Victorian Music Hall
Stuart Reed
introductions used by the Master of Ceremonies to introduce acts on a music
hall bill?
TIA
Stuart Reed
Marjorie Clarke
"Stuart Reed" <s...@stureed.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know where I could find examples of the alliterative
> introductions used by the Master of Ceremonies to introduce acts on a
music
> hall bill?
Can't really help you, but I think I heard somewhere that this style of
patter was invented for "The Good Old Days" TV programmes and was not
authentic. Not that this is any real reason to not to imitate it, I suppose,
but it may make it hard to track down examples.
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Marjorie
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Dominic Cronin
wrote:
Someone once told me that the British Library is a good place to
research music hall stuff.
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Dominic Cronin
Amsterdam
Jim Lawton
>Does anyone know where I could find examples of the alliterative
>introductions used by the Master of Ceremonies to introduce acts on a music
>hall bill?
>
You mean the Amusing Application of Alusive Alliteration used with Pointed
Pungent Perspicacity in a Thrilling Threnody of Rapturous Rippling
Rumbustiousness?
if you're not actually doing research, I'd just make up a marvelous masterly
melifluous melange of indordinately interesting interlocutionary iimpishness
or summat
Jim
Steve Mansfield
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Mr Lawton's Lovely Lunatic Locutionary Looping The Loop Devastatingly
Yet Democratically Demonstrates The Default Demotic.
I also suspect that a few minutes spent getting your head round the idea
is all that's really needed, unless you're actually wanting to research
genuine examples of course!
Alternatively the Thrillingly Tonsil-Twisting Thesaurus-Torturing
Twosome of Messrs Lawton and Mansfield could no doubt knock something up
at reasonable rates, cash in hand no questions asked ;-)
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Peanutjake
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There are two books by Michael Kilgarriff
It Gives Me Great Pleasure: handbook for Chairman of Old Time Music Hall* ISBN 0 573 09036 X
http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/sf/Pages/sect.f/igmgp.html
It Gives Me Further Pleasure: further ruminations upon the art of the Music Hall Chairman, plus over
six hundred ready-made song introductions* ISBN 0 573 19007 0
http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/sf/Pages/sect.f/igmfp.html
PJ