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The audiences did not go to see the likes of Sickert but such stars as Marie Lloyd
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She begun her career at the age of fifteen as Bella Delmere at the Royal Eagle where
she sang a song 'borrowed' from Nellie Power -
'I was sent to Cambridge till some of my father's speculations went wrong, and I had to face the facts of life and carve out a career for myself.'
Who could resist the charms of that 'walking slum',
J Peasemould Gruntfuttock; the heartstoppingly wonderful Dame Celia Molestrangler as Fiona and the gutwrenchingly, ageing juvenile Binky Huckaback as Charles; that itinerant folk singer Rambling Syd Rumpo and those two 'resting professionals' Julian and his friend Sandy.
His career spanned 66 years and encompassed roles as diverse as Shakespeare and Star Wars. Guinness was able to immerse himself in a character so effortlessly that the critic J G Trewin once remarked that 'he had a players countenance, designed for whatever turned up'.
Who these days would pay to watch a West End musical that had no scenery, two grey curtains as a backdrop and a cast that admitted to hiring their suits from Moss Bros?
In the 1950s one of the biggest hit shows consisted of two men in dinner suits, a piano and an audience singing along with the chorus of a song about an hippopotamus.
How could a virtual unknown outsell the legendary Sarah Bernhardt and have audiences paralysed with laughter, tears
running down their eyes and cheeks? To understand this late
19th Century phenomenon, it is necessary to describe something that years ago would not have found its way into print. In short, Pujol farted.
and 12 films for Twentieth Century Fox. Yet, one day in 1963, he suddenly stepped out of the limelight and into obscurity.
He was the star of eight Royal Command performances, 4,000 radio appearances, 500 television shows