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NOTES 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 Derek and Julia Parker, The Natural History of the Chorus Girl, London, David & Charles, 1975, p 22 See Sanderson’s chapter on ‘Financial Rewards and Safeguards 1890– 1914’, op cit., pp 79–94 Mrs Mathews, ‘Ennobled Actresses’, Bentley’s Miscellany, 1845, vol 17, p 600; Noel B.Gerson, Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry, New York, William Morrow, 1971, p 84–7; Christopher Thomson, Autobiography of an Artisan, 1847, p 259; and Joseph Knight, ‘Who is the Greatest Living English Actress—and Why?’, The Idler, November 1885, vol 8, p 393 Ehrlich, op cit., p 44 H.G.Hibbert, Fifty Years a Londoner’s Life, London, Grant Richards, 1916, pp 211–12; ‘The Electric Dance’, Era April 1893, p 15 George Foster, The Spice of Life: Sixty-five Years in the Glamour World, London, Hurst & Blackett, [1939], p 102 Charles Booth, ‘On the Economics of Music Hall,’ Theatre Quarterly, OctoberDecember 1971, vol 1, p 46 John Ebers, Seven Years of the King’s Theatre, London, William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828, p 395 J.H.Anderson, Letter, Stage, August 1885, p 18 ‘The Theatrical Business—I’, St James’s Gazette, 10 January 1885, p ‘What a Ballet Costs: A Peep Behind the Scenes’, Sketch, 12 February 1896, p 114 Ann Catherine Holbrook, The Dramatist: or, Memoirs of the Stage, Birmingham, Martin & Hunter, 1809, p 38 Rede, op cit., pp 5–9 [Adelaide] Mrs Charles Calvert, Sixty-Eight Years on the Stage, London, Mills & Boon [1911], p 14 Letter, Era, December 1853, p 10 Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol III, London, Charles Griffin [1856], p 150 This may be an improvement on Thomson’s experience, probably acquired in the 1820s: the combined efforts of Thomson, his wife, and their young son often earned more than 1s a night (and on two occasions they earned 4s each) but they did not play every night (Thomson, op cit p 195) Letter, Stage, 26 October 1893, p 14 Squire Bancroft and Marie Wilton, The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty Years, London, John Murray, 1909 Foster, op cit., p 96 Leading Article, ‘Actors’ Salaries’, Era, 26 October 1907, p 21 Fitzroy Gardner, ‘Does Acting Pay? A Warning’, Daily Mail, 18 October 1907, p ibid., p ‘A Chat with Kate Phillips’, Era, May 1894, p 11 A.Bulley and Margaret Whitley, Women’s Work, London, Methuen, 1894, pp 33–4 Stage, December 1895, p 11 Stedman Jones, op cit., pp 30–1 Cicely Hamilton, Life Errant, London, J.M.Dent, 1935, p 43 167