Press Clippings for the week ending
Saturday, 4 October 2003

A random selection of cuttings
from newspapers and magazines

Constance Loseby in retirement, 1896 'Miss Constance Loseby, who used to sing so charmingly in the earlier productions of the Gaiety [in London in the late 1860s] and on the variety stage, is to be the new manageress of the Greyhound Hotel, which looks out on the pleasant glades and tangled greenery of Bushey Park.' (The Era, London, Saturday, 2 May 1896, p.17a) * * * * * * * * Atalanta at the Middlesex music hall, London, 1899

Beautiful Atalanta, 1893, later known as La Belle Atalanta

(photo: Bixio & Cia, Buenos Aires, circa 1893)

Middlesex music hall, week beginning 25 September 1899 'Atalanta walks the wire with her customary ease and jauntiness, even though her head is encased in a sack.' (The Era, London, Saturday, 30 September 1899, p.18a) * * * * * * * * Harry Fragson entertains at Oddenino's, London, 1912

Harry Fragson (1869-1913)
English variety comedian and entertainer at the piano

(photo: Foulsham & Banfield, London, circa 1906)

'Harry Fragson and Mrs. Fragson gave, at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant, on Sunday last [11 Febraury 1912], a farewell dinner to some forty of their friends. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brett [Maie Ash], Maurice Farkoa, Courtice Pounds, Marie La Bella, with several of the Spanish dancers engaged in [the ballet] Carmen at the Alhambra [Leicester Square], and a number of other ladies and gentlemen well known in dramatic and variety circles. This is Mr. Fragson's last week at the Alhambra, and owing to Continental engagements he will not appear again in London for at least a year.' (The Performer, London, Thursday, 15 February 1912, p.9c) * * * * * * * *

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