... sketches are of a terpsichorean performance of considerable originality, which is now making a tour of the Continental variety theatres. Our artist saw these dancers in Amsterdam not long ago, and felt moved to record his impressions BY NORMAN MORROW ...

... cigarette going home. It may be urged that smoking is permitted in all parts of the house at music-halls;buttheim- 7 mense variety theatres fj to which ladies go are I so much bigger and better ventilated than the average playhouse that the smell is not intolerable ...

... ness, and her clever singing. Her present engagement at the Palace is, however, her first appearance at this fashionable variety theatre. The piece in which she appears is of no great merit or originality, but it suffices. It provides the artist with the ...

... pensated me partly for the annoyance I had suffered by being called. It might, after all, have been no more amusing at a variety theatre. Then enter the Demon Doubt. The principal witness, who had seemed so certain that the prisoner was the man, was subjected ...

... ans, le monde oil Von s' amuse, rather than Paris, where the only vivacity is to be found in the vulgar cabarets and variety theatres of Montmartre which places, by-the-bye, few Parisians ever frequent. _ t -^.1 n i To most of On Little Books. us, the ...

... sometimes by waiting in the crowd outside a panel doctor's. Tn Copenhagen, a Danish M.P. is giving a musical turn at a variety theatre. This may be all very well in Denmark, but there is a very general feeling in this country that it would not do. Besides ...

... to mention the material facts, have never been brought into the question. The audience smokes in our music halls and variety theatres, making the atmosphere of the auditorium like pale-blue gauze, but then these halls are usually huge in size and very ...

... ordinary comedian of the halls than he used to be, has become a little cheaper and more obvious, even when playing to a variety-theatre audience of the highest class. There is too much of the comic make-up in costume, and of stale, stale tricks. Nevertheless ...

... Palladium quite thrilled me, for here, manifestly, was a real music-hall show. Now, of late years, I have visited the Variety Theatres pretty often, and always for a revue or ballet, or some other lengthy turn, beside which the rest of the bill was ...

... Palace. MR. ALFRED BUTT has gone and done the tortoise act. In the race to present a revue the Palace was the slowest variety theatre in London, but it has won hands down at the finish. The Passing Show will bring back to the music-hall those people whom ...

... time to see the opening of the delightful I revue, The Passing Show. The Palace is, I suppose, easily the first of our variety theatres. Here, again, the house was crowded, the conventional evening-dress of the stalls being very liberally sprinkled with ...

... remaining below. \/T eanwhile, as all Paris has been excited by the story of the criminal, a well-known actor of one of the variety theatres has made up to imper sonate Fantomas on the stage. This actor is tempted to an assignation with the woman. He calls in ...