... Fire at London's Oldest Variety Theatre Collins Music Hall in Islington is Badly Damaged by a Blaze in an Adjoining Timber Yard I IBw.--. W II r T WMB M I I a I k- BW mmmwm n FIRE CLOSES COLLINS MUSIC HALL Firemen standing on the roofs of adjoining buildings ...

... Fantasy and Variety The Old Vic's Cvmheline the Coming London Season of the Variety Theatre of China On right jj CYMBELINE AT THE OLD VIC lachimo (Derek Godfrey) emerges from his hiding-place after being smuggled into the bedchamber of Imogen (Barbara ...

... Chinese wind instrument consist ing of a number ol hollow bamboos. The instrument was pre sented to him by members of the Variety Theatre of China, which re cently concluded its London season. ...

... learn something new. Having been presented with a shen g (a set of Chinese bagpipes) by members of the orchestra of the Variety Theatre of China, he took time off from rehearsing Western music with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to try that of the East ...

... meet. Nothing more thrilling has been seen since the day when that lion refused to bite Androcles in Rome's principal variety theatre. The audience got its money's worth upon that famous afternoon, and the Leamington Tiger saw to it that a similar happy ...

... man's tricks! What shudders of dismay as he nearly dropped a cone! Here was the stylized acting of the true international variety theatre, which speaks one language from Constantinople to Carlisle, yes, and from Moscow to Madrid. One night before the war I ...

... Morecambe. Directed by Tony Richardson, the film will show the haphazard and sordid life of artistes touring the third-rate variety theatres of Britain. In it, Olivier will appear a younger and sleeker Archie Rice than in the play. The story has been altered ...