... That cats can be trained to perform in public, in the same way as dogs, has latterly been exemplified in two of the London music halls but it is rarely, I fancy, that either a dog or cat can be taught to go through a regular perform ance in so short a space ...

... usual features. The memorabilia is a little calculated to scare the timorous with its constant records of theatres and music halls burnt down there are five-and-fifty in all that have been so destroyed, though the compiler goes to all countries for his ...

... Council have made some special arrange ments for putting ambulances at theservice of influenza patients and the Theatres and Music Halls Committee have drawn up a new set of regulations. Mr. Chaplin has received still another deputation concerning swine fever ...

... Endowments Committee and some people will be gratified to observe that Mr. M'Dougall again has to do with theatres and music-halls. POST OFFICE ACTIVITY A matter which concerns not London alone, but the whole of the country, is Sir James Ferguson's exposition ...

... s verses, ang arranged for the choir and orchestra. The second part was almost entirely given up to vocalists from the music halls, and Mr. Arthur Roberts also came from the Prince of Wales's Theatre to give a comic sketch of his experiences in a ballroom ...

... stiffness and aches no athlete or cross-country runner should be without it. ACCIDENT. From the Jackley Wonders, Oxford Music Hall, London. I was recommended by my friend Victorina your Embrocation, and by using it for two days I was enabled to resume ...

... appearance for three seasons with Collingwood's Pantomime Company. .Miss Melrose, who is well known in the principal London Music Halls, is now in the pro vinces fulfilling long-standing engagements, but she returns lo town this month. Slio will enter upon ...

... Sheridan and Mr. E. J. Lonnen now sino- a biu'lesque duet by the Sisters Giggles, a rather caustic piece of satire on the music-hall profession, which, however, has not a very sensitive epidermis. The whole performance boasts an unflagging succession of ...

... application for a refresh ment and smoking license for the Palace theatre, which is now fully equipped for competition with its music-hall rivals, and is already drawing full audiences for its beautiful Rainbow Ballet. It is evident that those of the regular ...

... theatres which go in for the lightest form of entertainment are feeling very acutely the competition of the variety shows at music-halls, where the prices of admission are much lower, and where at any hour of the evening the casual playgoer, can be sure of ...

... of its causes the inferior com fort of the cheap seats at theatres as compared with that afforded for the same price at music halls. It is likely enough that there is something in this. It is an age of small luxuries and people will not spend the evening ...

... week and pawned for a soieieign. It has since been found, and the thief is now doing six months haid. I he salary of the music-hall artiste why arc they always artistes with an e might be envied by many a City man and even a count) judge. Miss Marie Loftus ...