The Archive · 1920

The Retirement of Vesta Tilley

A Great Artist From Our Own Correspondent

London, June 10.

Miss Vesta Tilley last week retire ed from the London music-hall stage, and although she is to be seen occasionally at charity performances, it is understood that never again will she personify the masculine tytes she made famous or appear in the reles which her ability popularized _till~_'they brought her fame There is more than a touch of real regret in the minds of all music-hall goers at the disappearance of Vesta. ly all of them, and finished after all of them. There is only one other alive now making fitful apance on the stage, and he never a iqusichall artist pure and simple, as she was. I refer to Arthur' Roberts, who is now about

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