The Archive · 1927

Singing the Chen

Community singing is in fall swing' all over the country and the practice is to be exten A favourite fed principal comedian who has failed to make an audience take up a chorus is "Then there must be a lot of good dancers don the preponderance people on the stage itself who can dance like fairies, but sing like jerows. I fear we shall hear it a good deal this season, if the pane tom ime producers carry out their! threat of making the audiences troll jour the choruses. For a London audience is distinctly coy. It is all very fine (0 tell us to be festive, but we Londoners are a self-conscious race, and do not take kindly to the notion of carolling from our place in pit, stall, or gallery -some Jsuch momentous question as "Have, you ever seen q straight banana"? And we shall feel terribly shrenish, in making the lusciously sentimental appeal Keep my Kipper warm!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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