... of gossip and rumour, interviews and portraits, and in due course it was discovered that pretty Polly, though only a Variety Theatre girl, had strong artistic instincts and longed to play Ophelia and Desdemona, and that her family was ancient and honourable ...

... comic pantomime sketch called Chez /a Conturicre, which was in reality a ballet in miniature. But while the Parisian variety theatres are ahead of our own in many ways they have not yet acquired the gift of producing a ballet up to Leicester Square standard ...

... AN EVENING AT THE TIVOLI By Arnold Golsworthy. The Tivoli is, I suppose, one of the most popular variety theatres in the metro polis, and the strength of the programme on the occasion of my visit certainly seemed to justify its success. There was almost ...

... deputised at the Tivoli for certain comic-singing absentees, is very quaint as the Baron. A very novel turn at this popular variety theatre is a tragic scena written and composed around the Poet Thomas Chatter- ton, whom Wordsworth described as the marvellous ...

... Belle in a Ball.-- The latest novelty in the way of music-hall turns is that which is being taken round the West-end variety theatres by Miss Belle Stone, beginning at the Canterbury. It is a performance in which the laws of gravity are appa rently defied ...

... AT THE EMPIRE By Arnold Golsworthy. At some of the variety theatres the per- formance begins with the first turn, but at the Empire they start with the over ture, which has no number on the programme, so I suppose it is not to be taken too seriously. ...

... AT THE ALHAMBRA By Arnold Golsworthy. It is odd how some people look at things. Of course, when one goes to a variety theatre to make notes one does so by the courtesy of the manager. You may be a great artist and all that kind of thing but it doesn't ...

... rare. P'spinosa and Wilson are a lady and gentle man in the dancing industry. It has come to their knowledge that the variety theatres are giving a good deal of patronage to foreign dancers, from the exponents of the cake-walk to the Russian waltzevitch ...

... for two and that the other remark is the French for comic cyclists. 1 really believe if I keep on going steadily to variety theatres I shall develop into quite a linguist. The Ritchies are a well- nourished tramp and a distinguished-looking lady, but ...

... of the new ballet, Eton, will consequently be postponed until later in the autumn. On Monday next the programme at the variety theatre in Leicester-square will have an addition in the shape of Mr. Charles R. Swete, who describes himself as a musical burglar ...

... to give her cordial welcome and to press for her reappearance behind the footlights. She decided at length to give the variety theatres a chance, and her engagements at Brighton and at the Tivoli in town will be fresh within the recollection of all who ...

... ran Send to me at once, I entreat thee, the name of that girl, and say where she can be found. The managers of three variety theatres of the first class have sought me out, and are eager to engage her. Decidedly, said Pitou. I have mistaken my vocation-- ...