... Pantomitne Clowns. TO TEB EDITOR OFL THE EIZA. Sir,-My attention having been called to some letters apuearing in your valuable paper respecting the decline of c owning, may I venture to say, as a clown of some experience, that in my opinion the public ...

... safely assert that one motive power in the downfall of old pantomimes was in the little novelty that wtas put into them. '-he clown who laments that the gallery no longer calls for Hot Codlins, himself touches a very wead point in his ease. What is the ...

... plenty of fun, and no lack of clown or pantaloon. In and about the Strand only two theatres are open for pantomime, namely, Drury-lane and Covent-garden ; and the allusions to questionable parodies, which the Old Clown mentions, are not to be found ...

... enemy's establishment, and set up there r erprmanence and avowedly in opposition. Tile better to push his business, he engaged a clown and three or four musicians, whose performances reached their height in the evening. Cheap Jack's enclosure therefore soon ...

... impossible to hear the voices of the singers. When the comic business began there was one continued roar of laughter, the clown and panta- loon doing their utmost to keep up-the fun. The performance occupied two hours and a half, at the close of which ...

... thlin audience, has plenty of humour, variety, and pathos in the expression of the poor little dogs and in the gravity of the clown. Tho dusky background of the dinm circus is also rendered with much patient skill. Mr. Knight is a painter wonder- 1 fully ...

... danse to name. Iecanse you see I have to tell ; The sto1y to the town, . vow she unwisely loved too well- The Harlequin and Clown. The HEareleuirnwas tall and thini The-Cloeai wras short and Stout, Aid every word the one put in Would put the-other-out. ...

... interesting and well-composed drawing is Mr. C. Green's A Talented Troupe (65). The scene is a tent at a fair or a circus; a clown is presented to us with five performing dogs, who sit on five neat chairs, ready to begin-one shaggy member of the troupe having ...

... very t gretty lidiug and juggling, and an excellent 0 ~iantormimo in which motley 's the only A and a clown in a red wig is the only s tclown-a clown whom Mr. Bultitude himself ;uightask to dinn er and say graca first, for a com- tpanion i3 wvhoma comedy ...

... jester ; the latter sent by Madame Newsome, the well-known circus proprietor. Mr Wallett made the presentation to his brother clown in arpro- priate style. DISTURBANC'E AT A MusIC HALL.- At Clerkenwell, on Monday, Alfred Geahaaqen, aged nineteen, a labourer ...

... bad barely time to escape. They found the dairy building and out-offices at the opposite side of the farmyard already burned clown. No cause is assigned for the burning; but it is significantly stated that he was a punctual payer of rent, and ignored Land ...

... l(aderel, assil, ft'ter a brie r) 'aley, hsallpily slucceeded inl his L lsii g thelmI to eturcil.' 1' he city ogifi quieted clown, ...