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MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936.
IS A NEW LEAGUE NECESSARY?
She Began where Mae West
ends
Last Saturday was an eventful anniversary in the history of the old London Music Hall. On that date, fifty-one years ago, commenced the stage career of Marie Lloyd who began, on May 9, 1885, where Mac West ends in 1936.
Her success there was such
-which lasted for twelve
In the following article, a well- known Hongkong resident who was a great follower of the old-time Music Hall, tells the story of the career of the Idol of the Halls.
ORN in 1870, Marie B
Lloyd's first profession that she obtained an engagement al engagement was at the months-at the Oxford Music Eagle Music Hall in the City Hall (one of the three Syndicate Road, London, on May Halls-Oxford, London Pavilion 9, 1885 under the name of and Tivoli). Soon afterwards Bella Delmere, where she she was appearing regularly at all of these last mentioned Halls, sang "My Soldier Laddie' being billed to "do her turns and "Time is Flying." there at 9.40, 10.10 and 10.35
p.m. respectively. She reappeared at the same Hall in the following month, and
then "billed" was
Marie
Lloyd.
ney.
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"When in the Tottenham Court Road, I saw, tucked under the newsboy's arm, the sheet which announced that Marie Lloyd was dend, everything around me be- came-still.
"The street lost its hishbub.- and for a space I was alone with a personal sorrow.
"In moments of emotion one is apt to notice the little things, and nt once I remarked that, on the poster, the artist's name was pre- faced with the word 'Miss.'
"Death, it seemed, laying his hand upon her who was known over the whole English-speaking world as Marie,' must use mord ceremony.
HER songs were, generally, the following:
very simple, but with catchy "The League, as we know it, have is dying: now let
melodies, and she "put them over" by methods all her own- with its another Lengue, not
a wink, a laugh, a nod, or In 1891 she took the part of glance and the simple young legions of committees, but with
"Princess All Fair" in the lady possessor of a garden be- Its battalions and battleships, to
Pantomime "Humpty Dumpty," came quite an "interesting' police the world and secure
at Drury Lane, wherein Dan character. A somewhat amus- international justice". So She next appeared at the Leno, Herbert Campbell and ing story used to be told con- writes a correspondent, who, Falstaff Music Hall in Old Little Tich also appeared. In cerning a deputation from the anticipating the argument that Street, which appearance was the following year she again ap- London County Council who de- "try, out" before such a plan is too simple, de-followed by an engagement at peared at Drury Lane as "Little Handed clures that simplicity and direct- the Sebright Music Hall, Hack- Red Riding Hood" along with themselves of some of Miss From there she went to Ada Blanche and the three Lloyd's latest songs. The de- ness are qualities investing the the. Star at Bermondsey, where Artists mentioned above.
mand was duly met. Marie In 1893 she took the part of sang the songs in best Sunday highest purposes of mankind: she sang "And the Leaves began
and "Sure to Fetch "Polly Perking" in "Robinson School fashion sans wink, sans. while complication, compromise to Fall"
Crusoe" at Drury Lane, and was laugh, sans glance, suns any- and hesitation are qualities that Them."
After this, she was engaged as much admired for her thing other than the best mark the lowest human imut the Bedford Music Hall in dancing as for her acting and "bread-and-butter" style. The pulses. The idea he propounds Camden Town, whence she singing.
deputation expressed, satisfac- is not, of course, a new one. migrated to the Middlesex ("the In 1898, she appeared as Lion with the performance, and The creation of some such inter- Old Mo") in Drury Lane, where "Dick Whittington" in the Pan- rose to take their departure. national force was obviously she first made her name with tomime of that title at the "Here, half a mo", said Maric. contemplated by those who drew the song "The Boy that I love Crown Theatre, Peckham, which "Your Show's over. Now I'll
sits up in the Gallery."
ran for more than two months. have mine. I'm going to sing up the Covenant of the League,
In the following year she took to you a couple of songs your in which provision is made for
the part of "Prince Heliotrope" wives sing". She thereupon joint military and naval, as well as economic, action against an aggressor. If such
force # were to be brought into being, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT however, there would need to be
NOTES OF THE DAY in Cinderella at the same sang "Queen of my Hear!" and
theatre-her sister Alice ap- "Cindera"--which pearing as pantomime also had a two months run.
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"Marie-pronounced with the broad vowel beloved, of the Cockney - was in everybody's mouth that day, in club - pad barrack-rcom, in bar-parlour and in modest home. On the high acas Marie's dend' would be
droned from ship to ship.
"Returning from Kempton a party of bookmakers (Tel to speaking of the dead artist. One said, with tears in his eyes, She had a heart, had Marie!" "The
By
“An Old
Old Stager
Bizo
of Waterloo Station," another rejoined.
"Her abounding generosity was a commonplace of the profession. She would go down to Hoxton, where she was born, and make lavish distribution to the street- urchins of boots and shoes which she fitted with her own hands.
She had numberless pensioners dependent upon her charity. She earned some two hundred thousand pounds, and gave it all
New Zealand, according to Lord She also appeared in pan- very definite and specific amènd-Bledisloe, an ex-Governor-General. tomime and variety at all the ¡ment of the Covenant, whereby has an insularity of outlook, trace- lending Halls in the United the signatories would all agree, able to geographical detachment Kingdom, America, Australia from the humming centres of without reservation, to join wort activity. He says that there and South Africa. hands immediately an offending is a considerable proportion of the
"Come into the Garden, Maud.". nation had been determined to population which deprecates the ad-CHE scored a great success in Somehow or other these songs
Paris, being accorded a re- seemed to take on a totally dif have been guilty of aggression. mission of human migrants or pedigree livestock from the Mother- But is the existing machinery, land. For his part, he says that ception greater than that of any ferent character to that usually if property operated, inadequate five years' close study of New Zeather return, she brought back a to put it mildly, to appear some- of her predecessor Artistes. On associated with them-in fact, to the needs of the present land's natural resources, industries,
"There," re- is to be agreed international trade and commercial song entitled "The Naughty what improper! situation? It
potentialities lead him to the con- Continong."
she marked Marie at the close of that those who would compel clusion that there is no economic headed the bill, despite the pre- that portion of the performance, peace must be strong enough to future for that country "unless she sence of several famous Con- "if you can stand that kind of enforce it. But, in the present opens her arms (with proper dis-tinental "Stars.'
stuff in your homes, I don't erimination) to both and that instance. is the
In 1901 she toured Australia, think there's anything much combined without undue delay." Then Lord
nway. and upon her return to London wrong with my little parcel!" Great strength of
Britain, Bledisloe snys:
in November that year, she was She appeared on more than France and Soviet Russia-
"The chief lubricant of industry, uproariously welcomed at the one occasion on the Films--the leaving aside the forces of the the only key to unlock the treasure- Oxford-her reception being so last being in "Round the Town 'smaller nations-inferior to house of a rich country's abound effusive that she completely Weekly Budget."
wealth in capital. broke down. that of Italy? To be frank, it is ing natural
She passed away on October.7, coupled, of course, with business
On her fiftieth birthday she 1022, having collapsed on not the inadequacy of the poten-aptitude and industrial experience tial military force' ut the for its fruitful employment. New was appearing at the Bedford, stage of the Edmonton Empire disposal of the League, but the Zealand, perhaps unconsciously, is Camden Town, and her welcome while singing one of her great- absence of the will and deter-crying aloud for British capital, as that night exceeded even her re- est "hits":"I'm One of the "MARIE'S 'dial', as the Cock-
well as British praple, while both ception at the Oxford in 1901. mination to use it, that has in large masses remain idle here at resulted in the present tragic home, the former earning a paltry situation. Boiled down, the one and one-half per cent. on de- posit at our banks and the latter Italian triumph. in Ethiopia la constituting a well-nigh insoluble not, in view of the methods used social and political problem in areas and the opposition offered, a of Industrial exhaustion or progres-
sive industrial decadence." brilliant military achievement; rather is it, thus far, a diploma-
tic victory. The French and see the fallacy of condoning the Italian concord, which resulted acts of one aggressor while try- in the formation of the Stresa ing to rally support against Germany's denunciation of the front, was a very clever move by Locarno Treaty. The conclusion Mussolini, for it virtually as which is thrust upon us is that sured that France would not be France's supreme concern is over-enthusiastic in measures rather for her own security thun designed to stop his African ad- for meticulous observance of venture. Whilst the French the League Covenant. This is, in fact, the supreme factor in people are.
of their proud
the situation, and it largely ex- realistic and logical attitudes plains the ineffectiveness of the towards political problems in League in its handling of the general, they apparently do not Italo-Ethiopian war.
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the
Ruins that Cromwell Knocked abaht a Bit," She was buried at Fortune. Green Cemetery, AMONG the numerous songs Hampstead. During the pro-
sung by her were:- "Never let a Chance go by," "That was Before My Time." "Then you Wink the Other Eye.". "Oh! Mr. Porter."
"The Naughty Continong" ("You
should go to France"). "Whacky, Whacky, Whack," "Keep off the Grass." "Twiggy Voo?"
gress of her funeral procession thither, the density of the crowd was, so great that police had to clear the way,
A touching tribute to her skill as an artist and her humanity. came from Ellen Terry in the shape of a laurel wreath bear- "There They are, the Two of Them ing the inscription:
on Their Own."
"Everything
in the "Garden'a'
Lovely."
"In memory of a great artist. She gave lightness of heart to many a beart bowed down," "The Wedding Bolls were Ringing" while the public in hundreds "Maid of London, Ere We Part,"
"As if Sho Didn't Know.!
"She'd Never had Her Ticket showered flowers on her grave.
Punched Before."
Time."
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"I'd Love to Live in Paris all the WRITING in "The Saturday. Review" for October 14, 1922, in reference to her death. Mr. James Agate (the celebrat- "G'am Away What D'yer take e ed Dramatic Critic) paid, among
"A Little of What You Faney does
You Good." "Madanie Duvan."
for." "The Wrong Girl".
other tributes to her memory;
*God rest her', said the book- muker who had frst spoken, and hared his head. That night, at Blackfriars Ring, a bruiser with the marks of many fights de- clared: "We shan't none of us see the likes of Marie again. She wur a great artist.'
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ney would put it, was the most expressive on the halls,
"She had beautiful hands and feet. She knew every board on the stage and every inch of every board. In short, she knew her business.
"But it is not my. purpose to write now of technical excelforce. Hlather would I dwell on the fact that she was adored by the lowest classes, by the middle people, and by the swells.
"I hope, she said in a little speech before the curtain at kor last performance at the Alham Ira, 'I hope I may, without bigotry, allude to my past tri- umphs. Poor soul, it is we who should ask to be delivered from that vice.
"Marie broadened life and showed it, not as a mean affair of refusal and restraint, but as a boon to be "lustily enjoyed, She redeemed' ua' from virtue too- strait-laced, and her great heart cracked too soon,'
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