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...OCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BO... ...azzling appearance, and was worked behind, by strings, after the manner of a pantomime trick, the strings being always pulled by the directors of the ... ...lorious spread it is.”’ Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 59 THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE Before we plunge headlong into this paper, let us at on... ...we plunge headlong into this paper, let us at once confess to a fondness for pantomimes to a gentle sympa thy with clowns and pantaloons to a... ...gulate the proceedings of meaner and less com prehensive minds. We revel in pantomimes not because they dazzle one’s eyes with tinsel and gold le... ...ear; our attachment is founded on a graver and a very different reason. A pantomime is to us, a mirror of life; nay, more, we maintain that it is s... ...is down; and how they mock and deride him as he slinks away. Why, it is the pantomime to the very letter. Of all the pantomimic dramatis personae, w... ...e is perfectly extraordinary. Some people talk with a sigh of the decline of pantomime, and murmur in low and dismal tones the name of Grimaldi. We me... ...respect, we proceed to tell them. It is very well known to all playgoers and pantomime seers, that the scenes in which a theatrical clown is at the v...

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...d their ultimate rise again. The story provides insight into family life and circumstances in the mid 18th century and the plot has many aspects of a pantomime like quality: Impersonation, deception, an aristocratic villain and the abduction of a beautiful heroine. Goldsmith himself dissipated his savings on gambling whilst a student at Trinity College Dublin and subsequen...

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...as a novelty because usually it is the other way around with eyes and eyebrows. This subtle pantomime was more expressive than any question and I mo...

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...ity; the disclose of the plays in acts, as some “despair acts”; the silent pantomime as political lampoon in movement, the delirious polemic projecti...

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... girl with the cookie dough ice cream and the large waffle cone performing pantomime among the trees (a hurricane; a man. once a plumber, but now a p...

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...ing her name in wet cement? Back then, it had been obvious that the trial, a pantomime of the mute for justice, could never be allocated to the dead u... ... lady to act," said Peggy as she reached over to the shelves, and conducting pantomime, bent her hand as if it were grasping an item, and then put it ... ...en interrupted Hispanic Betty to ask what she was doing as if housework were pantomime and the gestures could only be guessed at. The days were invar...

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...n’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after opening, of the musical pantomime Schwann had in rehearsal lampooning Boss Tweed and Tammany, an...

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...oceeded to the Gym, where posters were distributed in pieces. The Parnde,a pantomime of hu- man life and emotion was reviewed by a uosinnpolitan crowd...

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...man entities becomes increasingly obvious. Where did the Greeks get their pantomime plays with masks, dirges, tragedies, and grotesque masks hidi...

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...hen I have read that wassail-bowls make their appearance; at the season of pantomime, turkey and sausages, plum-puddings, jollifications for schoolboy... ...venis, who was in the place, might like also to witness the performance. A pantomime is not always amusing to persons who have attained a certain age;... ... always amusing to persons who have attained a certain age; but a boy at a pantomime is always amused and amusing, and to see his plea- sure is good f... ...king-glasses, the dear boys will be back at school, fondly thinking of the pantomime fairies whom they have seen; whose gaudy gossamer wings are batte... ...ous Mr Nelson Lee — the author of I don’t know how many hundred glori- ous pantomimes — walking by the summer wave at Margate, or Brighton perhaps, re... ...e in the seething cauldron of imagination, and at due season serves up the Pantomime. V ery few men in the course of nature can expect to see all the ... ...way down from Drury Lane to the Britannia at Hoxton. Bob and I went to two pantomimes. One was at the Theatre of Fancy, and the other at the Fairy Ope... ...eved at the disappearance of the ghost. We don’t like those dark scenes in pantomimes. After the usual business, that Ophelia should be turned into Co... ... are taken with his- tory, but what liberties will not the merry genius of pantomime permit himself? At the battle of Hastings, William is on the poin...

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...has the doctor’s account in his trunk, and his father goes to sleep at the pantomime to which he takes him. Pater infelix, you too have laughed at clo... ...ry-tales, and Cruikshank’s illustrations of them? We coupled his name with pantomime awhile since, and sure never pantomimes were more charming than t...

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...th orders on the very night previous, and had seen Romeo and Juliet, and the pantomime, and how Mrs. Capper being faint had been led into the lobby, ... ...hat our friend had experienced a marvellously prophetic opinion of that same pantomime, which was of such an ad mirable kind, that two morning paper... ... sundry contortions of countenance, imitative of the clown in one of the new pantomimes, which were so extremely successful, that one stout gentleman ...

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...o of the curtain-pegs; Mrs. Tibbs went through an admirable bit of serious pantomime with a servant who had come up to ask some question about the fis... ... of the distin- guished unknown who condescends to play the ‘swell’ in the pantomime at ‘Richardson’s Show. ’ ‘What whiskers!’ said Miss Julia. ‘Charm... ...partaken of by fat mammas, who looked like the stout people who come on in pantomimes for the sole purpose of being knocked down. The popular Mr. Hilt... ...ing?’ suggested Mrs. M. ‘Mr. Malderton intends taking the girls to see the pantomime.’ Mr. Sparkins bowed, and promised to join the party in box 48, i... ...t, young feller,’ remarked the boots, going through a threatening piece of pantomime with the stick. ‘Or mad!’ said Mr. Trott, rather alarmed. ‘Leave ... ... the side scenes, as a harlequin would jump through a panel in a Christmas pantomime. The pianoforte player, overpow- ered by the extreme heat of the ...

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...strolling players, with a little stage on wheels, are doing a Harlequinade pantomime to amuse the young King Mario, the guest of honor. Beatrice sits ... ...ice sits beside him. In this scene the two people who are oblivious to the pantomime are Guido and Octavia. Guido is apparently brooding over somethin... ...ently. Lorenzo watches the show with a benign, almost childish interest.] [Pantomime begins.] GIO GIO GIO GIO GIO. You, Pierrot, are you not a little ... ...me to all. And ’tis amazing How much a man may live through and keep fat. [Pantomime continues] 21 Edna St Vincent Millay CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR. Ho! No... ... CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR. Nay, truth. Wise men were ever Awkward in the legs. [Pantomime continues.] RAFF RAFF RAFF RAFF RAFFAELE AELE AELE AELE AELE. Hav... ...GUI GUI GUI GUI. Not she. She gave for answer She does not love the Duke. [Pantomime continues.] ANS ANS ANS ANS ANS. [To Colombine.] Ah, pretty lady!... ...N. Oh, ay, but’ tis the Pierrot that she loves. 22 The Lamp and the Bell [Pantomime continues and comes to a close.] [All applaud.] L L L L LUIGI UIG...

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... I will explain this seeming paradox of mine. Take the case of a Christmas Pantomime. Surely nobody supposes that the young mother in the pit who fall... ...thout the least harm being done to any one—the pretence of dis tress in a pantomime being so broadly humorous as to be no pretence at all. Much as in... ...o form a large circular pocket in which they could conceal, like clowns in pantomimes, packages of surprising sizes. A great deal of property was stol...

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...ance —that every thoroughfare in the city looked exactly like a scene in a pantomime. It rarely happens in the business streets that a trades man, if... ... immediately that they lodged (they are always looking after lodgings in a pantomime) at a very small clockmaker’s one story high, near the hotel; whi... ...eeting between them. For if great tal ent and skill are necessary for two pantomimes to paint their thoughts and feelings by the movements of the bod...

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...to, and returned with, the master of the ceremonies; a little introductory pantomime; and the stranger and Mrs. Budger took their places in a quadrill... ...itution from which he never rose again. ‘The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor; and, like many people of his class, an habitual drunkard. ... ...ocession men, tumblers, and so forth, who are taken on during the run of a pantomime, or an Easter piece, and are then discharged, until the productio... ...epulsive sight that met my eye when I turned round. He was dressed for the pantomimes in all the absurdity of a clown’s costume. The spectral figures ... ...r which reduced him to the necessity of expressing his feelings by serious pantomime, which he did, and then left the stage to his seconder, who deliv...

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...r three. We have also a distracting couple of Clowns and Pantaloons in our Pantomimes: though Colney says that the multiplication of the pantaloon is ... ...e spangled beauty, in a turn, like the realistic transformation-trick of a pantomime, show herself to be that wanton old thing—the empress of disorder... ... in the old days, when men were witty dogs:— ’pat! and pat back! as in the pantomime.’ ‘Repartee !’ said Victor. ‘He has it. You shall know him. You’r...

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...l therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the butch... ...he danced;—all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence Of pantomime;—he danced, I say, right well, With emphasis, and also with... ... bed As those of Aristotle, though sometimes They turn out melodrames or pantomimes. They generally have some only son, Some heir to a large...

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... a fit of careless affection. Then he talked runningly of the theatres and pantomimes and London’s charms. The fear I had of this Bench made me passin... ...ation, and under it lay Sarkeld. 138 The Adventures of Harry Richmond The pantomime was not bad. We waved our hand to the diligence, and set out chee... ...e with pendent gold grapes, applauded the diligence conductor’s expressive pantomime. The oppor- tunity was offered for a draught of wine, but we held... ...ms, and howl of a yawning brute! Keep your menagerie performances for your pantomime audiences. What are you meaning? Do you pretend you’re astonished...