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HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... amusement resorts are to open almost immediately, namely, the New Gaiety, the Marlborough Theatre, Holloway, and the mammoth Variety Theatre which one of the biggest West-End Variety Syndicates is to run in the midst of that vast suburban district generically ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 888 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... respectively appear to have something of this reli gious cast. Moreover, a certain British melodramatist of somewhat variety-theatre methods threatens us with a miniature theological drama which he at present calls The Key to the Bible, and in which ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

Dramatic and Musical Gossip of the Week

... given to the public. The book will to all intents and purposes be a history of the gradual evolution of the pre sent-day variety theatre from the primitive music-hall of over fifty years ago, and should prove interesting reading to all to whom the music-hall ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 750 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

JU-JIT-SU.--A JAPANESE ART OF SELF-DEFENCE

... recently Yukio Tani has been challenging all and sundry, to test their strength against his science, at various London Variety Theatres, never having experienced defeat. Ju-Jit-Su is based upon a knowledge of anatomy, and the laws that govern balance. Alone ...

Music: THE LOVE BIRDS AT THE SAVOY

... Edouin entrepreneur is sustained by Mr. George Fuller Golden, an American comedian who has already made his mark at the variety theatres, but who has yet to gain experience upon the regular stage. The burden of the piece falls to a great extent upon Miss ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1904
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 790 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS MAY BELFORT

... MISS MAY BELFORT. MISS MAY BELFORT, whose portrait we give, is a well- known vocalist at the variety theatres, her style being more of the piquant French chanteuse than the ordinary serio-comic of the music halls. She has just returned from South Africa ...

SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... All three houses are under the Control of Mr. Thomas Barrasford, who next Christmas intends to open the Lyceum as a Variety Theatre. It is said that Miss Yohe is the recipient of one of the largest salaries ever paid to a Music Hall artiste. T The- small ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4579 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Music Notes: THE OPERA

... amusement-seekers as a public favourite at a time when the music-halls were very different places 01 entertainment to the variety theatres of the present day. The songs sung were not always remarkable for good taste but when Lord Carrington got up a small ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1904
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1108 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... for building a dozen theatres in the chief provincial towns, in which, taking a leaf out of the book of certain of the variety theatres, not always of the humbler class, two performances will be given every evening. The idea is to compete with the music-halls ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... England occasionally see these gorgeous robes, for when Japanese jugglers or acrobats first come upon the stage of our variety theatres at a performance they always are wearing a splendid outer robe with wings at the shoulders. After they have made their ...

Published: Wednesday 07 December 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 984 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... applications for cheaper reserved seats emanating apparently from a new section of the play going public, attracted to the variety theatre in Leicester-square by the success of The Dancing Doll, and who require places they can reserve for the entire evening ...

THE BRIGHTON MOTOR CARNIVAL

... comes to London to appear under the management of Mr. Charles Frohman in La Petite Boheme, the French opera from the Varieties Theatre, Paris, which Mr. Froh man has recently ac quired. A GATHERING OF CARS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS A VIEW OF THE COURSE OUTSIDE ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1905
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1303 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs