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Title: The man of pleasure
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nevill, Ralph, 1865-1930
Subjects: Characters and characteristics
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ccess, and it is greatly owingto him that Pommery now enjoys such widespreadpopularity. As the public taste for it increased, all sortsof ingenious means were used to pufF variousbrands of champagne. A play is even said to havebeen written with the intention of increasing thesale of a certain cuvee. A sequel to Champagne Charlie was Moet andChandon, also composed by George Leybourne,and sung by him dressed in a wonderful froggedblue coat edged with fur. There is no reason,however, for thinking that the singer was subsidizedby the famous firm of wine-growers. Later on, Leybourne abandoned the praises ofsparkling wine, and, like so many of his contem-poraries on the old music-hall stage, turned hisattention to songs about love. He died a comparatively young man. I seehim now, a sick man, but still imbued with thespirit of life, singing in his catching way, Ting!ting! thats how the bell goes! Alas! a sad-toned bell was soon to toll for him. A popular figure on the music-hall stage during
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THE GREAT COMIC SONG WRITTEN & SUNG BY OlORGl LEYBOl Music by Alfred Lee. BESSIE BELLWOOD 163 the seventies was Pat Feeney, a prominent star ofthe past. Many will remember the pleasant moments theypassed listening to his clever drolleries and render-ings of Irish ditties. A contemporary of Feeney was the late FredAlbert, easily first among the topical vocalistsflourishing at that time in the Halls. His greatforte was extemporizing, and he was noted for hisknack of composing, on the spur of the moment,verses on any celebrity, or even on a member ofhis audience. Best of all the old music-hall singers was theinimitable Bessie Bell wood, in her prime an exceed-ingly handsome woman, with a most graceful andfascinating sweep of her right arm as she advancedtowards the audience. Her What cheer, Ria, Aubrey Plantagenet, and other ditties, neverfailed to bring down the house. Miss Bellwoodpossessed considerable powers of trenchant repartee,and was an expert at routing any disorderly revell

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