Show Review from the Birmingham Owl:

Ice blocks are needed to cool the air in the Hippodrome. James de Voye has trained his horse to paw answers to arithmetical sums, and to play a game of snap with cards.

Variety Show featuring May Morton – comedienne

  • Opening Night: 31 July 1905
  • Performance: 05 August 1905
  • Genre: Variety
  1. Overture – Musical Director: Jacques Bruske
  2. Charles Somers – comedian
  3. Jack & Evelyn – In their Act of the Period
  4. Clara Walters – the premier piano danseuse and the only girl trick pianist
  5. Estio & Leuigy – eccentrics
  6. May Marton – comedienne
  7. The Unexpected: the 100 to 1 Chance’ – Chas. Fletcher’s Co.
  8. James De Voye – and “Billy”, the Horse with the Human Brain
  9. The Phillipis – Continental dancers
  10. Gardiner & Vincent – spectacular fantasy “Winning a Queen”
  11. Animated Pictures
  • Number of Acts: 10
  • Number of Performances: 13
  • Performance Times: Monday to Saturday at 18:00 and 21:00 with a matinee performance on Thursday at 14:30
  • Circus: -0
  • Notes: -0