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Howard (1841-1895) went into partnership with Robert Wyndham, and after his retirement in 1883, with his son Frederick Wyndham (1853-1930). Howard &amp; Wyndham became a public company in 1895 when it owned several theatres in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and went on to own or manage as many as twenty theatres, including the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. A. Stewart Cruikshank became Managing Director of the company, and was succeeded after his death in 1947 by his son with the same name, A. Stewart Cruikshank, who continued producing the high quality pantomimes for which the company was famous.\n\nThe star of this production, playing the eponymous heroine Mother Goose was George Lacy (1904-1989), the notable pantomime Dame who made his debut in pantomime in Leeds as Mother Goose. He played over sixty pantomimes as Dame but specialised in Mother Goose, perhaps the most human Dame figure in pantomime with a real capacity to move the audience with her regret after sacrificing everything to her desire for beauty.  George Lacy played the role for the last time in 1984 at the King's Theatre Southsea, five years before his death.","physicalDescription":"Typographic poster printed in red and blue and bordered in blue and red advertising George Lacy, Jack Edge, Lisa Brionda, Joyce Byrne, Warren, Latona &amp; Sparks, Heather Furnell, Harry Cranley, James Heys, Victoria Elliott, Ian Jarvis, Jocelyn Ellis, Joan Mann, and Beryl Reid in <i>Mother Goose</i> at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool for the week commencing 10 November 1948, and announcing the matinees on 22nd and 23rd December, daily from 27th December to 22nd January and thereafter on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to the end of the run. The Howard &amp; Wyndham Ltd. production was by Freddie Carpenter, with dances by Hazel Gee and the production supervised by A. 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