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AIR EDDIES: The Flying Squad

... has been responsible for the rebuild ing of the New Empress Theatre, Brixton, which opened on Monday, October 19, as a Variety Theatre. It is built on the site of the old Empress Theatre, which was one of the most famous music-halls for forty years. Mrs ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1429 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYS

... dancing find no place among them. One turns, therefore, to the Palladium when in the. mood for a music-hall. Say, rather, variety theatre, for the place lives up to its title, and does indeed present variety. At one moment there are the antics of Messrs. Nervo ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2049 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

If Gossip We Must..

... had the international fame he now enjoys (which has not in the least spoiled him), driving with him to some out lying variety theatre in a most unfashionable neigh bourhood, and spending the evening in Harry Tate's dressing- room. After the glit tering ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1635 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

The PASSING HOUR: The Bystander holds up the Mirror to the Gay World

... Absurdly enough, though, I saw another man ordered to put on his jacket when he was sitting in a swel tering non-stop variety theatre. Those who can have got away from the torrid heat of London and been motor ing out to the country in the evening to Great ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1848 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Rehearsal Time at the B.B.C

... down the studio they tripped along it, smiling and capering, as though traversing the joy plank into the stalls at a variety theatre. But this joy plank takes you right' through the ether into the homes of thousands of lookers. Thousands Well, who knows ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1933
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 98 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... nasty I will present him with half-a-dozen of them. The official communique is that he can hold vast audiences, both in variety theatres and at classi cal concerts, spell-bound with the mastery of his instrument. What is more important is that Mr. Cochran ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

MARINO MAKES HER AUDIENCE HOLD ITS BREATH

... MARINO MAKES HER AUDIENCE HOLD ITS BREATH This intrepid lady has been thrilling variety theatre ai diences throughout the civilised world, and no doubt sooner or later we shall have a chance of being compelled to catch our breath in London. She favours ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 132 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs