Owners and Managers of the Halls

Sir George Dance

Sir George Dance, a prolific song-writer and the author of Come Where Me Booze is Cheaper, Angels without Wings (sung by Vesta Tilly), and His Lordship Winked at the Counsel (sung by Harry Rickards), made a fortune with his musical comedy The Chinese Honeymoon, which established the reputation of Louie Freear. His music hall interests were of a varied kind; his most consistent undertakings being the management of innumerable tours of musical comedies. An important use made by Sir George Dance of the fortune thus acquired was the considerable assistance which he gave towards the stabilization of the Old Vic as a permanent Shakespearean repertory theatre.                                                                From EARLY DOORS by Harold Scott