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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... cipals were called before the curtain after the perform- ance carrots, cauliflowers, and potatoes were rained upon the successful actors. A lady was struck in-the face by a cauliflower, and much excitement prevailed. I The Auction Rooms in the Rue Dronot ...

MR. H. G. CLARENCE'S ENTERTAINMENT

... of single young ladies were present;* while the strenuous demand of a gentleman seated at the back of the hail for a cauliflower was satisfied. Itr Clarence exemplified the simplicity of the burnt pocket-handkerchief trick, and canoed loud la~ughter ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 726 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A PROSE POETESS.*

... to criticize a violet, to catalogue its tints, and describe its fragrance. One can declare negatively that it is not a cauliflower, or a tiger-lily, or a polyanthus; but positively, what is there to be said save just that it is a violet ? And then one ...

A ONE LINE PART

... Being sent out to Mrs Chelsea's with two pounds of potatoes, and having in the same basket three cauliflowers for Mrs Nelson, he left the cauliflowers at the Ohelseas' and the potatoes at the Nelsons'. Also on Sunday he had put blacking on the kid tops ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2652 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CONVENTIONAL ACTING

... bring his chutton mop and stint of pout, instead of mutton chop and pint of stout? Is there any choice fun in calling a cauliflower a folly dlower ? bat we have actually heard it so called, and accepted as a fine bit of drollery. The eternal repetition ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1727 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CRYSTAL PALACE POTATO SHOW

... White Elephants, at sixteen tone to the acre, ran up to 21b. scht The same wvll.-known farmer finds it profitable to grow cauliflowes sand pickle them for the trade. The visitors yesterday to the frait and potato shows were evidently much interested in the ...

THE FASHIONS

... flower, When the -artificial florist exaggerates 1 her imitation so that it attains the dimnensions c of as well-favoured cauliflowe~r she effeotnally s prevents the false being accepted even momsen- ; tarily for the true, and herself accuses her own1 work ...

ABOVE SUSPICION AT YORK

... her betrayer an announcement which brings the curtain down on an effective picture. Act three brings us to the Cow and Cauliflower, where Sam Strutb, who is down on his luck, is heard asking the landlord to put him somewhere where he can overhear ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1882
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... thosght-transferenee should actually - have takeni plac-e. It nasy be impossible for us to guess bow ti conjuror extracts six cauliflowers from a bat ; 1hut we kneow that nothing is more certain than that thl'ley erie neer all inside at once. A nunaber of the ...

GLOBE THEATRE

... At the end of the act the villagers are regaled, at the reqluest of the Governor, by Poupard, landlord of The Festive Cauliflower, and his maid Simone, and his Excellency sets out for the convent with Marie, little dreaming who the monks are who follow ...

Published: Sunday 07 November 1880
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1966 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. G. A. SALA'S NEW BOOK

... cabbages, turnips carrots, aul other specillteiss of market-gardon pro- dfce, and the.e offeritigs, sometimes with a giganmtie cauliflower iai the cetitro, vere east upots thie stage and accepted with mock solemnity by the performers; except, as was sometimes ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LONDON THEATRES

... realistic still with arriving, departing, and passing boats, Covent- garden Market, with real porters carrying real potatoes, cauliflowers, &c., and the real water of the Bermondsey cellar should, and doubtless will, secure for Seved fsom ?? St2reets a large ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2849 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture