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THB HONGKONG DAILY PREBA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22ND,
He appears in the blue tuvie of an lovely Lily Burnand," or, Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you will be delight sagine-driver, who gaya •Us - moving ed to bear that charming and delightful waltz wong about a little girl who kept" comedienue, Sable Fern, or,Ladies the other passengers calon by saying to and gentlemen, the next, item on the them something liks:- programie
in cure and only Arthur They do not, I think, quite live up to Roberts." their promise to revive the "old mise hall' at the Palladium.
[B, MOBBET LYND IN THE "DALLY NEWS."}
The danger will soon be over,
You need never fear. I know, all about it,
There was not one of the old stars that
For my daddy's the engineer. was not welcomed back like the return of They have the old stars, and they Spring, from Mr. T. W. Barrett, whose have the old chairman, hammering for date is given as 1880, and who, white (Applause and much hammering of the now have the pleasure of hearing the order with his wooden mallet, and in.haired and frail-voiced, sang us the ghost malles.) "Ladies and gentleman, you will troducing each of the performers by name of an old comic song, "I'm a nobleman's bright and dainty comedienne, Marguerite son." to Charles. Loe, roused, in the Corneille, who will sing, Hello, my with a fine threadbare, compliment,
traditional seedy frockcoat and ill-fitting But the Veterans of Variety, who seem white gloves of the dow comedian, who baby." And so forth, till we came to to have been given power to add to their mumbus, still sit on the stage in a half a song about Ada Brown, who had Jake Friedman, who yodelled with auch promised to lend him half-a-crown, and juggling and insinuating lile that the moon in their pink and blue daninces who danced like a long black-coated skate, chairman had to wave his mallet sternly at the galleries shouting, "Order, order!" and there is little substantial change in ton of genius till the applause rose to as a preface to announcing that there the programme, except that the chairman
athunderstorm. now sits at a high table in the middle
breast his orchestra, of the
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dazzle of shirt-front, and a cigar burning away in his month during the surga.
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would be an incore,. Nota jest was made but it was greeted
yodels of yester=||tion),vt Ah, where are the as though it had been by Aristophanes Tom Castelle, looking like a Henry year. Even the jacman in the orchestra Irving impersonation of an old music with his tunatia asylum of whistles, the drums and belis, is no sufficient substitute "gagging" stage on the subject of daye with Arthur for hip.
bo There was also a representation of an Arthur, Roberts. "You're wrong,
fold music-hall cinematograph Alm- said, "love is a disease."
"In that case, Tom," said Arthur, flickering, mumy, and only half-visible. "you should be in a home for incurables" But no one falt sentimental about that. What the audience really liked was such (Roars of laughter.)
tags as Leo Dryden in "The Miner's Dream," with the other veterans joining (More in the chorus.
It may be that this was the old-hall artist, was fashioned style and Mr. Henry Heap, the chairman, should know, for he was the last chairman of the old Metropolitan Music Hall in the Edgware Road some! 30 years ago.
My own memoirs of music halls, I
"I shouldn't be alose," retorted Tom: regret to say, go back scarcely more than 25 years, by which time the chairman I should have you and old Tom Bar had disappeared and there were few of rett to keep me company-"'"
"Yes," murmured Arthur the old glories left, except an uumislaughter.) takable smell of sucked oranges that Roberts, almost under his breath, the drifted down from the gallery, a still three blind mice." (Local hysterics.) more unmistakable smell of beer and stout that came from all parts of the house, and the wheezy voices of men
"
NON-STOP BING-BANG-
There was nothing for it but hysterica
Arthur Roberta looked a little detached, little bored (perhaps), as he tried to enter in the spirit of the boy listening to the old church bells. He seemed much more at home when his tura came mimic a lady preparing to bathe, but between th
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chority in the choruses of pions old waltz-songs such as "Shall I Be Angel, Daily "
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the stage in a farcical sketch in the old manner, called "The Haunted House," What exchange of repartee, quick machine-gun fire, between the black faced hoboe and the gentleman, whose Where the streets are paved with house he has entered. The tratap begins:
Daddy's gone to London,
gold.
The real uld-fashioned music-hall, I fancy, survived in the "eing-songs" for which certain Manchester taverna famous long after it had ceased to exist in the theatre of varietics.
PIPE SMOKE FOG.
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Who that remembers the Old Hen and Chickens in the days of Will Farroll's
"You're married !!!
"I am."
"You married a woman?" **I did."
"You've got a
I have
"Keep her. I don't want her." There were shrieks of laughter every time the tramp misrepeated the words
As for the newer music-hall perform ance that fills the rest of the programme, does it not include Enrico Costelli, who I am glad to see, is described as "the world's greatest juggler." Nothing but a superlative could do justice to his feats He can stand on his head, juggling with different things in each hand, doing different thing with each foot or leg carrying on a separate performance with his mouth, and all the time revolving round and round.
And then there is Harry Tate in farcical sketch called "Broadcasting,"
a
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will ever forget that free and easy scene, when all Oldham turned up on Saturday night with ite wives and in milies, when the chairman could scarcely be soon through the pipe-smoke and the noise of his mallet could scarcely bo heard through the smell of beer and the din't I grow sentimental when I think of it. But where are the snows of yes ter year 1"
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scribing a vision with emaciated face," the tramp echoed them, “with and mashed potatoes on his face.”
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of the veterans scream with laughter. But this was only an entertainment.
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"Oh, to be in England!" and seen the tramp's terror when the of a bicycle made for two. ghost with electric lights in its skull chased him round the stogo, you would have wanted to encore it as I did.
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