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Flash Parade
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ISBN: 1282481274 9786612481277 1443815713 9781443813808 144381380X 9781443815710 Year: 2009 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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Flash Parade was the name that the legendary Vic Loving gave to her touring company which travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and parts of England from the 1920's to the early 1960's. She was also known as the 'Sequin Queen' for lavishly made costumes used by her dancers and actors in her productions. It was unusual for a woman to run her own business never mind a large company of musicians- actors and dancers in a country that was going through some dark times.... but as those who re...


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Gags and greasepaint
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ISBN: 1282334336 9786612334337 1443811785 9781847185105 184718510X 9781443811781 9781282334335 6612334339 Year: 2008 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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This volume is a paean to the "Revue", the "Fit-Up" and the fifty or more travelling roadshows which traversed the roads of Ireland during the heyday of the "fit-ups", the decades prior to the Second World War. This book is a personal memoir of one of the "goddesses" of Irish repertory theatre?Vic (Victoria Loving)?the woman known as the "Sequin Queen"?as recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last of these travelling artistes. It is a celebration of Ireland's "curtain up", and the "five-...

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