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MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936.

IS A NEW LEAGUE NECESSARY?

such

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.

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 carcer of the Idol of the Halls. BORN in 1870, Marie

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 she was appearing regularly at Bella Delmere, where she all of these last mentioned Halls, sang "My Soldier Laddie" being billed to "do her turns" and "Time is Flying." there at 0.40, 10.10 and · 10,35

Her success there was such

for twelve

Insted which

p.m. respectively.

"Maid of London, Ere We Part,"

many a heart bowed down," "She'd Never had Her Ticket while the public in hundreds:

Funched Before,"

"I'd Love to Live in Paris all the showered flowers on her grave.

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* "A Little of What You Fancy does WRITING in "The Saturday Review" for October 14,

Time,"

You Good." "Madame Duvan."

"G'arn Away What D'yer take Me 1922, in reference to her death,

for."

Mr. James Agate (the celebrat- "The Wrong Girl"

ed Dramatic Critic) paid, among other tributes to her memory,

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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 dead, everything around ine be- cante still.

"The League, as we know it, is dying: now

let us have another League, not with its

She reappeared at the same In 1891 she took the part of legions of committees, but with

Hall in the following month, and "Princess All Fair" in the its battalions and battleships, to

was then "billed" Bs Marie Pantomime "Humpty Dumpty," police the world and securo | Lloyd.

at Drury Lane, wherein Dan international justice". So

She next appeared at the Leno, Herbert Campbell and writes a correspondent, who, Falstaff Music Hall in Old Little Tich also appeared. In anticipating the argument that Street, which appearance was the following year she again ap- HER songs were, generally, the following:

very simple, but with catchy a plan is too simple, de followed by an engagement at peared at Drury Lane as "Little melodies, and she "put them clares that simplicity and direct-the Sebright Music Hall, Hack- Red Riding Hood" along with over" by methods all her own

From there she went to Ada Blanche and the three a wink, a laugh, a nod, or ness are qualities investing the ney.

giance and the simple young highest purposes of mankind: the Star at Bermondsey, where. Artists mentioned above.

she sang "And the Leaves began In 1893 she took the part of Indy possessor of a garden be- while complication, compromise to Fail" and "Sure to Fetch "Polly Perkins" in "Robinson came" quite an "interesting" and hesitation are qualities that Them."

Crusoe" at Drury Lane, and was character. A somewhat amus- mark the lowest human im- After this, she was engaged as much admired for her ing story used to be told con- pulses, The idea he propounds at the Bedford Music Hall in dancing as for her acting and cerning a deputation from the

Camden Town,

she singing.

London County Council who de- is not, of course, a new one.migrated to the Middlesex ("the In 1898 she appeared as manded a "try out" before The creation of some such inter-Old Alo") in Drury Lane, where "Dick Whittington in the Pan- themselves of some of Miss national force was obviously she first made her name with tomime of that title at the Lloyd's latest songs. The de- contemplated by those who drew the song "The Boy that I love Crown Theatre, Peckham, which maid was duly met. Maric up the Covenant of the League, sits up in the Gallery."

in which provision is made for joint military and naval, as well

whence

as economic, action against an NOTES OF THE DAY in Cinderella" at the same thing other than the best

aggressor. If such a force

By

Stager

"An Old

ran for more than two months. sang the songs in best Sunday In the following year she took School fashion sans wink, sans the part of "Prince Heliotrope" laugh, sans glance, sans any- theatre her sister Aliceap- "bread-and-butter" style. The pearing as "Cinders" which 'deputation expressed satisfac- were to be brought into being. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

pantomime also had

two tion with the performance, and rose to take their departure. months' run. however, there would need to be

New Zealand, according to Lord

She also appeared in pan- "Here, half a mo", said Marie. very definite and specific amend-i

Bledisloe, an ex-Governor-General, ment of the Covenant, whereby has an insularity of outlook, trace temime and variety at all the "Your Show's over. Now I' the signatories woukl all agree, able to geographical detachment leading Halls in the United have mine. I'm going to sing without reservation, lo join from the bumming centres of Kingdom, America, Australia to you a couple of songs your wives sing". She thereupon hands immediately an offending world activity. He says that there and South Africa.

is a considerable proportion of the nation had been determined to population which deprecates the ad- have been guilty of aggression.mission of human migrants or But is the existing machinery, and. For his part, he says that pedigree Hivestock from the Mother- if properly operated, Inadequate five years' close study of New Zea to the needs of the present land's natural resources, industries, situation? It is to be agreed International trade and commercial that those who would compel clusion that there is no economic potentialitics lead him to the con- peace must be strong enough to fature for that country "unless she enforce it. But, in the present opens her arms (with proper dis-CHE scored a great success in sang "Queen of my Heart" and instance, is the combined crimination) to both and that

París, being accorded a re- "Come into the Garden, Maud." without undue delay." Then Lord ception greater than that of any Somehow or other these songs Grent strength of

Britain, Bledisloe says;'

of her predecessor Artistes. On seemed to take on a totally dif- France and Soviet Russin

"The chief lubricant of industry, her return, she brought back a ferent character to that usually leaving aside the forces of the the only key to unlock the treasure-song entitled "The Naughty associated with them-in fact, smaller nations--inferior to house of a rich country's abound- Continong." In Berlin she to put it mildly, to appear some- "There," re- that of Italy? To be frank, it is ing natural wealth is capital, headed the bill, despite the pre- what improper! not the inadequacy of the poten-coupled, of course, with business sence of several famous Con- marked Marie at the close of

aptitude and industrial experience tinental "Stars."

that portion of the performance, tial military force nt the for its fruitful employment. New

In 1901 she toured Australia, "If you can stand that kind of disposal of the League, but the Zealand, perhaps unconsciously, is and upon her return to London stuff in your homes, I don't mination to use it, that has well as British people, while both

in large musses remain idle here at uproariously welcomed at the wrong with my little parcel 1"

She appeared on more than resulted in the present tragic home, the former earning a paltry Oxford-her reception being so situation. Boiled down, the one and one-half per cent, on de- effusive that she completely one occasion on the Films-the last boing in "Round the Town Italian triumph in Ethiopia is posit at our banks and the latter broke down.

Weekly Budget:" constituting a well-nigh insoluble not, in view of the methods used social and political problem in areas was appearing at the Bedford, 1922, having collapsed on the On her fiftieth birthday she She passed away on October 7, and the opposition offered, a of industrial exhaustion or progres- Camden Town, and her welcome brilliant military achievement; sive industrial decadence." rather is it, thus far, a diploma-

"The street lost its hubbub, and for a space I was alone with.

personal sorrow.

"In moments of emotion one is apt to notice the little things, and at once I remarked that, on the poster, the artist's name was pre- Tace with the word "Miss.

"Death, it seemed, laying his hand upon her who was known over the whole- English-spenking world as Marie,' must use mord ceremony.

"Marie-pronounced with tho broad_vowel_beloved of the Cockney 1118 in everybody's mouth that day, in club and barrack-room, in bar-parlour and in modest home. On the high sona 'Marie's dead' would be droned from ship to ship.

"Returning from Kempton" a party of bookmakers fell to speaking of the dead artist. One- said, with tears in his eyes, 'She had a heart, had Marie!" "The BizC 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'

away:

"God rest her', said the book. maker who had first spoken, and bared his head. That night, at Blackfriars Ring, a bruiser with the marks of many fights de clared: "We shan't, nond of un 'see the likes o' Mario again. She

war a great artist.'

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absence of the will and deter-crying, aloud for British capital, as in November that year, she was think there's anything much "MARIE'S 'dlal', as the Cock-

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 front, was a very clever move by Germany's denunciation of the Locarno Treaty. The conclusion Mussolini, for it virtually as which is thrust upon us is that gured, that France would not be France's supreme concern is over-enthusiastic in measures rather for her own security than designed to stop his African ad- for meticulous observance of venture. Whilst the French the League Covenant. This is, people, are proud of their in fact, the supreme factor in realistic and logical attitudes the situation, and it largely ex- 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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that night exceeded even her re-stage of the Edmonton Empire while singing one of her, great- ception at the Oxford in 1901.

cat "hits""I'm One of the Ruins that Cromwell Knocked MONG the numerous songs abaht a Bit." She was buried

sung by her were:

at Fortune Green Cemetery, "Never let a Chance go by.", Hampstead. During the pro- "That was Before My Time."

thither, the density of the crowd gress of her funeral procession

was so great that police had to clear the way.

"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 Yoo 1" "There They are, the Two

on Their Own." "Everything

the in Lovely," "As if Sho Didn't Know."

A touching tribute to her skill as an artist and her humanity of Them came from Ellen Terry In the shape of a laurel wreath bear- ing the inscription:

Garden's

"In memory of a great artist. The Wedding Bells were Ringing." She gave lightness of heart to

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, sho know her businesa.

"But it is not my purpose to - write now of technical excellence.. Rather would I dwell on the fact that she was adored by the lowest classes, by the middle poople, and by the swells.

"I hope, she said in a little speech before the curtain at her last performance at the Alham bra, I hope I may, without bigotry, allude to my past tṛl-- umphs. Poor soul, it is wo who should ask to be delivered from: that vice.

"Marie broadened Hfe and showed it, not as a mean affair: of refusal and restraint, but as a boon to be lustily enjoyed.", She redeomed us from virtuo too strait-laced, and her great heart cracked too soon."