Miss Bessie Bellwood, the well-known serio-comic, was announced somewhat extensively to make anappear- ance at the Gaiety Concert Hall, Birmingham, on Monday. The building was crowded almost to suffo- cation. The programme went without a hitch until a quarter-past ten, when, on

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