A LONDON MUSIC HALL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2555, 15 March 1877, Page 3

A LONDON MUSIC HALL.

The correspondent of an. American paper Wirilfes:— Let vs 1 go a music-hall,, wnere we shall hear some good singing, not'scientific, but adapted...to;.-the..tastes of 'the masse.s, ,and we -are restrained by no formalities, where, hubby can lean back in an armtchair and smbde as .comfortably aa if he were at home by the fireside, and we ourselves can indulge in those most harmless of tipples, a glass of ginger?beer or bottled lemonade, as we listen to the serio-comic lady chanting the glories of ' "The Brighton Esplanade. 1That spjemdid promenade !" Or, yet again to the smooth-faced young boy >of-18 or 20, with a soprano voice like a cathedral chorister, who, has dressed himself up in a blue satin skirt with a white Isilk overdress, and a powdered wig and an immense' black velvet hat, thus aiming at a presentation of the renowned picture by Gainsborough, which was stolen from the shop in Bond street, from the picture dealer, who had paid on that very day the sum of 10,000 guineas for it. Listen to, the songster at the music-hall as he sings, travestied as the lady of the picture^ •>. '. , > I'm a duchoss (Here he dances.) . , i-I'm a duchess, „; I'm. the Duchess of DivTonshire. (He pronounces as I spell.) If you want a thousand pounds, (Namely, the reward offered.) Come catch me while I'm here. I'm a duchess,. (Dance grows wilder.) I'm a duchess! v (Melody lostin a humorous shout.) The Duchess of Divronshire. (We all pu: t bur heads together, and remark that it is strange he,doesn't say "Devonshire.") s *.'- ~I oostteii'thousand guinem, bo l I am a little dear.! ,-. T , Then he, wfiirls- about the> stage like a , znadmtm, and at-tha end .of his dance strikes the attitude held by Gainsborpitgh 9« beautiful Duchess >; at which the' great .audience applauds lustily, and • we American's, who won't take the trouble I to clap our'handsf smile goodhumouredly, and say—the -males of us—that it is first-1 rate; the of,us-r-that it is real pretty; and so on. to the end of the programme." *