Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    R4/937/4
  • Title
    Leaflet, with cover letter, advertising 'Professor' Charles Du Cann, 'the Great Ventriloquist'.
  • Date free text
    n.d. [c.1884]
  • Production date
    From: 1883 To: 1885
  • Scope and Content
    Address given as 'Entertainment Depot, 31 Sackville Street, Reading'; signature illegible (water damage). Leaflet offers 'Sparkling and Charming Entertainment, combining things Magical, Vocal, Ventriloquial, Chatty, Pleasant and Mysterious.' [Charles Du Cann is most likely the same man who in Australia in 1883 was charged with several various offences of obtaining money by false pretences, convicted of swindling and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.]
  • Level of description
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