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All the morning the German guns had thundered and shrieked against this corner, and against the thousand or so of men who held it. The men joked at the shells, and found funny names for them, and had bets about them, and greeted them with scraps of music-hall songs.
They were pretty well convinced that Riccabocca was dishonest, and quietly sent for those to whom the "combination" was indebted: namely, the printer and publisher of the Daily Bulletin, the agent of the music-hall, and the bill-sticker who had posted notices of the entertainment. These parties arrived while Philip was at breakfast. "Gentlemen," said the landlord, "the boy is at breakfast.
Kendal's marital tendernesses and the abortive platitudes of Messrs. Pettit and Sims; the music-hall is a protest against Sardou and the immense drawing-room sets, rich hangings, velvet sofas, etc., so different from the movement of the English comedy with its constant change of scene.
The music-hall had not, as far as Pantomime was concerned, made such inroads as at the present time it has done into the dramatic profession.
"I'm all right," said Cuckoo crossly. "Leave me alone, do." She turned into her sitting-room. Mrs. Brigg followed, open-mouthed. "Ain't you a-goin' out ag'in?" "No; oh do leave off starin'. What's the matter with you?" Mrs. Brigg heaved a thick sigh and shuffled round upon her heels, which made a noise upon the oilcloth like the boots of the comic man at a music-hall.
Neither had any specialities; they would simply appear and deliver lectures. The feeling in the music-hall world was strong. The Variety Artists' Federation debated the advisability of another strike. The Water Rats, meeting in mystic secrecy in a Maiden Lane public-house, passed fifteen resolutions in an hour and a quarter.
"It would appear that you do not know yourself as Felix Clemenceau?" "Clemenceau?" echoed the student, remembering what he had heard in the music-hall. "Yes; your father was the famous sculptor." Was his predilection for art a hereditary trait? the son of a celebrity? then his essays in design were unworthy of his name.
Michael Davitt suggested that the young men of Castleisland took part in nocturnal raids because there was no such social inducement to keep them quiet, as a music-hall or a theatre; but I told him there ought to have been no inducement to them to shoot their neighbours, and that Castleisland was past redemption.
It was the natural invitation to song, and all joined in the latest ditties learnt at the music-hall. Away they sped, over the roofs of South London, about them the universal glare of sunlight, the carriage dense with tobacco-smoke. Ho for the bottle of muddy ale, passed round in genial fellowship from mouth to mouth! Pennyloaf would not drink of it; she had a dread of all such bottles.
Mr Harry Lauder on the Morals of our Drama A little while ago Mr Harry Lauder made some statements to a representative of The Daily Chronicle concerning the relations between music-halls and theatres. Some readers may be aware that Mr Harry Lauder is a popular music-hall singer, and by many people regarded as the chief of his calling. Consequently his utterances have a little importance.
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