... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... your(?) critic sees through his ears, and fancies that Hamlet ought to look like a member of the merry family of patomime clowns. Further, I am favoured with a nasal twang-be might just as truthfully have written, had also a hunch, squinted, limped ...

... stand on their heads, hind feet, and roll barrels with their fore feet. The clown elephant, however, amuses the patriarch most. He comes in dressed, as I have said, in clown's costume, takes his seat at a table which is set for dinner, rings the bell ...

... George Claig, but was known in professional circus circles as lidlie. Esther Austin, end was renowned for her impersonation of clowns and harlequins. She performed, you know, at rthe Lyceum as well as at Astley's, and has appeared as harlequin and in other ...

... Wells pantomimes with old Joe Grimaldi, and when the coach broke down, as described by Charles Dickens, ran with the famous clown to Covent. garden Theatre, to be in time with the barley water bottle, which was always confided to his care. Mr Morelli was ...

... fire, full of cathusiasm, with flaming torch in balud. Who could have foretold the dramatic vocation of this unfolturiate clown, who little drianemld of minieg a debut in the identical wolk lie hissed? He has a more sensible head nowv, lie never hisses ...

... boots, and his wondrous whip, which, with its sudden crack, made the horses gallop, stop, jump, or walk at its bidding ; thc clown, so comical, gro- tesque, and witty, who was the only one of all the equestrian company who seemed not to care for, or to be ...

... and chronological fitness seas net an irdiffereisce to essentials. He who felt no inconsistency in the presence of Englis clown and vrletswith Eglish rustic or farcical nause, amng th idel citconsof Suthern Europe, its the middl age, orin te rlasic eys ...