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A fact from Foresters Music Hall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 December 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in his early career Charlie Chaplin was booed and heckled with thrown oranges and coins until he left the stage of Foresters Music Hall?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Foresters Music Hall.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that after a long history as a variety theatre venue, Foresters Music Hall was transformed into one of London's first cinemas in 1912?

Source: *Blake, J. O. (2015). Variety at Night is Good for You. The Badger Press. p. 129. In 1906 the new manager, Frank Macnaghten, wanting to keep up-to-date, introduced cinematograph apparatus into the theatre and in fact the hall was licensed as a cinema in 1912, becoming one of London's earliest cinemas.

- ALT1: ... that in his early career Charlie Chaplin was booed and heckled with thrown oranges and coins until he left the stage of Foresters Music Hall? Source: *Yapp, Nicholas (2010). Charlie Chaplin. Endeavour Press. pp. 10, 15. ISBN 978-1873913345.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/City of Oaks Marathon and Template:Did you know nominations/Typhoon Man-yi
- Comment: Moved to article space on 02:36, 25 October 2025

Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 125 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 16:34, 25 October 2025 (UTC).Reply

Interesting lost historic building, on fine sources, no copyvio obvious. I can live with both hooks. In the article, I miss an infobox and some hint at why it was demolished. I'm open for different hooks mentioning that some of the interior seems to date back to 1825. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:27, 30 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

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