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... tumbled, and at last, the night nearly over (and the boy's eyelids beginning to droop), the comic- sentimental onrush of the Harlequinade clattered across the boards. There was the familiar street scene. There were Colum bine and Harlequin. There was Pantaloon ...
... performance of a Harlequinade, executed in Italian Mimic Scenes, put on by John Rich, the actor-manager, who billed himself as LUN at Lincoln's Inn and Covent Garden. Rich kept Harlequin's rascality alive. In his day the Harlequinade was the backbone ...
... CALAMITY AT THE HARLEQUINADE. ALL IS LOST-- EVEN THE SAUSAGES BY THE SLIPPERED PANTALOON ...
... GOODWIN Side wings and extras for Battle Of Waterloo, 1842 Puffin Book reproduction of 1836. Set and characters in the Harlequinade Contemporary Toy Theatre set by Doris Zinkeisen ...
... r- r*l r t I 7 Specially drawn for I he Christmas Harlequinade The sphere b pmup G0Ugh ...
... the Christmas pantomime in Britain. The stock characters were Columbine, Harlequin, Pantaloon and Clown. The concluding harlequinade is nowadays rarely seen but no Victorian family would have regarded the pantomime as complete without it. Masques were ...
... doubt, is in store for one and all. Now whereas we shall all laugh as much, or very nearly, as we habitually do at this harlequinade, surely there is a case for some fresh blood Can no English author pro duce a good farce for, say, Brian Reece, Michael ...
... LONDON: Pictures of a vanished capital 48 FELIX KELLY IN LONDON: A 20th- century New Zealander's view of the capital 49 HARLEQUINADE AT CHRISTMAS: Grimaldi, one of the greatest English clowns; by Primrose Rostron 50 ...
... times. It was not unusual to have an abridged version of Hamlet or Macbeth followed by a rip- roaring Christmas farce and harlequinade. At the Adelphi in the Strand, however, a straight pantomime was being played, Little Red Riding Hood, although, as one ...
... dramatically barren, remained theatrically exciting, presenting for the most part full- blooded melodramas and slapstick Harlequinades. This broad style, reflected in the juvenile drama, made it the enchanting thing it was, a bright, riotous entertainment ...
... the pantomime. London's theatres at Christmas, 1853, offered a feast of seasonable fun. There was a grand pantomime and harlequinade at Drury Lane the Princess's Theatre presented Harlequin and the Miller and his Men at the Adelphi there was a fairy-tale ...