The second volume in a series of extracts from The Era, Crocodiles in the Green Room covers the years between 1900 and 1910 in which traditional theatre and music hall entertainment was faced with a new rival – the early cinema.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments……i
1 – 1900: Goosed by the Gallery……….1
2 – 1901: The Forces of Pantomime Evil……….5
3 – 1902: The Scent of Violets Makes Him Gay……….23
4 – 1903: Rice Pudding Was Served in a Small Bucket……….49
5 – 1904: Too Refined For Coventry……….67
6 – 1905: The Tastes of Upper Tooting……….79
7 – 1906: I Laughed So Heartily That the Swelling Subsided……….93
8 – 1907: Dainty Teeth For Actresses……….105
9 – 1908 : Piratical Sharks……….115
10 – 1909 : Never Mind Your Pussy……….129
11 – 1910 : The Conductor Retaliated With His Baton……….137
Index……….149
About the Author……….153
About the author
Julia D Atkinson was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1960. She was formerly a critic for the British Theatre Guide. Her ground-breaking article ‘A Name Not Just Now Familiar to Ears Polite: The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere’s Fan on Tour, 1895-1900’, was published in the July 2015 edition of ‘The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies’.9,681 Ebooks in this category
