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CRYSTAL PALACE PANTOMIME

... Then we get to work in a picturesque wood, where the prettiest of villagers are engaged gathering sticks and picking blackberries and nuts. Cinderella rescues the Fairy Godmother from insult, and when, on a mossy bank, she falls asleep, the fairy resolves ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1927 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSICAL FESTIVAL SOCIETY

... Manchester, Leeds, and Glasgow, by maen who -ware worth £;100,000, £150,0t0, and £200,000 a. year, 'and could he counted like blackberries (laughter). Thoee people washed bheirdirby linen 'ab -home; and when the public did nlot 'take tickete they did not say- ...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS

... good old times is the phrase that is some- timnes used to designate the happy times when high- v;,vmen were plenty as blackberries. One may 'e:uur to the epithet good, but it cannot be douiod that they were picturesque, and frequently romantic. The ...