Sunday Mirror Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the "Daily Mirror". It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the "Sunday Mirror" in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the "News of the World", more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. The paper launched as the "Sunday Pictorial" on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced
The Play Pictorial Birnbaum, was replaced by Frank M Boyd. He in turn was succeeded after less than a year by Fred Dangerfield. who edited the next 20 issues. In 1905, "The Play Pictorial" merged with a rival magazine, "The Play", which had been published between May and October 1904 under the editorship of Benjamin William Findon, and in mid-1906 Findon took over as editor of the combined magazine, which he continued to edit for over 30 years. The last issue of "Play Pictorial", no 446, appeared in 1939, after which the magazine was absorbed into another London theatrical magazine "Theatre World" The