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Music Hall Issue 8

Katie Lawrence: The words and haunting melody of the chorus of Daisy Bell or A ...
Salvation Army: Probably, one of the main reasons for the dislike by the working man ...
Little Tich: Little Tich, who was four feet six [137 cms], hated being small. He ...
Beside the Seaside: Traditional seaside entertainment has gone forever. No longer at the ...
Ignorance is Bliss: Maurice Winnick ran a highly successful 1930s dance band, but, when ...

G H Elliott: George Elliott is among the best remembered of all music hall ...
Lily Morris: When Lily Morris died in 1952, The Times reported that that she did ...
George Beauchamp: She was a dear little dicky bird. "Chip, chip, chip", she went. ...
Teddy Brown: Born in New York in 1900, Brown started his career as a xylophonist ...

G.H. Macdermott: The repertoire of G.H. Macdermott was more political than that of any ...
Dan Leno: Like the White Rabbit created by Lewis Carroll, the diminutive ...
Back Your Fancy: There was a great affinity between music hall performers and the ...
Robb Wilton: The world of variety produced some tremendously talented ...

Harry Rickards: Harry Rickards was the prime mover of the Tivoli Theatre vaudeville ...
Jimmy James: In the annals of the variety theatre, the most famous routine of ...
Lunacy: Music hall songwriters were harsh in their treatment of the mentally ...
Charles Godfrey: Hard working, hard drinking, Charles Godfrey was one of music hall's ...

Wilson, Keppel and Betty: The supreme eccentric dance act of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, ...
Laura Ormiston Chant: Mrs Laura Ormiston Chant is known above all else for her attack on ...
Harry Clifton: Almost everyone has heard of Harry Clifton. They know Pretty Polly ...
Mickie Jacob: Naomi Jacob wrote more than 70 books, including the first biography ...
Harry Ford: Harry Ford was without question a star of some magnitude in the music ...

Sam Cowell: Sam Cowell, one of the first stars of what was to become known as ...
Songs of the Boer War: In the dying days of the reign of Queen Victoria, audiences thronged ...
Daisy Bell: Daisy Bell is the best known song of music hall. Groups of youngsters ...
Fayne and Evans: In 1980, a curious paragraph appeared in The Stage. It announced the ...
Tony Pastor: Going to the theatre had become the top leisure time activity in ...

George Leybourne: During a career lasting 23 years, George Leybourne had a significant ...
Fred Coyne: Fred Coyne was a minor music hall singer about whom opinions differ. ...
Bobbie Kimber: There were no female ventriloquists in variety. At least, there was ...
The Halls' Unacceptable Face: There is a dark side of popular music today. In rap, for instance, ...

Will Evans: Will Evans was not just a pioneering silent film comedian, but also ...
Free and Easies: There is little romance attached to the free-and-easy. Unlike the ...
Jimmy Wheeler: Jimmy Wheeler, the raucous Cockney comedian, bounded confidently out ...
Herbert Campbell: Herbert Campbell was a colossus of music hall, the head of the ...
Fred Karno: Although Fred Karno's mythical ragtime army never did conquer Berlin ...