'The Oxford Music Hall', in Oxford-street, is the latest development on a grand scale of a species of entertainment now in great favour with the public.

Therefore another result was, that there was nothing wholesome or genial in the folks' enjoyment: they drank their grog staring gloomily or lewdly grimacing; and the worthless dread of your neighbour which halfeducated respectability creates kept them silent and selfish.

In 1879, Charles Dickens Jr. wrote that "the operatic selections which were at one time the distinguishing feature of the Oxford have of late years been discontinued",[10] and the hall's programmes after that date evidence a move to popular musical forms.

The theatre was rebuilt to a design by Wylson and Long, with a conventional stage, 1,040 seats including boxes, domed ceiling and opulently decorated interior, and reopened on 31 January 1893.

[8] In 1917, the hall was converted into a legitimate theatre, and the musical The Better 'Ole, by the well-known cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather, enjoyed a run of 811 performances.

[11] In 1921, the building was renamed the New Oxford Theatre, and the Phoenix Society revived Ben Jonson's long forgotten Bartholomew Fair.

[citation needed] For a 1944 film, Champagne Charlie, the stage and bar of the Oxford during the 1860s were recreated with the lion comique and 'top of the bill' Alfred Vance played by Stanley Holloway.