WEEKS ENDING:
2 February 2002
Willie and Billie Darrell (fl.1890s), American entertainers
Suppression of the Can Can in New York, 23 December 1874
9 February 2002
Lillie Langtry at the London Coliseum, 1912
Madame Lea Espinosa on musical comedy dancing, 1923
Enriquita Guerrerito at the Folies Bergéres, 1901
16 February 2002
Oscar Wilde’s hair, 1884
Cinderella’s coach, Drury Lane, Christmas 1895
Leo Tell at the Palace Theatre, London, 1906
23 February 2002
Mr and Mrs Russell’s ‘Harmony and Expression of Motion,’ Drury Lane, 1886
Without Love at the redecorated Olympic Theatre, London, 16 December 1872
Comments on photography in Dion Boucicault’s drama, The Octoroon, 1864
Frank Ottoway, a stage Ethiopian, 1887
2 March 2002
French Can-Can dancers in London, 1868
Millie Zara, the ‘double-voiced’ songstress from the US, 1887
Leah Russell, ‘The Belle of the Ghetto,’ 1908
9 March 2002
Entertainment in Leicester Square, 1865
An opinion of Opera Bouffe as performed in England, 1867
The millinery nuisance, 1906
16 March 2002
Emerald and gold jewellery for Louisa Angel, 1865
Comfort and elegance of a modern theatre, 1878
Helen Barry in Lady Clancarty; or, Wedded and Wooed, 1875
23 March 2002
Les Molasso, dancers, at the Oxford, London, 1902
The Rotunda Music Hall, London
The Bijou Music Hall, London, bill for the week of Monday, 7 January 1884
30 March 2002
Ballet girls in London, 1868
Prince Lee Lung, magician, at Hengler’s, Christmas 1906
Adah Isaacs Menken at a seance, London, 1865
Adah Isaacs Menken as Mazeppa, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, March 1865
6 April 2002
Henry Irving and J.L. Toole at Leicester, 1878
Henry Irving commences at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 1878
Kate Cutler’s Motor Omnibus Dressing Room, London, 1906
13 April 2002
Oliver Morosco on the theatre of the future, New York, 1913
Mdlle. Degaby with at the Palace Theatre, London, 1896
The Shop Girl revisited, Gaiety Theatre, London, 1896
20 April 2002
George Alexander on theatrical apprenticeship, London, 1893
Arthur Bourchier’s admiration for Kate Vaughan
27 April 2002
The Opera Comique Theatre, Strand, London, demolished, 1902
The Moulin Rouge closes, 1903
Montague Higgs impersonates Marie Lloyd, 1907
Oscar Wilde at the Court of Bankruptcy, 1895
4 May 2002
Maurice Moscovitch on tour in Australia, 1926
In praise of Kate Terry, 1867
Maud Millett dressed by Madame Humble of Conduit Street, 1896
11 May 2002
An Opinion of Music Halls, 1867
The death of Alfred Young, Bournemouth, 1883
Smashed top hats at theatres, London, 1904
18 May 2002
The Brothers Rizareli, Spanish acrobats, New York, 1869
Garibaldi’s niece on a music hall bill, London, 1878
The Theatre Queue, London, 1910
Ballroom dancing by searchlight, London, 1923
25 May 2002
Jackson Haines, ice skater, at the Alhambra, London, 1865
A blast at the popularity of music hall comic singers, London, 1867
A bouquet shunned, London, 1878
Postcards are passé, London, 1911
Gounod’s Charleston, London, 1926
1 June 2002
London Theatre Critics Criticized, 1867
The Pirates of Penzance revived, Savoy, London, 1888
A death in Paris, 1895
8 June 2002
The Henley Regatta on stage, London, 1886
An opinion of A Dark Secret, London, 1886
A Diamond Jubilee treat, London, 1897
An armless musician, Portsmouth, 1899
15 June 2002
King George V and Queen Mary at the London Palladium, 1914
The St. John’s Wood Arts Ball, London, 1914
22 June 2002 - missing
29 June 2002
A floral tribute for Vesta Tilley, Glasgow, 1895
Gatti’s Music Hall, London, week of Monday 2 August 1869
The Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, redecorated, 1888
Lily Elsie’s triumph, London, 8 June 1907
6 July 2002
The Flying Leonis at the Holborn Amphitheatre, London, 1871
Recordings of Ragtime songs reviewed, London, 1912
Maud Branscombe remembered, 1910
Julia James in The Arcadians, Paris, 1913
13 July 2002
A theatrical death, London, 1896
Publicity for actresses, London, 1888
Evie Greene advertises Rayne’s shoes, London, 1906
Boat Race night at the Empire, London, 1900
20 July 2002
A night at Weston’s music hall, London, 1865
Amy Burdett, ‘The Continental Lady Star,’ 1883
The New Barmaid in rehearsal, Avenue, London, February 1896
A Week-End, Walter Ellis’s farce, Kingsway, London, 1918
27 July 2002
A review of Clement Scott’s Bad Boys, Comedy, London, 1885
To applaud or not to applaud, London, 1880
A Moore and Burgess Minstrel in Court, London, 1881
Moore and Burgess’s 7,850th performance, London, 1881
Death of Frederick Burgess’s wife, London, 1882
The Mikado in Germany, 1886
Fun in Photo Bits, London, 1902
3 August 2002
An actors’ hospital hut for soldiers, Cape Town, 1900
The Three Travillas, California pearl fishers turned music hall artists, London, 1913
South London Palace music hall bill, week of Monday, 16 May 1881
Nelly Farrell, ‘The Irish Brilliant’ or ‘The Irish Gem’
An odd costume, London, 1901
Mabel Love opens a school of dancing, London, 1926
10 August 2002
Self and Lady at the Vaudeville, London, 1900
Mignonette Kokin, ‘The Original Turkey Hop Girl,’ 1913
Music-Hall Artists’ Association, London, 1886
Mlle. Aimée in opera bouffe, New York, 1873
17 August 2002
The Sisters Claremont, burlesque duettists and dancers, London, 1874
The Sisters Leamar, London, 1883
The Sisters Weston, ‘Kiss me, Susey,’ London, 1874
Oscar Wilde an actor? 1883
Mdlle. Rosa’s Dancing Dolls Troupe, London, 1883
A sad Hungarian La Belle Helene, 1873
24 August 2002
The Low Theatres of London, 1851
Mdlle. Sara indisposed, London, 1874
A School for Ballet Dancing, London, 1876
The legality of theatre queues, Manchester, 1909
A Beauty Hint from Teddie Gerard, London, 1919
31 August 2002
Turns at the Palace Theatre, London, July 1906
Grace Harold, male impersonator, mid 1880s
Mdlle. Azella the aerial danseuse, Oxford music hall, London, 1888
Judith Espinosa dances at the Alhambra, London, 1900
Mdlle. Degaby’s living statues, Palace Theatre, London, 1896
7 September 2002
An English version of Offenbach’s The Grand Duchess, London, 1871
The Colonna Troupe in trouble again, Liverpool, 1871
The beautiful Mrs Rousby, London, 1871
Julia Mathews in Canada, 1876
The Fiji Flutterers at the Alhambra, London, 1876
Anna Held at the Palace Theatre, London, 1896
14 September 2002
Rob Cunningham, a retired London music hall chairman, 1896
Clara Wieland at the Empire, Leicester Square, London, 1893
Kate Everleigh at Collins’s music hall, London, 1877
Professor Dunning the ventriloquist, London, 1899
Edwin Bale’s Yokohama Troupe of acrobats, London, 1891
A troupe of acrobats, England, circa 1880
21 September 2002
The fire at Saville House, Leicester Square, London, 1865
An evening at the Eastern music hall, Limehouse, London, 1865
Miss Russell at the Oxford music hall, London, 1865
‘Madame Lucile’ (Lady Duff Gordon), dressmaker, London, 1912
A growing desire for artistry in the theatre, London, 1926
28 September 2002
Opening of the Avenue Theatre, London, 1882
Alabama, Garrick Theatre, London, 2 September 1895
Héro, billed in London as a ‘Parisienne,’ circa 1910
‘Nudity’ on the London music hall stage, 1911
Marie Dressler - ‘a bogus manager’ - in London, 1909
5 October 2002
Katie Lawrence at the start of her career, 1883
John Nevil Maskelyne, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, 1883
The Mascot Moth, by Maskelyne & Devant, London, 1906
Harry Randall at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1883
Richard Carle’s accident in An American Beauty, London, 1900
12 October 2002
The New Barmaid, Avenue Theatre, London, 1896
Gymnasts, singers, dancers… cacti, at the Royal Aquarium, London, 1900
The Russian Ballet, Coliseum, London, 1918
19 October 2002
Clara Rousby in Camille, at the Queen’s Royal, Dublin, 1876
Miss Emily and Master Harry Grattan, London, 1876
Harry Fragson at the Tivoli music hall, London, 1908
Smoking in London theatres, 1914
On the death of Meggie Albanesi, 9 December 1923
26 October 2002
Mlle. Therese dancing the can can in Australia, 1868
The Hop-Pickers, Adelphi Theatre, London, 1849
Erminia Pertoldi’s dancing at the Empire, London, 1886
Louie Gilbert at the Foresters’ music hall, London, 1888
Too Lovely Black-Ey’d Susan, with Dan Leno, Crystal Palace, 1888
2 November 2002
Fog-bound Blondin, Crystal Palace, London, 1861
Bessie Wentworth at the Metropolitan music hall, London, 1896
Liane de Pougy attempts suicide, Paris, 1896
Fire at the Oxford music hall, London, 1868
Eva Kelly robbed by actor Walter Bishop, London, 1917
9 November 2002
Hayden Coffin at the Lyric Club, London, 22 February 1887
George Edwardes says, ‘Plays Don’t Pay in London,’ 1912
Thoughts on Lily Elsie’s Marriage, London, 1911
Mlle. Zulaika, Harry Pilcer and Mlle. Rahna at the Palace, Paris, 1923
16 November 2002
A.W. Pinero attacks Lord Halsbury and Sir Edward Clarke, Birmingham, 1900
23 November 2002
The Canterbury music hall, London, December 1869
The death of Nelly Power, London, 1887
Stars and Garters, Folly, London, 21 September 1878
Tantalus; or, Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip, Folly Theatre, London, 14 October 1878
Frederick Kerr lectures on the modern theatre, London, 1895
30 November 2002
Kate Santley at the Royalty, London, 1879, in An Injured Female and Tita in Thibet
Too Lovely Black-Eyed Susan, Strand Theatre, London, 11 April 1888
Tragic death of music hall comedian Pat Cashan, Great Yarmouth, 1899
Rosario Guerrero at the Alhambra, London, September 1902
Betty Farnol in South Africa, 1920
7 December 2002
Adah Isaacs Menken in Nashville, 1866
Charlotte Cushman's grave, Mount Auburn, 1876
Yvette Guilbert's terms for appearing in America, 1894
Tom Costello at the Metropolitan music hall, London, 1899
Julia Marlowe advertises 'Nonpareil' Velvet, USA, 1904
Lee White and Clay Smith at the Coliseum, London, 1918
14 December 2002
Louise Hibbert plays Juliet, Queen's Theatre, London, 20 June 1874
Clito at the Princess's, London, Saturday, 1 May 1886
Opening of the Albert Palace Theatre, London, 1886
Diane De Fontenoy, poses plastique, the Tivoli music hall, London, 1899
A drunk and disorderly actor at the Magistrate's Court, Bow Street, London, 1900
Marie Lloyd in New York, October 1913
21 December 2002
See Saw Margery Daw, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, Christmas, 1856
The Mikado, Savoy Theatre, London, 14 March 1885
Jack and the Beanstalk, Surrey Theatre, London, Christmas, 1886
Marvelle's Performing Dogs, Oxford music hall, London, 1894
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Lyric, Hammersmith, London, Christmas 1900
28 December 2002
The Eagle, City Road, London, 1867
Snip-Snap-Snorum; or, Harlequin Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, The Grecian Theatre, London, Thursday, 24 December 1874
Carry Nelson and her burlesque company at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, 23 December 1874
Christmas, 1883, at the Middlesex music hall, Drury Lane, London
Harry Randall plays Mrs Desiccated Edwardes in Dick Whittington, Coronet, Notting Hill Gate, Christmas, 1908
King Cole, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Thursday, 11 December 1913
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