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THORNGATE HALL, to be opened on September 16, will provide Gosport with an intimate theatre, capable of seating more than 400. A Gosport Theatre Arts Council is to be formed to make the best use of the new premises and to assist individual organisations to put on shows there.
Thanks largely to the enterprise of Mr. J. Grant Anderson (lately a member of the Prince's Stock company at Portsmouth), Gosport, an ancient township, though quite new borough, has attained its first permanent theatre. Mr. Anderson opened the Gosport Theatre on April 9, a house which had hitherto been devoted to pictures. There were neither stage nor proscenium, and these he had built to his own! design, and the result is a "fit-up" on proper theatre lines, with flics, priu, trap, etc. An excellent lighting system has been installed, and the result is that Gosport has now a first-class repertory theatre
