The Linkman – The Tatler – Wednesday 25th February 1903
“The Linkman.” Before extinguishing the “sacred lamp of burlesque” (I think that is the trusty phrase) at the old Gaiety Mr. George Edwardes- has revived the lights of other days in The Linkman, which was produced after The Toreador on Saturday night. In the course of a bright hour we looked into a kaleidoscope of perplexing variety. From the dusty corners of the property-room fifteen old Gaiety successes from The Forty Thieves downwards and forty-one characters passed in quick succession, presented by fourteen of the present-day principals. Fred Leslie and Nellie Farren, E. J. Lonnen, Seymour Hicks, and the rest of them passed as quickly before us as did the warlocks that bewildered Tam o’ Shanter. Miss Ethel Sydney, whose imitation of Miss St. John – especially in the pronunciation of the term, “words” – was photographic, made the house die with laughter when she resurrected Miss Ellaline Terriss. Mr. Mackinder was very daring when he appeared perspiring (with grease paint) as Mr. Seymour Hicks used to do after his enormous energies. Miss Violet Lloyd gave us a capital Letty Lind, but Mr. Grattan’s Arthur Roberts was only so so.
The Gaiety Burlesque of Stall Rudeness. – I the roughly enjoyed the skit in The Toreador of the appalling bad manners that distinguish the stalls of our playhouses. Mr.. Grossmith sits in a chair with Mr. Payne in the pit behind him unable to see anything. “I’ve seen this piece sixty-two- times,” says Mr. Grossmith with his drawl. “I don’t think I’ll see it once,” says Mr. Payne, whose demand for his rights leads to a mimic melee in the pit with its familiar “Sit down!” It’s very amusing indeed. The dummy motor race is also screamingly funny.
The Tatler – Wednesday 25th February 1903
The Hon. Mrs. James Beck- The Tatler – Wednesday 26 November 1930
THE HON. MRS. JAMES BECK
The portrait by Mr. Cecil Beaton, which is included in “The Book of Beauty,” which he has just had published by Messrs. Duckworth, and which includes numerous photographs and also sketches of the people with whom the book deals. The author in his preface tells us that his greatest heroines in his childhood’s days were not the Maid of Orleans, or the Lady of the Lamp, but Lily Elsie, Gabrielle Ray, and Queen Alexandra. The author’s study of beauty has taken in its present shape this collection of all the most decorative people of to-day and yesterday. The Hon. Mrs. James Beck is Lord Glenconner’s sister.
The Tatler – Wednesday 26t November 1930