... exceedingly well and the music halls quite extraordinarily so. I often wonder why the atmosphere among the audience of a variety theatre is so much more exhilarating and cheerful than that of the average theatre. That it is so is apparent to everybody. The ...

... she was just fixing them to an overmantel. A down-and-out actor was getting desper ate. He approached the manager of a variety theatre and offered to dive off a 6o-ft. ladder on to the stage. The manager accepted the offer, and next night the actor duly ...

... The two finest halls, so Cameron has told me, are in his judgment the Music Hall in Aberdeen (no connection with the variety theatre) which has a great deal of wood in its construction, and that of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He speaks highly also ...