This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

1918. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. A Minstrel in France is the account of the Scottish performer's travels and experiences entertaining the troops in England France and America during World War I. This despite his son, Captain John Lauder of the First 8th Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, having been killed in a battle in France. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1928. With 28 illustrations. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. Lauder recalls his glory days in this volume of memoirs named after the song Roamin' in the Gloamin, which was inspired by love for his wife. Contents: Wee Harry; Boyhood's Years Slip Awa'; This Wean's Going to be a Singer; In the Coal-Pits; I Love a Lassie; Five Shillings to a Pound; The Lure of the Road; Coal-Face or Footlights; I Become My Own Impresario; A Sovereign for Publicity Only; Pantomime; Great Artiste Captivates America; 'Arry Laudah's 'Oss; Will Morris Comes for Me; I Play for Royalty; The First Years of the War; Carry On; The War Years in America; My Friends the Presidents; Glen Branter; Knight of the British Empire; Bad Tips and Others; South Africa; The Orient; Some Fish Stories; and The End of the Road.

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1928. With 28 illustrations. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. Lauder recalls his glory days in this volume of memoirs named after the song Roamin' in the Gloamin, which was inspired by love for his wife. Contents: Wee Harry; Boyhood's Years Slip Awa'; This Wean's Going to be a Singer; In the Coal-Pits; I Love a Lassie; Five Shillings to a Pound; The Lure of the Road; Coal-Face or Footlights; I Become My Own Impresario; A Sovereign for Publicity Only; Pantomime; Great Artiste Captivates America; 'Arry Laudah's 'Oss; Will Morris Comes for Me; I Play for Royalty; The First Years of the War; Carry On; The War Years in America; My Friends the Presidents; Glen Branter; Knight of the British Empire; Bad Tips and Others; South Africa; The Orient; Some Fish Stories; and The End of the Road.

Sir Henry Lauder (1870 - 1950) was a notable Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador. Lauder first appeared in his music-hall career as an Irish comedian. He toured the world extensively during his forty-year career, including 22 trips to the United States. During World War I he was active in fund raising and touring music halls helping with recruitment. Lauder wrote many popular songs, performed in three movies and wrote a number of books. His books include a number of books which ran into several editions, including Harry Lauder at Home and on Tour (1912), A Minstrel in France (1918), Between You and Me (1919), and Roamin' in the Gloamin' (1928).

1918. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. A Minstrel in France is the account of the Scottish performer's travels and experiences entertaining the troops in England France and America during World War I. This despite his son, Captain John Lauder of the First 8th Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, having been killed in a battle in France. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1928. With 28 illustrations. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. Lauder recalls his glory days in this volume of memoirs named after the song Roamin' in the Gloamin, which was inspired by love for his wife. Contents: Wee Harry; Boyhood's Years Slip Awa'; This Wean's Going to be a Singer; In the Coal-Pits; I Love a Lassie; Five Shillings to a Pound; The Lure of the Road; Coal-Face or Footlights; I Become My Own Impresario; A Sovereign for Publicity Only; Pantomime; Great Artiste Captivates America; 'Arry Laudah's 'Oss; Will Morris Comes for Me; I Play for Royalty; The First Years of the War; Carry On; The War Years in America; My Friends the Presidents; Glen Branter; Knight of the British Empire; Bad Tips and Others; South Africa; The Orient; Some Fish Stories; and The End of the Road.

People wrote to me, men and women, who, like me, had lost their sons. Their letters brought the tears to my eyes anew. They were tender letters, and beautiful letters, most of them, and letters to make proud and glad, as well as sad, the heart of the man to whom they were written.... "Don't desert us now, Harry!" It was so that they put it, one after another, in those letters. "Ah, Harry-there is so much woe and grief and pain in the world that you, who can, must do all that is in your power to make them easier to bear!... Come back to us, Harry-make us laugh again!" -from Chapter IX Scottish vaudevillian SIR HARRY LAUDER was one of the most popular entertainers in the world before World War I, touring the globe numerous times to great acclaim. But he almost left the stage for good after his only child, Captain John Lauder, was killed in action in France just after Christmas 1916... until his wife, Nance, and his fans reminded him that his power to bring joy and laughter to the world was too important to be abandoned. Here, in this stirring 1918 book, Lauder (1870-1950) relates how he transformed sorrow to action, honoring his son's last words -"Carry on!"- by becoming the first performer to entertain troops in the battlefields, a dangerous mission (he regularly came under fire) he carried out in both world wars. Knighted in 1919 for his service to the British Empire, Lauder is an inspiration to this day, and this is a remarkable tale of a father's grief and a legacy that continues to affect soldiers and their families today.

1918. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. A Minstrel in France is the account of the Scottish performer's travels and experiences entertaining the troops in England France and America during World War I. This despite his son, Captain John Lauder of the First 8th Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, having been killed in a battle in France. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1928. With 28 illustrations. Sir Harry Lauder was the most successful star of the English music halls in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Scotland's image in the world today owes much to the caricature presented by Harry Lauder's stage performances. His extravagant highland dress, glengarry at a jaunty angle, humor, ultra-thrifty attitudes and sentimental songs endeared him to many audiences. Lauder recalls his glory days in this volume of memoirs named after the song Roamin' in the Gloamin, which was inspired by love for his wife. Contents: Wee Harry; Boyhood's Years Slip Awa'; This Wean's Going to be a Singer; In the Coal-Pits; I Love a Lassie; Five Shillings to a Pound; The Lure of the Road; Coal-Face or Footlights; I Become My Own Impresario; A Sovereign for Publicity Only; Pantomime; Great Artiste Captivates America; 'Arry Laudah's 'Oss; Will Morris Comes for Me; I Play for Royalty; The First Years of the War; Carry On; The War Years in America; My Friends the Presidents; Glen Branter; Knight of the British Empire; Bad Tips and Others; South Africa; The Orient; Some Fish Stories; and The End of the Road.