... the building were of that persuasion. The performance had reached the fifth item in the programme, some clowns being in the ring, when another clown in acting costume rushed in, shouting fire. At first the people thought this was part of the performance ...

... evening. We should mention before going further that the majority of those present were in fancy dress. ?? rubbed against cooks, clowns, Turks; jockeys, princes, highwaymen, soldiers, sailors, countrymen, Niggers, jesters, Spaniards, convicts, costermongers ...

... more extended support. The cases relieved during the year have included actors and actresses, an American actor, a manager, clowns, musiecias, wvidow of sceusicianc the aged mother ofa musical conductor, a music hail artiste, carpenter, choristers, supers ...

... by the Clown, who pretends to be Sir Topas the curate, and who exorcises the hyperbolical fiend, somewhat claims our compassion, probably against the author's intention, but the vanity of Malvolio is still in the ascendant. As he asks the Clown, who speaks ...

... n whbo IlId given repeated proofs of her ability to interpret Racine asd other great writers, transforming herself into a clown, Wfi,0 ...

... and will prove formidable rivals to the other artists at present engaged, clever as they are. Prominent among these is the clown Raffin, with his porcine and monkey wonders. His pig is, indeed, a learned one, despising the simple tricks of his ancestor ...

... highly laudatory one. Amongst other things, I was told that this particular clown had reached an enviable pinnacle of fame ; that, as I very well knew, there were clowns and clowns -some who raised the drooping spirits (mine, in fact) by legitimate ...

... formance opened at 2 30, and the only members of the band present were Taylor and Macpherson. He had to get the services of clowns to go into the orchestra, and he had suffered a greater loss than the 21 7s. Id. The audience could not be otherwise than ...

... from the fact that there was a kind of juvenile ballet carried oin by some little children, who represented two fairies, a clown, and an incroyable. Of the four there was one little child of about three or four years old, with a face so sweet, so fair ...

... shot. Les Fr6res Meazurano gave a good acrobatic display; but why, we wonder, are they described in the bills as acrobatic clowns ? They went through their work in very serious fashion. Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant, was the next to put in an appear ...

... ladies, the only change of importance being that, instead of a portress for the college, the 'porter at the gate was a rude clown, who caused great mischief by admit- ting Cyril and Florian, who were in love with two of the inmates. The fun of the subject ...

... boarding-school there was a re-arrangement of Mrs Jarley's figures, effected by altering the face and costume of MIr Grimaldi as clown to represent Mr Lindley Murray as he appeared when engaged in the composition of the English Grammar; and turning a murderess ...