Fairies in Cabs: Comic and Curious Clippings From the Legendary Theatrical Paper "The Era", 1890-1900

by Julia D Atkinson (Compiler)

Overview

A compilation of amusing, odd and sometimes downright bizarre extracts from Britain's leading theatrical newspaper. Oddball music hall acts, Sabbatarian landladies, squalid dressing-rooms, the dangers of public transport, the vexed question of why women insisted on wearing hats the size of cartwheels at the theatre - it's all in Fairies in Cabs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999761035
Publisher:	Julie Diane Atkinson
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 - 1890: Mr Wilberforce's Paroxysms

2 - 1891: A Storm of Mock Osculation

3 - 1892: Very Intricate Whirls

4 - 1893: The Stuffed Baby Has Won The Day

5 - 1894: The Beauties of Her Incomparable Bust

6 - 1895: The Pea-Shelling Prima Donna

7 - 1896: A Pound of Sausages Enclosed in a Dainty Box

8 - 1897: The Way in Which Ibsen Arranges His Hair

9 - 1898: The Patent Pneumatic Tail

10 - 1899: Mr Shaw's Extraordinary Jocularity

11 - 1900: The Explosive Boer