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A CHAT WITH COUNTESS RUSSELL

... A CHAT WITH COUNTESS BUS8ELL. The Latest It ecru it of the Mitsic-IIall From Musical Comedy to Variety Theatre From Brighton to the London Tivoli. LONDON-BY-THE-SEA last week looked remarkably jocund and gay in the sunlight of a perfect day, and I found ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 746 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... with his father, to tour a theatrical company in South Africa. As a boy of eight, Mr. Wheeler was an actor of old men at variety theatres in Chicago. Then he went to Australia, and was one of the Wheeler Family in India. His father, Mr. Benjamin Wheeler, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1237 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: ELEONORA DUSE AT THE LYCEUM; MARTIN HARVEY'S TRIPLE BILL; THE PLAYHOUSE ACCORDING TO SAMUEL ..

... arranged to give certain of his celebrated Dickens impersonations, such as he nightly presents with great success in our variety theatres. His assistants in this good cause included Mr. Herbert Campbell, Mr. Fred Russell, Mr. Leo Stormont, Mr. Eugene Stratton ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1771 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... especially in The Geisha. Soon after her engagement at Daly's, Miss Nesville achieved successes as a chansonnetteuse in the Variety theatres, particularly at the Alhambra, but subsequently returned to the regular playhouses, wherein one of her latest impersonations ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7886 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A BRACE OF FAMOUS BU

... recent meetings of the Zio.iist Congress, and that is the number of Jewish performers on the. modern stage, also in the variety theatres and music halls. BROJILEY CRIB. KODNJSy 8TONJ5. ...

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... called out the turns so clearly as to make one regret the disappearance of the once familiar music-hall chairman in modern Variety Theatres. More. Mr. Rawlinson contributed twelve guineas to the fund and in his earnest speech advocating the praiseworthy cause ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8801 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. RICHARD WARNER

... visit hispretty house, Grenada Lodge, in theStockwell Park Road, will recognise that charity begins at home. Foremost variety-theatre agent in London, he has branch agencies and correspondents all over the world, but, disagreeing with the Private Secretary ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 775 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW EUSTON THEATRE OF VARIETIES

... a long journey to sre, and certain it is that the patronS who will twice per night -fill London's latest magnificent Variety Theatre will murmur admiration for these pictures. They are surely among the very best with which this artist has embellished ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 488 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL GOSSIP: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, AT THE COMEDY

... a little broad. Otherwise, it is inoffensive and amusing. Mrs. Brown-Potter at the Palace. The growing popularity of Variety Theatres in London is evidenced by the readiness of actresses as distinguished as Mrs. Tree and Mrs. Brown-Potter to appear at ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2472 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP: M. MESSAGER'S PRETTY COMIC ORERA

... was the Stage Manager when La Basoche was produced in English at Mr. D'Ovly Carte's Royal English Opera now the Palace Variety Theatre on Nov. 3, 1891, again undertook that duty, with his customary success; and the charming dances, arranged by Mr. Soultan ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1901 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

A RISING STAR OF THE VARIETY THEATRES

... A RISING STAR OF THE VARIETY THEATRES REFINED talent of the type shown by Miss Cissie Loftus is clearly possessed by the clever little lady The Sketch has the pleasure of portraying in the photographs below. Miss Cissie Dryden has, in addition to great ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

Amusements

... dead as the other deportment cultivated by Mr Turv ydrop in Georgian days. Granting that the great s| ectach s of our variety theatres are not to be bound to tradition, there can be nothirg but praise for Mr. Malcolm Watson's Inspiration. The story is ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1476 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs