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Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
British music hall performers (259 P) C. Canadian music hall performers (1 P) F. French music hall performers (9 P) G. German music hall performers (3 P) I.
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1907 poster from the Music Hall War between artists and theatre managers. The development of syndicates controlling a number of theatres, such as the Stoll circuit, increased tensions between employees and employers. On 22 January 1907, a dispute between artists, stage hands and managers of the Holborn Empire worsened. Strikes in other London ...
Harry Freeman (29 July 1858 – 30 July 1922) was an English music hall performer of the Victorian era and early twentieth century, and the first King Rat of the show business charity the Grand Order of Water Rats. [1] Among his popular songs were 'Leicester Square' and 'The Giddy little Girl said, "No!"'
Harriet Vernon (9 October 1858–11 July 1923) was an English actress and singer of the Victorian era who appeared regularly in music hall, Victorian burlesque and pantomime in the 1880s and 1890s. In a career that spanned five decades, her final appearances were in 1923.
After a difficult apprenticeship at a public house, she embarked on a career in music hall by 1868. She made a success at the London Pavilion, and until 1890 she was at the peak of her fame, enjoying top-billing at music halls across London and in the northern provinces. In 1879 she became the proprietor of her first music hall and later owned ...
Writing in The Dial magazine the following month, T. S. Eliot claimed: "Among [the] small number of music-hall performers, whose names are familiar to what is called the lower class, Marie Lloyd had far the strongest hold on popular affection." [12] Her biographer and friend MacQueen-Pope thought that Lloyd was "going downhill of her own ...