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performances. Some of the many other plays he was involved with were: 'The Fatal
Wedding', 'Old Bill' with Sir Seymour Hicks, 'Sweet Nell of Old Drury' and 'Tons of Money' with Nellie Stewart. Also a run with a play entitled 'The Man They Could Not Hang'. While in the UK, Isora, Gertrude and Mollie would join him and start new lives in London.
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By 1931, Albert had returned to London once again to find work in the
Theatre. Albert was mentioned several times in the book 'The London Stage 1930-1939'. One entry notes stage-managing the play, 'Bed Rock' at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London, in early 1931, the play survived only 12
116:. His acting career began shortly after, while working with the Vivian Theatrical Co., then the Duncan Theatrical Co., before joining the Cowan & Amy Vaughan Amazon Co. -- all in quick succession. The first mention of Albert working in New Zealand was for the Amy Vaughn Company in July, 1892.
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to his heyday in the early 1900s as a company manager and owner, he toured virtually every town in
Australasia with the Brandon-Cremer Players. Brandon-Cremer has the distinction of a record 54 weeks of non-stop stage production in 1917. He was also known to have produced at least two early silent
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Zealand's South Island, Albert married Annie Beaton, stage name Annie Wyniard, an opera singer. The couple registered the births of three children - Dorothy Saretta, born 1893; Ernest Gustav, 1895; and Leonore Frances, 1896. During this time Albert was managing the Frances Ross Dramatic
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Australia, with Albert travelling back and forth to New Zealand during that year for work. By this time Albert had already met Isora ‘Dolly’ Grey (an actress, stage name - Kathleen ‘Nora’ Arnold), a member of his new acting troupe, the ‘A. Brandon-Cremer Dramatic
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In late 1949, Albert, travelling alone, returned to
Australia from his 19-year stay in London. In his final years, Albert continued to act in such plays as ‘Charlie’s Aunt’, 'A Worm's Eye View', 'One Wild Oat', and 'Seagulls Over Sorrento' with the Australian actor
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February, 1898, through June of the same year, show that Albert was on stage in London. Albert returned to New Zealand in September, 1898 and, in that same year, began touring there with the Robert Henry Theatrical Company.
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Albert and Isora would marry and produce two children who would both go on to successful careers on stage and early television in
Australia. The first: Kathleen Gertrude 'Gertie' Dora Barbara Cremer in 1902. The second: Mollie Stella Sadie Mascot Cremer in 1907.
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films. His directorial debut was the first silent movie travelogue ever shot in
Tasmania in 1927. His daughter, Gertrude Brandon-Cremer, was a child star of the stage during the first 20 years of the 20th Century and his son,
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as Isora, Albert's wife described in an interview covering this period. One of Albert's greatest successes was a 54-week production run in 1917 while leasing the Kings
Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand, a record at the time.
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Robert Henry Theatrical Company, 1899 New Zealand. Front Row right to left – Albert Brandon-Cremer & Robert Henry with W.J. Coulter sitting on the right right side of the carriage driver seat
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752:. London, England. 30 October 2014. p. 316 – via Google Books.
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577:. Hobart, Tasmania. 9 November 1931. p. 5 – via TROVE NLA.
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