Author: CHARLES DUVAL
Title: Charles DuVal in His Popular Entertainment "Odds and Ends." Programme.
Description: St. James's Great Hall, c. 1883. Bifolium, 285 x 215 mm. two small closed tears. Charles DuVal was a music hall and vaudeville entertainer best know for his own comic songs, often in the characters which he had created including: Signor Howlini, a tenor "who relies principally upon his upper notes and his black moustache>" "Mrs Clearstarch, an Irish washerwoman, who hung out real clothes on a real line whilst delivering herself on various domestic subjects and perhaps the cleverest of all Mr Du Val's imitations, Miss Bella Dashaway, the "Belle of the Ball," in which character he sang a mezzo-soprano song with all the minauderies of a real female vocalist." He toured extensively both at hoe and abroad and became extremely popular. He died falling overboard in the Red Sea whilst on his world tour, and although the press reported it as suicide, his wife and travelling companions were convinced that it was a terrible accident.

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