This was Sam Cowell, a music-hall "star" from England. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
I admit the extreme ability of certain music-hall comedians. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
She belonged to the "father and son" aristocracy of the music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Albert Chevalier, a "coster poet", music-hall artist, and musician of. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
They were talking of a new music-hall which Harrasford was to open in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Every American theatre-goer has seen Sammie exaggerated on the music-hall stage. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
Jimmy leaving the music-hall to go to the Kolossal: "there he is, behind you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Brooklyn is as sure a laugh in New York as the mother-in-law in a London music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
In defiance of 'Mrs. Grundy' he ventured to maintain that the words 'music-hall' and. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Everywhere, at the theater, at the agents, people were talking of the new music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Lily was given, for nothing, a performance which was worth a whole music-hall program. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Chance might have brought him face to face with Ave Maria, on the stage of a music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
A party of men dining together would not be driven to adjourn to a music-hall after dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
She had lost her way, had walked miles, had been to the landing-stage of the music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"Very well, then," I said, "we'll go to a music-hall; but you'll find that they've changed a bit.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
And the rather crude but strong lines of a music-hall song had percolated to the outposts of Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
There is one large music-hall, and a number of cinematograph shows combined with variety entertainments. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Harrasford was contemplating a theatrical trust on the Continent, planning a model music-hall in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
He heaped up personal observations which he noted every evening, enough to build the ideal music-hall one day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
He considered his reputation at stake: he, the man with the thirty-six girls, as he was called at the music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Dale also does some old-time music-hall shuffles with a deft flick of the hand that has the audiences in stitches. From Wordnik.com. [Shock Opera] Reference
The lyrics are the stars here, and the music reels behind them like the moving scenery in an old music-hall production. From Wordnik.com. [Little Boy Blue] Reference
She had been a music-hall singer when her husband was a sleight-of-hand artist, "The Great Malino, the Wizard of Milan.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Harrasford, to go no farther ... a chap who had climbed every rung of the ladder: a small music-hall first; then two; then. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Every one was talking of the great music-hall which was to open in a few months and which was not to be seen building anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Another excuse for music-hall treatment of an exquisite sort is afforded by the story of "Under the Rose," which is inimitable. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
One of the singers in the Divisional Follies recently revived the once popular music-hall song, "If You Can't Be Good Be Careful.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
And Lily had some hope: an agent had given her to understand that she would be engaged, without a doubt, at that famous music-hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"Has one ever," asked Jimmy, "seen a music-hall give two similar special turns, two bicycle turns, for instance, in the same show?". From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Catering, as we do, for all tastes, we have in our rank and file a serio-comic artiste from the lower rungs of the music-hall ladder. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
One of them found in it inspiration for a ballad, "Lola, of the rolling black eye!" which was sung at every music-hall in the Colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
But she became quite intractable and snubbed another agent who suggested a one day's billet in a tiny music-hall at a ridiculous price. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
John Labern, a once popular, but now forgotten music-hall artiste, and song-writer, issued several collections of the songs of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Archbishop of CANTERBURY on one side and Messrs. KAMENEFF and KRASSIN (who sound, but do not look, like a music-hall "turn") on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920] Reference
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