Music-hall

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Music-hall trick of riding up an inclined plane of rope on a bicycle.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891 Various

The sensation of the meeting was caused by the fervent speech of a clergyman, who announced that he himself had been for some months a professional Variety Singer, attached to more than one Music-hall, and that, having studied the life _de près_, he knew all its temptations, and was therefore qualified to speak from experience as to the best means of elevating those who pursued it.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various

"Cabby knows his fare," and the Music-hall Muse knows her clients.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Various

Conversion of Music-hall _Artistes_, which is to this day spoken of amongst the irreverent as the Song and Sermon Society.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various

_Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

I must congratulate Mr. CHARLES COCHRAN on his courage in transforming the Oxford Music-hall into a home of "the legitimate," and still more on his good fortune in securing for the initiation of his new venture the play which Captain BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER and Captain ARTHUR ELIOT have written round the adventures of "Old Bill."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

-- A Music-hall Manager told the Parliamentary Committee sitting on Theatres and Places of Entertainment, that he did not believe in Art with a capital A.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892 Various

Music-hall song, all come equally well to you, it seems.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892 Various

Music-hall Song off the face of the earth, is an attempt which could only suggest itself to puritan fanaticism in its most arbitrary administrative form.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various