Theatrical and circus life; (1893) (14765906872)
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Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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ersonhas an aversion to having beer spattered over hisclothes by unhandy waiters while ministering to thethirsty wants of a neighbor in the same row, or objectsto the attention of the gay girls who open wine in theprivate boxes and flirt with the people in the parquette,he will find a first-class variety show as pleasant a placeas a good, long, mixed programme with the GlueBrothers in song and dance at one end, the Irish Trip-lets, in select vocalisms and charming terpsichoreanevolutions, in the middle, and a lugubrious sketch atthe other end can make it. By some mysterious lawknown only to variety performers, the variety stageonly about once in a century produces anything new oranything attractive. In the good old days of the bal- (389) 390 VARIETY DIVES AND CONCEPT SALOONS. let there was drawing power in the display of shapelylimb-, and the graceful musioof-motion like manner inwhich the girls tip-toed or piroutted across the stage;or when the variety theatre was as much the home of
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FENCING SCENE IN BLACK CROOK. spectacle as the legitimate houses pretended to be,and on the Vaudeville stage scenes were presentedthat belonged to the same elass of labyrinthine sceneryand profuse female beauty that the Black Crook VARIETY DIVES AND CONCERT SALOONS. 391 and The Green Huntsman were the representa-tives of. When spectacles were the rage and the fenc-ing scene in the Black Crook would set the boysat the top of the house wild with joy, the varietytheatre had among the bright stars of its stage actorsand actresses who are now among* the most popular,and certainly among the heaviest money-makers, whoappear in the legitimate houses. Joe Emmett graduated from the variety theatre.Gus. Williams was a shining light on the same stage.J. C. Williamson was a variety artist. Geo. D. Knightdid Dutch business in the minor theatres before hegot to be famous as Otto, I recollect having seenKnight play Rip Van Winkle in Deagles old varietytheatre on Sixth Street, in St. Louis, and he pla
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