The first three sections list corrections, additions and amendments to the original hardback edition of January 1999 and the softback edition published the following autumn.  Subsequent sections list Artistes either not substantively entered or not mentioned at all in either edition.  Names in capital letters have substantive entries in the 1999 editions. Last update: August 2008                                                        ------oOo------

INTRODUCTION
p.13 delete reference to Rusty Warren
 

ABERDONIANS, THE THREE	In the programme for the 1938 Royal Variety Performance these artistes are billed as Conversational Acrobats.
ADLER, LARRY	d. 2001. Par 4: Another Monarch was Jimmy Prescott, replaced in 1961 by David Conway.  Morton Fraser's d.o.b. should be 1905.  Cedric Monarch d. Jan 2007.
ALBA, THEA	Jacques Inaudi d. 10 Nov 1950
ALDRIDGE, IRA	The final line should read: Also named for Roscius were Louis Aldrich (1874-1930) The Ohio Roscius, Master WILLIAM BETTY, Stanislaus Calhaem (fl1838-40s) Infant Roscius, Master William Lunt (fl1860s) Young Roscius, and SAM COWELL. An English Heritage blue plaque to Ira Aldridge was unveiled on 24 October, 2007, at 5 Hamlet Road, London SE19 2AP (nearest railway station: Crystal Palace).
ALMA, Mdlle	The last par should now read: Others to assume the appellation Human Fly have been Charles Bliss (1826-06), Olav Czarnowski (d1914), ALOIS PETERS, and William P Smith (d1919).  George Morisco (c1842-1919) had a slight variant in that he called himself Man Fly, just as Berenetta Miller was The Fly Girl, and Hervio Nano (1804-47) (a dwarf named Leach)  was billed variously as The Gnome Fly, Man Monkey, and What Is It? (see Mons. GOUFFÉ).  Hugh Gellini appeared in 1849 at the Bristol as The Celebrated Gnome Fly, which would seem to be a purloining of the recently deceased 'Signor' Nano’s billing.  Finally let us record Professor Eugene Hermann American Wizard & Ceiling Walker who flourished in the 1850s-60s (see MAGICIANS).      The only double-fly act of our knowledge is Ellen Nichols, professionally k.a. Lolo The Beautiful Lady Fly, and her husband Sylvester The Wondrous Fly Man who in 1877 ‘walked the ceiling, hand-in-hand, amidst breathless excitement ’.  The Lady Fly died in 1929, in Grimsby.     This entry is not to be confused with Alma The English Marie Dressler.
ANDERSON, JOHN HENRY	From pp327-8 Old Drury Lane Vol II by Edward Stirling (1881): Covent Garden Theatre, built 1808, opened 1809, from designs of Sir R. Smirke, at a cost of £150,000, was totally destroyed by fire in 1856.  Lessee, the Wizard of the North - Anderson.  This extraordinary man had travelled all over the known globe, seeking adventure and gold.  A fatality attended his theatrical enterprises;  every theatre that he rented was burnt down - Glasgow, Liverpool, Covent Garden.  Was this a conjuror's trick, or chance? a question still unanswered.  Strange to relate, the destruction of his theatres never occurred in the pantomime season, always after.  Suffice it, the Wizard tried many schemes of legerdemain, but it was always out of fashion; rivals had exhibited `sleight of hand' in a new style, `without collusion'.  The last time I saw Anderson was at the Railway Hotel, Liverpool, and the Claimant of the Tichborne estates was with him, hatching conjuring tricks for Westminster Hall.  It is a curious coincidence that the Australian witness, Jean Luie, appeared on the scene a short time after this meeting in Liverpool.  Aztec children, talking fish (a la Barnum), and acting Rob Roy, filled up our Wizard's leisure hours, quite apart from his nightly magic.  Anderson died poor, as he commenced.
ANDREWS, TED	delete dates after his name
ANIMAL & BIRD ACTS	Fred Bithell.  add: From 1897-1902 with LOMAS TROUPE. Leoni Clarke.  At the Argyle, Birkenhead, for the week commencing 1 October 1900 Clarke presented 170 Cats, Rats, Canaries, Cockatoos, Rabbits & Monkeys.  He also showed his celebrated Boxing Kangaroo `Introduced by Dick Landerman'.
ATLAS & VULCANA	Replace entire entry with: ATLAS & VULCANA (fl1890-late 1920s) King and Queen of Athletes Kate Williams (1875-1946) The Champion Lady Athlete of the World  met William Hedley Roberts (1864-1946) Society Athlete at the lady's gymnasium he had established in Abergavenny, South Wales.  Despite a union which produced six children these two magnificent physical specimens lived together for over fifty years without troubling the parson. Other carriage-trade favourites were The Pantzer Brothers (fl1900s-1920s) Society Acrobats and Equilibrists, and The Great Atroy (1873-1952) Society Juggler.
ATROY, THE GREAT	Delete this entry
AUSTIN, CHARLES	d.1944.  In London's Evening News of October 31st 1910 were announced the results of a competition for the ideal Music Hall bill.  Mr Austin with his Parker PC sketch was voted most popular number 11 turn.
BAKER, HYLDA	add: see KEN PLATT
BALL, HARRY	after William Henry Powles add: after his father's foster family.  Married Matilda Broughton.
BAMBERGER, FREDDIE	Jack Hylton's date of birth should be 1892.  Bill-matter should be Jest Artistes.  Jean (Bunnie) Bamberger (d 10 Feb 2000) toured for many years as one of The Three Redheads, having started as an acrobatic dancer in cabaret at the Trocadero in her teens.  For a time was a Betty of WILSON, KEPPEL & BETTY.
BARBETTE	after Two Misleading Ladies. add: From the early 1950s Terry Gardener (1919-2000) was also teamed with Barri Chatt (d 11 November 1971) as The Pin-Up Girls of Comedy.  Terry Gardener was often billed as Terri Gardner.
BARNES, LARRY	Delete final paragraph and replace with: For many years the doyenne of British paper tearers was the legendary Miss Terri Carol (1915-2002), an artiste of notable irascibility with whom we had the honour of appearing at the Weymouth Pavilion on Sunday, August 3rd, 1969.
BAARTMAN, SAARTJE	In February 2001 it was announced that the French National Assembly had voted to return Miss Baartman's remains to her Khoisan people for decent burial in South Africa. See The Times 23 February p.19.
BELLWOOD, BESSIE	nee Catherine Mahoney in Ireland.  Married Jack (John) Nicholson in Leeds 1884 as Kate Mahony (sic). A sister was called Annie Bellwood Mahoney.
BEMAND'S COMEDY PIGEONS,  BOB	Oswald Bemand (1891-1951)
BERLE, MILTON	d.2002.  Should be full-stop after Thief of Bad Gags.
BETTY, Master  WILLIAM	Two young female artistes in this line of business were Miss M. H. Carr The Celebrated Infant Roscia (fl c1830) and Adelaide Biddles The Infant Taglioni (fl1840s-50s). Maria Taglioni (1804-84) was a celebrated and much respected dancer, daughter of Italian ballet master Filippo Taglioni and a Swedish mother.
BICYCLE ACTS	Sam Barton (1894/5-1941) Add:  See Joe Jackson infra Elliotts, The (c1870-c1914) delete `With another family'; alter k.a. to a.k.a. The founder J. B. Elliott (d1906) and his children Mary (d1929), Dot (b1879), Thomas (d1929), James, Kate, Polly and Rose; another trouper was Ralph (Elliott Somers) (1841-1909).  Joe Jackson Sam Barton ultra should be Sam Barton supra The Selbinis On 31 October 1910 a poll of London's Evening News readers disclosed that The Selbinis were their favourite Number 5 spot in an ideal Music Hall programme.
BLACK, JOE  (1918-99)	in first sentence alter to:  ...began his professional life as a juggler and tap-dancer...
BLONDIN	after the final paragraph add: In the 1880s-90s there even flourished Tamamoto The Japanese Blondin.
BONN, ISSY	at end insert:  Also see Syd Wright (TEDDY BROWN)
BRIGHT, ELLEN	after THE GREAT CARTER, add ISAAC A VAN AMBURGH
BROUGH, PETER &     ANDREWS, ARCHIE	Peter Brough died 1999. His father Arthur Brough lived 1883-1956
BROWN, TEDDY	Add to end: Another entertainer in this line, and one whom we knew and greatly admired, was Syd Wright (1929-99) A Joke at the Xylophone.  Mr Wright's early years were spent as Sammy, one of ISSY BONN's Finkelfeffer Kids. See Professor CHEER, MAY ERNE, BEBE NORMA, SID PLUMMER, REGGIE  REDCLIFFE.
BURKE, TOM	His daughter was Patricia Burke (1917-2003), sparkling actress-singer.
BUX, KUDA	1910-81
CARNEY, KATE	dob should be 1869, and for Paterson in first line read Pattinson.
CHANG & ENG	in fourth par. after Millie-Christine add: McKoy.  Delete `joined sisters' and substitute `pygopagus twins'.   After `Laloo' insert 'Oudh'.  In 1877 at the Canterbury Music Hall in London there appeared Lawrence The Marvellous Double-Headed Nondescript.
CHAPLIN,  Sir CHARLES	at end after BILLY RITCHIE add:  HARRY WELDON see below for more information on TOMMY LORNE.
CHIRGWIN, G. H.	Used The White-Eyed Kaffir billing from 1877
CINQUEVALLI	b. 30 June 1859.  Another Human Billiard Table was Adami fl1930s.
COLLINSON & DEAN	first sentence should read: At some time in the 1940s Will Collinson (1885-1958) split with Alfred Dean and took a new partner as Collinson & Breen. Delete last paragraph.
COOPER, TOMMY	Year of birth should be 1921.
COYNE, FRED	Year of birth should be 1847 and birth-name Frederick William Rawlinson..
DEHL TRIO, THE	at end add: See RHODES & LANE
DIXEY, PHYLLIS	Tracey should be Tracy.
DRYDEN, LEO	With his recording of the American version of Flag of Liberty made on 25 August 1898 (Berliner E-2029) Mr Dryden has a good claim to be the first Music Hall artiste to record commercially.
DURANTE, JIMMY	Lou Clayton (1887-1960) and Eddie Jackson (1896-1980) d. 15 December 1999
EAGLE, GEORGE BARNADO	b. 18 December 1806.  His daughter Georgiana was born 28 November 1834 (or perhaps 1831); in 1858 she married Charles Card, a reporter and photographer.  In his will Mr Eagle stated "I give and bequeath unto Georgiana Elizabeth Eagle my eldest daughter the sum of One hundred pounds sterling together with the whole of my conjuring apparatus to and for her sole use and benefit absolutely".  In 1867, now a widow,  she married Aloysius Gilliland, a 'professor of music', who died the following year. In 1888 she married Harry Pashley, a draper who was twenty-five years her junior. She died childless and was buried 10 March 1911 in Abney Park Cemetery.
ELRICK, GEORGE	(1903-99)
EMERY, DICK	d.o.b. should be 1915.  pp98-9 should read:  When therefore Miss Emery dried in mid-medley and asked us what came next we could not advise.  We heard a few weeks later etc., etc.
EMNEY, FRED	dates should be (1865-1917)
ETHARDO, Signor	Last line (p101): EMMELINE EHARDO should be EMMELINE ETHARDO.  add: Mdlle Fleury Alphonsine (fl1890s) billed herself as Queen of the Globe and Premier Spiral Ascensionist.
FEENEY, PAT	At end insert: See TALBOT O'FARRELL
FIELD, SID	After 'took his own life.' add: He left £1,388.
FLETCHER, CYRIL	1913-2005.  Married to Betty Astell (1912-2005) who wrote their pantomimes. Marriott Edgar's bill-matter was at one time The Man in Red.
FRAGSON, HARRY	In last paragraph mention is made of Tom F. Moss - he was half-brother to JILL SUMMERS.
FRINTON, FREDDIE	Dinner for One was recorded for television in Hamburg in 1963, not 1971.  Miss Sophie was played by May Warden, not Walden. The sketch was written by Lauri Wylie, possibly in the 1920s.  In the 1970s the tradition began for Dinner for One to be aired on German TV on New Year's Eve, and by 2003 the sketch had been shown 230 times.  It is also transmitted in at least twenty other countries from Estonia to Australia, but, for reasons which remain obscure, not in the UK.
GANJOU BROTHERS & JUANITA	Serge Ganjou d. Nov 1998 leaving £1,246,007.
GILSON, LOTTIE	add at end: Another Little Magnet was Britain's DAISY JAMES
GITANA, GERTIE	On 31 January 1910 the London Evening News reported that Miss Gitana had been voted most popular Number 8 spot in a poll of their readers for Favourite Music Hall Programme.  She started her career with Tomkinson's Royal Gipsy Chilldren, not Tomlinson's.
GRAYSON, LARRY	In 1947, touring with an all-male revue called Come Peep Through My Porthole, this entry was allegedly billed as The Yes Yes Girl with the No No Eyes.
GREEN, HUGHIE	At the Bristol Hippodrome for the w/c 5  December 1938 this entry was Supported by his Girl Friends Sadie Corrie & Jean Ray with Douglas Tanguy at the piano.
HALL, ADELAIDE	d.o.b. should be 1901
HANLON-LEES, THE	Trained by John Lees, the act was established in 1847 with the three eldest Hanlon brothers: Thomas (1835-68), George (1839-1926), and William (1842-1923).  Younger brothers to join the act were Alfred (1844-87), Edward (1846-1931), and Frederick (1845-66)).  According to Tony Staveacre in his 1987 book Slapstick (pp83-4), in 1865 Thomas suffered severe in juries in a fall from a 'human pyramid' in which 'Bone splinters in the brain destroyed his sanity.  In 1868, he intentionally dived head-first into an iron stove-pipe and killed himself.' Another acrobat who came to a sad end was Paul McCullough (b1884) of the celebrated US team Clark & McCullough, who in 1936 cut his throat in a Massachusett's barber's shop.  Bobby Clark continued as a solo performer, dying in 1960 aged 71. Later Hanlons were Dick (d1905), Robert k.a. Little Bob (1861-1907), Robert's son Edward (b1891) - the Bob Hanlon Troupe were billed as Eagles of the Air.  Another Hanlon-Lees at one time was Joe Ridgeway Delaney of the Griffiths Brothers.  See Hanlon-Lees in The Oxford Companion to the Theatre ed. Phyllis Hartnoll (OUP, 3rd ed. 1967).
HAY, WILL	Also in his company at various times were H. Gordon Saunders (1885-1930), Stan Fields, CHARLEY (CHARLIE?) HARVEY, Billy Nicholls, Peter Byrne, Michael Hunt and Hay's nephews Cyril Platt and Bert Platt (d1972).  Mr Hay's daughter was the comedienne Gladys Hay (1909-79).  The eccentric comedian Joe Pasquale was once heard to remark that going to a Water Rats Lodge meeting was like being an extra in a Will Hay film.
HAYES, ELTON	See  THE FOUR BROWNIE BOYS
HEARNE, RICHARD	dates should be (1909-79)
HENDERSON, EDDIE	delete `we once' in first line and substitute `in September 1959 we'
HOWARD, SYDNEY	dates should be (1885-1946)
HUGHES, TOM E.	on last line between `his' and `was' insert: `gentleman tramp act'
JAMES, DAISY	also billed as The Little Magnet.  Formerly k.a. Daisy Martin. See LOTTIE GILSON
JOVER,  TOMMY     (NENA & RAF)	The final sentence we now know to be incorrect - Senor Wences (VENTRILOQUISTS) was from time to time also a bullfighter.  Raf & Julian were also billed as Just Hanging Around.
JUGGLERS	Tom Hearn: also billed as The Emigrant Juggler Johnny Lamonte & Suma (fl1944-5 and 1951-80) delete `into the 1950s' and substitute `until they teamed up again in 1951'.  Suma (Mrs Victor Seaforth) 1927-2003. Martyn, Topper (1923-2004) Severus Schaeffer (1867-1950)
KERR, BILL	after `Australian comedian' insert: (though South African born)
KING OF...	Harold Alanza (1917-2001) See lengthy obituary in The Independent 5 March 2001. Reuben R. Brooks BIRDIE BRIGHTLY should be BIRDIE BRIGHTLING Olmar add: a.k.a. Little Corelli.  Family name James Chadwick.  In the1860s this entry demonstrated ceiling walking at the Alhambra 90 feet up.
KORINGA	delete `two' from `between two assistants'
LANGTRY, LILLIE	After her second marriage The Jersey Lily was sometimes billed as Mrs Langtry (Lady de Bathe).
LAUDER, Sir HARRY	In the last sentence the comma between The Female Lauder and The Pocket Harry Lauder should be a full-stop.
LAWRENCE, JOE	add: Of possibly similar stripe was Louis Stone (d. 28 Jun 1972?) Upside Down Dancer.
LAWSON, JOHN `Humanity'	Mrs John Lawson, a.k.a. Cissie Lawson, was most unkindly referred to in The Referee as The Gutter Lady Macbeth.  Mr Lawson's famous music hall sketch Humanity was culled from a full length melodrama, originally presented at the Standard Theatre, Pimlico, London, under the title Humanity or A Passage in the Life of Grace Darling
LENO, DAN	add: One Harry Banford billed himself as The Pocket Dan Leno.  As Mr Leno was shorter than average Mr Banford must have been exceptionally diminutive,. Contemporaneously Nellie Coleman was puffing herself as The Female Dan Leno. Other claimants to Clog Dancing Championship were FRANK RENNIE, VESTA VICTORIA and JOHN WILLIAMS. Also see MAX WALL (The Queen's Jester) and HERB WILLIAMS.
LESLIES, THE TWO	A occasional deputy for Mr Holmes was Mervyn Saunders (1910-2000)
LEVIS, CARROLL	delete final sentence and substitute:  Three of the very few Discoveries to achieve stellar status were Jim Dale, Nicholas Parsons and the distinguished comedy writer BARRY TOOK, a thinnish but not contemptible roll of honour.
LIND, JENNY	Second paragraph: CHANG ENG should be CHANG and ENG.
LLOYD, MARIE	d.o.b. should be 1870.  After `French actress' add: (Marie Lloyd-Vibart 1842-97)
LOCKE, JOSEF	full dates should be: (1917-99).  At one time billed as Ireland's Singing Policeman.
LOFTUS, MARIE	after Cissie Loftus' dates add: The Mimetic Marvel.  This entry married Ben Brown of BROWN, NEWLAND & LE CLERQ.
LUPINOS, THE	For family see Sing Us One of the Old Songs
LYNN, Dame VERA	See SOLDIERS IN SKIRTS
LYNTON, JIMMY	There was also a Jimmy Lynton who worked as Charles or Charlie Parsons but we do not think these were the same gentlemen.
MACARI	add billing: ...and his Dutch Accordeon Serenaders at end add: See BILLY REID for more accordion bands.
MAGICIANS	Ali Bey (1905-75) David Charles Lemmy Ali Bongo Billed on TV at one time as The Magic Wallah. Fred Brezin  (1886-1950) Davenport, Louis (1883-1961) The Bewilderist Noted at the Leicester Palace, December 1924 Emerson & Jayne delete Ted and Hilda and substitute: Jack Emerson Skinner d. 24 November 1994 and Joy Skinner d. 18 January 2006 aged 89.  They worked their flying carpet act 1953-92. Robert Harbin (1909-78) A Wizard if Ever There Woz  The Magician of Tomrrow Le Dair, Jack (with his Lady) Matchical Entertainers Noted at the Coliseum Feb 1929 Servais Le Roy The Devil in Evening Clothes A Belgian illusionist Lucille (1903-82) The Best Dressed Woman in the World a.k.a. Lucille Lafarge (nee Marguerite Ingram Davidson).  Married next entry.  Not to be confused with Lucille (Barnett) The Dexterous Deceiver.  The Great (Cecil) Lyle (1889-1955) The Magical Milliner Married previous entry Maskelyne & Cooke The Maskelyne family claimed kinship with Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), Astronomer Royal of England for forty-five years. Channing Pollock (b.1926) The Great Ramses (1876-1930) Family name Albert Marchinski, proprietor of the Empire, Southend-on-Sea.  Came from line of East End Kosher butchers.  Worked London Palladium between 1911 and 1918.  Toured Europe and America.  At the Palladium and at Southend worked alongside Maurice Fogel. Rayanne & Partner Jack P. L. Martens-Moore (1897-1955) Edward Victor (1884-1964) Hand-Made Humour Shadowgraphist abnd prestidigitator Claude `Medals' Williams should be: Brother-in-law of DAVE WILLIS Mlle Zara Noted at Koster & Bial's in New York in October 1899 billed as The Chameleon Lady.
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX	1911-52
MERMAN, ETHEL	at end add: See JOHNNIE RAY
MISCELLANEOUS	De Dio, Mdlle (1875-1951) In Search of Faith Nee Florence Stafford.  Sister of La Pia (Ada Stafford 1874-c1950) and Mlle Naero (Pauline Stafford 1891-1960)).  De Dio m. Percy H. (`Peppo') Boggis (1870-1950), electrical engineer, who arranged the visual effects for her dances.   La Pia's dances such as The Dance of Fire and The Spirit of the Waves were also aided by her brother-in-law's electrical expertise which included `cinematographic projection'. Len & Bill Lowe Len Lowe (1915-99)  c.1950  Bill Lowe m. Jeanne Carson and went to live in the U.S. The Three Phoites (est. 1874) add: Established by Charles Phoite-Pinaud (Charles E. Hunt, c1846-1906), Robert D. Phoite (later k.a. Robert D. Girard), and Joseph O. Phoite.  Robert left the act in 1876 and was replaced by John Welch.  In 1880 Charles teamed up with an act called Jillson & Reed to form the Phoite-Pinauds. Don Smoothey (b1919) What a Life! Insert at end: Also worked as Chester Ladd Just a Comedian. Worked 1950-6  with brother Len as Lowe & Ladd. Wally Stanley & Edith Lester (fl c1940s) The Chance of a Laugh Time See Bryan Burdon infra delete Rusty Warren - see new substantive entry for RUSTY WARREN
MONKHOUSE, BOB	1 June 1928 - 29 December 2003
MURRAY & MOONEY	delete 1948 and substitute c1950
NAPIER, HECTOR	Joan Valantyne Napier 1920-2003
OCEANA	dob: 1856. First two lines should read:  'This enchantress was born into the Cooke circus family and married into the Renz circus family - we are not convinced etc....'
O'FARRELL, TALBOT	at end add: See PAT FEENEY for more phoney Irish.
O'GORMAN, DAVE & JOE	change of dates: (fl1904-56)
PETERS, ALOIS	after The Man You Cannot Hang delete the rest of the paragraph and substitute:     Another hostage to fortune was Tayonwana The Man They Cannot Kill.
POWELL, SANDY	For seventeen years Sandy Powell's feed was Norman Meadow (1918-2000).
POWER, NELLIE	10 April 1854 - 20 January 1887
PUJOL, JOSEPH	add: Another similarly talented artiste was King Henry II's jester, Roland Le Pettour, whose speciality was `a leap, a whistle and a fart'.  And in the 5th century no less a divine than St Augustine of Hippo himself pondered on those `who can produce at will such musical sounds from their behind (without any stink) that they seem to be singing from that region'.
QUEEN OF...	Bertoldi, Ena (1876-1906) ...Contortionists Beatrice Mary Claxton. Appeared in two pioneering films in 1894 made by Koster & Bial in Manhattan, New York.  Died of drink. See SPINK & SPINK. (The Beautiful) Jessica ...Equipoise So billed with Hengler's Circus at Hull, 1888. Iris Sadler add: At one time performed an astrology act billed as What the Stars Predict.
RANDLE, FRANK	Add: See Sonny Roy
RAY, TED	Nick Nissen's dates are now: (1907-2000).  At the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, for the w/c 22 April, 1946, the programme included one Jan Tors who also had the temerity to bill himself (herself?) as Fiddling and Fooling.
RETFORD, ELLA	On 31 October 1910 this artiste was voted by the readers of the London Evening News their most popular Number 10 spot in an ideal Music Hall programme.
RHODES, JOAN	at end add: Alice Penfold (b1916?) of Bury in West Sussex was k.a. The Female Samson.
ROBEY, Sir GEORGE	at end: after BARBETTE add BASYL; after VIVIEN FOSTER add PETER MAXWELL.  On 31 October 1910 this artiste was voted by the readers of the London Evening News their most popular Number 9 spot in an ideal Music Hall programme.
ROGERS, TED	1935-2001 though d.o.b. possibly 1930.
RONALDE, RONNIE	add: Originally billed as Ron Warren The World's Greatest Whistler.  During World War II Mr Ronalde worked for a time as a shoe-mender.  We can only wish this particular cobbler had stuck to his last.  In March 1949 he was billed at the Palace Huddersfield as Ronalde The Voice of the Whistler.  In 2003 made a very delayed come-back touring for impresario Duggie Chapman, who should have known better and lost a significant wodge on the venture.  By now RR's deafness made him unable to judge his dynamics, and the piercing fortissimo quality of his whistling had the audience wincing and stuffing their fingers in their ears.   See STEFFANI
SANDOW, EUGENE	See Professor JOHNSON
SEATON, JACK	delete name and d.o.b. from p236 (prior to SAVEEN, ALBERT)
SHIELDS, SAMMY	delete last sentence and substitute:  It was suggested to us by the late JIMMY LOGAN that 'Speakable' indicated comprehensibility to Sassenachs.
SHORT, JACK	at end before ARTHUR TRACY insert: Tayonwana (ALOIS PETERS)
SKETCH ARTISTES	The Bogannys between Joe and Boganny insert: (Clifton) Family details in Sing Us One of the Old Songs. The Boissets Family details in Sing Us One of the Old Songs. The Famous Craggs (fl1872-1914) Founded by J. W. Cragg (1846-1931).  Orig k.a. De Castro Family. At one time the act consisted of Cragg and five of his sons. A.k.a. The Alpine Monarchs. For further family details see entry for THE CRAGGS in Sing Us One of the Old Songs.   The Leopolds Family details in Sing Us One of the Old Songs.  The gymnast George Leopold (d. 7 January 1895) claimed a family connection but this is uncertain. Ernie Lotinga Second wife: Kathleen Barbor d. 20 April 1952 aged 1958. Six Brothers Luck Philip Luck (1874-1951) Harry Weldon As a soloist billed as That Humorous Johnny! Ha! Ha! and The Swell Entertainer.  This entry was married first to Mabel Holt (b1880), the grand-daughter of ALFRED VANCE, and second to Hylda Glyder who was cited as co-respondent.  With his centre-parted wig, eccentric clothes, eyes which always seemed to be shut and a voice of whistling sibilance Mr Weldon, even in those days of grotesques, cut a very strange figure indeed.
SMITH & DALE	delete entry and replace with: SMITH & DALE (fl1906-68) Dr Kronkheit and His Only Living Patient Joe Sultzer (1884-1981) and Charlie Marks (1881-1971) met in 1898 when they collided into each other's bicycles on Delancey Street in Manhattan.  The two began developing their patient-doctor comic duologue in 1906 while part of the AVON COMEDY FOUR, running the routine for over sixty years.  `Kronkheit' is German for `unwell'.  The act was full of exchanges such as `Please, my time is liniment' - `Don't rub it in' which makes us wonder how this entry lasted as long as it did.  Smith & Dale were the inspiration for The Sunshine Boys.
STANLEY, WALLY &             LESTER, EDITH	transfer to MISCELLANEOUS
SUMMERS, JILL	Half-sister to TOM F. MOSS
TATE, HARRY	The oft-repeated story that Mr Tate's demise was due to injuries sustained in a German bombing raid over Dundee in fact derived from a hoax report put out by Mr Tate himself some months earlier.
THURSTON, HOWARD	See  ALEXANDER HERRMANN
TICH, LITTLE	On 31 October 1910 readers of London's Evening News declared in a poll that in an ideal Music Hall programme this artiste was their preferred Number 7 spot.  His daughter, Mary Relph-Powell, died 4 May 2000 aged 82.
TILLEY, VESTA	see VESTA VICTORIA
TREWEY, FELICIEN	add to the end of the first par.:  What has survived is a tantalisingly short piece of film in which Mons. Trewey demonstrates his hat trickery. delete the first five words of the second par. and substitute:  Chapeaugraphy is still practised,... etc., etc.
TRIPP, JACK	d.10 July 1905
UNTHAN, CARL	add: Arthur MacMurragh Kavanagh (1831-89) had no usable limbs at all but displayed remarkable resourcefulness and was known in consequence as The Limbless Wonder.
VAN AMBURGH	at end add: Though Mr Amburgh died peacefully in his bed the same cannot be said of his daughter Faimali, whose grisly fate it was to be mauled to death by her big cats during a performance at the Alhambra, London, in 1883.
VAUGHAN, NORMAN	d. 17 May 2002.  See STEFFANI
VENTRILOQUISTS	Harry Benet (1926-2004 This entry does not appear to have been related to Harry Benet (1877-1948), agent and producer.  Performed in STARS IN BATTLEDRESS. Johnson Clark (1886-1956) The Sportsman Ventriloquist a.k.a. Vernando.  This entry's dummy was called Hodge, hence billing of the scena Hodge at the Cross Roads. Cole, Lieut. King of Ventriloquists Noted at The Foresters 1881 Edward Victor - entered in wrong category. See MAGICIANS Le Warren fl. ca1900 The Ventriloquial Foli Signor Foli was a renowned tenor. Senor Wences add:  This entry essayed the occasional spot of bullfighting.  See TOMMY JOVER (NENA & RAF).
VICTORIA, VESTA	In 1883 the young artiste was being billed as Little Victoria The Minnie Palmer of the Music Halls.  Minnie Palmer (1857-1936) was an American operetta star who early that year had caused sensations in Glasgow and Islington.  In 1885 Little Victoria's bill-matter declared her to be Champion Lady Clog Dancer of the World; two years later this entry had become, in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, The Jubilee Pet.  We have also seen her billed as The People's Idol (not to be confused with VESTA TILLEY The London Idol).
WALL, MAX	For other champion clog dancers see DAN LENO, FRANK RENNIE and JOHN WILLIAMS.  A later billing was: The Queen's Jester (cf. DAN LENO The King's Jester).
WARE, GEORGE W.	delete final sentence: It was for Miss Power's funeral costs etc.
WATERS, ELSIE & DORIS	n the final sentence `the same gentleman' is not, of course, JACK WARNER but an unknown gentleman.  We regret any inadvertent implication of incest.
WHITELEYS, THE FIVE	Leonora Whiteley (nee Mellors) 1875-1969.  Married Henry Whiteley 1899, Hamburg.  Children: Henry Emilio (1899), Ben (b1901), Harold (1903-2001), Paul (b1907), Leonora (b1909), Albert (b1911), Raymond (b1915). .
WILLIAMS, BILLY	delete final sentence: We can categorically state etc.
WILLIAMS, BRANSBY	in second paragraph alter `Culture to the Halls' to `Culture to the Masses'
WILSON, KEPPEL & BETTY	after `there were several Bettys' add: (see JEAN BAMBERGER)
WILTON, ROBB	see HERB WILLIAMS for similar billing.
WISDOM, NORMAN	should now be: WISDOM, Sir NORMAN.  D.o.b. should be 1915.
WOOTTWELL, TOM	in last sentence between `artiste's' and `name' insert `family'.
WORTMAN, CHRIS	Also billed as Bright and Breezy.  See WHIT CUNLIFFE.
WRIGHT, TONY	Anthony Steel: add dates (1819-2001)
ZAZEL	second paragraph should be indented

 

GLOSSARY

 ANIMAL & BIRD TRAINERS - see ANIMAL & BIRD ACTS (on one line)

 BICYCLISTS - see BICYCLE ACTS

COMICS
add RUSTY WARREN

 MUSICIANS
 add Syd Wright (TEDDY BROWN)

 SPIRAL ASCENSIONISTS
 add Mdlle Alphonsine (Fleury) (Signor ETHARDO)

 STUMP ORATORS
 JAMES UNSWORTH (should be in caps.)
 

INDEX
 Additions and corrections to Index in 1999 editions:

 Adami  CINQUEVALLI
 Alphonsine (Fleury), Mdlle  Signor ETHARDO
 Astil, Arthur should be Astill, Arthur
 Atroy, The Great  ATLAS & VULCANA
 Carson, Jeanne Len Lowe MISCELLANEOUS
 Duprez, May Moore    `Happy' FANNY FIELDS
 Faimali     ISAAC VAN AMBURGH
 Fleury, Mdlle Alphonsine   Signor ETHARDO
 Fuller, Loie   delete
 Gellini, Hugh  Mlle ALMA
 Kavanagh,  Arthur MacMurragh  CARL UNTHAN
 Layman, George should be listed before Layton, Tom
 Lolo  Mlle ALMA
 London Alhambra    ISAAC VAN AMBURGH
 Marx Brothers - should go after Marvi, Bea & Zelda
 Marx, Groucho - should go after Marx Brothers
 Massachusetts House of Representatives  RUSTY WARREN
 Mistinguette  delete
 Naero, Mlle   De Dio (MISCELLANEOUS)
 New York: Manhattan SMITH & DALE
 Pantzer Brothers  ATLAS & VULCANA, M. CANDLER
 Pia, La   De Dio (MISCELLANEOUS)
 Pierre, La  should be Piere, La and therefore go before Pieri, Antonio
 Poluskis entries should come after Pollock entries
 Ponchery, H R should come after Poluskis, The
 Pryde, Peggy  JENNY HILL
 Sinclair, Dawn  JUMPIN' JAX
 Stanley, Wally & Lester, Edith  MISCELLANEOUS
 Stone, Louis     JOE LAWRENCE
 Sylvester    Mlle ALMA
 Tayonwana     ALOIS PETERS
 Wah-Letke, Princess should be Wah-Letka, Princess
 Warren, Rusty  delete
 Weston, Bert     JOHNNY COOPER
 Willane     JOHNNY COOPER
 Wright, Syd    TEDDY BROWN

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