... CUr Playbill The Browning Version (Phoenix J A Harlequinade THEATRICAL occasions are usually memorable for an especial reason, a single happy merit which earmarks them for the memory, but here is an evening's entertainment with three claims to distinction ...

... production the combat of the good and evil influences, and the vicissitudes of the personages up to transformation and harlequinade. It is under stood, to start with, that the credit of both demon and fairy is failing, and that they are likely to be out ...

... plays. But before we got to the fable of the great Fabian we were given about an hour's performance of what was called The Harlequinade, an entertainment which had D been contrived, so the programme said, by two gentle men named Calthrop and Barker, the ...

... be his only friend. This ft; a probing, ruthless piece Terence Rattigan has written nothing of more obvious quality. A Harlequinade, which follows, is solely a revel. Curtain- rise reveals the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet, with Mary Ellis in position ...

... pantomime, with a Harlequinade and a Concubine, I once heard a Malapropish M.F.H. declaim. He is likely to be disappointed, at any rate, as regards the former. But if we can't do without pantomimes, we can do without the modern Harlequinade tedious tripe ...

... Wood, the more roystering of Central London's panto mimes, is crackling like a bonfire. There is everything here except a harlequinade, but other joys dim before the Wicked Uncle of Eddie Gray, a Baron with a trick of juggling away the hours on the fringe ...

... after death in a state of suspended animation between Heaven (or whatever it may be) and earth. The first act is a grim harlequinade of business experience. Has there ever been an expressionist play in which a multiplication of typists and stenographers ...

... piece of rough-and-tumble fun, and Mr. Edmund Payne and Mr. William Spray are the life and soul of the piece. A capital harlequinade finishes the entertainment. In this Mr. Payne is the clown, and Miss Olive May columbine. ...

... slapping it on to the faces first of his servants and next of poor Katharine, what time Gremio skips I through a rope of harlequinade sausages. I One gathers an impression that Mr. Guthrie does not really like this play, that he feels something has got ...

... to strength. A ccn-l tingent of the Ballet Rambert helps to decor, te and divert royal occasions and grace the elega nt Harlequinade. And when Cinderella beg ns to find her feet at this Court now resident at St. James's, she will doubtless profit not 01 ...

... well and acts admirably, and her performance is full of liveliness and charm. At the matinees there is to be a special harlequinade for the children, with Mr. Harry Gardner as the clown. The pantomime is right up to date, and there are aeroplaning and ...

... but a cry, does not ap pear to lose favour with the audience through having been denied any of the authors' lines. The harlequinade is here broken up, the clown and his colleagues appearing from time to time as the piece progresses. This is at least a ...