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AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERP

... -Proprietor and Manager. Mr M. Mont- gomery; Acting-Manager, Mr Tom Coyne.-The Wal Pink comedy company, in their funny sketch An April Fool, appeared with success at the Royal on Mon- day ; and the other artistes for the week there were Miss Melinda May, burlesque ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1896
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1787 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... rt 4. London: riper, Brothers, and Co., 28, * Paternoster-row. n Dioenes has thrown much wit into the illustrations: April Fool for instance is good, and so is Trying it on. A momentous question, &e. The literary part is o 11=om1rous mingled ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... sent to her apartment, and it was found on the chimney-place. Upon which the young lady said,she had made the messenger an April fool (Pois- son d'Avril). The pleasantry, however, did not ind so happily, for the young lady was jocularly recom- mended to ...

ODDS AND ENDS

... Mlan who has Means I ?? Lutig ill time Blleti.'' APRIL FOOLS. The man wvho goes to see a race, And backis a1 horse v whirh wins at place, lout of his bookie linds no Liace, Bc3*oseaa an April Fool. And folks with means already great, Who in the Cily ...

MASTER PUNCH'S COPY BOOK

... a host in him- self.-Punch. AN APRIL FooL.-The Reform speecbes termi- nated at a quarter to one o'clock in the morning of the first I of April. An appropriate ending to so foolish a beginning I I But the real April Fool in this protracted practical joke ...

AMUSEMENTS IN BRADFORD

... favourite comic voralist ; blab Lauri, a smart serio and dancer: and Wal Pink's corm- bination, im a mirth-prcvoking sketch, Ani April Fool, in which the characters are excellently sustained by Messrs George Banton, George Smythson, A. Dubble, Wal Pink, and Miss ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EXTRACTS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH

... that the Germans call April 21st The Buss-tag,> meaning the Day of Repentance. Too many a British lad and lass after the April Fool game of Kiss in the Ring, have had reason to keep their Buss- tag as a day of repentance ever afterwards! l l i i i I ...

AIUSEMIENTS IN HULL

... Mabel Narbis, in The Insurance Agent; the Four Musical Gartos ; Nellie Oldene, serio ; and Vial Pink's combination, in An April Fool. WEST PIER PAVILION.-Secretary, Mr I. Wilkinson. -Mr and Mrs Victor Andre, illusionists ; Miss Beatrice Vaughan, vocalist ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1894
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2499 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Magazines

... industries, and the review of the jewellery and allied trades. POETRY Mr. Alfred Austin has written a charming poem, An April Fool, in the New Review, though we must beg leave to demur to his rhymes in stanzas VIII. and XIV. In Longman's, Dr. Sebastian ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1891
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE

... were Miss Ratie Lawrence, Mr. G. IV. Emnter, Mr. Tom Leamore, &e. The Wal Pink Combination appeared in a capital farce, An April Fool. As a climax to each performaner, Mr. Morritt himself has every even- ing been giving his illusion. The Convict's Escape ...

DRAMA

... easy prey to the mischievous vivacity of Sparks. Poetical justice, however, is done at last. Sparks is him- self made an April fool by Diana in the disguise of a gipsey, and what is worse betrays his levity by wanting to kiss the gipsey, and so convinces ...

A LEGEND OF THE COVENANTERS

... the sentinel. h The sentinel thougitt hiuutself too cunninig for her. April c fool ! cried he- April fool ! echoed the whole guard tl - April fool !'~ repeated the Governor, when lie heard of si it. Hle gave orders, nevertheless, that the fact shotild ...