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It  starred the English tenor Talbot  O'Farrell (1878-1952), born William  Parrot in Hull and known first as  the Scottish comedian Jock McIver.  As his later persona Talbot  O'Farrell, an Irish entertainer, he  became famous for singing Irish  songs such as The Tears of an Irish  Mother,  and Muldoney's Christening. He appeared three times at the Royal Variety  Performance in 1925, 1938, and 1948. Other performers on this bill are Tommy Sandilands; Arthur  Pond; The Andrews; Wheel and Whoa (Cyclemania); The  Littlefields; The Segnam Sisters;  The Dexterous Littlefields, and Penslow and Co., advertised as 'The World's Most Perfect Men'. The Andrews probably never appeared however, since a similar poster in the collection for the same week's programme shows the name Leslie and Lowe pasted over a previous name, most probably The Andrews. The  managing director of the theatre is noted as Mr. R. Mathison Rowe.\r\n\r\nThe Palace Theatre opened on  Monday the 23rd December 1895,  managd by Thomas Barrasford.  Designed by the Newcastle  architect J. W. Taylor, it was a  reconstruction of the former  People's Palace which had been  open since at least 1889, run by  Horace Livermore. The new Palace  Theatre had an auditorium built on  three levels, stalls and pit, and  two circles, along with four boxes  and accommodation for between  3,000 and 4,000 people, according  to an article in The Era,  28th  December 1895. It was altered  and redecorated in 1903,  reopening after the alterations on  Monday the 31st August 1903.  After its facade was radically altered in the 1940s, it closed in  1958 and was demolished in  1961.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Typographic poster printed in red and blue ink on white paper advertising a Variety programme starring Talbot O'Farrell at Palace Theatre, Newcastle, 1934.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"John B. 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