CHAPTER VI

PROGRESS OF THE MUSIC HALL — continued



A Boom in ' Varieties ' — The Alhambiar— Its Metamorphosi
The Old Panopticon— Its Rivals— An Ambitious Charter-
Features of the Institution— E. T. Smith— A Palace of
Varieties — Howes and Cashing — Sawdust and Horses— W.
Wilde— Further Transformations— Loisset, the Ringmaster
— Leotard — Frederick Strange— Ballets and Spe(itacles —
The Farinis— The Kiralfy Brothers — Foucart, the Gymnast
— M. Riviere — John Hollingshead — The Lansdown Music
Hall— Sam Collins— Harry Sydney— H. Watts— Herbert
Sprake — The White Lion — Turnham's — The Metropolitan
— Mr Meacock — E. Winder — Mr Speedy^-Jrfr Lake —
Henri Gros— The 0:fford and Cambridge— The Royal,
Kensington — The Hoxton — The Regent — Russell Grover
and Frank Hall— The Standard— R. A. Brown— Mr Wake
—The Eastern Alhambra— The Borough— The Raglan—
The Cosmotheca— The Eastern Hall— The South-Eastem
—The Pantheon — Lamb — The Swallow Street Music
Hall — The Eldorado and Criterion — The Strand Musick
Hall — Its Lofty Pretensions and Dismal Failure — 'Jolly'
Nash and the ' Great ' Vance — The Royal Cambridge —
'Gatti's in the Road'— St Leonard's Hall— Davey's—
Scott's— End of the Boom.
