.I like the microphones. Good attention to detail!
Small TJ. Found this gem this morning in Brewer's Dictionary of Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics, and I thought it might appeal:
Stoll, Sir Oswald (1869-1935), theatrical manager. On the first night of his newly-opened Coliseum Theatre in 1904, and in an effort to outdo the spectacular effects recent organised by his rival impresario George Edwardes (of Gaiety Girl fame), Sir Oswald planned to re-enact the Derby on a revolving platform, complete with sporting toffs, pickpockets, bookmakers, mounted police, and six horses ridden by professional jockeys.
Owing to a fault in the mechanism, the revolve gradually worked up speed until it was a blur to the eye, Jockeys, horses, bits of scenery, pickpockets, toffs and their ladies hurtled across the footlights, causing the audience to duck for safety under their seats. Miraculously, there was only one fatality. Leading jockey Fred Dent, in Lord Derby's colours, went like a rocket into the upper circle, and died before readching Charing Cross Hospital. The Derby was run again on the second night, with a safety net strung across the footlights.
(Small TJ. Found this gem this morning in Brewer's Dictionary of Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics, and I thought it might appeal:
Stoll, Sir Oswald (1869-1935), theatrical manager. On the first night of his newly-opened Coliseum Theatre in 1904, and in an effort to outdo the spectacular effects recent organised by his rival impresario George Edwardes (of Gaiety Girl fame), Sir Oswald planned to re-enact the Derby on a revolving platform, complete with sporting toffs, pickpockets, bookmakers, mounted police, and six horses ridden by professional jockeys.
Owing to a fault in the mechanism, the revolve gradually worked up speed until it was a blur to the eye, Jockeys, horses, bits of scenery, pickpockets, toffs and their ladies hurtled across the footlights, causing the audience to duck for safety under their seats. Miraculously, there was only one fatality. Leading jockey Fred Dent, in Lord Derby's colours, went like a rocket into the upper circle, and died before readching Charing Cross Hospital. The Derby was run again on the second night, with a safety net strung across the footlights.
mozza,
Wed 11 Jun 2003, 10:04,
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YehI thought he was talking about the thumper that posh is holding...
And that scale splitting spade thing....
(And that scale splitting spade thing....
Mrfishfinger .com,
Wed 11 Jun 2003, 10:17,
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.ah. I thought they were those Madonna-style hands free mics.
( mozza,
Wed 11 Jun 2003, 10:22,
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Actually, they're calledcatchtubes.
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charliedontsurf,
Wed 11 Jun 2003, 10:41,
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