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Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Mar. 86/1: He will appear in the costume worn by Adam and Eve, and proceed to sing a sailor’s hornpipe.at Adam and Eve’s tog(s), n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Mar. 86/1: He will appear in the costume worn by Adam and Eve, and proceed to sing a sailor’s hornpipe. Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 7 Sept. 11/1: He left a good deal of money [...] but by this time she had married a New York professional man, and he quickly made ducks and drakes of it.at ducks and drakes, n.1
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Mar. 71/1: ‘Now then Bill, take yer rag and bone warehouse out o’ my ribs’.at rag and bone warehouse, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 6 Apr. 118/2: The modern music hall [...] where the ’Arrystocracy feel [...] even more at home than their patrician brethren.at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 2 Mar. 40/1: His wonderful show, which so fetched the B.P. last year.at b.p., n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Feb. 28/1: The inimitable De Voy, Leclerq, and Co. left town for Glasgow last Sunday. We wish them as big a success away north as they meet with here in Babylon.at Babylon, n.1
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Mar. 85/2: [W]e must take exception to the paper's statement about bald-pated roues paying half-a-guinea for seats at halls in the West End.at bald-headed row (n.) under bald-headed, adj.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Feb. 28/1: A reader asks if it is correct that artistes have to bide a wee for the bawbees after putting in a turn at the new club.at baubee, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 2 Mar. 38/2: Miss Bessie Bellwood will also have a ‘ben’ at the [...] ‘Palace’.at ben, n.2
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 4 May 184/2: When I first appeared out of black I had to make myself known to the audience.at black, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Feb. 27/2: Patrons of the Pav. always look for a small allowance at least of ‘black,’ we mean nigger, funniosity.at black, adj.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 17 Aug. 10/1: To drive away a fit of the blues, or pass a social hour [...] we commend our readers to Benjamin Penn.at blues, n.1
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Feb. 11/1: [Aus./US speaker] ‘[S]ince my arrival [in Australia] I have scooped the boodle to some tune’.at boodle, n.1
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 2 Mar. 43/1: Charley Davis [...] is celebrated in the States for his diamonds, and his press agent used to boom them as worth $100,000.at boom, v.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Feb. 11/1: ‘[Australians are] the most critical audience I ever struck [...] I have seen shows in England cheered where “bricks” would have been the only applause for the artistes at my place’ .at brick, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Feb. 4/2: A bumper gate turned up to support him.at bumper, adj.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Mar. 75/1: [of a theatrical benefit] Acton Phillips had as big a bumper at his his Hammersmith Theatre of Varieties [...] as his large circle of friends and admirers could have wished.at bumper, n.2
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 27 Apr. 165/1: ‘An action! Golly I am bust, / And she’s my blooming buster’.at buster, n.1
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 6 July 6/1: Durandeau [...] might fix up the first song for the agents piano ‘Good old ten per cent.’ How does the title strike you ? at ten-per-center, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Mar. 92/2: But as Harry Randall says, it [i.e. a music-hall sketch] is a ‘cert’.at cert, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Mar. 74/2: Ahoy! A good old chestnut is to the front [...] the latest edition of an old, old wheeze.at chestnut, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Gaz. 15 June 7/1: They said some very original things, which in these chestnutty days is not always easy.at chestnutty (adj.) under chestnut, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 20 Apr. 155/2: Amphion [...] won in the style of a clinking good horse.at clinking, adv.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 1 June 5/1: A good example of a low com’ fallen into the public-matrimonial-and-frequent children line.at com, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 22 June 7/1: He’s going to [...] come in every night to gaze on those purple continuations .at continuations, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 16 Feb. 11/1: Can you tell us anything about the [...] cornstalkers’retreat [and] the profesh in Melbourne and Sydney?at cornstalk, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Feb. 28/1: The Manchester ‘Empire’ is being rapidly pushed ahead. Till this project was started [...] Cottonopolis was badly off indeed in the music hall line.at Cottonopolis (n.) under cotton, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 6 Apr. 122/2: Remarkable for unfailing good temper [and] a fund of national ‘cuteness’.at cute, adj.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 27 Apr. 172/1: Wellington was ‘dead meat’ [...] and I expect [the owner] will run a very different horse at Kempton.at dead meat, n.
Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 27 Apr. 170/2: Several influential denizens [...] intervewed the wan dead beat.at deadbeat, n.
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