... and many others too numerous to mention or indeed to remember. Following on the fancy dress parade, the curtain rose to a Harlequinade Performance, in which officers of the Corps sustained the parts of Weary Willy, Joey the Clown, Pantaloon, Policeman and ...

... seems, if it is not so in reality, for the first time since 1870, to be tzuly and obviously Gallic, to have put off its harlequinade costume of cosmopolitanism, its glittering tinsel and garish night light, and to have put on the more simple and sober ...