Records and reminiscences, personal and general (1904) (14576900840)

Identifier: recordsreminisce01burn (find matches)

Title: Records and reminiscences, personal and general

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836-1917

Subjects: Journalism

Publisher: London : Methuen & co.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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erary anddramatic, would contrive to look in here, fourevenings out of six, and to be welcomed by theamiable snuff-taking Paddy, as among his DearBoys, Dear Boys. There was a siffleur, one Herrvon Joel, retained on the establishment on accountof his long services (Heaven knows what theywere!), who, in a shabby alpaca coat, very dingy shirtcollar and wristbands, used to hand round cigars ina tumbler, and held himself always in readiness totake a turn on the stage with his imitation of birds,which he had brought to considerable perfection. The Coal Hole and the Cider Cellars I havementioned. At the former sat Judge Nicholson andhis court, trying cases quite unfit for publication,in which he was assisted by one Brooks, The Pro-taean Witness, and the solemn way in which thejudge would stop a case, in order to address the jury(i.e. the visitors who had paid so much a head asentrance fee), and direct them to give theirorders, as the waiter was in the room, was somethingnot easily forgotten.

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DANCING DAYS AND NIGHTS 247 In those days too there was a considerable amountof public, and quasi-public, dancing going on, not onlyat such places as The Hanover Square Rooms andat the rooms in St. Jamess Street (the name escapesme), where such fashionable reunions as TheCaledonian Ball and similar dances were held oncertain comparatively state occasions, but there wasdancing at Vauxhall, at Cremorne, at the SurreyGardens, at the Princesss Rooms, and so forth.And in places of less ton were given ballet balls and dances, while teachers of dancing, as was Mrs.Selby in Soho, would give dances to which theirpupils, principally female, could bring their friendsat so much a head, refreshments and supper included.These were semi-respectable and of mixed class ;and many quite respectable, entirely the middle-classof fairly well-to-do shop girls and so forth, perhapsanswering in a certain way to what at one timewere the grisettes of Paris. Nowadays there areno grisettes^ though la vie de Bohem

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