... the homage paid by virtue to vice, or, rather, by Philistria to Bohemia. Whatever i890 or I1900 may have to say to this Harlequinade, the social historian of 2000 may be recommended to dip into it. He will find in it an ingenuous record of the influences ...

... addition of a harlequinade, written and produced by Mr. Brandon Thomas. Thanks to the efforts of the author as harlequin, and of Mr. Weedon Grossmith as clown, and to the graceful dancing of Miss Norreys and Miss Chester, the harlequinade bids fair to ...

... advantage of being developed after a less laborious and protracted process than has fhitherto been the case. Of the concluding harlequinade perhaps the less said the better. The jokes were few and pointless, and, in short, less exhilarating comic business, ...

... favourites in the Drury Lane pantomime appear in the character roll. Perhaps the greatest interest of all is centred in the harlequinade, in which, to quote from a very long list of popular favourites, the following bear a part: Miss Ellaline Terriss, Miss ...

... instructive article-they are not always equivalent adjuncts -on Plays Without Words. He goes hack to ?? Rome, and traces the harlequinade from Italy through France to this country. It is interesting to note that while Clown and Panta- loon have dialogue, and ...

... maunacr to set before thern everything of the best---good music, poetry, scenic art, and true comedy. Will you have a harlequinade ?- Oh, yes. There is no one more conservative than your B3ritish schoolboy, and lie loves ihis clown beyond al; things ...

... sometimes heard that modern poets have ignored their surroundings and the social problems of their day. But in the exquisite harlequinade of the early books of King Poppy can be recognized a good-humoured though vigorous satire on much that is modern. Throughout ...

... His trick of stealing the pocket-handkerchiefs of all the other characters in turn is mere poaching on the preserves of harlequinade. It is noticeable that the play flags most in the scenes that the more nearly approached the realities of life, and when ...

... apparently surrounded the house for the purpose of first seizing him under a committal order, and then engaging in a noisy harlequinade rally to wind up the scene. Here the modernizing of the plot has led to a manifest absurdity. how would it be possible ...

... spirited hornpipe ?? by the;little 'creature in seaweeds' met with great applause. The efutertaillutent toll cluded with a harlequinade of the most conventional and unedityma descrip- tion, which led to the rapid desertion of the stalls .. Buton't vh~o~e; ...

... stics of French spectacle and the uhiaiilesallttl dances of English burlesque go far to constitute a modern YetrIn ?? harlequinades much cannot be said. Drury Lane and the l. Q rejoice in double companies, Which rather confuse than entertain leCtators ...

... by robin redbreasts of pantomirnic proportions, are skilfully personated by Miss Victoria and Miss Rosina Vokes. In the harlequinade scenes a double troop of pantomimists appear, to the embarrassment of each other and the perplexity of the spectators. ...