... exceedingly well and the music halls quite extraordinarily so. I often wonder why the atmosphere among the audience of a variety theatre is so much more exhilarating and cheerful than that of the average theatre. That it is so is apparent to everybody. The ...

... she was just fixing them to an overmantel. A down-and-out actor was getting desper ate. He approached the manager of a variety theatre and offered to dive off a 6o-ft. ladder on to the stage. The manager accepted the offer, and next night the actor duly ...