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Sir Oswald Stoll (20 January 1866 – 9 January 1942) was an Australian-born British theatre manager and the co-founder of the Stoll Moss Group theatre company. He also owned Cricklewood Studios and film production company Stoll Pictures, which was one of the leading British studios of the Silent era. In 1912, he founded the Royal Variety Performance (originally Royal Command Performance) a now-annual charity show which benefits the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.
Born in Melbourne, Australia as Oswald Gray, Stoll moved to England with his mother after the death of his father. When his mother remarried, he took his stepfather's last name.
At a young age, Stoll left school to help his mother manage first the Parthenon music hall in Liverpool, and later a regional theatre company. The company was a success, and Stoll began to buy or build city theatres. The theatre business made Stoll a wealthy man, and in 1898 he merged his business with that of competitor Edward Moss, to form Moss Empires. By 1905, almost every large town in Great Britain had an "Empire" or a "Coliseum" theatre, managed by Stoll.
Oswald Stoll is a home in Fulham London for ex service personnel with physical and mental disabilities. www.joeyjoemcguire.co.uk
Herbert Griffiths, FRCO, ARCM, made about 23 records of light music for Broadcast in the early 1930s. The Stoll Picture Theatre was in London's Kingsway, part of Oswald Stoll's music-hall empire. A Jardine tubular pneumatic organ was installed in 1927, and replaced in 1930 by a much larger Jardine 3/17 which is presumably the instrument heard here. Transferred from a record loaned by Adam Ramet
A World War Two veteran who's reputed to be Britain's oldest working man is beginning to rebuild his life, after being burnt out of the home he'd lived in for over seventy years. 96-year-old Sid Prior has been found a new home in record time, thanks to a foundation, which lets out flats at affordable rates to ex-servicemen.
Showstoppers perform Do You Love Me 25 Jan 2014. Performed at Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation, Fulham, London, UK. Choreography by Elizabeth Anderson. Video ref SD2
At the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation, Fulham, London. Choreography by Elizabeth Anderson Video ref SC1
Full title reads: "Riding School Romance. Wedding of Miss Gertrude Sabey to Mr Leslie Stoll at St John's Church, Kingston Vale". Kingston-On-Thames, Surrey. VS of guests turning up for wedding. The Groom, Leslie Stoll (son of theatre magnate Sir Oswald Stoll) arrives. The Bridesmaids arrive and are given their flowers. They walk into the Church. The bride arrives and poses for the photographers. VS of friends of the bride and groom waiting outside the church on horses. As the bride and groom come out after their wedding two of the horses are brought forwards and the happy couple feed them sugar (The voiceover tells us that the couple meet whilst out riding these two horses). The bride and groom are driven away in the bridal car. N.B. Item found in Unidentified Gazettes reel. May b...
Performed at Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation, Fulham, London, UK. Choreography by Elizabeth Anderson. Videography by Andy Lynch. Video ref:SE2
Joey recites his latest poem but also invites you to view and listen to James McGrory's poem Snowflakes who lives at Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation a sanctuary for ex-servicemen and women who have been homeless and suffer mental or physical disabilities. I have his kind permission to upload his poem.