Mar, 3.
"Broad British humour will be the principal ingredient," a London correspondent writes, in the royal variety performance to be given at the London Coliseum lon Thursday evening, March in aid of the Variety Artist Benevolent Fund and Institution." Extracts from the: programme whicn follow remind one indeed of the "gay nineties." Here we find, for instance, Stand and Douglas "fiddle fanatics; Larry Kemble "comedy cyclist Astor, the ventriloquist; Anton Dolin, an Irishman b in Sus-also British, who means to show what dancing can be, also comedienne a remark= ie vocal range;" a "comedian schoolmaster;" ands the usual vand of yirk dancers,—Altogether one feels that one is retin back to' the good old times. Recent personal exp tence, too, confirms this. feel; Variety shows in London have. uch more of the vldfushioned
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