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... Respectable version of music hall Kindly Leave the Stage!, by Roger Wilmut (Methuen, £12.50) Research projects about the original music hall are legion these days. Post-1960 pop has spawned its own batalions of researchers. Even American popular entertainment ...
... MUSIC HALL 60 YEARS AGO Music Hall Stars of the Nineties. By George Le Roy (British Technical ana ueneral rress, tzs. M.) Here is a book that will revive happy memories to many and give information to those to whom the former glories of the music halls ...
... called a Lifetime of Music Hall. I was hoping for the life time of Sandy Powell. Something more about the comic genius of Harry Weldon. the overseas personal stories of Arthur Lane and Audrey Lupton Golden Years of Music Hall, of Majorie Manners, the ...
... days of music hall in Glasgow. He writes with obvious affection of most of the all-time greats of Scottish showbusiness and the theatres they played. But this is not just another trip down memory lane; it is an appreciation of the music hall from someone ...
... The Scottish Music Hall 1880 1990 by J H Littlejohn (G.C.Book Publishers Ltd, 10 Bank Street, Wigtown, Wigtownshire DG8 9HI\ £10.95) Though there are one or two places in Scotland which have built theatres where none stood before, notably Cumbernauld ...
... Essential reference work for historians British Music Hall on Record, by Brian Rust (General Gramophone Publications, £11) Because of its relatively high price in its earliest days, the gramophone was usually an instrument of the middle class, hence the ...
... Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Halls, by Richard Anthony Baker (Robert Hale,£13.95). As might be expected from somebody who has been responsible for some of the most entertaining and well researched radio features of recent years, Richard Anthony Baker ...
... Publications, 38 Parkstoac Avenue, Homchnrch, Essex RM11 3LW, £17.45) We have yet to see the plans formulated for Wilton's Music Hall in Welidose Square, Whitechapel made permanent reality, but this book, lovingly prepared by one of the mainsprings of the ...
... still sprightly and active and very much involved with the activities of the Concert Artistes Asso ciation and the British Music Hall Society. He will be the first to admit that he was never a star, and moreover he seldom worked with stars. But that is not ...
... Stage Death of Chung Ling Soo ONE of the most sensational magic acts ever presented on the music hall stage took place at the Wood Green Empire on the evening of March 23, 1918. The great Chinese illusionist, Chung Ling Soo was doing his final trick ...
... mainly because she seems to have lived so many Uvm For most of her life, of course, she was bound up with the theatre and music hall, and this handsome, if expensive volume offers many interest ing sidelights on Parisian life and love in the early years ...
... its saucy moments but hardly raised an eyebrow. Nor is it true that she was an artist unappreciated outside London. Though music hall was more strongly established in the capital than elsewhere, and it was possible to make four or five appearances a night ...