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When it was run by William Lusby from 1868 it became Lusby's Music Hall, and after reconstruction in 1877 and reopening on 2nd April, it became Lusby's Summer and Winter Garden. The theatrical newspaper <i>The Era</i> noted then that it could seat 5,000, and that the auditorium was a hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and thirty-eight feet in height. There was a balcony forty feet deep from the curve of its horse-shoe shaped front to the back of the hall, with four private boxes on either side on the balcony tier and two larges stage boxes beneath them, on either side of the hall.   \n\nLusby sold the hall to Crowder and Payne in 1878. It was destroyed by fire on the 20th of January 1884 but Crowder and Payne commissioned the renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham to design a new theatre to replace it. The Paragon Theatre of Varieties, as it was renamed, opened the following year, on the 19th May 1885. This silk programme commemorated the seventh anniversary of its reopening.\n\nOriginlly lit by gas, it was modernised and lit by electricity when the hall was refurbished in 1893, again to Matcham's designs, with 'rich Indian colours' and 'lavish' gilding and a ceiling featuring 'dancing Moorish figures holding aloft rich Indian draperies suspended from the centre, and disclosing a blue Indian sky'.\n\n","physicalDescription":"Silk programme printed on both sides of cream silk in black and blue typography with slight fringe to short sides.  Originally made as a single sheet to be folded to create a programme, with a pink printed border framing each panel on the front and back covers. Printed verso, which was the inside of the folded programme, with a full list of the thirty-two acts on the bill, in blue typography with a decorative pink border. The front cover gives the name of the theatre, the Paragon Theatre of Varieties 'Empire of the East', Mile End Road, the date, Thursday May 19th, the name of the Managing Director, Mr. G. Adney Payne, the information that it was produced for the seventh anniversary of the theatre's re-opening, the name of the Proprietors, The Canterbury and Paragon Ltd., and the name of the Musical Director Mr. J. Worswick. A note printed on the back page requests that 'any incivility on the part of the attendants may at once by reported to the Management' and a request that the public inform the management of 'any suggestive or offensive word or action upon the stage that may have escaped the notice of the Management'.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Wilkes & Co.","id":"A18056"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"x30811"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Printed silk","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Music Hall","id":"THES267742"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2014GX0341","2014GX0342"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"006","id":"THES356676"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"silk programmes","id":"THES285409"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1892","earliest":"1892-01-01","latest":"1892-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"S.68-2012","id":"O1242899"},"association":"Object"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"24.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"30.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Made to be folded in two to create a theatre programme with a front cover, the list of acts on the inside double spread, and a back page.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":" ","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"The Paragon Theatre of Varieties, Mile End Road, was on the site of the Eagle Public House, 95, Mile End Road. It became Lusby's Summer and Winter Garden and Lusby's Music Hall, but it was rebuilt to a design by the architect Frank Matcham and re-opened on 19th May 1885.  The performers on the bill for this 7th anniversary evening were Daisy Le Roy, Major Miles, Harry Pleon, Lotto, Lilo and Otto, Herbert Campbell, F. Boisset and Troupe, R.G. Knowles, The Leonards, The Sisters Belfry, The Blamphin Quartette, Fannie Leslie, The Craggs, Dan Leno, Little Tich, Clarke and Conway, Lizzie Chase, The McConnell Trio, W.F. Moss, Tom White's Eton Boys,  Harry Freeman, Amy Lawrence,  Edwin Boyde, Baby Langtry,  Joe Cheevers, The Florador Quartette,  G.W. Hunter, Harry Anderson, The Ruby Quartette, Curtis D'Alton, Harry Lemor and Keegan and Elvin.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silk programme produced for an evening of music hall entertainment at the Paragon Theatre of Varieties, Mile End Road, 19th May 1892, commemorating the seventh anniversary of the re-opening of the theatre.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.254-1987"],"accessionNumberNum":"254","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1987,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2006-09-22","availableToBook":true}}