... dance occasionally condescend to accept coronets. And ot ail men m .London Avho know something of those early days of the variety theatre, which developed from places such as Evans's, probably Mr. Charles Morton, pioneer of the music hall, knows most. Last ...

... landlord, and formed a syndicate, composed of Nicliolls, Charles Harris, Walter Dixon, and myself, to open the house as a variety theatre, and later on Sir Augustus Harris joined us for a time, and produced the ballets. But the success of the Empire has been ...

... public unaccustomed to such things has been so successful, that it seems to have inaugurated a new era in the life of variety theatres. The Empire directors are quick to perceive this, and have hastened to follow up the satisfactory result of their own ...

... they were as pleased to join in the chorus of the lively Boul'miche as are ever the gods of La Scala for that far-famed variety theatre has been the scene of the pretty gommeuse' s greatest home triumphs; but, she says with a sigh, there is no city like ...

... the performance. It is pleasant to note the success of Senor Don Zercga's entertainment and its promotion to our best variety theatre. English people have been too long oblivious of the attractions of Spanish music and dancing. B. SENOR ZEREGA AND HIS ...

... arrangement. On reaching years of indiscretion I became acquainted with specimens of the special brand of sisters attached to variety theatres, and found that these curious relatives were generally unlike in every way, and possessed nothing in common except incapacity ...

... music-halls is chiefly noticeable for the poverty of its quality. The majority of the singing brother- and sisterhood of variety theatres rely upon an old-established name or a humour that passes the bounds of decency. To raise a laugh and obtain applause ...

... music-hall patron has no opinion beyond the positive or negative quality of an individual turn. lie seems to seek the variety theatre in order to get a rest from thought and consideration of any severe kind. M. Leon Delafosse, who is at present giving ...

... loungers who crowded what was known as Fops' Alley, which was to the opera very much what the promenade is to the modern Variety Theatre. Lc Nozze, it is true, had not been played for twenty years, but no revivals of Mozart's at the present day are cal culated ...

... window in Paris where such things are sold, and there is an enormous sale for them. It was her intention to appear at some variety theatre, but her plans in this direction were frustrated by her former husband, the Prince, who appealed to the Courts to prevent ...

... under another name than The Chlb Baby, as a farcical sketch having a similar title has a ready been seen at one of the variety theatres. Tub 100th night of Julius Cccsar at Her Majesty's Theatre will be so near the anniversary of the opening of the new ...

... original Metropolitan Music-Ifall. Some three years later improvements were made, and it then ranked as one of the finest variety theatres in London. It was a roomy, rambling sort of place, not one where you expected to meet fashionable people, for in those ...