Wales v. New Zealand. A Welsh Triumph. Report by "Old Stager", Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News, 23 December 1905, at National Library of Wales.
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I modestly hoped that, as the > piece was a success, thirty pounds would not be considered an excessive > price for the London right. Mr. Emden looked rather surprised, and, as I > thought, disappointed. However, he wrote a cheque, asked for a receipt, and > when he had got it, said, "Now, take a bit of advice from an old stager who > knows what he is talking about: never sell so good a piece as this for > thirty pounds again." And I never have.
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When Metcalfe was 10, his adoptive parents moved to the seaside town of Blackpool, where he gained a scholarship to the Arnold House School, a local boys' grammar school. In 2010, Metcalfe returned to Blackpool, intending to retire there, but he soon returned to Perth, finding himself somewhat disillusioned with the differences between what he remembered and what he found.Stephen Bevis, "Old stager gives name to new playhouse", The West Australian – Arts, 22 March 2011 He died in Perth, WA, on 13 September 2012.
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'Old Stager' reported that Boon's covering tackling against Scotland's Ian Smith had been impressive and that he had shown an '...extraordinary facility for retaining a grasp on whatever part of his anatomy he could lay his hands'.Smith (1980), pg 257. For the final game against France, Boon's Wales rival Jack Morley had been selected to play for the British Lions, so Boon was reselected in a notoriously aggressive match which resulted in a Welsh win. Boon played in all of the 1931 Five Nations Championship which saw Wales win the tournament for the first time in eight years.
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Bourne was born in Dorset, England and raised in Yeovil, Somerset where his mother ran a boarding house following the early death of his father. Leaving school and home at the age of 14, Bourne worked in a cafe before joining the British Merchant Navy during World War II, where he became interested in acting after appearing in a pantomime, he would appear regularly in English pantomime and in many stage productions in Bristol, before migrating to Australia.Giles, Nigel: Final bravo for an old stager, The Age, 20 February 2009. He emigrated to Australia in 1952, initially settling in Geelong joining the Geelong Musical Comedy Company, he appeared in numerous stage roles starting from 1955 and later moving to Melbourne.
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Although very successful on the pitch, the touring South Africans were unloved by their hosts and the press back home. Bennie Osler, the South African captain, introduced a style of play which centred on a continual kicking game; either into touch in an attempt to support his large pack or diagonally across the pitch for his wings to chase. This was seen by many critics of the time as 10-man tactics, with the backs taken out of the match, and thus the entertainment brought by previous South African tours removed. Welsh journalist 'Old Stager' stated "The Africans, by adherence to ten-man rugby, are winning their matches, but are not capturing the hearts and the imagination of rugby followers...".
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A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Cheltenham Spa (shown here as Queen's Road, Lansdown) An Old Stager at Cheltenham Lansdown Station in 1949 The first railway to Cheltenham was the broad-gauge Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (C&GWUR;), authorised by Act of Parliament in 1836, and opened between Cheltenham and Gloucester in 1840. In the same year, the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (B&GR;) opened its line between Cheltenham and Bromsgrove, whence trains ran on mixed-gauge tracks to Gloucester. Both railways had their own stations, but the B&GR; station, which was then on the edge of the town and was named Lansdown after a housing development in that area, is the only one remaining. The buildings were designed by the architect Samuel Daukes.
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Geraint Thomas (double Olympic champion, triple world champion and 2018 Tour de France champion) writes about Preston Park Velodrome in his book, The World According to G (2015): "As a kid it was all outdoor tracks, each of them with their own idiosyncrasies... The old stager in Brighton's Preston Park runs noticeably downhill in the last 100 metres. It also has a ten meter section where there is no barrier at the top of the track, just a two-metre drop-off to the walkway below." Laura Kenny (four times Olympic champion and seven times World Champion) placed 2nd in the Preston Park Youth Omnium in 2006 and later went on to win consecutive Omnium gold medals at the Summer Olympics of 2012 and 2016 . Reg Harris (five times World Sprint champion and double Olympic silver medallist) raced at the track in the 1950s.
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Sixteen-String Jack (1823) Professionals Puzzled, or, Struggles at Starting (1832) The Rake's Progress(1832) The Old Stager and the New (1835) written as a vehicle for comedian John Liston to introduce the new recruit Charles James Mathews; the former was shown as a traditional kind of coachman and the latter as his son. Flight to New York (1836), written as a vehicle for Thomas D. Rice and incorporating his 'Jim Crow' persona. Life's a Lottery (1842) Our Village (1843) The Old House of West Street (1844) (Withdrawn from the licensing process on advice from the lord chamberlain's examiner of plays because of its excessive violence.) The Boyhood of Bacchus (1845), probably Rede's last play. His most successful play, The Rake's Progress(1832), which later opened at the New York City Theatre on 23 January 1833, is based on William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1735), a cautionary series of eight prints depicting Tom Rakewell, a middle-class aspirant to aristocratic status who inherits a fortune from his miserly father, seduces and impregnates his maid, indulges in debauchery, is arrested, marries an unattractive but wealthy older woman, gambles away her fortune, goes to debtors' prison, and ends up in a madhouse.
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