... of a series of performances at the Widow, a gesture that should do more than anything else to help fill this vast variety theatre. Fonteyn's glamour, experience, allure and unique stage presence lifted the performance on to a higher level from her ...

... Alastair McDonald, apparently a loc al favourite, filled two long and dreary spots with folk song. For slick and quick variety theatre presentation leng thy chat links of personal reminiscence have simply no place. Despite the superb keyboard work of Peggy ...

... demolition, the one- woman play cleverly interweaves several themes: the decline of Taishu, Japanese traditional popular variety theatre, now reduced to but three venues in working-class Tokyo; the half- cynical, half-optimistic personal odysscy of the a ...

... bine, who was assisted by Charles Abachidze in the folklore j dances. La Tertulia is a backstage glimpse of a Madrid variety theatre of 90 years ago, with Ana Ricarda and Jacqueline Moreau as rival dancers from Spain and Paris. They belong to a picturesque ...

... ser. Vocal instrumental duo Jade have a timeless type of act which would surely have prospered half a century ago on variety theatre bills, or 20 years later in club land. And by this enthusiastic response, today's punters also recognise stylish entertainment ...

... the stiff corpse-like figure from the tomb and holds it heroically above his head. Like the fantastic acrobats of the Variety Theatre of China. Ulanova's uncanny mastery of technique makes her performance look so easy, and purer in texture than any dancing ...

... the best of matters, but we have already expressed the opinion, founded on a oloso knowledge of tho locality, that a variety theatre is what is wanted, and would pay best here, and though it is quite probable that a roal.y th ...

... plays? Let the man who could not find detraction in the efforts to deal with the subjects of the hour take refuge in the variety theatre and the music hall, but don't let him throw cold water on the labour and genius of those disciples of the higher drama ...

... and inglorious careor as the Empire Musio Hall. One man's loss is anothei man's gain. The failuro of the. venture ai a variety theatre has given the opportunity to Mr. Ronald Grahame, a gentleman who Jiough still young, has had a largo and varle ...

... the dance it self thero was nothing to distinguish it from a dozen similar bcmi-g^vinnastic dis plays to be seen in our variety theatre*. By no means revealing the abandon in which dancers at the Moulin Rouge are Woat to indulge, it yet had characteristics ...

... notably the Earl of Loam in The Admirable Crichton. Thereafter he was in considerable demand in the Weet End. toured in variety theatres as Sir Harry Sims in The Twelve-Pound Look, and appeared in America. In 1920 he toured with Sir Martin Harvey in The ...

... Lady Boys of Bangkok Queen's There is nothing particularly new about the Lady Boys of Bangkok. Drag shows were touring variety theatres 50 years ago. And the content is reminiscent of nothing so much as the big spectaculars that once adorned the London ...