... merrymaker. Tb« allusions are numerous, and happy. Mr. George Edwardes’ Company appears every day the Gaiety Theatre, and at variety theatres special programmes have been arranged for tho pro* sent week. r MOTHER GOOSK AND DICK WHITTING. TON AT SHEFFIELD. ...

... TTrick, Sisters May, and Allsopp and Beckwith. The popular vocalist reciter, F. V. St. Clair, heads a good “bill” at the Varieties Theatre. Mr. St. (Tair's recital of his poem, A Shoeblack Hero,” which is based on incident that happened on Blackpool sands ...

... appeared in pantomimes and other plays. Their vivacious singing and clever dancing made the sisters Bilton favourites the Varieties Theatres, especially the Alhambra and the Pavilion. One of her ra ...

... Clifford, Keir and Kempton, and Leah Adel all give good account of themselves. The feature of the programme at the City Varieties Theatre is a realistic pictorial view of the Moir-Palmer boxing match for the heavy-weight chamiponship, the film occupying half ...

... Boys, and the Brothers Lillian are also popular contributors in good “bill.” , There is a thrilling sketch at the City Varieties Theatre. It is entitled The Mad Inventor,” who is shot dead just in time to save the life of a girl, who is fixed in death-dealing ...

... strike was the demand made by the National Alliance yesterday that Mr. Walter Gibbons, the managing director of the six variety theatres, shoola sign their charter, which contains the conditions under which artistes, musicians, and stage hands are in future ...

... consider they are in a way to return to the old status of the “penny gaff.” I firmly believe in upholding the dignity of the variety theatre. Tivoli.—The Manager: We pay the full rate of wages and have only one show a night, so we do not anticipate being affected ...

... of comparatively minor importance. Those against which the fiat went forth yesterday include some the most important variety theatres notably the Tivoli and the Oxford. What happened to them is succinctly set forth in the following list: Tivoli, closed ...

... THE ARTISTES' DEMANDS The cause of the eirike is the refusal of Mr. Walier Gibhon, the managing director of ‘six variety theatres, to sign the charter of the Nationa! Alliance of {he Variety Artistes’ Federation. the Amalgamated Mus'- cians’ Union, and ...

... had to he abandoned, while in other cases the programme was of scratch character. At the Tivoli, one of the principal variety theatres in the Metropolis, the audience assembled, but had to be dismissed, the artistes almost generally absenting themselves ...

... TABCOED BY THE PUBLIC | The public is shewing ifs interest in the strike by staying away from the variety theatres that are affected. Scarcely any of ‘the fourteen tabooed halls could have done much more than pay their limelight bills last night with ...

... managers holding agreements with them might take out injunctions to prevent them appearing; but the comtracts relate only to variety theatres licensed by the London County Council, and their appearance at the Scala will, it is contended, not be a breach of the ...