GRACE, BEAUTY & BANJOS - Addenda
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The first three sections list corrections,
additions and amendments to the original hardback
edition of January 1999 and the softback edition
published the following autumn. Subsequent
sections list Artistes either not substantively
entered or not mentioned at all in either
edition. Names in capital letters have
substantive entries in the 1999 editions.
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INTRODUCTION
p.13 delete reference
to Rusty Warren
ABERDONIANS, THE
THREE |
In the programme
for the 1938 Royal Variety Performance these artistes
are billed as Conversational Acrobats. |
ADLER, LARRY |
d. 2001. Par 4: Another
Monarch was Jimmy Prescott, replaced in 1961 by David
Conway. Morton Fraser's d.o.b. should
be 1905. Cedric Monarch d. Jan 2007. |
ALBA, THEA |
Jacques Inaudi d. 10 Nov 1950 |
ALDRIDGE, IRA |
The final line
should read: Also named for Roscius were Louis
Aldrich (1874-1930) The Ohio Roscius, Master
WILLIAM BETTY, Stanislaus Calhaem (fl1838-40s) Infant
Roscius, Master William Lunt (fl1860s) Young
Roscius, and SAM COWELL. |
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The last
par should now read: |
ANDERSON, JOHN HENRY |
From pp327-8 Old Drury Lane Vol II by Edward
Stirling (1881): Covent Garden Theatre, built 1808, opened 1809, from designs of Sir R. Smirke, at a cost of £150,000, was totally destroyed by fire in 1856. Lessee, the Wizard of the North - Anderson. This extraordinary man had travelled all over the known globe, seeking adventure and gold. A fatality attended his theatrical enterprises; every theatre that he rented was burnt down - Glasgow, Liverpool, Covent Garden. Was this a conjuror's trick, or chance? a question still unanswered. Strange to relate, the destruction of his theatres never occurred in the pantomime season, always after. Suffice it, the Wizard tried many schemes of legerdemain, but it was always out of fashion; rivals had exhibited `sleight of hand' in a new style, `without collusion'. The last time I saw Anderson was at the Railway Hotel, Liverpool, and the Claimant of the Tichborne estates was with him, hatching conjuring tricks for Westminster Hall. It is a curious coincidence that the Australian witness, Jean Luie, appeared on the scene a short time after this meeting in Liverpool. Aztec children, talking fish (a la Barnum), and acting Rob Roy, filled up our Wizard's leisure hours, quite apart from his nightly magic. Anderson died poor, as he commenced. |
ANDREWS, TED |
delete dates after his name |
ANIMAL & BIRD ACTS |
Fred Bithell. add: From 1897-1902 with LOMAS TROUPE. Leoni Clarke. At the Argyle, Birkenhead, for the week commencing 1 October 1900 Clarke presented 170 Cats, Rats, Canaries, Cockatoos, Rabbits & Monkeys. He also showed his celebrated Boxing Kangaroo `Introduced by Dick Landerman'. |
ATLAS & VULCANA |
Replace entire entry with: ATLAS & VULCANA (fl1890-late 1920s) King and Queen of Athletes Kate Williams (1875-1946) The Champion Lady Athlete of the World met William Hedley Roberts (1864-1946) Society Athlete at the lady's gymnasium he had established in Abergavenny, South Wales. Despite a union which produced six children these two magnificent physical specimens lived together for over fifty years without troubling the parson. Other carriage-trade favourites were The Pantzer Brothers (fl1900s-1920s) Society Acrobats and Equilibrists, and The Great Atroy (1873-1952) Society Juggler. |
ATROY, THE GREAT |
Delete this entry |
AUSTIN, CHARLES |
d.1944. In London's Evening News of October 31st 1910 were announced the results of a competition for the ideal Music Hall bill. Mr Austin with his Parker PC sketch was voted most popular number 11 turn. |
BAARTMAN, SAARTJE | In February 2001 it was announced that the French National Assembly had voted to return Miss Baartman's remains to her Khoisan people for decent burial in South Africa. See The Times 23 February p.19. |
BAKER, HYLDA |
add: see KEN PLATT |
BALL, HARRY |
after William Henry Powles add: after his father's foster family. Married Matilda Broughton. |
BAMBERGER,
FREDDIE |
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BARBETTE |
after Two Misleading Ladies. add: From the early 1950s Terry Gardener (1919-2000) was also teamed with Barri Chatt (d 11 November 1971) as The Pin-Up Girls of Comedy. Terry Gardener was often billed as Terri Gardner. |
BARNES, LARRY |
1926-2011. Delete final paragraph and
replace with: For many years the doyenne of British
paper tearers was the legendary Miss Terri Carol
(1915-2002), an artiste of notable irascibility with
whom we had the honour of appearing at the Weymouth
Pavilion on Sunday, August 3rd, 1969. |
BELLWOOD, BESSIE |
nee Catherine Mahoney in Ireland. Married Jack (John) Nicholson in Leeds 1884 as Kate Mahony (sic). A sister was called Annie Bellwood Mahoney. |
BEMAND'S COMEDY PIGEONS, BOB
|
Oswald Bemand (1891-1951). A third brother, Harry Bemand, also worked a pigeon act c1920-c1953 billed as Hamilton Conrad and his Famous Pigeons. |
BERLE, MILTON |
d.2002. Should be full-stop after Thief of Bad Gags. |
BERTOLDI, ENA |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Number Nine. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
BETTY, Master WILLIAM |
Two young female artistes in this line of business were Miss M. H. Carr The Celebrated Infant Roscia (fl c1830) and Adelaide Biddles The Infant Taglioni (fl1840s-50s). Maria Taglioni (1804-84) was a celebrated and much respected dancer, daughter of Italian ballet master Filippo Taglioni and a Swedish mother. |
BICYCLE ACTS | Sam Barton (1894/5-1941) Add: See Joe Jackson infra Elliotts,
The (c1870-c1914)
Joe
Jackson Ravic
& Babs were a roller skating act, not cyclists. The
Selbinis Ritchie, W
E (1872-1943) |
BLACK, JOE (1918-99) | in first sentence alter to: ...began his professional life as a juggler and tap-dancer... |
BLONDIN |
after the final paragraph add: In the
1880s-90s there even flourished Tamamoto The
Japanese Blondin. |
BONN, ISSY |
at end insert: Also see Syd Wright (TEDDY BROWN) |
BRIGHT, ELLEN |
after THE GREAT CARTER, add ISAAC A VAN AMBURGH |
BROUGH, PETER & ANDREWS, ARCHIE |
Peter Brough died 1999. His father Arthur Brough lived 1883-1956 |
BROWN, TEDDY | Article and repertoire in
Music Hall Studies Numbers 4 and 7. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk Add to end: Another entertainer in this line, and one whom we knew and greatly admired, was Syd Wright (1929-99) A Joke at the Xylophone. Mr Wright's early years were spent as Sammy, one of ISSY BONN's Finkelfeffer Kids. See Professor CHEER, MAY ERNE, BEBE NORMA, SID PLUMMER, REGGIE REDCLIFFE. |
BURKE, TOM |
His daughter was Patricia Burke (1917-2003), sparkling actress-singer. |
BUX, KUDA |
1910-81 |
CARNEY, KATE |
dob should be 1869, and for Paterson in
first line read Pattinson. |
CHANG & ENG | in fourth par. after Millie-Christine add: McKoy. Delete `joined sisters' and substitute `pygopagus twins'. After `Laloo' insert 'Oudh'. In 1877 at the Canterbury Music Hall in London there appeared Lawrence The Marvellous Double-Headed Nondescript. |
CHAPLIN, Sir CHARLES | at end after BILLY RITCHIE add: HARRY
WELDON see below for more information on TOMMY LORNE. |
CHIRGWIN, G. H. | Used The White-Eyed Kaffir billing from 1877 |
CINQUEVALLI | b. 30 June 1859. Another Human Billiard Table was Adami fl1930s. |
CLAPHAM
& DWYER |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Number 10. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
COLLINSON & DEAN |
first sentence should read: At some time in
the 1940s Will Collinson (1885-1958) split with Alfred
Dean and took a new partner as Collinson & Breen.
Delete last paragraph. |
COOPER, TOMMY |
Year of birth should be 1921. |
COYNE, FRED |
Year of birth should be 1847 and birth-name Frederick William Rawlinson.. |
DATAS |
Article
and repertoire in Music Hall Studies Number Eight. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
DEHL TRIO, THE |
at end
add: See RHODES & LANE |
DIXEY, PHYLLIS | Tracey should be Tracy. |
DRYDEN, LEO |
With his recording of the American version
of Flag of Liberty made on 25 August 1898
(Berliner E-2029) Mr Dryden has a good claim to be the
first Music Hall artiste to record commercially. |
DURANTE, JIMMY |
Lou
Clayton (1887-1960) and Eddie Jackson (1896-1980)
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EAGLE,
GEORGE BARNADO |
b. 18 December 1806. His daughter Georgiana was born 28 November 1834 (or perhaps 1831); in 1858 she married Charles Card, a reporter and photographer. In his will Mr Eagle stated "I give and bequeath unto Georgiana Elizabeth Eagle my eldest daughter the sum of One hundred pounds sterling together with the whole of my conjuring apparatus to and for her sole use and benefit absolutely". In 1867, now a widow, she married Aloysius Gilliland, a 'professor of music', who died the following year. In 1888 she married Harry Pashley, a draper who was twenty-five years her junior. She died childless and was buried 10 March 1911 in Abney Park Cemetery. |
ELRICK, GEORGE |
(1903-99) |
EMERY, DICK |
d.o.b. should be 1915. pp98-9 should read: When therefore Miss Emery dried in mid-medley and asked us what came next we could not advise. We heard a few weeks later etc., etc. |
EMNEY, FRED |
dates should be (1865-1917) |
ETHARDO, Signor | Last line (p101): EMMELINE EHARDO should be
EMMELINE ETHARDO. add: Mdlle Fleury Alphonsine (fl1890s) billed herself as Queen of the Globe and Premier Spiral Ascensionist. |
FEENEY, PAT | At end insert: See TALBOT O'FARRELL |
FIELD, SID |
After 'took his own life.' add: He left £1,388. |
FLETCHER, CYRIL |
1913-2005. Married to Betty Astell
(1912-2005) who wrote their pantomimes. Marriott Edgar's bill-matter was at one time The Man in Red. |
FRAGSON, HARRY |
In last paragraph mention is made of Tom F. Moss - he was half-brother to JILL SUMMERS. |
FRINTON,
FREDDIE |
Dinner
for
One was recorded for television in Hamburg in
1963, not 1971. Miss Sophie was played by May
Warden, not Walden. The sketch was written by Lauri
Wylie, possibly in the 1920s. In the 1970s the
tradition began for Dinner for One to be aired
on German TV on New Year's Eve, and by 2003 the sketch
had been shown 230 times. It is also transmitted
in at least twenty other countries from Estonia to
Australia, but, for reasons which remain obscure, not
in the UK. |
GANJOU BROTHERS & JUANITA
|
Serge
Ganjou
d. Nov 1998 leaving £1,246,007. |
GILSON, LOTTIE |
add at end: Another Little Magnet was
Britain's DAISY JAMES |
GITANA, GERTIE
|
On 31
January 1910 the London Evening News reported
that Miss Gitana had been voted most popular Number
8 spot in a poll of their readers for Favourite
Music Hall Programme. She started her career
with Tomkinson's Royal Gipsy Chilldren, not
Tomlinson's. |
GRAYSON, LARRY | In 1947, touring with an all-male revue called Come Peep Through My Porthole, this entry was allegedly billed as The Yes Yes Girl with the No No Eyes. |
GREEN, HUGHIE | At the Bristol Hippodrome for the w/c 5 December 1938 this entry was Supported by his Girl Friends Sadie Corrie & Jean Ray with Douglas Tanguy at the piano. |
HALL, ADELAIDE |
d.o.b. should be 1901 |
HANLON-LEES, THE
|
Trained by
John Lees, the act was established in 1847 with the
three eldest Hanlon brothers: Thomas (1835-68),
George (1839-1926), and William (1842-1923).
Younger brothers to join the act were Alfred
(1844-87), Edward (1846-1931), and Frederick
(1845-66)). According to Tony Staveacre in his
1987 book Slapstick (pp83-4), in 1865 Thomas
suffered severe in juries in a fall from a 'human
pyramid' in which 'Bone splinters in the brain
destroyed his sanity. In 1868, he
intentionally dived head-first into an iron
stove-pipe and killed himself.' Another acrobat who came to a sad end was Paul McCullough (b1884) of the celebrated US team Clark & McCullough, who in 1936 cut his throat in a Massachusett's barber's shop. Bobby Clark continued as a solo performer, dying in 1960 aged 71. Later
Hanlons were Dick (d1905), Robert k.a. Little Bob
(1861-1907), Robert's son Edward (b1891) - the Bob
Hanlon Troupe were billed as Eagles of the Air.
Another Hanlon-Lees at one time was Joe Ridgeway
Delaney of the Griffiths Brothers. See
Hanlon-Lees in The
Oxford Companion to the Theatre ed. Phyllis
Hartnoll (OUP, 3rd ed. 1967). |
HAY, WILL |
Also in his company at various times were H. Gordon Saunders (1885-1930), Stan Fields, CHARLEY (CHARLIE?) HARVEY, Billy Nicholls, Peter Byrne, Michael Hunt and Hay's nephews Cyril Platt and Bert Platt (d1972). Mr Hay's daughter was the comedienne Gladys Hay (1909-79). The eccentric comedian Joe Pasquale was once heard to remark that going to a Water Rats Lodge meeting was like being an extra in a Will Hay film. |
HAYES, ELTON |
See THE FOUR BROWNIE BOYS |
HEARNE, RICHARD |
dates should be (1909-79) |
HENDERSON, EDDIE |
delete `we once' in first line and substitute `in September 1959 we' |
HOOPER,
HILDA |
For full details of Ms
Hooper's career email m.kilgarriff@btinternet.com |
HOWARD, SYDNEY |
dates should be (1885-1946) |
HUGHES,
TOM E. |
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JAMES, DAISY |
also billed as The Little Magnet.
Formerly k.a. Daisy Martin. See LOTTIE GILSON |
JAMES, JIMMY |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Number 5. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
JOVER, TOMMY (NENA & RAF) |
The final sentence we now know to be incorrect - Senor Wences (VENTRILOQUISTS) was from time to time also a bullfighter. Raf & Julian were also billed as Just Hanging Around. Julian Jover married Kitty Bluett, Ted Ray's radio wife in Ray's a Laugh. |
JUGGLERS |
Tom Hearn: also billed as The Emigrant Juggler Johnny
Lamonte & Suma (fl1944-5 and 1951-80)
Martyn,
Topper (1923-2004) Severus Schaeffer (1867-1950) |
KARNO, FRED |
Article in Music Hall
Studies Number 1. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
KERR, BILL |
after `Australian comedian' insert: (though
South African born) |
KIMBER, BOBBIE |
Article and repertoire in
Music Hall Studies Number 2. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
KING OF... |
Harold Alanza (1917-2001) See lengthy obituary in The Independent 5 March 2001. Reuben R.
Brooks Olmar
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KING,
HETTY |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Numbers 4 and 10. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
KORINGA |
delete `two' from `between two assistants' |
LANGTRY, LILLIE |
After her second marriage The Jersey
Lily was sometimes billed as Mrs Langtry (Lady
de Bathe). |
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In the last sentence the comma between The Female Lauder and The Pocket Harry Lauder should be a full-stop. |
LAWRENCE, JOE |
add: Of possibly similar stripe was Louis Stone (d. 28 Jun 1972?) Upside Down Dancer. |
LAWSON, JOHN `Humanity' |
Mrs John Lawson, a.k.a. Cissie Lawson, was most unkindly referred to in The Referee as The Gutter Lady Macbeth. Mr Lawson's famous music hall sketch Humanity was culled from a full length melodrama, originally presented at the Standard Theatre, Pimlico, London, under the title Humanity or A Passage in the Life of Grace Darling |
LENO, DAN |
Article and repertoire in
Music Hall Studies Number 6. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk add: One Harry Banford billed himself as The Pocket Dan Leno. As Mr Leno was shorter than average Mr Banford must have been exceptionally diminutive,. Contemporaneously Nellie Coleman was puffing herself as The Female Dan Leno. Other claimants to Clog Dancing Championship were FRANK RENNIE, VESTA VICTORIA and JOHN WILLIAMS. Also see MAX WALL (The Queen's Jester) and HERB WILLIAMS. |
LESLIES, THE TWO |
A occasional deputy for Mr Holmes was Mervyn Saunders (1910-2000) |
LESTER, VICKI |
Vicki Lester is the
name of the character played by Judy Garland in the film
A Star is Born |
LEVIS, CARROLL |
delete final sentence and substitute: Three of the very few Discoveries to achieve stellar status were Jim Dale, Nicholas Parsons and the distinguished comedy writer BARRY TOOK, a thinnish but not contemptible roll of honour. |
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Second paragraph: CHANG ENG should be CHANG and ENG. |
LLOYD, MARIE | d.o.b. should be 1870. After `French actress' add: (Marie Lloyd-Vibart 1842-97) |
LOCKE, JOSEF |
full dates should be: (1917-99). At
one time billed as Ireland's Singing Policeman. |
LOFTUS, MARIE |
after Cissie Loftus' dates add: The Mimetic Marvel. This entry married Ben Brown of BROWN, NEWLAND & LE CLERQ. |
LUPINOS, THE |
For family see Sing Us One of the Old Songs |
LYNN, Dame VERA |
See SOLDIERS IN SKIRTS |
LYNTON, JIMMY
|
There was also a Jimmy Lynton who worked as Charles or Charlie Parsons but we do not think these were the same gentlemen. |
MACARI | add billing: ...and his Dutch Accordeon
Serenaders at end add: See BILLY REID for more accordion bands. |
MAGICIANS | Ali Bey (1905-75) David Charles Lemmy Ali Bongo
Fred Brezin (1886-1950) Davenport,
Louis (1883-1961) Emerson
& Jayne Robert
Harbin (1909-78) Le Dair,
Jack (with his Lady) Servais Le
Roy Lucille
(1903-82) The Great
(Cecil) Lyle (1889-1955) Maskelyne
& Cooke Channing Pollock (b.1926) The Great
Ramses (1876-1930) Rayanne
& Partner Edward
Victor (1884-1964) Claude
`Medals' Williams Mlle Zara
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MENDELSSOHN, FELIX | 1911-52 |
MERMAN, ETHEL |
at end add: See JOHNNIE RAY |
MILLER,
MAX |
Article and repertoire in
Music Hall Studies Number 10. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
MISCELLANEOUS |
De Dio,
Mdlle (1875-1951) Len &
Bill Lowe The Three
Phoites (est. 1874) Don
Smoothey (b1919) Wally
Stanley & Edith Lester (fl c1940s)
delete Rusty Warren - see new substantive entry for RUSTY WARREN |
MONKHOUSE, BOB |
1 June 1928 - 29 December 2003 |
MURRAY & MOONEY |
delete 1948 and substitute c1950 |
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Joan Valantyne Napier 1920-2003 |
OCEANA |
dob: 1856. First two lines should
read: 'This enchantress was born into the Cooke
circus family and married into the Renz circus family
- we are not convinced etc....' |
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at end add: See PAT FEENEY for more phoney Irish. |
O'GORMAN, DAVE & JOE | change of dates: (fl1904-56) |
PETERS, ALOIS |
after The Man You Cannot Hang delete
the rest of the paragraph and
substitute: Another hostage to
fortune was Tayonwana The Man They Cannot Kill. |
PLUMMER,
SID |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Number Eleven. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
POWELL, SANDY |
For seventeen years Sandy Powell's feed was Norman Meadow (1918-2000). |
POWER, NELLIE |
10 April 1854 - 20 January 1887 |
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add: Another similarly talented artiste was King Henry II's jester, Roland Le Pettour, whose speciality was `a leap, a whistle and a fart'. And in the 5th century no less a divine than St Augustine of Hippo himself pondered on those `who can produce at will such musical sounds from their behind (without any stink) that they seem to be singing from that region'. |
QUEEN OF... |
Bertoldi, Ena (1876-1906) ...Contortionists Beatrice Mary Claxton. Appeared in two pioneering films in 1894 made by Koster & Bial in Manhattan, New York. Died of drink. See SPINK & SPINK. (The
Beautiful) Jessica Iris
Sadler |
RANDLE, FRANK |
Add: See Sonny Roy |
RAY, TED |
Nick Nissen's dates are now: (1907-2000).
At
the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, for the w/c 22
April, 1946, the programme included one Jan Tors who
also had the temerity to bill himself (herself?) as Fiddling
and Fooling. |
RETFORD, ELLA
|
On 31 October 1910 this artiste was voted by the readers of the London Evening News their most popular Number 10 spot in an ideal Music Hall programme. |
RHODES, JOAN |
at end add: Alice Penfold (b1916?) of Bury in West Sussex was k.a. The Female Samson. |
ROBEY, Sir GEORGE |
at end: after BARBETTE add BASYL; after VIVIEN FOSTER add PETER MAXWELL. On 31 October 1910 this artiste was voted by the readers of the London Evening News their most popular Number 9 spot in an ideal Music Hall programme. |
ROGERS, TED |
1935-2001 though d.o.b. possibly 1930. |
RONALDE,
RONNIE
|
add:
Originally billed as Ron Warren The World's
Greatest Whistler. During World War II
Mr Ronalde worked for a time as a shoe-mender.
We can only wish this particular cobbler had stuck
to his last. In March 1949 he was billed at
the Palace Huddersfield as Ronalde The Voice of
the Whistler. In 2003 made a very
delayed come-back touring for impresario Duggie
Chapman, who should have known better and lost a
significant wodge on the venture. By now RR's
deafness made him unable to judge his dynamics, and
the piercing fortissimo quality of his whistling had
the audience wincing and stuffing their fingers in
their ears. |
SANDOW, EUGENE |
See Professor JOHNSON |
SEATON, JACK |
delete name and d.o.b. from p236 (prior to SAVEEN, ALBERT) |
SHATTUCK,
TRULY |
Billed
at the Liverpool Empire for the w/c 20 April, 1908, as
America's Renowned
Comedienne. |
SHIELDS, SAMMY | delete last sentence and substitute: It was suggested to us by the late JIMMY LOGAN that 'Speakable' indicated comprehensibility to Sassenachs. |
SHORT, JACK | at end before ARTHUR TRACY insert: Tayonwana (ALOIS PETERS) |
SKETCH ARTISTES | The Bogannys between Joe and Boganny insert: (Clifton) Family details in Sing Us One of the Old Songs. The
Boissets The Famous
Craggs (fl1872-1914) The
Leopolds Ernie
Lotinga Six
Brothers Luck Harry
Weldon |
SMITH & DALE |
delete entry and replace with:
SMITH & DALE (fl1906-68) Dr Kronkheit and His Only Living Patient Joe Sultzer (1884-1981) and Charlie Marks (1881-1971) met in 1898 when they collided into each other's bicycles on Delancey Street in Manhattan. The two began developing their patient-doctor comic duologue in 1906 while part of the AVON COMEDY FOUR, running the routine for over sixty years. `Kronkheit' is German for `unwell'. The act was full of exchanges such as `Please, my time is liniment' - `Don't rub it in' which makes us wonder how this entry lasted as long as it did. Smith & Dale were the inspiration for The Sunshine Boys. |
STANLEY, WALLY & LESTER, EDITH |
transfer
to MISCELLANEOUS |
SUMMERS, JILL |
Half-sister to TOM F. MOSS |
TATE, HARRY |
The oft-repeated story that Mr Tate's demise
was due to injuries sustained in a German bombing raid
over Dundee in fact derived from a hoax report put out
by Mr Tate himself some months earlier. |
THURSTON, HOWARD |
See ALEXANDER HERRMANN |
TICH, LITTLE |
On 31
October 1910 readers of London's Evening News declared
in a poll that in an ideal Music Hall programme this
artiste was their preferred Number 7 spot. His
daughter, Mary Relph-Powell, died 4 May 2000 aged
82. Article
and repertoire in Music Hall Studies Numbers Four
and Eight. See
www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
TILLEY, VESTA |
see VESTA VICTORIA |
TRAVIS, Lieut FRANK |
Article
and repertoire in Music Hall Studies Number 10. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
TREWEY, FELICIENS |
add to the
end of the first par.: What has survived is a
tantalisingly short piece of film in which Mons.
Trewey demonstrates his hat trickery.
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TRIPP, JACK |
d.10 July 2005 |
UNTHAN, CARL |
add: Arthur MacMurragh Kavanagh (1831-89) had no usable limbs at all but displayed remarkable resourcefulness and was known in consequence as The Limbless Wonder. |
VAN AMBURGH |
at end add: Though Mr Amburgh died peacefully in his bed the same cannot be said of his daughter Faimali, whose grisly fate it was to be mauled to death by her big cats during a performance at the Alhambra, London, in 1883. |
VAUGHAN, NORMAN |
d. 17 May 2002. See STEFFANI |
VENTRILOQUISTS
|
Harry
Benet (1926-2004 Johnson
Clark (1886-1956) Cole,
Lieut. Edward
Victor - entered in wrong category. See MAGICIANS Le Warren
fl. ca1900 Senor
Wences |
VICTORIA, VESTA |
In 1883 the young artiste was being billed as Little Victoria The Minnie Palmer of the Music Halls. Minnie Palmer (1857-1936) was an American operetta star who early that year had caused sensations in Glasgow and Islington. In 1885 Little Victoria's bill-matter declared her to be Champion Lady Clog Dancer of the World; two years later this entry had become, in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, The Jubilee Pet. We have also seen her billed as The People's Idol (not to be confused with VESTA TILLEY The London Idol). |
WALL, MAX |
For other champion clog dancers see DAN LENO, FRANK RENNIE and JOHN WILLIAMS. A later billing was: The Queen's Jester (cf. DAN LENO The King's Jester). |
WALLACE, NELLIE |
Article
and repertoire in Music Hall Studies Number 7. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
WARE, GEORGE W. |
delete final sentence: It was for Miss Power's funeral costs etc. |
WATERS, ELSIE & DORIS |
Article and repertoire in
Music Hall Studies Number Nine. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk Elsie 19/8/1893-14/6/1990 Doris 20/12/1899-18/8/1978 In the final sentence `the same gentleman' is not, of course, JACK WARNER but an unknown gentleman. We regret any inadvertent implication of incest. |
WHEELER, JIMMY |
Article in Music Hall
Studies Number 1. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
WHITELEYS,
THE FIVE |
Leonora
Whiteley (nee Mellors) 1875-1969. Married
Henry Whiteley 1899, Hamburg. Children: Henry
Emilio (1899), Ben (b1901), Harold (1903-2001), Paul
(b1907), Leonora (b1909), Albert (b1911), Raymond
(b1915). |
WILLIAMS, BILLY |
delete final sentence: We can categorically
state etc. |
WILLIAMS, BRANSBY | in second paragraph alter `Culture to the Halls' to `Culture to the Masses' |
WILLIS, DAVE |
Article and repertoire
in Music Hall Studies Number Nine. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
WILSON, KEPPEL & BETTY | after `there were several Bettys' add: (see
JEAN BAMBERGER). Betty Knox' dates:1907-63.
Billy Shenton's obit in The Stage 7 Dec, 1978, states that
in 1931 he replaced Joe Keppel for three years 'during
his illness'. Shenton died in November, 1978,
aged 82. Article in Music Hall Studies Numbers Four and Eight. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
WILTON, ROBB |
see HERB WILLIAMS for similar billing. Article in Music Hall Studies Number 6. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk |
WISDOM, NORMAN | should now be: WISDOM, Sir NORMAN. D.o.b. should be 1915. |
WOOTTWELL, TOM | in last sentence between `artiste's' and `name' insert `family'. |
WORTMAN, CHRIS |
Also billed as Bright and Breezy.
See WHIT CUNLIFFE. |
WRIGHT, TONY |
Anthony Steel: add dates (1919-2001) |
ZAZEL | second paragraph should be indented |
GLOSSARY
ANIMAL & BIRD TRAINERS - see ANIMAL & BIRD ACTS (on one line)
BICYCLISTS - see BICYCLE ACTS
COMICS
add RUSTY WARREN
MUSICIANS
add Syd Wright
(TEDDY BROWN)
SPIRAL
ASCENSIONISTS
add Mdlle
Alphonsine (Fleury) (Signor ETHARDO)
STUMP ORATORS
JAMES UNSWORTH
(should be in caps.)
INDEX
Additions
and
corrections to Index in 1999 editions:
Adami
CINQUEVALLI
Alphonsine
(Fleury), Mdlle Signor ETHARDO
Astil, Arthur
should be Astill, Arthur
Atroy, The
Great ATLAS & VULCANA
Carson, Jeanne
Len Lowe MISCELLANEOUS
Duprez, May
Moore `Happy' FANNY FIELDS
Faimali
ISAAC
VAN AMBURGH
Fleury, Mdlle
Alphonsine Signor ETHARDO
Fuller,
Loie delete
Gellini,
Hugh Mlle ALMA
Kavanagh,
Arthur MacMurragh CARL UNTHAN
Layman, George
should be listed before Layton, Tom
Lolo Mlle
ALMA
London
Alhambra ISAAC VAN AMBURGH
Marx Brothers -
should go after Marvi, Bea & Zelda
Marx, Groucho -
should go after Marx Brothers
Massachusetts
House of Representatives RUSTY WARREN
Mistinguett
delete
Naero,
Mlle De Dio (MISCELLANEOUS)
New York:
Manhattan SMITH & DALE
Pantzer
Brothers ATLAS & VULCANA, M. CANDLER
Pia,
La De Dio (MISCELLANEOUS)
Pierre,
La should be Piere, La and therefore go before Pieri,
Antonio
Poluskis
entries should come after Pollock entries
Ponchery, H R
should come after Poluskis, The
Pryde,
Peggy JENNY HILL
Sinclair,
Dawn JUMPIN' JAX
Stanley, Wally
& Lester, Edith MISCELLANEOUS
Stone,
Louis JOE LAWRENCE
Sylvester
Mlle
ALMA
Tayonwana
ALOIS
PETERS
Wah-Letke,
Princess should be Wah-Letka, Princess
Warren,
Rusty delete
Weston,
Bert JOHNNY COOPER
Willane
JOHNNY
COOPER
Wright,
Syd TEDDY BROWN
------oOo------
ARTISTES
A ABADAROFFS,
THE ABBOTT,
EDWARD B. (1882-1932) ABEL,
NEAL (1882-1952) ACES, THE
THREE (fl1920s-30s) ADELINA
ADKIN
(fl1910s) AHRENSMAYER
(fl1900s) ALLEN,
ARABELLA (b c1887) ALLEN, JACK
(fl c1900s) Xylophonically Yours Jackie Allen (1924-2102) ALLEN, LES
(1902-96) ALMA
ALPINE
MONARCHS, THE ALWYNNE,
VIOLET ANDREWS
SISTERS, THE ANTHONY,
JACK (1900-62) ARMSTRONG,
BRENDA (1910-99) ASHTON,
MARGARET (fl c1900s) ATHLETA
(1867-1927) ATKINSON,
HARRY (b1866) AUSTIN, LILY
AVON COMEDY
FOUR, THE (fl1901-1922) AZELLA
(fl1868-80s) |
B BABETTE
& RAOUL (1947-61) BAGA, ENA BAILEY,
FRANKIE (1859-1953) BAKER, BELLE
(1895-1957) BAKER, CHRIS
(fl1910s-20s) BAKER, JOE (d2001) BAKER,
SARAH (1736/7-1816) BALDWIN'S,
CHARLIE (fl c1920) BALE,
SUSANAH (1877-1943) BAMBERGER,
JEAN (`BUNNIE') (d.10 February 2000)
BANDON,
BUSTER (fl1900s) BANFORD,
HARRY BANJAHRA
Britain's Cleanest Comedian The Simplicity of Genius This artiste appeared in a Mancunian Productions 1936 film entitled Dodging the Dole. In later life he became a turf accountant. Further information about this entry and his family may be found in the Spring 2006 edition of The Call Boy (vol 43 no 1), the official journal of the British Music Hall Society. See DAN YOUNG BARKER, ERIC
(1912-90) BARKER,
RONNIE (b1929) BARKIN,
ROGER (1914-95) BARNATO,
Signor BARON, BUNNY
(1910-78) BARTINELLI,
IVY (fl c1910s) BARTY, JACK
(1888-1942) BASYL
BAYLIS,
LILIAN (1874-1937) BELZONI,
GIOVANNI BASTISTA (1778-1823) BENSON,
FRANK (1877-1950) BENSON, IVY
(& HER GIRLS' ORCHESTRA/BAND) (fl1940-82)
BENYON, THE
GREAT (1902-78) BERNHARDT
& YOUNG (fl1920s) BERNIE, BEN
(1893-1943) BEST, WILLIE
(1916-62) BEY, ALI
(1905-75) BLACKFORD,
JOHN (c1857-1903) BLAIN,
VIVIAN (1929-95) BOB &
RAY BOLTON, REG
(1884-1955) BOOSEY,
WILLIAM (1864-1933) Trying To Be Good Alf Smith and his brother. BOSTON,
ED (b. 19 June 1898) BRADBURY,
ROBERT (1777-1831) BROOKS,
FOSTER (1912-2001) BROWNIE
BOYS, THE FOUR (fl1930s) BRUCE, BETTY
(d. 25 May1956) BRUNHILDE,
Fraulein BURNABY,
DAVY (1881-1949) BURNETT, AL
(1906-73) BURNS &
ALLEN (1923-58) BURROWS,
DENNIS BURTON, WARD
J. (1875-1963) Boy Tragedian |
C CANTOR,
TERRY (& ADELE) CARDIFF,
CHARLES (d 11 Feb 1964) CARDINI
(1895-1973) CARLOTTA,
Mdlle (1848-1928) CARMO, THE
GREAT (1881-1944) CARNERA,
PRIMO (1906-67) CARNEY,
GEORGE (1877-1947) CARPENTER,
TIKI (b c1910) CARTER, JACK
(b1923) CASEY'S
COURT CHANDLER,
GEORGE L. (1902-85) CHERRY
SISTERS, THE CHURCHILL,
BILLY (1863-1949) CLARK,
SYLVIA (1895-1970) CLIFFORD,
CAMILLE (1885-1971) CLIFTON,
BERNARD (1902-70) CODY,
Colonel SAMUEL (1861-1913) COHANS, THE
FOUR (fl1880s-90s) CONKEY, BOB
(1867-1942) CONNORS,
CHUCK (1852-1913) COOKE,
WILLIAM (1808-86) COOPER, JOHN
W. (fl late 19th cent.) CO-OPTIMISTS,
THE COUCH, JANE
(b1968) COVAN,
WILLIAM McKINLEY (1897-1989) COX TWINS,
THE (fl.1930s-2006) CRASTONIANS,
THE (fl 1930s) CRAZY GANG,
THE (fl1931-62) CROSSLEY,
SYD (fl c1910) CRUIKSHANK,
COMICAL (1875-1956) CUMMING,
JOHN (fl1940s-50s) CUMMINGER,
FRANK (1876/7-1944) CUNLIFFE,
WHIT (1876-1966) CUNNINGHAM,
MINNIE (1870-1954) Humorous Topicalities Mr Currie's dates are 1898-1968 |
D DAGMAR,
ALEXANDRA (b. c1860) DAINTY,
BILLY (1927-86) D'ALBERT,
GEORGE (1871-1949) DALE &
O'MALLEY DARBAN, PHIL
(fl.1940s-50s) DARE, LEONA
(1855-1922) D'AUBAN
FAMILY, THE De BIERE,
(ARNOLD) (1878-1934) DECKERS,
JEANINE (1933?-85) DECOURSEY,
NETTIE (c1869-1964) De GRAY,
MILDRED HOWARD DELANY, NORA
(d1977) DeLEATH,
VAUGHAN (1896-1943) De LEON,
MILLIE (1870-1922) DELEVINES,
THE (FIVE) (est 1884) DELVAINE,
DOT (b1926) De LYLE, WYN
(1903-53) DENIS,
JOHNNY (b1913) DENNIS,
DENNY (1903-93) DEVANT,
DAVID (1868-1941) DILLER,
PHYLLIS (b1917) DILLON, ERNIE (fl c1930) On the Bounce DORVILLES, THE
KEN (fl c1950) DOUBLES,
CHARLIE (fl1930s-40s) DOWLER &
WHITE (fl1932-46) DOWNEY &
DAYE (fl1939-50s) DOYLE,
BUNNNY (1896-1955) DREW, PADDY
(b1896) DUDLEY, JOHN
(b1933) DUKES,
RONNIE & LEE, RICKI (fl1960s-70s) DULAY,
BENSON & COMPANY (1896-1991) DURANTE, TED
& GEORGE DURBANO,
SONNY (fl c1930s) DUVAL, ADE
(1898-1965) DYER, BOB
(d. 1965) International Cycling Football Beauties Was this act aka THE FIVE SENSATIONAL OXFORDS qv? |
E EARL, ROY
(1929-2002) EATOCK, BIG
BILL (fl 1940s) ECKSTEIN,
BILLY (c1890-1963) EDGAR, J.
MARRIOTT (1880-1951) EDGE, JACK
(1891-1978) EDWARDS, C.
E. (d. 1915) EDWARDS,
JIMMY (1920-88) EIGHT BLACK
STREAKS OF DANCE (fl1920s) EIGHT
LANCASHIRE LADS, THE (fl1896-c1930) ELLINGTON,
DUKE (1899-1974) ELLIOTT,
CHIC(K ) (b1900) ELLIOTT,
JIMMY (fl mid-20thC) ELLIS, DON
(d. 1978) ELTINGE,
JULIAN (1883-1941) ELTON, FRED
(1931-60) ENGLISH,
ARTHUR (1919-1995) EMMETT,
FRANKIE (1876-1911) ENA
(1906-2004) ETHERDO
(1834-1916) EVANS, DIXIE
LEE (b1926) EVELYN, CORA
(d1914) EVERLEIGH,
KATE (fl 1870s-80s) |
F FALAHA, Mr
FALCONS, THE
(fl.1950s-60s) FANNAN,
PETER (1899-49) FARRELL,
(ONE) BILLY FARRELL,
MINNIE (d1941) FARRIMOND,
PERCY (fl1880s-90s) FARRINGTON,
CHARLES (1878-1948) FAY, ANN
FAY, ELFIE
(1881-1927) FAYNE &
EVANS FELDMAN,
MARTY (1933-82) FERGUSON,
JIMMIE (fl c1930) FERN, SABLE
(1876-1942) FINGLASS,
TOM E. (b1885) FISHER'S, J.
SHERMAN FITZ,
JIM (fl c1940s) FLEMING,
MARC (b1926) FLORY,
REGINE (1894-1926) FLOWER,
WILLIAM (fl late 19th century) FOL De ROLS,
THE (fl1911-75) FOOTE,
SAMUEL (1720-77) FORD, HARRY
(1875-1955) FOREMAN & FARREN - see PETER FANNAN FOWLER,
GUS FOX, JANET
FOY, EDDIE
(1856-1928) FOYS, THE
FIVE (fl1900s) FOY,
TOM (1879-1917) FRANCIS, SYD
(1943-2006) FRANCOIS,
JACK (1911-97) FRANKLIN,
IRENE (1876-1941) The Little Wonder FRASER'S
HARMONICA GANG, MORTON FREEMAN,
GORDON (fl1920s-30s) FREEMAN,
HARRY (1858-1922) FRIGANZA,
TRIXIE (1870-1955) FRISCO, JOE
(1890-1958) FROWDE,
JAMES (1831-99) FULLER, LOIE
(1861-1928) |
G GARDINER, BORNEO (d.1922)The New Zealand Siffleur The whistler, or 'siffleur', Borneo Gardiner was born in New Zealand. In his teens he bnuilt up a reputation in his home country and in late 1912/early1913 he went to conquer Australia. His musical training was as an oboist -- he played with the Wellington Professional Orchestra -- but it was his whistling that brought him to public attention. From Australia he went on to South Africa, then London, where he was quick to establish himself on the variety circuit. He died in London aged only thirty, having successfully performed in France, Belgium and South America. (Tony Locantro) Acccording to reviews in The Stage, Borneo Gardiner told jokes in his act and at the Croydon Empire in 1920 was seen to whistle Gounod's Serenade while smoking a cigarette. (MK) GARDNER,
CHARLES A. (1847-1924) GAYE,
GLORIA (fl1940-50s) GIBSON,
PERLA SIEDLE (1888-1971) GIRARD,
GILBERT GILLINGS,
DAVE (1864-1947) GLENN, ROSA
(b1870) GLOSSOP
& WEBB (fl1941-50s) GODFREY,
TOMMY (d. 24 June 1884) GOLDBERG,
MAX (1905-90) GOLDFADEN,
ABRAHAM (1840-1908) GOLDING,
JOYCE (b1922) GONELLA, NAT
(1908-98) GOODWRIGHT,
PETER GORDON,
ARCHIE (fl1940s-50s) GORDON, BERT
(c1895-1974) GORDON &
COLVILLE GOSNEY,
BARRIE "Twinkletoes" (b.1926)
GRAHAM (fl
c1890s-1910s) GRANADAS, EL
(fl1929-50s) GRANDE &
MARS GRAY, GILDA
(1901-59) GREENE, GENE
(1881-1930) GREENFIELD,
ELIZABETH (1807-76) GREGORY, DAN
(1874-1955) GREY, NIXON
(fl1920s-30s) GRIBBON,
HARRY (1886-1961) GRIMALDIS,
THE GROCK
(1880-1959) GWYN, FRED
(fl 1930s) |
H HADJI-ALI (1892-1937) HAGUE, CHARLES (30 Jan 1896 - 5 Aug 1993)
HAGUE,
CLARENCE HAIG &
HAIG (fl c1900) HALA (fl
c1880-1908) HALL, GEORGE
F. (1867-1934) HANDLEY,
TOMMY (1894-1949) HARMONICA
RASCALS (fl1926-50s) HARRIS,
DOREEN (1914-2003) HARRIS, DUMP
(& PARTNER) (fl1950s) HARRIS,
FREDDIE & CHRISTINE HARRIS,
JERRY (fl c1950) HARRITY,
RICHARD (1807-73) HARVEY BOYS,
THE CELEBRATED HARVEY,
CHARLIE (d. 16 December 1945(?)) HATTON, WILL
& MANNERS, ETHEL (fl1932-47) HAVERLY'S
MASTODONS (fl1878-85) HAWTHORNE,
SISTERS HAYES,
EDMUND J. (1866-1921) HAZARD, HAP
(fl1930s) HAZEL, AGNES
(1867-1913) HEART, JAN
& KELLY (fl.1960s) HEATON, TONY
(1905-65) HECATE
(1850-1902) HEELEY &
MARBA (fl1890s-1900s) HEPBURN
BROTHERS, THE (fl1930s) HERITAGE,
JOE (& CO) (fl1940s-50s) HERMAN, THE
GREAT (MAX) (fl1926-46) HERRMANN,
ALEXANDER (1844-96) HIGGINS,
CHARLIE (1897-1978) HIGGINS,
JOHN (d1935) HILTON, SAM
(1885-1956) HILTON,
TODERICK (fl c1950) HINDE, JOAN
HINDUSTANIS,
THE SEVEN ROYAL (fl late 19th cent.) HOBSON, MAUD
HODGKINSON,
JOHN (d. 1805) HOLLAND,
WILLIAM (1837-95) HOLT,
CLARANCE (1826-1903) HOLT &
MAURICE (fl 1930s-50s) HOMER &
JETHRO HOPE, NAT
& RAY, DOREEN (fl1923-40 and 1949-50s)
HOPPING,
BERT (b1892) HOUGHTON, A.
B. (1866-1925) HOWARD,
BILLY (1903-52) HOWARD,
JENNY (1902-96) HUGH, FRED
(b1899) HULLETT,
CICELY HURLEY, JOAN
(fl1930s-50s) HYLTON, JACK
(1892-1965) |
I INCLEDON,
CHARLES (1763-1826) Nigerian Funster Why Pick On Me? |
J JACKLEY
& JEE JACKSON, ED
& BROWN, DOT (fl c1940s) JACKSON,
ERNEST JACKSON,
JACK (1906-78) JANE and her
dog Fritzi (fl1940s-50S) JAY, LARRY
(d. 16 January 1961) JEANS,
Professor WALTER CERETTA (c1877-1942) JEES, THE
(FIVE) He of the Funny Ways Later k.a. Stan Laurel of Laurel & Hardy. JEWEL, JESSIE (fl1930s-60s) The Comedy Gem Radio's Ginger Girl JOHNSON,
Professor (1838-77) JONES &
THOMAS (fl1930s-50s) JOY, JENNIE
(fl1880s) JOY, PAULINE
(fl late1940s) JOYCE,
ARCHIBALD JOYCE, TEDDY
(1904-41) The Flying Man |
K KAYE, JOE
(d. 25 December 1987) KEAN, KEMBLE
(b1899) KEAN &
MATHER (fl1930s-40s) KEARTON,
CHERRY (d. 25 June 1915) KELLER,
JULES (fl. c1890s) KELLINOS,
THE KELLY,
WALTER C. (1873-1939) KENDAL, ALEC
(d. 1945) KENNA,
CHARLES (1859-1929) KENNA, CON
(& PILOT) The Golden Voice of the Highlands The King of the Highlands KENNEDY,
JEAN (1897-1965) KENWAY &
YOUNG (fl1930s-40s) KERSAN (d.
July 1915) KEYS, THE
FOUR (fl1940s-50s) KING, BEN
(d. 6 April 1894) KING, CHRIS
(& PARTNER) (b c1910) KING,
GERRY (fl1950s-60s) KING, JAMES
(fl c1870s-80s) KING, JOE
(1900-67) KING,
RANDOLPH (fl1910s) KISBEY
(1879-1968) The Artist and his Model Bob (1915-2000). This comedy adagio act last cited in The Stage & Television Today at the City Varieties, Leeds, in 1994. KORAN, AL
(1916-71) KRANDON
& KARNA (fl 1939-67) KUNZ,
CHARLES (1896-1958) The Singing Conductor Bus or orchestral? |
L LABOUCHERE,
HENRY (1831-1912) LAHR &
MERCEDES LAIDLER,
FRANCIS (1870-1955) LAINE,
FRANKIE (1913-2007) LAMAR, LEONA
(d. 1941) LAMBERT
& ROSS (fl c1968-88) LANE, SANDY
(1908-84) LA RUE,
DANNY (b1927) LAUBE, MAX
LA VIER,
JACK & MORGAN, RUTHIE (fl1934-48) LAWRENCE,
CURLY (b1913) LAYTON &
JOHNSTONE (fl1922-35) LEAMY, THE
SISTERS (fl c1900) LEE, GERRY
(1917-99) LEE, LES (d.
6 Feb 1945) LENTINI,
FRANAK (1889-1966) LEON &
LUCETTE LEONIE,
ANNIE LERONI
LESTER,
CLAUDE (fl1920s-30s) LESTER,
HARRY (1895-1993) LESTER, ROY
(1908-88) LEVANDA
& VAN (fl1947-50s) LEVEY, ADELE
(b c1875) LEWIS,
NELLIE (d. 12 September 1930) LILBURN,
CHARLES (fl c1900s-1920s?) LINFIELD,
SAM (b1898) LIPPARD,
MATTYLEE LLOYD, ALICE
(fl1870s) LOMAS TROUPE
(fl c1900) LOMBARDO,
GUY (1902-77) LORNE, TOMMY
(1890-1935) LORRAINE
(fl1930s-50s) LOWELL, JACK
LUTCHER,
NELLIE (1915-2007) The Bombs of Mirth Eddie Lyons (1887-1969) and Joe Fay |
M MACCABE,
FREDERICK (1831-1904) McANDREWS,
KEITH (1940s-50s) MacASKILL,
ANGUS (1825-63) McCALLA,
DOLLY & MADGE (fl1900s) McCOMB,
BILLY (1921-2006) McKAY, NEIL
(d.1952) MacMILLAN,
VIOLET (1885-1953) McNAUGHTONS,
THE MACNORTON - see HARRY NORTON MACS, THE
TWO (fl1880-93) MACE, JEM
(1831-1910) MACK, ARTHUR
(1877-1942) MALONE,
DANNY (b1909) MANNING,
BERNARD (b. 13 Aug 1930) MARCELINE
(1872-1927) MARCO,
WILLIAM (d. 31 July 1951) MARKS,
ALFRED (1921-96) MARTEL, JAY
(fl1950s-60s) MARTELL,
JACK (1886-1955) MARTIN,
CHARLIE (fl1940s-50s. d. 19 November 1975?)
MARTIN,
GEORGE (1922-91) MARTINETTI,
PAUL (& COMPANY) (fl1875-c1910)
MARTINE, RAY MARTY,
EILEEN (& FRED) (fl 1940s) MARX
BROTHERS, THE FOUR/THREE MARX,
SYD (d. December 28th 1999) MATTHEWS,
Sir STANLEY (1915-2000) MAVIS, MABEL
(fl c1910) MAX, AL
(& ANNETTE) MAXWELL,
PETER (b1927) MAYNARD,
BILL (b. 8 Oct 1928) MAYNE,
ALICIA MENDOZA,
DANIEL (1764-1836) MENDOZA,
EDDIE `Tash' (with Bette Carole) (fl1947-1950s)
MERRILEES,
JESSIE (fl c1890s) MERRITT,
JACK (c1894-1919) MILLER &
DEANE MILTON,
VERA (c1909-1952) MILLWARD AND
HIS NITWITS, SID MINIATURE
MARIE (b1886) MIRANDA,
CARMEN (1909-55) MIRFIELD,
FREDDIE (fl c1950) MIRZAH (fl
c1900s) MISTINGUETT
(1875-1956) MONKHOUSE,
BOB MONTAGUE
BROS (fl c1900s) MONTAGUE,
DICK (b1891) MONTAGUE,
LOUISE (1859-1910) MONTAGUE
& STONE (fl1885-1917) MOONEY &
HOLBEIN MOORE,
GEORGE F. (1850-1890) MORAN &
MACK MORETON,
TREVOR (d. 9 October 1972) MORETON,
VICTOR (d. 3 March 1940) MORTON,
JAMES J. (1862-1938) MOSS, ERNIE
(fl1940s-50s) MURPHY &
MACK (fl1934-44) MURRAY &
COHAN (fl1940s-50s) MURRAY &
HOBBS (fl1937-1950s) MURRAY, ROB
(1926-89) The Finest Sand Dancer in the World Winter, Spring and Summer The World Renowned Dancer Family name: Mae Rose Baker (Mrs Harry Bawn) |
N NAVARRE
(fl1930s-40s) NELSON,
ARTHUR (1811-60) NIBLO,
WALTER (fl1920s-50s) NIXON, DAVID
(1919-78) NIXON &
DIXON NOLAN,
MICHAEL (1867-1910) NORTH &
STOYLE NORTON,
GEORGE The eminent regurgitator was born in Lyons as Claude Louis Delair. In Grace Beauty & Banjos we stated that this remarkable artiste was a.k.a Harry Norton; we now know this to be erroneous, and that we confused Mac Norton with another regurgitator called Harry Morton. The latter could down up to 300 small mugs of beer in his act; he was at his peak in the 1920s. See HADJI-ALI. NUFFIELD CENTRE This establishment was founded and funded by Lord Nuffield to provide service personnel at a loose end in central London with a cheap meal and entertainment untainted by the moral hazards only too readily available, then as now, to the unwary. Originally in Piccadilly the Nuffield Centre moved to Adelaide Street behind St Martin-in-the-Fields, its doors offering a haven for many years after World War Two to National Servicemen. Among the artistes who found the canteen a useful shop-window were ARTHUR ASKEY, MICHAEL BENTINE, Ronnie Corbett, TOMMY COOPER, CHARLIE DRAKE, JIMMY EDWARDS, BENNY HILL, FRANKIE HOWERD, BILL PERTWEE, Steve Race, and NORMAN WISDOM. In the late 1950s we also worked there, not as an entertainer but as a kitchen-porter, cleaning the pots and scrubbing the floors. In this menial work we shone, however, for within a very short time we had achieved promotion to the senior post available to part-timers: serving in the officers' mess. |
O OLGO (THE
MIRACLE MIND) (1901-79) O'NEILL,
TERRY with PEGGY HAIG ORTONS, THE
FOUR (fl1920s-30s) OVERBURY,
REY (& SUZETTE) OXFORDS, THE
FIVE SENSATIONAL (fl1940s) |
P PALMER, JAY
(& DOREEN) PARK, LOLL
(b1899) PARLA,
ALICIA (1914-98) PARRY, RON
(b1921) PASTOR, TONY
(b.1833) PASTRANA,
JULIA (1832/4-1860) PAUL
(1857-1913) PAULINA,
PRINCESS (1878-1895) PAULINE
& EDDIE (fl1950s) PAYNE,
FREDDY & PEGGY (fl 1930s) PAYNE, HALL
PAYNE,
MILLIE (c1890-1917) PAYNE, TOM
PEABODY,
EDDIE (1901-70) PELL &
LITTLE (fl late 1920s-50s) PENROSE
& WHITLOCK PEREZOFFS,
THE (fl1890-1910) PERMANES,
THE (fl1920s-30s) PERTWEE,
BILL (& MARION) (b1926) PETHERS,
BILLY PETRIES, THE
TWO (fl1890s) PHILIPPE,
DON (& MARTA) (fl1940s-50s) PICON, MOLLY
(1898?-1992) PICTON,
CHARLES (fl1930s) PIKE,
Captain (fl c1890) PIM'S
NAVY (fl1930s-40s) PIRATES, THE
TWO (fl1940s) PITCHER,
ORVILLE PLATT,
KEN (1921-98) PONTI, FRANK
P. (d. 23 September 1987) POTTER,
MAUREEN POUISHNOFF,
LEV (1891-1959) POUPÉE, LA
PETITE (d July? 1949) POWELL,
BARNEY PRAEGER, LOU
PRESS,
LESLIE (fl. c1950s) PRETORIA
(fl1920s-1930s) PREVOST
& BROWN (fl c1920s) PRYDE, PERCY
(d. 1970) PYNE, LOUISE
(1832-1904) |
R RADCLIFFE,
JACK (1900-67) RADIO
REVELLERS, THE (fl1946-50s) RAF GANG
SHOWS RAIE, HAL
& FIELD, RAY RA-LESLIE,
ETHEL (fl c1900-1910s) Article and repertoire in Music Hall Studies Number 5. See www.musichallstudies.co.uk RANDALL,
LESLIE RAOUL
(b1897) RAUSCHLE
RAYMOND, BOB
E. (1904-85) RAYMONDS,
THE WRANGLING REDFERN, SAM
(1851-1915) REDHEADS, THE THREE - see JEAN BAMBERGER REID, BILLY
(1902-74) REID, DONALD
(b c1890) REID TWINS
(b1923) REILLY,
BILLY RENALDI
& KARINA RENNIE,
FRANK RETTER,
DEZSO REYNOL, TINY
TOMMY (1922-2000) RHODES &
LANE (fl1934-c52) RICHARDS,
NELLIE (1864-1932) RICHARDS,
TOM RINALDO
(1884-1927) RING, RUBY
(1921-2002) RISKIT, JACK
`DENTAL' (1879-c1954) RISTORI,
HARRY (& PARTNER) (fl1920s) RITCHIE,
ADELE (1874-1930) ROBBINS,
JEAN (1904-77) ROBERTS,
LOUIS (b1899) ROBINSON, W.
V. (1871-1926) ROGERS,
HOWARD (d1971?) ROGERS, JOHN
R. (1842-1932) ROMAINE,
CLAIRE (1873-1964) ROMARK
(1927-83) ROME, LESLIE
& LEONARD, CONNIE (fl c1930s-40s) RONEZ
ROSE, WILL
ROSS, MAUDE
(d. 6 February 1922) ROUSE,
WILLIE (1877-1928) ROXY, AL
(& GLENDA) (fl1940s-50s) ROY, HARRY
(AND HIS BAND) (1900-71) ROY, SONNY
(b1922) ROZE, LELIA
(fl c1900) RUSSELL,
BERT (fl 1930s-1940s) Messengers of Mirth See Clark & Ritchie (BICYCLE ACTS) |
S SABEL,
JOSEPHINE (1866-1945) SABU
(1924-63) SADLER,
FREDDIE (d. 21 April 1994) ST CLAIR,
BUNTY (b1928) ST CLAIR, F.
V. (1860-1922) ST CYR, LILI
(1917-99) SALAMONSKY
(fl c1900s) SALES,
FREDDIE (1920-94) SALMO,
`Happy' HARRY SAMUELS, RAE
(1887-1979) SANDERS,
LANE SANDS, BILLY
(1911-84) SANTLEY,
JOSEPH (1886/9-1971) SAUNDERS,
SAM SAVONAS, THE
SEVEN MUSICAL - see The Elliotts & Savonas
(BICYCLE ACTS) SCOTT, TERRY
(1927-94) SCOTT, TONY
`Silly Thing' (b1922) SEAFORTH,
VICTOR (b1917) SEAL, DAVID
(1849-98) SEARS,
GEORGE W. (1840?-1868) SEATON &
O'DELL SEDDON,
MOLLIE SEEL,
CHARLES (d. 20 December 1903) SEELEY &
WEST SEELEY,
BURTON SEELEY,
FRANK (d. 11 March 1913) SEGAL, HARRY
(d. 29 May 1963) SELTZER,
HARRY (1909-2004) SEMPRINI,
ALBERT (1908-1990) SENTER, BOYD
(b1899) SETZ, VAL
(b. 1 November 1911) SHAMVAS, THE
(fl c1940) SHAND, Sir
JIMMY (1908-2000) SHAW, AL
(1894-57) SHELTON,
ANNE (1923-94) SHERIDAN,
ANN (1916-67) SHIELDS,
JIMMY (1861-1933) SHIELS,
HARRY (1906-1980) SHIRLEY,
JUDY (1907-96) SHRIMPTON,
BERT (b1893) SINCLAIR,
PETER (1900-94) SISSLE,
NOBLE (1889-1975) SKYROCKETS
ORCHESTRA (fl1942-50s) SLAP, JOHNNY
SLAUGHTER,
BESSIE (fl c1910) SLOAN,
FRED (fl1950s) SLYTER,
CLARENCE (fl1930s-40s) SMETHURST,
ALLAN (1927-2000) SMITH,
BESSIE (1895-1937) SMITH
BROTHERS, THE FIVE (fl1932-60s) SOLDIERS IN
SKIRTS SONYA
(fl1940s-50s) SOTHERN, KAY
(fl1940s-50s) SPARKS, Prof
(and THELMINA) (fl1940s-50s) SPARROW,
MARIE SPEAR,
BERNARD (b1919) SPENCE &
DAVIES SPINK &
SPINK (fl c1890) SPLINTERS
(fl1918-37) SPURGATS,
THE THREE (fl1932-7) SQUIRES,
DOROTHY (1914-98) STAFFORD,
STAN (fl c1950s) STANFORD
& McNAUGHTON STANLEY,
GWLADYS (d1974) STANLEY,
NORMAN (fl. c1950) STAPLETON,
CYRIL (1913-74) STARR, HARRY
(1868-1952) STARS IN
BATTLEDRESS (1942-1946) STEFFANI
(1904-74) STETSON,
CLIFF (1913-97) STEVENS, ROY
(fl1940s-60s) STEWART
& MATHEW STOCKS, JACK
(1888-1950) STOLTZ,
ROBERT (1880-1975) STONE, REG
(d. mid-1960s) STOOGES, THE
THREE STOREY, JACK
STRAND, JACK
(1897-1981) STRANGE,
LESLIE (fl1940s) STUTHARD,
JOE & KAY SULLIVAN,
DAN (1861-1914) SUMMERS,
JILL (1930-90) SURRATT,
VALESKA (1882-1962) SWAIN, HAL
(1894-1966) SWEET,
CHARLES R. |
T TALLIEU,
MADAME TENUTA, JUDY
(fl c1950) TERRENCE
TWINS, THE (fl1930s) TERRY
SISTERS, THE (fl1930s) TERRY TWINS,
THE (fl1910s) THACKRAY,
JAKE (1938-2002) THELMA,
Mdlle (fl c1900s) THOMAS, ALF
(1878-1957) THOMAS, GWEN
THOMPSON
TRIO, THE (fl1884-98) TIMOTHY, AL
The Lanky Londoner The Lean Look London's Longest Laugh Mr Took was 6ft 2ins. See obituaries in The Times and The Independent for 1 April 2002. See CARROLL LEVIS, DONALD B STUART. TORBAY,
CHARLES (fl1910s) TOSTIA,
LA (fl1900s) TRACY, LOUIE
(1883-1952) TREE, Mr
& Miss (fl1920s) TRENET,
CHARLES (1913-2001) TROJA
(fl1890s) TUBB, ERNEST
(1910-84) TUCKER,
LORENZO (1907-86) TURNER,
FLORENCE (1885-1946) TURNER, JOAN
(1923-2009) TURPIN, BEN
(1874-1940) The Whistling Ventriloquist |
U ULRICK (1866-1950)The Barrel King & Trancka Wonder Trancka = trinka - see Professor RISLEY |
V VALENTINE,
DICKIE (1930-71) VALLEE, RUDY
(1901-86) VALLIERE
(and Assistants) (fl c1930) VAN BIENE,
AUGUSTE (1849-1913) VANCE,
CLARICE (1871-1961) VAN DER VENN
(fl c1930s) VANDY (fl
c1900) VANONI,
MARIE (b c1854) VARICK,
DOROTHY (fl c1920) VARONA, OLGA
(1921-2004) VAUGHAN,
FRANKIE (1928-99) VELDA &
VANN (fl1925-50s) VENTO
(1832-99) L'As Des Prestidigitateurs Continental Magician b. Frank Hladik in Stara-Vozice, Czechoslovakia. VERNON,
HARRIETT (1852-1923) VERONICA,
Mdlle (fl1930s) VERSATILE
THREE, THE (fl1920s) VICTOR, ERIC
(fl1920s) VICTORY,
JOHNNY (fl1940s-60s) VINCENT,
ROBBIE (1895-1968) VINING,
LOUISA Out of this World Family name: Bobby Arrendoff. See FRED ALLEN |
W WAKEFIELD,
DUGGIE (1899-1951) WALDEN,
HAROLD (1889-1955) WALKER,
JOHNNY (1885-1924) WALKER &
MAY WALKER &
WILLIAMS (fl1893-1909) WALLENDAS,
THE GREAT (fl1922-78) WALLER, FATS
(1904-43) WALSH,
MAGGIE (fl1900s) WALSH, SAM
(1877-1920) WARD, BERT
(1908-83) WARD,
MARION (d c1892) WARD,
WINIFRED (c.1880-1975) WARREN,
RUSTY (b1930) WATSON,
CHARLES (c1831-61) WATSON,
LAURIE (fl1940s) WE THREE
(fl1920s) WEBKIN &
KRISTINA (fl1950s) WELCH,
LESLIE (1907-80) WELLINGTONS,
THE TWO WELLS, BILLY
(1909-89) WENSLEY
& DALE (fl1920s) WENTLEY, W.
P. WENTWORTH,
FANNY (c1849-1934) WENTWORTH,
WALTER (b c1925) WEST, ALF
(fl1910s) WEST, BILLY
(fl1938-50s) WEST, MAE
(1888?-1980) WESTERN,
GEORGE (d. 1857) WHEATLEY,
MAUD (b. 25 September 1890) WHEELER
& WILSON (fl1929-41 and 1945-9) WHIDDEN, JAY
& CONRAD, CON WHITE &
SIMONE (fl1940s) WHITEFORD,
JOCK (1877-1951) WHITFIELD,
DAVID (1925-80) WHITLOCK, BILLY - see PENROSE & WHITLOCK WHYTE, MAVIS
(fl 1950s-60s) WILEY, DORA
(1853-1924) WILLANE
(1900-1955) WILLIAMS,
Master ERSKINE (fl1880s-90s) WILLIAMS,
ESTHER (1921-2000) WILLIAMS,
FRANK (1882?-1940?) WILLIAMS,
HERB (1884-1936) WILLIAMS,
JOHN (fl1880s-?) WILLIAMS,
KEITH WILLIAMS,
LEN (b1910) WILLIAMS,
NELLIE (LITTLE NELL) (1858-1923) WILLIAMS,
NORA WILLIAMS,
OSWALD WILLIAMS & WALKER - see WALKER & WILLIAMS WILLS, NAT
M. (1873-1917) WILSON, ALY
(b1909) WILSON,
CHARLIE (1881?-1922?) WILSON,
ROBERT (1907-1964) WILSON,
SYDNEY (b1903) WILTON
BROTHERS (fl1935-1950s) WILTON, EMMA
WINCOW,
MURIEL (fl1910s) WINSOR &
WILTON WISER &
WARD (fl c1930) WOOD, PHIL
(fl1940s-50s) WOOLF, GIPSY
(fl1900s-10s) WRIGHT,
BOBBY (& MARION) (fl1925-50s) WRIGHT, HAL
(fl c1930) WRIGHT,
HENRY (fl1890s-1900s) The Perfect Fool Clem Dawe and Tommy Godfrey (d. 24 June 1984) also used this bill-matter. |
X X-RAYS, THE FIVE (fl 1910s)The Mad Athletes Sketch troupe whose personnel included Jack Clifton (founder) and his nephew Sam (b1898) who later ran his own company as SAM LINFIELD. Jack Clifton also ran The Six Ceylons. Clifton was the family name of The Bogannys (SKETCH ARTISTES). |
Y YOLANDAS,
THE TWO YORK, CHIC
& KING, ROSE (& CO) YORK, DORIS
(d. March 1996) YOUNG,
DAN YOUNG
ENGLAND BROTHERS (fl1870s) YOUNG, JOE
(b1887) YOUNG,
LEN (1910-87) ...and his Famous Czardas Band ...and his Gypsy Band The Younkman Russian Orchestra Nat Younkman (c1900-1957) |
Z ZEEDA
ZELLINI
(1887-1953) ZENORA (fl
c1880-c1920) ZETTER,
HARRY (fl c1910s-30s) ZIEGLER,
ANNE & BOOTH, WEBSTER ZYRANI
(fl1890s) |
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