More Variety Days - A collection of Memories from Fairs & Music Hall & Variety

More Variety Days follows the success of Those Variety Days and offers another another collection of vivid showbiz memories. Spanning two centuries, it starts with early 19C Fairs & Fit-ups and ends with TV, Cabaret & Cruises. Its broad scope ranges from Budapest to Alaska, and features magicians, dancers, scriptwriters, producers, theatre-owners, singers & comedians from Music-hall, Variety & Revue. "I absolutely loved it...I devoured it" Mary Brennan, BBC Radio Scotland

Contents

Magic entertainment : three extraordinary showmen - Jim Cuthbert explores the lives of three flamboyant pioneers
I remember, I remember - Kit Peters recalls dancing days in pantomime, cine-variety & revue across England in the 1930s
Memories are made of this - Randle S Cutts tells the story of an English touring variety family
Three Dancing Dudes and Rita - Reg Maxfield looks back on his speciality-act career in the 1930s, including the 1937 Royal Variety Performance
Ring up the curtain on yesteryear - Jack Richmond on Glasgow music hall and his cousins the Ardane Sisters
My Story - Dita Maher travels from her native Hungary with the Ballet Darmora to Scotland, via the London Palladium
The new comedy materialist - Frank Bruce draws on the prolific Bill McDonnell's original scripts and letters
My Dad owned the Empire - George Woolley recounts the years when his familiy ran the Greenock Empire
The Voice of Scotland - Carey Wilson pays tribute to his father, acclaimed tenor Robert Wilson
Canada Calling Scotland - Ray Smith on some Scottish acts who made it in Canada
On tour with Derry and Johnstone - George Johnstone on English and Irish variety, working men's clubs and cruises
The Tall Droll and the Small Doll - Chic Murray and Maidie Dickson - Annabelle Meredith on her showbusiness parents

210x147mm, 233pp, 27 b&w photographs