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HARLEQUINADE
By STEPHEN GOLD.
I suppose I shall take my children to the pantomime this Old habits Christmas as usual. are strong, and in spite of many disillusionments we shall still hope against hope that the Show will make some sort of attempt to live up to its title, and to tell the
Sinbad, story-Cinderella, whatever it may be without too many stupid falsifications.
But in any case I fear that the chief glory of the Pantomime as I remember it in my own young days will not be there. However thrilling the plot, laughable the Widow Twanky or spectacular the Transformation, the thing we all waited for most of all, the pinnacle of the evening, was
till the Harlequinade.
Que alderi tizers was 16rO it, that
was last?
complain thab
the great joy of
Pun
→nd
on the beas
Clown's notice at the circus, one knew just
ould antic
!
What a reviving of sweet memo |ries when-the-curtain went "tipl There stood the dear old Butcher Shop, with its red-faced proprietor in his blue-and-white-striped. apron, its juicy joints, its enor- mous sausage machine, and those delectable strings of succulent sausages, just the same as last Christmas, exactly the sani-hura ray 1.
etc., etc.
21, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
sausages jumping, as if, alive, humo
the at the little poodle Bingo, and from days of te-historic again the scandalous 'doings of the Greek comedy to its revival in unconscionable Clown, till the modern form-two hundred years had its public amongst children, both old and
Brown-ups forgot their impatience ago, it alway and laughed to see us laugh.
-little
utage
"moral" of the
that we
theme
Then Harlequin and Columbine, Young. flush of grace and, beauty float Is it th ing across the stage, stirring in us doubtful entions we could not understand, Clowm-Pantaloon How wo craned forward in our j seats, or even knelt up on them! adding the piquancy of contrast to find the Hittle too And how indignantly we protested the fare, And the ineffable cli
when the Butcher is tipped nurtured qila against the grown-ups pinning" on
sausage-machine and the their hate and fidgeting with their into his own ulsters Why, this was the best of comes out in the shape of blue-and-
white-stri (sausages | the lot this was what wo_came for
TAX,
red:
ogical
in our drawing
Alas! There will be no such Or is it that we are thinkin Harlequinade this Christmas, It Four, own, faster all,
petit
w
"Glorious was the Clown with his three tufts of hair, the scarlet gash of his mouth; in the pa face, and that red-hot: poker; of Au that
out of fashion, and children will come
the
it of old familiar, delig
trusted navelly much as our eldé
Phout
glori
the