To paraphrase Shakespeare, I believe there is a time in every man’s life when he is presented with a chance to get on, and it is for him to seize and make the most of it.

I thought such a chance had come to me in Brown’s Royal Music Hall, Dunlop Street, in the year 1886.

Col. James Menzies became proprietor of the house after Davie Brown’s death, and he asked me to become the lessee of it.  After some consideration I fell in with his suggestion.  I put the house in order, and opened it as “Frame’s Royal Music Hall” on the T.T. principle.

James Booth, my present accompanist, became my manager, and my agent in advance, Macgregor Millar, my stage manager.  I had a grand opening; all the “stars” at that time appearing with us.  I produced Burns’ “Jolly Beggars” (Bishop’s music) for the first time in a music hall.  It was real Scotch.  Many happy nights I spent there with what I always regarded as my partners the public.

At the end of eighteen months I gave up the lesseeship, this being rendered necessary by the demands on my personal services and the theatres and the extension of my “Vaudeville tours.”