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THE MOHAWK MINSTRELS

... kind, and we may endorse the verdict of the audience without reserve, for the entertainment is excellent. As for the midget clown, he is one of the little wonders of the world. His tricks, his comicality, his funny face, and extraordinary antics causeh ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

STAGE CHILDREN

... charge of the clown. We can easily conceive the ideas which arose in Miss Earlee's mind at this portentous discovery. She had, doubtless, witnessed the harle- quinade at the Palace ; and horrible visions may have haunted her of the clown rehearsing his ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1557 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

MR. BRITTON PETTIGROVE'S MARIONETTES

... Laughter loud, hearty, and continuous followed the adventures of Mr Clown and his aged relative Mir Pantaloon through the conic scenes, one of which, the haunted bedchamber-where the clown's slumbers are interrupted by ghostly visitations-by a clever mechanical ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

SANGER'S AT SANDRINGHAM

... marvellous piece of eques- trian training, also contributed. We must not omit the amusing comicalities of the ever-popular clown, Bob Anderson, Funny George Fottitt, and the musical eccentricities of the Brothers Lloyd. We have belt merely named the principal ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: 16 | Tags: News 

HENGLER'S CIRQUE

... pretty creature, and he knew quite as much as did his master. Trying to get Robin home was a most amusing affair. Chirgwih, the clown, and not the White- Eyed Musical Kaffir, came on in this show covered with frills and gave occasion for a good deal of laughter ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 917 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

INTERNATIONAL CIRQUE, COVENT-GARDEN

... male companions on her shoulders while they perform a variety of difficult feats. Roars of laughter greet the jolly Elephant Clown, introduced by Mr M'Carthy. This is surely the most comic elephant ever witnessed. He appears to have a thorough enjoyment ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 944 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE MOHAWK MINSTRELS

... for the little Midget Clown, he is a perfect wonder. No acrobatic clown of his years ever attempted such eccentric tricks; or if he has done so, they were never accomn- plished with such ease and comicality; for the Midget Clown was evidently born for ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND

... the pantominme by presenlting bim with a hali 'nnmeo plati-l jug. Th'li re sltation wassi mnad, by Jolly Little Le is, the clown, A eally beautiful tankard was also presented to Mr C. LIamsley, the musical director. On Fridlay night, the 6th inst., `Jolly ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1628 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL SICK FUND

... makes one feel a veritable pigmy and overwhelms me with confusion. To quote the words Shakespeare puts into the niouth of his clown, Touchstone, A man, if be was of a fearful heart, might well nigh stagger in this attempt. Gentlemen, I am a man of a fearful ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5304 | Page: 14 | Tags: News 

MR. J. L. TOOLE AT LICHFIELD

... fat is full of virtue. In farces and pantomimes we see very cruel things perpetrated, and we roar with laughter at them. The clown burns the pantaloon with a red-hot poker, or puts him in a copper, or runs him through a mangle, and the children positively ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2063 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

ON BEING LOOKED AT

... t Clifton, and George Medley. Mr WV. Eaton, Metropolitan Mulsic Hall, led the orchestra, and Mir Tom Loveil, Britannia's Clown,' was stage-manager. ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1079 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

HENGLER'S CIRQUE

... gave evidence of his powers in leaping and turning somer- saults, this time on horseback, and Yorick supplied some amusing clowning in the intervals of Mr Jennings's labours. The really surprising feats of Dezmonti, Mora, and Horton on the triple horizontal ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 11 | Tags: News