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The Music Hall of Yester day

... intimacy are part of the present popularity of the music-hall in London, on, so far as is possible, the old lines. No British institution has been such an unconscionable time in dying as the music-halls. Variety is dead was the cry heard twenty years ago ...

CAMBRIDGE THEATRE & OXFORD CIRCUS MUSIC HALL

... Cambridge Theatre Ox fori (Circus Music Hall By Willi a/72 PollocJc SKETCHES OF CHARLOTS MASQUERADE AT THE CAMBRIDGE THEATRE, By H. H. HARRIS I LIKE Mr. Bertie Alex ander Meyer's new theatre, the Cam bridge, in Seven Dials. In fact, I like it better than ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

JUST THE TURN TO MAKE A MUSIC-HALL!

... JUST THE TURN TO MAKE A MUSIC HALL goers who are partial to the old-fashioned Variety Programme complain constantly that to-day there is a genuine scarcity of good Turns. Above we give a delightful study of a dainty artist who would be just the turn ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

Douglas Stuart

... magnitude of Duggie's transactions, also to prove that he un conditionally pays all he lays. LINCOLN NATIONAL (Granely and Music Hall) FACTS THE ACTUAL instructions, cheque paid by my Bank, and Duggie's Voucher respecting the wager have been examined by ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 237 | Page: 49 | Tags: Illustrations 

At The Theatre: Mr. Danny Kaye (Palladium)

... artist's point of view. Here he is holding a music hall audience in a trance of delight. We know as he knows th.it he is gaining an extraordinary success largt y by ignoring the conventional limitations of tiie music hall. How astonishingly romantic this feat ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 785 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

THE COLOUR BAR!

... THE COLOUR BAR! Music Hall Artist (to his Partner) We doan seem tec hev no luck wid our show dese days* The Partner: An' how can you spec luck when youse go an' change yer fool whiskers from blue ter green 1 Drawn by Frank Reynolds, R.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

WORTHINGTON

... Tivoli and Sherlock Holmes solved problems in the Strand Magazine which had perplexed the police of two continents. When a Music Hall was primarily a hall in which one could drink beer (Worthington, wasn't it?) and the gentleman at the piano, known as The ...

The Theatre: Piccadilly Hayride (Prince of Wales)

... Piccadilly Hayride (Prince of Wales) ANYONE old enough to remember the music hall in its great days (1890 is not too early a date, 1930 not too recent) naturally resents the suggestion that the essence of the thing has in fact survived. It is an anti-social ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 678 | Page: 8, 9 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

A Lugubrious Favourite

... A Lugubrious Favourite Mr. Alfred Lester, now playing in a sketch, entitled The Village Fire Brigade, at the Tivoli Music Hall, has invented a new, lugubrious style of humour. His present performance establishes him firmly as one of the most amusing ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 51 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

OSTEND

... Yachting 2 RACE -COURSES 4 MILLIONS WORTH OF PRIZES 60 racing days WORLD FAMOUS STARS From the Opera, the Opera -Comique, the Music- Hall and the Best Vocal Artists WILL APPEAR this SEASON at the KURSAAL of OSTEND THE QUEEN OF SEASIDE 5 HOURS FROM LONDON ...

Published: Wednesday 24 June 1925
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 64 | Page: 86 | Tags: Illustrations