musicology

No actor can see her, no musician can hear her, without marvelling on the rare amount of talent evinced by her. Like the halls themselves, tile brokers who supply the managers with artistes at so much per cent. commission on the salaries have, too, not solely a lot improved in character, however have in lots of instances migrated from their former dingy haunts within the York Road, Lambeth, to more commodious not to say palatial – places of work in or across the Strand, the Haymarket, and elsewhere. Some few of them, however, nonetheless have their offices close to a widely known tavern at a corner of York Road ; and at sure hours a large number of minor music-hall entertainers and their agents may – as proven in the above illustration – nonetheless be seen congregating near this old-established hostelry. The operatic choices which were at one time the … Read More