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Here is music hall history with a difference - - a history of the Variety Artistes' Federation from 'Foundation Day' - 18 February 1906 to incorporation with British Actors' Equity in 1967.
A fourth-generation performer himself, Peter Honri fills out much of the story behind the laughter. Peter's grandfather Percy Honri joined the VAF in 1906, and played his famous concertina on the picket-lines with Gus Elen during the 1907 Music Hall War. Peter has researched in some depth this colourful episode in popular entertainment's history, and how Askwith's Arbitration established equitable agreements for performers, stage staffs and musicians.
An Equity Councillor from 1965 to 1990, and Chairman of Equity's Variety Advisory Committee for nearly twenty years, he has had the fullest co-operation of the Equity Council and its General Secretary lan McGarry with this unique project. Passionately interested in variety history, Peter Honri broke new ground in examining popular entertainment with his first book WORKING THE HALLS Saxon Mouse 1973. In 1985, lan Henry published Peter's second JOHN WILTON'S MUSIC HALL written as the music hall proprietor's personal journals.
Now with MUSIC HALL WARRIORS, Peter salutes the acrobats, comedians, llusionists, jugglers, singers, ventriloquists who stood alone in the limelight - - those true warriors of the theatre.
ISBN: 9781871551068
Here is music hall history with a difference - - a history of the Variety Artistes' Federation from 'Foundation Day' - 18 February 1906 to incorporation with British Actors' Equity in 1967.
A fourth-generation performer himself, Peter Honri fills out much of the story behind the laughter. Peter's grandfather Percy Honri joined the VAF in 1906, and played his famous concertina on the picket-lines with Gus Elen during the 1907 Music Hall War. Peter has researched in some depth this colourful episode in popular entertainment's history, and how Askwith's Arbitration established equitable agreements for performers, stage staffs and musicians.
An Equity Councillor from 1965 to 1990, and Chairman of Equity's Variety Advisory Committee for nearly twenty years, he has had the fullest co-operation of the Equity Council and its General Secretary lan McGarry with this unique project. Passionately interested in variety history, Peter Honri broke new ground in examining popular entertainment with his first book WORKING THE HALLS Saxon Mouse 1973. In 1985, lan Henry published Peter's second JOHN WILTON'S MUSIC HALL written as the music hall proprietor's personal journals.
Now with MUSIC HALL WARRIORS, Peter salutes the acrobats, comedians, llusionists, jugglers, singers, ventriloquists who stood alone in the limelight - - those true warriors of the theatre.
ISBN: 9781871551068