... Green had taken at the corner of Hyde Park the first moving pictures evci made. There is an interesting account of the music hall and penny gaffs of Dan Leno's day, the actors rarely getting more than a shilling a night in the latter halls, situated ...

... into the childhood of Joan and Jackie, is because it is one of the few authoritative accounts of the days of variety not music hall because Joe's business career corresponded with the birth and death of the type of show business with which many of us grew ...

... the sentiments and attitudes of that fascinating and currently fashionable period. Parlour ballads, opera, min strelsy and music hall are represented in such gems as I Dreamt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls, Come Into The Garden Maud, Ring The Bell Softly ...

... for hard work led him into other fields, set design and eventually complete productions, for the Shu- berts and Radio City Music Hall among others So when he even tually joined the trek west to Hollywood, after an earlier frustrat ing stay, he was well prepared ...

... Gang, headed by Jimmy Harvey and Danny Cummins, reigned supreme for many years, the Tivoli, the Capitol and Dan Lowrey's Music Hall. But serious theatre enthusi asts will be most interested by the chapter about the original Abbey, the first national theatre ...

... career his parents brought him to England at the age of nine) from his early Vaudeville teenage years as a dancer on the old Music Hall circuits, until he decided at 30 to become an agent and impresario, and what transpired over the next 50 years to make him ...

... from a town called Turkeve. He took his name from a text, Sursum Corda, he saw inscribed high on the wall of a Budapest music hall, and one can say that he did his best to lift ip the hearts of the people throughout his career. Seldom the hearts of his ...

... They have been selected by Peter Gammond, who takes the opportunity to write a useful and accurate potted history of the music hall as an introduction. There is also a foreword by Barney Colehan, who quite rightly draws at tention to the fact that at least ...

... Jewish boy who is still active after 60 years in tie profession, which began when he joined D'Arcy's Baby Band, a juvenile music hall act, at the age of 14. By a steady, logical progression through provincial dance hall bands and the lesser leaders of the ...

... Press. £35) on his own. Mind you, this is a mere 848 pages, but Kilgarriff, renowned as both expert and practitioner of music hall, really set himself a job here. The list of sources is mind-boggling, for it must be remembered that in the period covered ...

... contented domestic life, quiet and very private, with him and her two children, one of whom is handicapped. Peter Hepple Music Hall in Merseyside, by Peter McCauley (from the author, 3 Camborne Avenue, Woolton, Liverpool L25, £2.20) A small but significant ...

... of: when this great theatre opened in 1818 as the Royal Coburg, home of melodrama He describes how it became a Temperance Music Hall and College, then the theatre of Shakespeare, and the true birthplace of our National Theatre. This is a thrilling story ...