GREAT STARS OF VAUDEVILLE

Evening Star, Issue 20486, 17 May 1930, Page 21

GREAT STARS OF VAUDEVILLE

MEMORIES OF THE HAILS FEW ALIVE TO-DAY. Names of great stars in the vaudeville world recal'cd wistful memories of tho wonderful days of the music hall, between 1880 and 1895, when the Entertainments Protection Association, Ltd., celebrated its jubilee recently, writes a London correspondent. , , The story of tho “ E.P.A.,” founded as long ago as 1880, to watch tho interests of the music halls, is tho story of the rise of tho old pothouse to the 1930 palace. The first music halls were the Canterbury, Deacon’s, Alhambra, Collin s, Gatti’s, Holborn Royal, Oxford, Pavilion, Royal Standard (now Victoria Palace), the Middlesex (Old Mogul), Metropolitan, and the Tivoli. And what incomparable artists they produced 1 Among tho unforgettable names ot the great days of the music hall wnich were remembered at tho Savoy wcie: The Great Vance (‘ The Chickaleery Cove ’). Dan Leno (‘The Shop Walker’). Charles Coburn (‘ The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo’). Charles Bignell (‘ What Ho, She Bumps’), Leo Dryden (‘The Miner’s Dream of Homo ’).

Charles Godfrey (‘After the Ball ’). G. H. Chirgwin (‘The White-eyed Kaffir '). Eugene Stratton (‘ Tho Lily of Laguna ’). Albert Chevalier (‘ My Old Dutch '). Joe Elvin (‘’Appy ’Amstead ’). T. E. Danville (‘Then We Had Another One ’). Tom Costello (‘ At Trinity Church I Met My Doom’). Jenny Hill (the vital spark). Mario Lloyd (‘ She Winked the Other Eye ’). „ Katie Lawrence (‘ Daisy Bell ). Lottie Collins (‘ Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ray‘). Alice Leamar (‘ Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back ), Vesta Tilley (the London idol). Lily Burnand (‘ Two Little Girls in Blue ’). Florrie Forde (‘ Waltz Me Around Again, Willie ’). Victoria Monks (‘ Give My Regards to Leicester Square’). Few of these artists are alive today. Lily Burnand toured New Zealand some time ago with the Veterans of Variety. Florrie Forde, an Australian, was in tho dominion many years ago. Vesta Tiley is now Lady do Freeth.