Bliggs’ Family at the Zoo
Kinematograph Weekly, Thursday 24 April 1913
In Propria Persona.
Under the astute management of Mr. Edward Hardiman, the Greenwich Hippodrome, in Stockwell Street, attracts much larger audiences to the nightly kinematograph show than were ever known in the palmy days of the old place when it was Barnard’s Music Hall. On the occasion of my last week’s visit. “Dante’s Vision of Purgatory,” held the spectators enthralled. With the rest I made the acquaintance in the flesh of Mr. Harry Herd, a favourite actor in the “Lieut. Daring” productions, who had been specially engaged to demonstrate his marvellous escapes from handcuffs, manacles, the straight jacket, and a nailed-up packing case. Other “live” introductions by the manager after this incidental stage turn were Mr. Gladstone Haley, who is “Snooker” in the B. and C. “Bliggs’ Family at the Zoo,” and two juvenile actresses in the same photoplay.