Publisher Description

Here, for the first time, is complete collection of actor and entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues, which he performed between 1929 and 1941. All the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom ('with a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle'), Sam Small ('Sam, Sam, pick oop tha' arm), and King 'Arold ('on his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and') are gathered together and brilliantly illustrated by cartoonist Bill Tidy.

Author Biography

Sir Robert Michael Marshall, usually known as just Michael Marshall, was born in Sheffiled in 1930. He was a business man, politican, cricketer and author. His work includes a biography of Jack Buchanan (The Timetable of Technology), Gentlemen and Players and The Book of Comic and Dramatic Monologues. He died in Chichester in 1998.

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