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DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL CHRONOLOGY FOR 1885

... Women and a Bubble Reputation at the Standard. 7. Production of The Fashionable Beauty at the Avenue. 9. William Persivani, a clown at Theatre Royal, Sheffield, obtained his claim against Charles E. Lauri for share of benefit, the point being that deductions ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7638 | Page: 14 | Tags: News 

THEATRICAL REUNION

... property man), respec- tively, responding. The next item was an agreeable one, and consisted of the presentation, by Mr Levite (clown) and his brother pantomimists, of an exceedingly handsome meerschaum pipe to Mr Owen. The health of Mr H. C. Arnold (stage-manager ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

ALADDIN AT SANGER'S

... dance, invented and arranged by Mir NV. Freear, and performed by fourteen ladies. In the horlequirlade Mr Otto Elliott as clown provides a good deal of fun by his novel cricket match, and we hope he has not decided to drop that bogus theatrical agency ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1071 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

COMPLIMENT TO MR. E. TERRY

... Messrs Durant and Hedley, presented a handsome Queen Anne timepiece to Mr George Collier, the Will Atkins of the pantomime and clown, as a mark of their respect for him and of their appreciation of his abilities as a comedian and as a scenic artist. The new ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 668 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

A TALK WITH THE QUEEN'S JESTER

... pantomime. The amphitheatre wvas a sort of joint performance with theatrical represenmatisne it la Astley's. On one occasion the clowns and several of the company went out of the neighbourhosd to a fishing party. They had plenty of fish and plenty of water. ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1547 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

POLITICS IN PLAYS

... Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and it is not difficult to surmise that references to public affairs were included. Clowns and low comedians are chartered to say more than is set down for them, and a thin-skinned politician had better avoid pantomimes ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE

... the situa- tion, and paid for two reserved seats. We were scarcely seated when a member of the company, in the guise of a clown, strolled around, and stopping in front of us addressed me in a familiar tone- Good evening, Mr Selly. I evaded his outstretched ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1290 | Page: 16 | Tags: News 

A Deserving Case

... A Deserving Case. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRA. Sir,-James-or better known as Jimmy-Kelino, clown and acrobat, of the Kelio troupe, died in Mid- dlesex Hospital on last Sunday week, after a long and painful illness. He has left a widow and nine children totally ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

AMUSEMENTS IN INDIA

... Hall, Coventry, deeply regretted. Friends please notice. DIED, May 7th, at Braintrce, Essex, Thomas asa Cashmore, equestrian clown, after a long and painful illness. Interred at Brhintrec Cemeter, Essex. ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

MR. EDWARD TERRY AT WARRINGTON

... Irvin, Mr James Crockett, Mr George Arthur, Madame Holland, Mdlle. Rose ',lontero Miss Minnie do Yore, Mlr A. Hogini, and the clowns, the Eccentric Warren, Yorick, and H. Dale, elicited freq'ient applause. ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

A MAN POODLE

... resolutely determined never to part with that, as with it he would abandon his sole means of livelihood. For Jules Bartot was a clown, or rather a poodle impersonator, and in that role had filled engagements in some of the most important circuses in Europe ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3055 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR AMERICAN VISITORS

... other words, a Chicago dramatic journal-says that the combination system has debauched the stage, substituted the grimacing clown for the intelli- gent actor, swept away the real practical manager, and turned the theatre over almost entirely to the ignorant ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1886
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1108 | Page: 13 | Tags: News