... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome.—This is a cheerful place, where the gloom of the black-out can be forgotten. The programme this week contains good vaudeville fare, with Ambrose’s band in gayest mood during the second part of the entertainment. Ambrose’s players ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —Most of the forms of entertainment to be expected in a variety programme that fulfils its title are to be found at the Hippodrome this iweek. well-known London band heads the list and provides dance music and songs of the ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —Burlesque of the ballet by those irrepressible brothers, Dave and Joe O’Gorman, is one of the choicest items in collection of good things in “ Folies de Minn it.” Throughout the fifteen scenes of the show there is the mark ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —lt is not difficult to discover the particular appeal of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, the tvro Americans who have now, for quite a long time, been entertaining people across the footlights and over the air. It may be summed ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —The latest brood of j-oung performers hatched into the world of entertainment by Carroll Levis comes to Birmingham this week under the wing of Leonard Urry, their real parent having left the nest for Canada. Meanwhile the ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —lt must have been a long time since so much enthusiasm was displayed over music-hall programme as was the case at the Hippodrome last night. A bill of well-known artists had been assembled by Mr. A. C. Astor, and included ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. Tom Arnold’s comedy show, It’s Funny Thing,” radiates something of the tonic cheerfulness that can leaven and lighten existence in these days. Its comic sketches, in which Harry Korris and Tessie O’Shea are the principals, ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome.— However ignorant it may be of the rest of England and of local characteristics generally, the world now knows that somewhere in Loudon is a district known as Lambeth inhabited a particularly cheery set of people who walk with ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —War conditions have so far had little, if any, effect on the music hall tradition in Birmingham. At the Hippodrome last night there was certainly no diminution in the size of the audiences and the material of the artists—one ...

... VARIETY THEATRE The Hippodrome. This week’s programme is completely satisfying. A bright and jolly show from start to finish, the contributors are all masters in their particular lines. George Lacy and the Ambrose Octet top the bill, and are fortunate ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —Perhaps it is due to the war restriction of the activities of artists that we have such a galaxy of talent at the Hippodrome this week. Anyhow, there were large audiences last night to welcome such vaudeville favourites at ...

... VARIETY THEATRE Hippodrome. —Evelyn Laye’s appearance on the stage of the Hippodrome last night was very much like a triumphant home-coming. During the fifteen weeks of this year in which she played the part of the Principal Boy in the Theatre Royal pantomime ...