LUCKY FLUKE
NEW MUSICAL COMEDY [From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 11th August. Last year a new musical comedy was tried at Glasgow and Birmingham, and proved in each instance a pronounced Hop. Then, just before last Christmas, the Victoria Palace was suddenly without a show, owing to some agreement falling through. In sheer desperation the flopped musical comedy was put on there as a stop-gap. It has been running ever since, taking as much as £3OOO a week, and the 400th performance is now being billed. The principal actors are George Graves and Lupino Lane, neither of them quite as juvenile as they used to be, and both have put money into the Victoria Palace show. Fortune has come, as George Graves puts it, “out of the clouds,” for all concerned are doing extremely well out of “Me and My Girl.” That is the musical comedy in question, and its romantic success, as a stop-gap, after its provincial flop, is due chiefly to the almost too popular item “The Lambeth Walk.” The explanation of the Glasgow and Birmingham flop is that its pure, ly Cockney appeal did not suit any audiences but Londoners.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 8 September 1938, Page 10
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