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Empress Of The Blues

George Melly visits the former hospital where Bessie Smith died ould you like to see where Bessie die?' asked Frank `Rat' Ratcliffe, propri- etor of an African-American hotel in......

Theatre

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (National Theatre) Love Upon the Throne (The Bush) A wonderful carry on Sheridan Morley N ot since John Osborne's The Enter- tainer, and that......