... artistry, assessing his place among the 'greats' and dissecting his relationship to other contemporaries in the English music hall, from which he sprang as a chid performer betore becoming the First Actor of the Cinema, than to any other score of world ...

... book, it has often presented theatre of surprisingly high quality, being visited by many star names of both theatre and music hall in the great touring days. One of a series of publications dealing with specific aspects of life in the North West, the ...

... inaccuracy badly serves the movement. Vesta Tilley was born Matilda Powles in Worcester in 1864, the daughter of a second-rate music hall performer who soon abandoned his own career to manage The Great Little Tilley as she was first billed. She gave her first ...

... Looking back now, I suppose I should have recognised his trademarks. Matcham, of course, designed almost exclusively for music hall and variety, which is why so many of his theatres were though tlessly demolished, though it would be true to say that those ...

... shown himself to be an actor of considerable depth and sensitivity, although part of him has always remained rooted in the music hall. On a personal level, his life has been occasionally stormy but he remains one of the best loved actors in the business ...

... gusto. If she was not actually the mistress of peo ple as disparate as Prime Minister As- quith, Russian bass Chaliapin, music hall artist Basil Hallam and a small col lection of lords, she was certainly loved by them and in her way she loved them back ...

... characters, though they were so coded that only insiders would recognise them. In Britain, however, possibly because of our music hall tradition, they were more upfront, especially in comedies. Comedians, particularly, would happily get into drag at the ...

... however, she is one of the most potent live attractions in the business, packing out top Las Vegas rooms and Radio City Music Hall with the most spectacular song and dance act ever seen even in that country of superla tives. Though coming across as a ...

... heart cabaret was an essentially theatrical art, whereas here in Britain what passes for cabaret leans heavily towards the music hall, which was always the British safety valve and has a satirical tradition of its own. Peter Hepple ...

... Salter's biography. However, she does chronicle in a fascinating ner the activities ot a man who has been star of revue, music hall, ballet and theatre, and who continues to hold sway as a theatrical giant. The book tells of his early life in Australia ...

... little girls flocked to his classes he saw the possibility of forming them into acts and troupes and touring them round the music hall circuits. Thus grew up a curious empire i of femininity, in which girls, often from poor homes, were brought into this ...

... school with Aubrey Beardsley which may have given him his sure eye for design working in America and Britain as an actor and music hall performer and getting the taste for management while working in various capacities for the American actor-mana ger Richard ...