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♥ 1864 West Sunderland - † 1918 Glasgow                    ☼ Actor, ☺ Comedian, ♫ Musician                   www.marksheridan.org
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A lot of making and of experience has gone to bring Mark Sheridan to the top-of-the-tree-position-as-a-comedian which he occupies to-day. He did not tumble into it accidentally. Nobody ever does really tumble into success. Plenty of people would like to think that they could, but they shirk or are ignorant of the trying long years of hard work, beginning at small things and working up bit by bit, that added to innate capacity ultimately bring the successful to any position of eminence that they happen to occupy. So with Mark.
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Reviews from GLASGOW newspapers.

The EVENING TIMES, Monday.January 14, 1918 printed the following write-up on page six, under Dramatic and Musical.

The star comedian at the Coliseum is Mark Sheridan, not this time, as we usually see him, on his own, but as the central figure in a funny musical travesty called “ Gay Paree.”  It is a burlesque  of the popular drama “ A Royal Divorce” with Mark as “Napoleon”.  There are appropriate accessories, including the famous coach, which once belonged to Lord George Sanger. Mark is supported by Syd may, O’Wray and O’Dare, Arthur Milton, Sydney Bart, Allen Napier and a bevy of ladies.

The GLASGOW HERALD, Tuesday. January 15, 1918 ran this write-up on page seven , under Music Halls.  It was the eighth paragraph, just above the Scottish Zoo and well below Wilkie Bard’s review which appeared in the third paragrah. Mark didn’t even merit a photograph - Wilkie Bard and Dr. Walford Bodie did!

Coliseum-  The highly amusing musical play “ Gay Paree” is presented this week by a London company, of which mark Sheridan, the well-known comedian, is the chief.  The play is a burlesque of the long familiar drama “ A Royal Divorce, “ and corresponds to it in its representation of Napoleonic pomp and splendour while twisting the incidents of the drama in order to make comedy.  The burlesque admirably fulfils its purpose of mirth making, and is in every way an attractive entertainment.

Satisfactorybut not brilliant.  Wilkie Bard was also in Glasgow at the time and received  an outstanding write up:

Wilkie Bard,  a comedian who has a style peculiarly his own and is said to receive a salary which makes even a munition worker envious, is the star at the Empire.  If Mr. Bard cannot make you laugh, stick to funerals.Music-lovers  have a special treat in the harmonious warblings of the Lawrence Wright Company,  The Four Covelly Girls, for whom it is claimed that they are  “ the world’s greatest lady club jugglers,” certainly do wonderful feats.  “ Heroes “ , a bright comedy sketch by Bert Lee is played by Cooper and Lait(?) etc.....

 

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