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... nave repeated to many people, concerns a male contestant In an amateur night arranged during the Boer War in a Clydeside music-hall where the audiences were so rough that. if they dia. liked a turn , they threw rivets. After dressing himself in khaki, ...
... first speechThetrs and do 'toffs' Boer War bust*, Kendall. one of the most person ally popular women who ever trod the music-hall boards. was singing her evergreen song, Just Like the Ivy. Both she and Steve McCarthy. her husband, came from the East ...
... failed. but I successfully led a similar campaign in 1917 It was then that the Empire. no longer a paying proposition as a music-hall. turned to musical comedy and eventually to films. Now, the wheel has revolved half backwards—to films plus a variety show ...
... like, I'd no more dream of that than flying. Our pleasures were fewer. We were content with the simplicities of the music-halls, and a little theatre-going, which easily delighted. Naturally, no one had foreseen the conquering advent of movies, let ...
... voice of Ainley, the touch of Cochran a medley of fifty years of the British theatre across its range from Hamlet to the music-hall. It has been a fine beginning to the century's pageant. Gladly now we prepare to accept the Other Half. G. B. Shaw's chronicle ...
... year in which Edison's Vitascope was the novelty of New York, Paul's Theatregraph was drawing the crowds to the London music-halls, and Lumiere's Cinematographe was the current rage of Paris, Budapest and Vienna. For the first few years of the twentieth ...
... Back to variety A famous a4rt-of-thr-cmtUrY music-hall. the Empire Palace of Varieties, now the Regent Ctnema. ing's Cross. will be a music-hall sin a' Easter LI alterations are plet—l in time. ...
... of thej47a al Union of Minewor ers. eiii c lashed out yosteeda at, cheapjack coin ns who jibe a Britain's coal miners. Music-hall audiences and wirelet,s listeners aie familiar with this line of patter:. Thep were the days when coal and slate were sole ...
... Were the Days . . . . DL NCAN LAMB, of South-West London, writes: AN ardent theatre-goer, in my opinion the theatres and music halls of today have everything. But you should be a little mouse in our house and hear what my parents say to that. My defence ...
... 1949 final for this trophy and now he has won the 1948 final. Writing for the Saxophone Ravinski, broadcasting again in Music Hall this week, will play, in addition to George Bernard Shaw's request for the Londonderry Air, a theme from an original work ...
... Sutton Picture Theatre— Eric Portman Nadia Gray and the Fly (a) “The Life ’’ u) EMPIRE CROYDON Phone CR0 1941 Metropolitan Music Halls (Croydon) Ltd Ceneral Manager ARTHUR S DIXON 2 TWICE DAILY FOR FOUR WEEKS ONLY lU DEC Ith to JAN 21st LEW and LESLIE GRADE ...
... of slapstick comedy is raised to a new plane in Old Mother Riley's New Venture. In this picture the popular dame of music-hall. radio and films becomes manageress of a luxurious hotel and gets into all sorts of difficulties. Kitty Mc- Shane. his wife ...