the cheapest — in the world, j
.B’or twopence visitors will h^ve much tow
.interest and amuse them. The interior ofi
•the did music hall has been entirely re-'
• constructed, and equipped for the most part
t;with novelties of a most varied description- i
..There are statues - and paintings I
• of celebrities, jnechanioal forking models (
’ and automatic machinoR, distorting mirrore, |
s t][electric shooting saloon, and several tableaux ,
v 3cnr , "en t i.".g human sacrifices in Dahomey,’
r torture cb . iber and rack of the seventeenth ,
j- century. • 1 the story of a crime in seven j
| chapters jo ev^ry case
figures are. admirable,
’ -ha ng been made in Paris for the.
• Museum Grevin, and afterwards exhibited
v 'at Earl's Court Exhibition, London.
In the entertainment, hall, which can ac- |.
- commodate about 500 persons, enjoyable >
j turns are r 'ven this week bv Miss Kate r
fj Gourlav, ]• r.le Victoria Connor, and the
f Bi-'mc. i o. Music is provided by the Japa - j
iqf nos.* lad' rd orchestra, the members of which p
-i acquit, h *rr».-elvve with credit, ^here are w
, } no fcwei than six performances daily, the j
t j first beg. ine at one o’clock arid the laet L
I 9.30. The lighting arrangement is a fca- r
| fnre. incandescent gas lames of 400 candle- 1
i power bc.ing used in some parts, as well as f
j elect ricitv.
| The V) opticon is dek'ghtfullv fresh arid,
j clean, tV* entertainment, iu novel and whole- i
1 some, and the general arrangements, includ-
| ipg entrances and cxifo. leave nothing to bo |
-[ ( ]e?ired. This >\ew place of entertainment f
{should appea 1 to larrc .numbers of town- - [
I people, as well as visitors front the country, L
during the holiday season.
The old-established place of entertainment in
Trongate has been resuscitated, and is now
known as the Britannia Theatre of Varieties
and Grand Panopticon, or Pickard’s Pleasure
Palace. It is open all day and has numerous
attractions, including realistic scenes in wax-
work and diverse busts, figur<_ , paintings,
mechanical de > ices, punching balls, an olectric
rifle shooting saloon, and very amusing dis-
torted mirrors. Among the curiosities may be j
noted the mummified body of a cat which was '
discovered in a cellar beneath the theatre.
Conspicuous among th’o decorations is an admir-
able. scries • of transparencies representing
British Kings and Queens, artistically painted
by Professor Hctkomer and bis pupils. Six
times daily — thrice in the afternoon and thrice
in the evening — there are variety performances
in the theatre, and biosoopic views are shown.
The drop curtain has a realistic picture of the
last exhibition at Kelvingrovc, and the or-
chestra consists of a quartet of young ladies in
Japanese costume. Throughout the building
the Corporation Gas Department have fitted up
their effective system of incandescent lighting,
including 30 of the 100-candle power lamps
which have given so much satisfaction in the
City Chambers — seven of which brilliantly il-
luminate trie theatre — while there arc also
numerous small lamps similar to those used
with electricity. Altogether the Brit, in its
new form is a very cheap .and attractive house
of entertainment.
I e?pec
WHAT A BOY SHOULD KNOW.
A very successful man, In speaking of wltat a
young man 3bould know to begin business life in
right way, summarised the qualifications abdfit as j
; follows
He should be able te write a good legible hand.
. To spell all the words that he know* how to Use.
To wime an ordinary receipt.
To speak and write good English.
i To wr»te a good social or business letter.
To add a column of figures rapidly.
To make out an ordinary account. j
To deduct 5 per cent, froni the face of the
J account.
To receipt an account when it is paid.
To reckon the interest or the discount on a j
promissory note for years; months or days.
To tell the number of yards of carpet required
foirihe parlour.
To tell something about the great authors and
the statesmen of the presthut tim*.
If. vay‘: the successful business man. a boy can h
do all this, it is probable that be lias enough
education to make his way in the world.
\Ty,
WAXWORKS AND VARIETIES.
Speaking of attractions to the townspeople and the j '
visitors in the way of popular amusements, we would U
not overlook a very prominent little corner situated
i at 101 Trongate, where Mr. Pickard, an enterprising'
'» Englishman, has a variety exhibition open from 10 |
a.m. till 10 p.m. which is really worthy of a visit. It j
is without exception the cleanest and smartest show j
of the kind in the city. There are innumerably
attractions, almost any one of which is worth the
coppers paid for admission. We advise our country
friends specially in visiting the city to look in at
Pickard’s and they will long remember the wonders
they will see there. , .
Cl BRITANNIA.
A novelty in the way of cheap and excellent
entertain merit has been afforded by Mr A.
E. Piokard, the new proprietor of rho Bri-
tannia Theatre of Varieties. The hous.cv'haa
boon entirely reconstructed from top to bot-
tom, the internal embellishments in the way
of art and sculpture, &c., being such as to
make tho old ‘‘Brit.” unrecognisable to its
former patrons. There is a spacious promen- ’
ado. with numerous side-shows— apart alto-
gether from a capital variety entertainment
in the theatre itself. Some of those shows,
which arc novel und wonderful examples of
mechanical ingenuity, are placed in what is
termed the Panopticon, which may be con-
strued as a collection of all sorts of things
while the collection includes working models, •
a fine orchestrion, paintings, statuettes, elec-
tric rifle shooting and tattooing saloons.
There are also some very mirth-provoking :
magic mirrors, while those who are morbidly 1
inclined can revel in the horrors of a French
-••xecution in seven tableaux — life-size figures— :
human sacrifices in Dahomey, a victim of the
rack, and numerous pictures representing
Chineso tortures. There are to be staged six
performances daily, beginning at one o’clock
in the afternoon, and the price is only two-
pence. It should be added that a strong fca
ture of tho establishment is the faultless light
mg arrangements. Yesterday afternoon the
formal opening ceremony was performed in
presenoe of a numbor of guests, the public
(xung admitted in the evening.
A MINER MUMMY, >
SUBJECT OF THE INCAS.
I The mummified body of a miner who lost his
; life 2000 years ago is to be put up for auction at :
a London rooms shortly.
j The miner ?._? a subject of the Incas, and!
death overtook him while he was at work in
what is now the Antono Copper Mine, Sierra
Atahualpa. Antofagasta, Chili. The body was ,
J mummified by the actiorAif the copper oxido in
the mine.
With the exception of a small hole in the |
• head, tho mummy is perfect, and everything —
feet, hands, and" f-.ieo — is beautifully preserved.
But tho body is green nearly all' over from the
. I effects bf the copper oxide.
A rug and two hammers made of stones tied .
with leather straps into a bent stick made up as
a double handlo were found lying on the ground •
by- the minor’s Bide. 14 was* with, those stone
hammers that the miner*— who never learned
; the secret of working iron — extracted . the,-
i copper, which was valued by them even more,
v than gold.
There is supposed to to only one other)
! mummy of -this kind in existence. It waa
i recently bought for £1000 by the Central Pari*
Museum, New- York. f -
Britannia and Panopticon.
Whilst there are many of us who think
that Instruction is a great desideratum,
there are not a few who pleasurably
hanker after Amusement. At the Brit-
annia Panopticon we get both, blended
in the right proportions to suit our varied
requirements, and when people get what
they want in this world, they generally
go in crowds to appreciate it. This then
accounts for the success of the Britannia
Theatre of Varieties and Grand Pano-
pticon, at 115 Trongate. The nroprietor
Mr. A. E. Pickard, is no novice in this
matter, for he has successfully catered
for the public for a long time past. He
and the masses understand each other
thoroughly, and to miss the Britannia
for a long space would, they feel, decided-
ly put them off colour.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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BP01.1
Title
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BP01.1 Scrapbook page
Subject
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Social History, Variety Theatre
Source
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Pickard's Papers: Panopticon Museum Vol 1
Description
An account of the resource
Newspaper cuttings about The Britannia Panopticon and museum, the auction of an Inca mummy, plus an article about what boys should know to start a business life.
Contributor
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Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust
Publisher
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Pickard's Papers project. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust / University of Glasgow / Heritage Lottery Fund
Language
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English
Coverage
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Edwardian
Format
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image/jpegfrom paper original
Creator
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[A. E. Pickard]
Rights
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This material is made available for non-commercial research and education purposes, and no copyright infringement is intended. If the material is still in copyright, or contains sensitive information, please contact us and we will take it down.
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