Theatre Heritage Australia

21. Pitt & Browne as architects: (Gallery); ... George Coppin's Olympic (the Iron Pot) in Exhibition Street. One year later, Black "went bankrupt" and was forced to sell the theatre - for about one quarter of the cost of building it. Actor-manager George ...; Created on 02 October 2015
22. Talking the Walk: (Gallery); ... months after the theatre's opening - its director George Selth Coppin) . Given the temperature, this walk may well have been more than a little trying.... Another building in the vicinity, St. Patrick' ...; Created on 05 April 2015
23. George Coppin & Bland Holt: (Gallery); ... photos and memorabilia from the SLV's George Selth Coppin Manuscript Collection by theatre historians Mimi Colligan and Elisabeth Kumm. These items had been in the possession of George Selth Coppin's daughter ...; Created on 20 July 2014
24. onstage/backissues/2000-2.pdf: (PDF); ... Irish tragedian Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, born in 1818, died when the ship London sank in the Bay of Biscay in January 1866. He was returning to Australia under contract to George Coppin, who had engaged ...; Created on 29 November 2021
25. onstage/backissues/2000-3.pdf: (PDF); ... then as Supreme Court from 20 October 1843. But things were changing next door… George Coppin, Melbourne’s best known entrepreneur and developer, arrived in 1846 and arranged for the billiard hall of the ...; Created on 29 November 2021
26. onstage/backissues/2001-3.pdf: (PDF); ... praise. The family’s tour of the United States was cut short when George Coppin requested they return home to appear in Walch’s pantomime Sinbad the Sailor. won the hearts of the Australian public. An ...; Created on 29 November 2021
27. onstage/backissues/2002-1.pdf: (PDF); ... hall was enlarged and a small gallery constructed. The area on the right, became a library. George Coppin’s Lancashire Bellringers were a crowd-pleaser at the School of Arts in 1863 and 1864, and Coppin ...; Created on 29 November 2021
28. onstage/backissues/2002-4.pdf: (PDF); ... Lonsdale Streets. Rather historic theatrical stamping ground this, for on that very spot George Coppin built the Olympic, the famous ‘Iron Pot’ theatre, where G.V. Brooke himself was wont to fret his hour ...; Created on 29 November 2021
29. onstage/backissues/2003-1.pdf: (PDF); ... Herald, The Evening Standard and The Argus ridiculed both the WCTU women and Dr Smith with headlines such as * Old English Fairs On a more popular level, George Coppin, parliamentarian and actormanager, ...; Created on 29 November 2021
30. onstage/backissues/2004-3.pdf: (PDF); ... Coppin’s management, also began a season at the Salle on 8 January 1856. James Ellis, now apparently recovered from his fiscal hardships, had resumed proprietorship of the Salle by mid-April 1856 when ...; Created on 29 November 2021
31. onstage/backissues/2004-4.pdf: (PDF); ... Music hall arrived about 1860. It was an amalgam of three popular elements: the pleasure garden with its saloon theatre (a Melbourne example was George Coppin’s Cremorne Gardens in Richmond, named after ...; Created on 29 November 2021
32. onstage/backissues/2005-1.pdf: (PDF); ... in Libel during August 1939. It was also in this year that the bronze plaque honouring George Coppin was installed in the Comedy’s foyer. Unveiled by his daughter Lucy on 26 March, it was dedicated to ...; Created on 29 November 2021
33. onstage/backissues/2005-2.pdf: (PDF); ... Theatre …Rowe’s American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly Rooms, The Argyle Rooms, The Australian Hippodrome, The Hippodrome The Paragon Pictures, Majestic Square, The ...; Created on 29 November 2021
34. onstage/backissues/2005-3.pdf: (PDF); ... Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones arrived for a week in Alas the World on 15 November and last up for the The Comedy Theatre …Rowe’s American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly ...; Created on 29 November 2021
35. onstage/backissues/2005-4.pdf: (PDF); ... American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly Rooms, The Argyle Rooms, The Australian Hippodrome, The Hippodrome The Paragon Pictures, Majestic Square, The Paragon Picture ...; Created on 29 November 2021
36. onstage/backissues/2006-2.pdf: (PDF); ... first out-of-town theatre lasted just one historically memorable decade. It took George Coppin to make it famous, says Ralph Marsden in his chronological series on Melbourne’s playhouses. n a site at Richmond, ...; Created on 29 November 2021
37. onstage/backissues/2006-3.pdf: (PDF); ... received with round upon round of applause’, The Age of 1 November recorded. Coppin’s by now ex-partner, the brilliant but flawed Brooke, who eventually eloped with Miss Jones, began a short season at ...; Created on 29 November 2021
38. onstage/backissues/2006-4.pdf: (PDF); ... Coppin, a noted philanthropist, included ‘an asylum for decayed actors’ at the Old Colonists’ Homes which he established at Rushall Crescent, North Fitzroy in 1871. For a number of years a Distressed Actors’ ...; Created on 29 November 2021
39. onstage/backissues/2007-1.pdf: (PDF); ... Comedian It’s one hundred years since the death of ‘the Father of the Australian Theatre’. T he centenary of the death of George Selth Coppin was marked on 2 December 2006 at the Old Colonists’ Homes ...; Created on 29 November 2021
40. onstage/backissues/2007-2.pdf: (PDF); ... Drama was also well represented: late 1901 brought seasons by the Charles Arnold and Brough companies, as well as the last stage appearance of the great George Coppin, at a charity matinée on 5 September, ...; Created on 29 November 2021

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