Category: The Palace Theatre

Mae West says ‘Come up and see me sometime at the Palace Theatre, Manchester 1929

Mae West Mae West came to Manchester to star in her very own show that she had written herself called ‘Diamond Lil’. Despite it having censorship problems in America due to the story line being about a racy woman in the 1890’s.  This play was turned into a film in 1933. After hearing the folk song “Frankie and Johnny,” which...

The Palace Theatre, Manchester 1944 and 1945 and Peace in the World!!

1944 saw the historic DD landings, the Americans, British, Chinese, French and Soviet representatives met to plan the foundation of the United Nations. The Japanese surrender in Burma. Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp; in the April and then prepared the Vrba–Wetzler report, one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the extermination of Jews in the...

The Palace Theatre, Manchester 1943. Mussolini is arrested and American GI’s in England

News of the World War Two 1943 1943 saw the first “Bevin Boys” being conscripted to work in the coal mines.  The pigeons White Vision, Winkie and Tyke become the first recipients of the Dickin Medal, which was to honour the work of animals in war. Labour Minister Ernest Bevin announced that women from 19 to 50 would be called for work in aircraft and munitions...