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s the First Instalment, so begin it T PROLOGUE

... thousands, you aim higher than a mere French countess? Because this is so you wish to marry some princess, eh - or is it another music-hall dancer ?” ~ This time it was a little rivulet that crept down on to the éravat of the listenet. I suppose your fiardian has ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1899
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 532 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Oct. 7th, 189!l.l D EAR GEORGY, -However much I may dis- approve of you otherwise, and that I do so

... that cumstance. ot that that really matters in the least.· Nothing does matter except real avalanches, real ponies, real music halls, and real baccarat parties. By the way, do not care for Miss Vanbrugh's evening dress. It is too bizarre altogether, colour ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1667 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

Oct. 23rd, H:HJ7.] M ON DAY: It is a beautiful day, and the sharp autumn wind is wbispPring-Buy, buy, buy!

... lined with pale blue, and much ruffled with blue chiffon and yellow lace at the neck. Of course she was over-dressed for a music-hall; but I forgave her that, she was so attractive. From the crown of her head, where she had twisted a band of jet and fastened ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1897
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1904 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE ILLUSTRATED

... unsympathetic wretches had gone up to town to see some more or less distracting divinity at some more or less distracting music-hall; and I must possess my soul in patience till to-morrow, and occupy the whole of this evening in trying not to listen to ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1897
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 849 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... Puritanical Pecksniffs happen to be in majority in any one Council, can well be imagined. The Chantite crusade against the Music Halls of two or three years back is a lasting testimony to the extent of interference to be expected from nasty minds, to whom ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1897
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARCHING SONGS OF THE ARMY

... honey,” one whit less valuable as a manceuvre. If the men can step out braver and more contentedly to the tune of the latest music-hall favourite rather than to some stirring march, let them. It is not for “The gentlemen of England” (or any other country) ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1023 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

iLLUSTRATED

... bonds which Gecrge Fleining ?'-kno s that the funniest farce is that which Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The poet, by the the music halls. Mrs. Campbell, in her part, bind her, and flies to a stockbroking exquisite. He, however, is not all pleased that his advances ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2879 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Oct. 22nd, 1898.] COUNTRY LiFE the Virginian Creepers, the self-clinging Veitchi in particular, which paints ..

... into an author, with whom she had come into contact during her loneliness The words music-hall through the instrumentality of his beautiful child. The words music-hall singer seem to knock the bottom out of the romance; but Mark AI ton is a quite exceptional ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4472 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

“THE HOUSE OF STRANGE SECRETS,” “FETTERS OF GUILT,” ““SECRETS OF THE STATE,” “THE – GENERAL’S DispaTcH,” ‘“ THE ..

... endeavoured to pronounce stuck in his throat. : 3 ““D——n you,” he shrieked at last, ‘‘have you turned preacher 2. What will the music-hall women say to that? Ha! ha! The son of a fifth-rate stage dancer turns parson, leaves the Service for the church ! Here, ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1899
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE REGIMENT

... or regimental recreation room, the songs and smart sayings of the leading stars of the Empire, the Alhambra, and other music halls. ; The funny-man is essentially a variety showman, nevertheless he can take a part in the drama if required, and when a ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1898
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1283 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

of speech are not wit, they are not even funny. A haziness as

... notoriety-seeking school of criticasters ·which blared forth that the onlv histrionic art in England was to be found at the music halls, deserveJ only contempt, which it received. But had Milord Sir Smith been in evidence at the time, these eccentric folk ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3619 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

July 16th, 18()8.] COUNTR Y LIFE publishers. Mr. Ilollingshead calls his work a beer ; but it really is delightful

... of Dickens, the bay-windowed office of Houselwld I Vonf,·. He locates the office of All the Year Round, and shows how a music-hall and variety agent carries on his occupation where the immortal Dickens once worked. Very interesting is the story of the ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2418 | Page: 37 | Tags: none