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THE NAUGHTY 'NINETIES THE TOYS
THE naughty minoties!
has been written
"Much
about the
nineteenth century, and the folbles Old-Timo Edinburgh and
and frailties of many of the citizens of that time.
The capital of Scotland, like other elties, had its black spots, but, when
Its Amusements
a comparison is made, Edinburgh By Councillor WILSON M'LAREN bas no need to be ashamed of the part she played during the Victorian
ord.
during "Moss management of the Guioty. True to the policy adopted at the beginning of his career, my
old friend never wavered, with the result that anything of a "risky"" nature in the songs and patter was strictly forbidden.
For fifteen years, from 1877 the opening of the Empire Theatre of Varieties in Nicolson Street, on
this great Also realising that bumper houses November 7th, 1802,
by music-hall pioneer corried on at the Those who have made a study of
be brought about the "characteristics of Auld Reekie could only
worded by a knighthood by King "star" are alive to the fact that the majority strengthening his programme, Moss Chambers Street house, to be re-
engaged weekly of the people took their pleasures London reputation. In a short time Edward in 1903, in recognition of the part he played in the elevation sedately.
with д
Night clubs and danco, halls were respectable people forgot their Be of the music-holl entertainment. ples and flocked to the "Varieties.
Nowspaper "scoops" regording fow, and many of the noted howlfs Then the young man from Greenock
nightclub In the centre of the city were dis began to lay the foundation of the
life in London, or the
adventures of the appearing, or being well kept within fortune that ultimately built Empire matrimonial the bounds of the vigilant eyes of the Theatres throughout the Kingdom. glamorous Gaiety Girls, did not set
This is not to be wondered at the heather on fire in the capital of police.
such as when such artists as Tom Maclagen, Scotland. To her credit, she had Places of enterlolament, the Theatre-Royal and the Princess's, and Frederick Maccabe, of "Begone, not gone crazy during the "Naughty Nicolson Street, with their powerful Dull Care renown, were booked to Nineties. supporting companies in tragedy appear. Others who followed were and melodrama, were playing to George Leybourne, the Lion Comi- "capacity,"
visitor; while, at the foot
of
Attempts that were made le create Charlle fame, a continental atmosphere GOOD que, of "Champagne who brought proved obortive, and the young men The circus, with Its ever-alluring the Great
for a splash welcome down the house with his patriotle about town,, out sawdust ring, was always
Black- song, "We Don't Want to Fight, but, colour, quickly realised that their friars Wynd, Hickey's and Fergu- Uy Jingo, if We Do": Jenny Hill, the "high jinles" were far from a popu-
their Vital Spark; and Lottie Collins, who lar and paying proposition. son's "penny geggies," with
world-wide popularity, Since those heetle times when versatile
"mummers," never failed to sang Inte draw the denizens of the Royal Mile. "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ny."
There patrons could get three showa
to the Edinburgh's "Steadiness"
a night, from Shakespeare blood-curdling drama of "The Dumb Man of Manchester."
Free-and-Easter
the Great Vance.
tor!
the
were
Saturday evening concerts held in St. Mary Street Hall, the High Good Templar Buildings, Street; the Goldsmitha Hall, South Bridge, and Trinity Hall, Kirkgate, Leith, the usual charge for admission being threepence. The Boy Lauder
"The "Naughty Ninelles" full swing throughout the
frivolity-loving devotees burned the candia at, both ends, socially Auld Reckie has remained a zleady baro- were in mater, and much improved on the
country guld nuld days."
Mysteries of Ancient Angkor
AN
million I
fu be found to praise a marvel of architecture that has perhaps Toward early part the
Yet, even after seeing it all, the teenth century, any me of Ang he been equalled in the whole wonder and its treasures had spread far and imagination cannot conjure up a wide, to Siam and Java and Annam, vision of what this capital must have kings were being been in the sumptuous days of its and the Khmer hard pressed on every side. It is glory. Only an intense, an overs conjectured that they believed And whelming quiet remains, and a sense kur to be too vulnerable and ovncu- of
civilisation. of the middle ated it completely. It is a matter et eflete severance from modern history that the
that, by fifteenth century, they had removed
and
Many "free-and-easies" bud tablished themselves in Edinburgh bolore the advent of the "naughty pinetles." What undoubtedly gave them a new lease of life was the
entranice cause- to be the most proportions. The popular songs and catchy choruRes
NGKOR is said ition being sung in the London sup-
amazing discovery in the world. way, broken part-way by the Royal rooms and variety music-halla. The fame of the artists had spread But even greater than the marvel Porilco, has a total length of over
and this form of to the provinces,
of its inception is the mystery of its two thousand feet, its famous gallery in six hundred and fifty-four feet two entertainment became very popular decline, This city of
square, and the central tower is Almost overy tavern that possessed a sultable backroom and a tinkling people, deserted by its creators, en- hundred and thirteen feet in height. plano nightly drew crowds of young gulfed by tropical jungle and lost As Mouhot says: "At sight of this men anxious to try out the latest for four hundred years, was re- temple, the mind feels crushed, the gaze admiringly and In respectful London diilies of Harry Clifton or discovered purely by chance. Such imagination staggered; one can but Ze was followed by the "naughty is the astounding history of these lence, for where indeed are words ninelles," and increased the attrac magnificent ruins. tion of the public-itouse "sing-
notable Bryco's, ut 61 Princes Street, with Norman Thompson as chairman.
a galaxy of "stars" at that What perial were appearing in the old I have heard London music-halls! most of them, and they have never been surpassed.
Occasionally we hear on the radio
Only on the last night of our stay the same old words and the same old tunes, but the vocal efforts of the "moderna" compared with the old the capital of their kingdom to did we experience something which ancient kingdom. timers-well, the less sold the bet-Phnom Penh. But why none of the brought back for us in some degree
attacking races ever found Angkor the life of that
was a performance of the plundered it; and, above all, This
given on the kor Wat itself. This why the culture of the Khmers never "Cambodian Bol again expressed itself elsewhere, is causeway of Angkor an unsolved mystery. Angkor was bullet consists of dancing girls, train
Protectorate under (Cambodia is a overwhelmed by the swiftly en- ed by
was ap- the French, with its own nominat croaching jungle, and the art which a princess of the royal house had created its wonders parently exhausted; for the Khmers king), after the form und manner of sank back to the level of a primi- the dancers of ancient Angkor. Their
and made original carvings,
from It was at St. Mary Street fall that live people and their culture was costumes are designed from the lovely coloured brocades, averlaid Sir Harry Lauder made his first obliterated.
shoulder panela After seeing Angkor oneself, one with stiffened appearance in Edinburgh, public
with sparkling when a lad of about eighteen. The "numbers" he sang on that occasion can vividly picture, and in part even pieces encrusted
Dook Swimming share, the feelings of the French embroideries and sequins, and the were, "The Soer Club," "The Bleacher Lassies' Ball, man-Mouhot-who in 1881 stum- amazing gilded head-dresses are in and Which of the Two in the Oldest bied by chance on these ruins. Only the form of cupolas and minarets, three days before, he had written The dancing itself is chiefly beautiful -the Father or the Wenn?"
The opening of the Galety Music in his diary: a superstitious dread movements of arms, hands, and feet; Street, on 5th of the jungle has kept the region in but, combined with this, there is the Hall, in Chambers
which we are now travelling free enacting of traditional legends retal- July, 1875, was of more than pass-
to the citizens of Edin- from natives, and so, under the pro- ing to the Khmer kingdom. interest ing burgh. This was not the first home tection of a labu, the wild life pro- nowhere else as
Arriving at Angkor Wat after dark has flourished
The story of for this ballet, a fantastic scene met of vaudeville in the capital, for there
the world.
astonished eyes. Tho great stood at that time a wooden erection, in
Hidden cities in this part of the our known as the Alhambra, and owned world becomes more and more ab- causeway was swarming with excited by Harry West, on the fair ground surd as one penetrates the jungle. Cambodian children, rushing wildly at the
of Leith Wyndt (now head
It is manifest that there has never about with flaring torches made from chips of ironwood soaked in Jeffrey Street.)
been any civilisation in this region. from Other shows that drew the crowd If there are cities in this wilderness sweet off. With these they gulded back the time us over the causeway to a circle of to this vacant plece of ground at the Nelherbow were Swallow's Circus, they must date
Its floodliŁ towers sad Pepper's Ghost, the Fat Lady, the before Adam." Eloquent of the ef- acats placed just below the Royal
fect which his staggering discovery Portles. Living Skeleton, sword-swallowing upon him is the entry made after cloisters loomed up out of the dark-
д strange yourself
gray-green Zulus, boxing booths, cheap Jacks,
the finest ness, **Picture to it. and merry-go-rounds.
productions, perhaps, of the orchi- stormy seas; and on the central steps in were grouped the dancers, their Karry West's Alhambra had a
mes in vivid brillantly coloured costumes short existence, but it did not deter terture of all ages dumped down in the Hall Company, Ltd., from make the depths of these forests, in one contrast to the pale alone and the remotest countries
brown of the half- deep coppery bold attempt to establish a ing a place of variety at a spot noted as world, a wild, unknown, deserted naked children clambering up the
pillars behind them. having been where the house onco stood, at the head of College Wynd,
Musle from strunge native Instru where Bir Walter Scott was born.
The comfortable little theatre had Angkor have now been cleared and ments began its throbbing, Insistent troupe one the an auspicious opening, but laxity in one can get there easily by car or beat, and one by its management forced the Maglabus, more than enough of the jungle came down the steps and circled be- trates to close its doors, after it had remains around it for the present- fore us with swaying, graceful move- day visitor to understand Mouhot's ments. Torches famed from the carried on for almost two years. amazement. Standing on the only alone balustrades at the side, throw- Undeterred by the closing order small hill that there is in Angker Ing into high rellet a magnificent of the Magistrales, a young man Phnom Bakhengmat dusic one Naga head below the steps, and giv- from Greenock secured the lessen evening, beside its tiny, roofless tem-ing out a delicious heavy fragrance. ship of the Old Galety. The hall ple, we looked across a vast expanse Gradually the incredible scene took
One for was reopened on 24th December of unbroken jungle. Faint on the on the sembiance of fact. 1877. With that indomitable pluck western sky was the line of hills got the incongruousness of floodlights and business capacity that
never front which the ancient Klimers in the smoky fare of the primitive falled him through life, he resolved quarried their stone, brought it down torches, which lighted up the long that the Moss varieties would be run the Siemreap river on rafts to Ang- dim corridors of time and re-created on clean linos.
kor. In all directions save this the for us the vivid life of an ancient horizon rimmed a huge plain as race. flat and as green as the sea, whose
"Purified" Stage
of the
tract."
to
of the
Although all the approuches
to
This, for a time, did not appeal forests still kept their mysterious
to many of the old patrons, and the secret safe from the world.
Even
performers sang to half-empty the great towers of Angkor Wat and
Moss
was the Bayon can scarcely be discerned banches. Nevertheless, determined that a purified atmos
amongst them. Cham- phere should provall in the
various ruins at bers Street houstical dimealties.
Exploring the 1 adite of his
close quarters, one is amazed at the struggles and
The tank that the lessee and his damage wrought by the air trees manager, Mr. Leonard B. Bramwell, (fromages, the French call them) had
set themselves, proved no easy whore glant roots prize open roofs one. In spite of notices prominently and walls and arches, splitting them drunder and then locking them fast displayed of In the dressing-rooms, aru some of the artists took the risk of at all angles in a grotesque strangle- ure hold. To there relentless wreckers, festiva sorgs
of a type quite com- more then to time or climate, most In London
This resulted in of the monuments owe their extreme the singer #ngagement being can decay. Yet Angkor Wat, the most called on the spot.
Impressive of all, is scarcely dam
putting across the footlights sug
Toon
At the snack bar of the University ogod; for its wide surrounding most Holol, which was above the en-preserved it from the jungle, and all trance to the Boss Varistiki, X-Have the lint centuries that have passed beard the fred, "pros" bitterly com- slice its erection have left it poss plaindas la lurid language, of the paratively untouched and with an high-handed
adopted in their ageless grandeur that le in alartling Kelley the Packs predicted contrast to the conquering marks of an early #wash out" for the little time elsewhere. Its huge, die ik theatre, which didn't come offi; ALY balanced by perfectly harmonious
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THE TOY
GERTRUDE GELBING
RESUME
Gilberto and Louise Brigard, who have grows up at school in France, come home to live at their father's plantation in pre- alberte, Civil War Louletano, coiled Frontrow by the family, '4a delightfully naive, wanting only handsome husband who soll dance, dusi and buy-ner jewels, Andre Vallakre, Young man-about-town and New Or
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lean dandy, asitlon down at Me mother's plantation which bor- ere that of the Brigard's ad ko more of Proufrou. Georges Hartons, young Lawyer friend of the girlf father is előy- Ang with the Jamily sahile recup. erating from a knife_{#Qμ?$c$ Infileted by a vriminat he pros- aouted. Louise and Sueɑsno, hor servant, mureo Georges back to health. Louise has loved Georges Binco chidhood; but Georges de comes fascinated by Proufrou.
Copyright 1979 by Leen's, Boa.
Chapter Four
GAME OF HEARTS
Andre Valtaire whistled wally na he turned from the Brigard plan- tation where ho had spent the after noon riding with froufrou. He bounded down the path, reached the great white house in which he lived, and hurried inside.
He entered his mother's study to And her bending over accounts at her desk.
"Hullo,
mama,"
he calind.
"Tin always busy," who answered severely. "Ifa who wastes moments, wastes monsỳ."
He kissed the top of her head and put his chook to Liars, Bomo* thing in his manner made her give him her full attention.
"Mamanta," he announced sciemn-{
Something in Fronfrom's smilemade Georges know bar answer. He lifted ber bands to bis lips.
Ty, "I'm going to reform,”
"IVE time," she answered drily. I want to get married." She looked at him for a moment. "Gilbarte?" she asked. He nodded. "Of course," she sighed, "you'd have. to choose the flighty one. I wish it wore the sensible one, I could have found no fault with her,"
"Find nana with Froufrou, mamma," he begged.
|
"Toull not be tonight!" laughed Louise. “At laut hơht be able to kay & Law words to me alone, be- fore he goan tomorrow."
With a happy eigh, Loulas Loft the room. She hurried down the stairs, and reached the first land- Inga Georges Bartoris came out of her father's study. She stopped short, bad hand dying to her heart. "Mademoiselle!"" called. Georges. Wall. I've something to say to you before anyone como **NOW!"
Louis lifted her radiant face. - “Yes. I've just spoken to your falber-and he's told me I may
peak to you
"You've spoken to him...” breath- ed Louise.
"I've spoken to him about
"Froufrou?" Loulee stepped back as if struck.
"You didn't know It?" he asked in surprian.
"No, I didn't know it," she said tonelessly, She collected her pride. "But why speak to me? Why not to her?"
"Because your father hesitates to give his consent without your ap proval. He seems to think Frou- trou and I are not suited to one another,"
"I understand that,” she answered drily," "Gliberto so frivolous—and you so serious---~
Too selous, he interrupted. "That's my fear. But he says you're to decide this. So my fate Is In dear Louise." Ho your hands, leaned toward her pleadingly. "Do way that you approve!"
"I approve. I approve." Bho felt ber vofee break and struggled to master herself, "Yes yes, of course. Why shouldn't I approve. You're the very person to cure Gilberte of her frivolity,"
"Oh, no," he cried, "I wouldn't want to cure hor.. I like what you call her frivolity. It suits her."
"Shall I send her to you?" Louiso
naked.
Ho beckoned. "Loutro—will you tell her? I'm—well, I'm frightened. How te a man to propose to a ralo bow? She may laugh at the iden." "Laugh" Louise, with terrido ef- fort, kept barself in hand. "How She thought hard. could she?" "Very well, I'll ask her for you." she said finally and with a short
aho started up the stairn. nur er room, Froufrou was ad- She took his face in her handa and kissed him. "Til and nono, miring herself at her mirror. She
If she makes you happy, my son." wared to her alster. "Louisa!" sho Ha embraced her. 11 ask her called, which do you like beat with father if I may speak to her at this dress, the rosebuds, or the the party tonight," he said, and with a goodbye kiss, made för his room to change.
In his room at the Brigard plan- tation, Georges, his arm in a sling. was being buttoned into his eve- ning cloak by a degro servant. The door opened suddenly and Froufrou put in her head,
"Alone, Monsieur Georges?" she asked, and sening him alone, en tered gally. "Do you, or do you not like this dress?" she cried and pirouetted about for his inspection, "Of course I like " he replied "Isn't It with an amused szallo. perfectT"
"Do you think so, really?" she asked breathlessly. "Do you think I'll have success in it-Tve a pink one that might be better
"Keep that on,” he answered with utmost seriousness.
"that a
| Louise.
matter?" murmured
Broufrou faced her anxiously. "You look serious. What's hap- pened?"
"Let Monsieur Georges tell you,” Loules answered. "Ho's waiting for you--he loves you. He wishes to inarry you. He's spoken to papa."
"Marry me?" cried Froufrou. "Monsieur Georgest O, Sainte Cath erine bas done this. I prayed for husband and now she sends me Monsieur Goorgaal"
"Gliberto!" Louisa cried out in anguish.
Dit's so funny, giggied Froufrou. "Monsiour Georges, who hasn't a fault to his name, wants to marry It would be me-mo-Froufrout different, if it ware Monsieur Andre
I could understand that!" "Perhaps, Louiss said curtly. "I will!" she beamed. comfort it is to have a gentleman But between the two, surely you docido important matters for one. can't hesitatel Dym if you don't Thank you, Monstour." She turned fove Monsieur Georges now, you will to go Ob-there was something also she frowned in thought "oh yea-thia bracelet: I can't fasten
It and Pick couldn't. Cich you?”
She held up her arm. "I can try" he emiled and, de spite his Jans arms, managed to fasten the look. He raised his face to her so close to be to her all ment the impulse to kiss her mil but mastered him. **There" be ald controlling himavit, and smil ed off-handedly.
learn to when be is your Husband." Froufrou stared at her with nsive "Yes, I admit that sortowaness ought to be say" she paused. Louise-aren't you in love with him, yourself?"
"Do you think a woman in love with a man would sak another to marry hi
wouldn't," Froufrou answered, "but you might.".
"It happens, however, that he loves you-and I love some one clas "Im sure I shall have nicdass in The Count de la Bisbells whom this dress tonight!" she laughed, we uset in Pazin,"
and with a rustle of silk, she WEINKAN,”amilet Froutrou, "that might be. The would be just grone.
Gorge tamed to his servant your sort," he put her hands to "Has Monsieur Brigard come down-1 Ser hand. "Oh!" she laughed, "MY hond' 'in a whirl. I don't know stairs yet?" he asked suddenly.
m'sieur.". The creat what to my. EX should like to be grinned knowingly. "It you-all want married and live in New Orleans, to talk to him about somethin. he's certainty." Moneleur: Cleorges -liyan In his study."
in New Delsans-but so does Mon- ***THANK YOU”-George'willed 'and sigur Andre****
Implored "Troutrou!" walked out with the purposeful stap of a man who has, arrived at a "Monsieur Georges is waiting for decision.
You Boulade-giene the balcony Up in bir root. Louise Sispute wvolto kime Bad, it's a gatek ting the thinning touchel to her law, she turned and bed. tallotte Bho hummed gully, sENT}«:
Louise.
Frautron ras down the stairs to ing happily. At Dusanne „who-WM the balcony. Where Georges awall- busy fastening her gown
sa her bomsthing in her smile "All ya! dresses has got too big and manner made him know her from runnin® yo baigs off for dad anewer. He lifted her hand to his Monsieur Goorgne," grumbled Bu- lips, then, with a quick move- ment, ha drew her into his arms Louise bugged her out of shear and dissed her mouth,
-- As she lifted her arms to answer happiness.
"Mahgenclous!" " protéátád" mu: bla ambeson the door opened" and sanne, "Ah bada't byard baby Andre Valiaire entered, for an word dat's passed, between you two, instant, he stared at the inolsau [botors (him) then, turning wwiftly, Ana. think he'd already popped de 30 Thu out of the hours and throw question."
Ing himself upon his horse," KAI- Perhaps he would have "izoals; loped out into the high q reprosodied, "If you'd not beam will pratista P ware and eyes every moment."
ausanne looked at her adoringly, “Well, Ab'm goin' to keep on bith”. KË, KRIR-223 Brenitill you two jumps) de broomstick, Chile,
Proufron has given her scont to Georger; what will. BROOME nr. Louleu・ Will André- try to
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