... life have helped him as a performer. He entered showbusiness immediately after the Second World War, trying out at Collins Music Hall, Islington, with an act he devised himself. And here his resourcefulness came in again, for no one had ever seen an artist ...

... Irving's statue is not 'on' Trafalgar Square, Nellie Farren and Genie Millar would not have been pleased to be labelled Music Hall performers, and in 1925 ET was appointed Dame Commander not Dame Grand Cross. There are over 80 illustrations, some familiar ...

... book to indicate that Sheffield has had a lively theatre tradition since the early 19th century and that most of the great music hall stars, at least, have trodden its various boards. One of the most interesting venues was not a proper theatre at all the ...

... like it or not, they are distinctly British, carry on, if you will excuse the term, a tradition of British humour: part music hall, part seaside postcard, part farce. They were never intended as more than programme fillers, the fact that they became a ...

... £14.95, even if does tell the story of one of Britain's most interesting theatres, and its sole surviving fully-functional music hall, the City Varieties in Leeds. Peter Riley's text is fairly plodding, though as much of the information about the theatre ...

... photographs are not of the highest standard. Nevertheless, a large number still enchant and even' dazzle like the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, all 36 of them in a line, providing a book of wide appeal on a very specialised subject by today's standards ...

... whisked off just as one has got an audience interested, and their eyes accustomed to Ihe scale, while, in respect of the music hall, the treatment tends to make puppetry a stunt.' There are technical chapters concerned with Manipulation and the Screen ...

... the surreal and childish, with odd touches of sophistication, and sometimes a nod in the direction of old time variety and music hall, has made them true originals, to be cherished. CHRISTMAS BOOKS REVIEW Illustrious--An Actor's Journey, which shows its ...

... swiftly and smoothly from Irving at the Lyceum and Tree at His Majesty's to Gaiety girls and matinee idols, from the old music hall to tho new from the Savoyards to Mr. C. B. Cochran. There is a little essay on the chorus girls of to-day and those of yesterday ...

... the fool, the licensed jester who was permitted to occasionally insult the King and his court, was the progenitor of the music hall and circus. For the fool was not confined to this country, as John Southworth, a well known actor and director, points out ...

... many of the great comedians of the variety days, but he is aware of the social back ground of comedy, how it arose in the music halls and how it devel oped a kind of respectability in the era of variety. He is at his best and most informative when he is ...

... song, she was a greater work of art than the Venus de Milo! It was enough to be sure that she had it in her to become a music-hall star. The present book gives a lively account of her second career, which she planned with as much shrewdness and skill ...