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Ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary...
The Great Lafayette opened for a two-week season at the Empire Theatre of Varieties in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh at the beginning of May, 1911. Four days later the magician’s dog Beauty died of apoplexy, caused by over-feeding. Lafayette was grief-stricken, and had her laid out on a silk pillow surrounded by lilies in his rooms in the Caledonian Hotel at the city’s west end. Beauty was embalmed and Lafayette was given permission to have her interred at Piershill Cemetery, provided that he also agreed to be laid to rest in the burial ground when the time arrived. Bombardier Blue the One o’ Clock Gun & Time Ball Association’s mascot will be laying a wreath at Beauty’s headstone on 4th May. www.bluelovie.co.uk |
We’ve just heard from David Duff of Abercorn Choices Funeral Services, Piershill, Edinburgh that the ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Beauty will take place on 4th May.
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