Who was Pinkie Pell, anyhow!" "Pinkie Pell was a well-known music-hall artiste, my dear sir, once a great favourite, who came down in the world, and had to sell her valuables," replied the American.

He tried to make an appointment with me to give me some dinner and take me to a music-hall to-night.

The younger son, Murray, who had devoted the best years of his life to being a friend and companion to his father, while Percival ran after ballet-dancers and music-hall starsMurray, who had avowedly been the apple of his father's eye in consequencewas left with a miserly pittance of £300 a year, and no share whatever in the gigantic business of Brooks & Sons, bacon curers, of Dublin.

Many people asserted that Brooks would sooner have left his money to charitable institutions than seen it squandered upon the brightest stars that adorned the music-hall stage.

His extremely prosperous appearance, his white billycock, his jewellery, and so forth, coupled with the circumstance that he conversed in French with Desmoulin, had led some of those present to imagine that he was a Continental music-hall director on the look out for English 'artists.'

He was present that evening at a prize-fight which took place in a music-hall at Calcutta.

And no matter how far one penetrates into the recesses of the country, he is always within reach of some bucolic rendering of the popular music-hall ditty of the year before last.

A band thereupon burst into gay strains, like the band at a music-hall after something very difficult on the horizontal bar.

It wouldn't be quite nice for you to go to a music-hall to-night.

Her answer to his suggestion of a music-hall, and the tone of it, had impressed him.

There is a music-hall in Sofia, but on the two nights I went to it there were scarce twenty in the audience.

" I must congratulate Mr. CHARLES COCHRAN on his courage in transforming the Oxford Music-hall into a home of "the legitimate," and still more on his good fortune in securing for the initiation of his new venture the play which Captain BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER and Captain ARTHUR ELIOT have written round the adventures of "Old Bill."

George never seemed to think of putting his 'and in his pocket, and even arter the music-hall, when they all went into a shop and 'ad stewed eels, he let Bob pay.

The Elizabethan stage was the ancestor of our music-hall, and to the modern music-hall rather than to the theatre it bears its affinity.

For example, not very long ago I heard a popular comedian introduce his family motto and translate it for the benefit of a music-hall audience.

EnglandI mean the music-hall; the French music-hall seems to me silly, effete, sophisticated, and lacking, not in the popularity, but in the vulgarity of an English hallI will not say the Pavilion, which is too cosmopolitan, dreary French comics are heard therefor preference let us say the Royal.

" To this soldier it is an intolerable thought that he should hear the hymn of victory sung at a "prize distribution," or in a music-hall scented with the perfume of women.

He was wearing an old hat of the texture of the bit of headgear which the man who impersonates Napoleon at the music-hall doubles up and plays tricks with, only Dalrymple's hat had obviously been white and was now going green and other colours with wear and tear.

Fetching comic "biz," and superlative Music-hall "chic.

When I behold, the godlike Partha in the music-hall like an elephant with rent temples surrounded by she-elephants in the midst of females, waiting before Virata the king of the Matsyas, then I lose all sense of directions.

If people had spoken of 'sonnets' with the same accent with which they speak of 'music-hall songs,' a sonnet would have been a thing so fearful and wonderful that we almost regret we cannot have a specimen; a rowdy sonnet is a thing to dream about.

The music-hall is a protest against Mrs 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 is a protest against the villa, the circulating library, the club, and for this the "'all" is inexpressibly dear to me.

If the quarrel had been with one of the music-hall singers I should have backed out of it, but I had everything to gain by pressing it.

The crowd had gone, the lights had been extinguished, and the doors of the music-hall were shut.