Music hall

His first appearance, at the age of four, was in a music-hall comedy routine played by his father and Little Tich at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle.

The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.

[T.S.] Eliot wrote this sixty-some years ago, and not about the performing arts (his tastes in which were adventurous - he was a big fan of music hall and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes).