This is what I know about my grandfather, Arthur Edward Higgins. I never met him because he went off on tour when my mum and 4 sisters were little- around 1930-and never came back... This is an obituary in a Halifax paper around 1950. I would love to know more about the world he worked in-the people mentioned, the job of cinematographer etc etc I would also like to know more about him and his life "After 40 years in the entertainment business,Mr Arthur Higgins, manager of the Regal Cinema Halifax, is retiring at the beginning of June. Mr Higgins who has been Manager of the Regal since 1942, began his career with the cinema in a rather casual fashion, in 1910, when,having thrown up his commission in the regular army and finding himself at a loose end,he caught sight of a notice in High Holbourn advertising tuition in the new craft of cinematography. After a fortnights instruction he obtained his first appointment with a variety company in St Austell,Cornwall,in which the cinematograph was one of the turns. With this company,Mr Higgins doubled the duties of cinema operator and "chucker-out" Without motley After the first world war Mr Higgins toured with such artists as Paderewski, Mistinguet,Marion Davis and Albert Chevalier and then went over to the theatre to Manage such productions as Robert Courteinage's. It was while he was on tour with Courteinages production of The Man From Toronto that the strike of 1921 tied up the Railways. Mr Higgins Company, which was then at Tavistock, in Devon, managed to hire a flat lorry to transport their "props" to Penzance where they were due to appear. With the leading lady sitting in the drivers cab and the rest of the Company sitting on the scenery they arrived at the Pavilion, Penzance, a few minutes before the curtain rose. Without even changing from their travelling- clothes, the players went straight before the footlights and presented the play on a stage entirely innocent of scenery. "We were a terrific success" said Mr Higgins. "We played to full houses all week" Mr Higgins will be succeeded by Dennis Bowden, Manager of the Regal Cinema, Bridlington Sandra