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Operas on piers - the Opieros

30/12/2020

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On This Day 30 December 1927 Tom Howell appeared in the Stage. Saint George and the Dragon, The Brixton. On Monday, December 26 1927, Mr Frederick Melville presented here his twentieth annual pantomime, written and produced by him, the music composed and arranged by F. Gilmour Smith.

Tom Howell ran a concert party called the Opieros – because they sang excerpts from operas on piers, as well as giving a fine selection of the usual song-and-dance turns.
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He lived at 103A Streatham Hill and 1 Daysbrook Road, SW2.
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(Images Tom centre with Opieros and with the boater in the family picture)

Source: Webster and Booth
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