On 9 February 2012 Anne Goulden gave this talk at the British Music Hall study group in London. It follows Lewis ...
Anne Davenport
Anne has unearthed new information on the eight year journey that took Maskelyne and Cooke from Cheltenham to the ...
John Salisse’s archive was the result of over 40 years of collecting and research. His interests were the ...
George Mozart (1864-1947) was a musician and burlesque comedian. He wasn’t one of the top music hall stars, but he ...
Lewis Davenport and his first wife, Julia, had some success with this act in 1904-09. It was a fast-paced act and, ...
In the 1920s and 1930s most of Lewis Davenport’s bookings were at theatres in Great Britain. However, he did tour ...
The Magic Circle owns the original script for JN Maskelyne’s famous magical play Will, the Witch and the Watch. ...
Anne Goulden explains why Maskelyne & Cooke felt able to use this billing, despite never having performed before royalty.
It is very difficult to find reliable information on the salaries paid to variety acts. In this article Anne ...
J N Maskelyne’s whist-playing automaton, Psycho, has been at the Museum of London for over eighty years. For much ...
Anne Goulden has used private letters from Charles Glenrose to Claude Chandler to paint a picture of the 1922 ...
The British Music Hall Society archive has a salaries book from the Leicester Palace. Anne Goulden lists the ...