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**Clamin faucibus, sloquenti genus,
Mutu, euro, gen, mano, rotaju.”** And we may note, in passing, that two of thi most famous pantomists that, ever trod the English boards were I alians—“ Joey" Grimaldi, grandson of the famou darcer, who was known in France and Italy as "Iron Legs." and Pietro Bologna, a native of Genna, who was no less celebrated as a harlequin than his friend and colleague, Grimaldi, was as n clown.
Mecenas, the friend of Horace, and by him his finges, or refuses a beggar without an un- enfranchised on account of his remarkable talent, I misskible movement of the hand,"! And thene In concert with his fried Pylades, who was from faculties are exhibited to perfection by the Cilicin, Bathyllus. introduced a new form of mimetic performers on the Italian stage theatrical entertainment into Reme during the "Nothing to them is impossible. Grief, love. reign of the Emperor Augustus. Tragedies, madness, Jealousy, and anger convulte them by comedies, and satires were represented, with turns. Their hands seem wildly to grasp after envulsed with musical accomponiments, entirely by movements expression, their bodies are and gestures of the limbs and by the mobile | emotion, their fingers send off clectic flashe of expression of the face. Bathyllus and Pylades indignation, their faces undergo violent con- organised a company of their own, and held aloftortions of passion, every nerve and muscle be- from the ordinary players, Pylades excelled in comes linguage, they talle all over from bed to depleting tragic emotions and majestic incidents, frat: while Bathyllus shone in comedy, farce, and burlesque. No words were spoken on the scene, but the quick winted Romans comprehended the meaning of every look and attitude. Eventually these famous pantomimists separated, the one managing a company of comic, and the other of tragic ncters. Their remarkable ability is attested by Plutarch. So popular, indeed, did such per- formances become, that the more famous of the ncters were admitted to the society of the proudest patricians, were smiled upon by princes, were elevated io important dignities, acquired great wealth, and were honoured with statues and triumphs. Eighteen hundred years ago, the people of Imperial Rome were as prone to burn incense under the nose of a skilful buffoon as the communities of modern Europe are at the present day. A pantomimist was held in far higher esteem than a Virgil or an Ovid; and the most extravagant praises were lavished upon the mere ministers to popular amusement. Even Amuch later period than the reign of Au- gusida, we find that erudite philosopher and historian, Cassiedi rus King Theodoric's Se Cretary and Minister of Finance, eulogising the marvellous elequence of a pantomimist in language like the following :-"Zoquacissimo || manux, linguosi digiti, silentium clamosum expositio tacita,"
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All the characters in our Christmas panto-. mimes were born upon and are macy of the Italian sell. Harlequin's ancient lineage we have already described. Sannio, from whence the Italian Zanni, and the English Zaay, or clown, was the generic name for a buffoon, and is su descried by Cicero in his treatise Dr Oratore, where he says "For what can be more ridi-
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Originally, however, the entire interpretation of a poem or a drama devolved upon a single actor, who was called upon to portray every charactes introduced, and to differentiate each from all others. But as men capable of so doing were extremely rare, the formation of companies and the distribution of parts became a matter of necessity. How thoroughly the pantomimists Pantaloon is a word of illustrious origin, soiled, entered into the spirit of the dumb-show they like that of gentleman, "with all ignoble use," presented we may learn from an incident recorded It is derived from Piantaleone, rignifying one who by Lucian, who tells us that an actor playing planted the standard of St. Mark upon the battle- the part of Ajax was so carried away by the fury
ments of a captured fortress,, or on the topmast of the situation that he nearly killed the man
of an enemy's ship of war. It was applied in who sustained, the character of Ulysses. Under derision lo a typical Venetian shopkeeper, old, the miscreant Demitian some real tragedies simple-minded, amorous, credulous, and the dupe were enacted on the stage, by order of the either of the Clown at the Columbine. Goldoni Emperor. On one occasion" a living man was
has introduced him as Tonino into // Teatro bound upon a cross and devoured by a bear.
Comico and Il Porta Fanatico; and as Panta- On anetiter, when the heroic act of Mutius lane into Le Donne Curiose. Il Tulare, La Sola was being rep esented by the pantomi-Finta Ammalata, La Moglie Saggia, and La mists, a criminal already condemned to death was
Figlia Obbediente.. compelled plunge his hand into a brasier filled
Columbine was sometimes the daughter of with red-hot coals, in the sight of the brutalised Pantaloon, and sometimes the wife or mistress audience, whoyelled their applause. Itisonly right of Harlequin. Her characteristics were those of to aid that, by some of the Roman Emperors, the modern soubrette, sancy, mischievous, and the performance of pantomimes was forbidden,pakling, full of coquetry, and endowed with á and the actors were expelled from the city. It was not so much, however, on account of the lewdness in which they occasionally indulged as because they were enabled by a wink, or a ges lure. or by some clever piece of mimicry, to bring into ridicule the rulers of the people.
We may for some idea of the great number of pantomimis 9 employed in the amusement af the Roman people from the fact that when the Emperor Constans, dreading the approach of a famine, banished from the capital every person engaged in the cultivation of the liberal arts NS useless citizens, he retained the pantomimists; and these are represented to have been 6,000
strong.
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A distinction requires to be drawn between the pantomimi, ar pantomimists, and the mimi or mimes. The latter resembled the court fools and domestic jsters of the middle ages, and one of their strange functions was to "put an antic dis position on at the funerals of important person- ages, whom they were allowed to mimic. This was the office of the Archimimus, whem Suetonius describes as attending the obsequies of the Em. peror Vespasinn, le performed his part admit ably," we are told, "not only representing, the verson, but imbuting, according in custom, the manners and language of the Emperor when liv- ing. He contrived a happy stroke at the prevalling faible of Vespasian when he inquired the cost of all his funeral pomp-Ten millions of testerces! On this he observed that if they would but give him a hundred thousand they might throw his body into the Tiber."
Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, sent a Jemarkably clever mime as a peculiarly acceptable present to King Clovis; and these performers were so popular in the middle ages that Agobard Archbishop of Lyons, who flourished in the ninth century, mentions it as a deplorable fact that numbers of persons professing to be Christians spent a great dent more money upon mimes than they bestowed upon the relief of the necessi-
lous poor.
Our interest in the old classical mimus consists in this, that he was the direct ancestor of the modern Harlequin. His head was shaven, his face was blackened, his flat feet were unshod, and he wore a patched suit of many colours. This consisted of a loose tunic, and imusers resemb ling that of the French Pierrot. Nor was it until the last year of the last century that the present harlequin costume was introduced by James Byrne, the ballet-master of Drury-lane Theatre, who played the character in the pantomime of Harlequin Amulet, or the Magic of Mona," which ran from Christmas, 1799, to Easter, 180, He wore for the first time "a" white silk shape, fitting without a wrinkle, into which the variega ted silk patches were woven, the whole being profusely covered with spangles presenting very sparkling appearance,
He was also the
first to renounce the conventional attitudes, five in number, to which all barlequins had been pre- viously restricted when posturing on the stage Byrne, we may add, died so recently as 1845, at the advanced age of 9 years.
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These characters, together with Scaramuccia, a rost of Spanish Bobauil or Pistol; Gelsomnio, a Florentine fup; Brighells, a Milanese pimpi Dottore, a pedantic Latinist of Bologna; and a Calabrian booby with an immense nose, named Gir gorgello, found their way on to the French stage at the time of the Renaissance. But all of them had ceased to be pantomimists in the original sense of the word. Sometimes they invented their dialogue, and sometimes charm- ing compositions, like those <f Florian, were written for them; compositions in which senti ment, morality, and passion were introduced.
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to ask him to dinner occasionally. At one of these banquets, the actor was observed to eye, with a certain longing, a brace of partridges, which had been served up on a dish of pure, gold. The King said to one of the servants, Carry that dish to M. Dominique." "And the partridges, too site ? inquired the ready-wilted Harlequin, "And the partridges, too," replied the monarch, amused at the dexterous way in which the acto, hd at quired, the gift of a gold dish, it was for llamanique that Sauteuil, the French poct, composed the celebrated device, Castigat vedendo mores. So beloved was Dominique by his comrades, that, when he died, "they closed the theatre for a month,
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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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ANNUAL ME. TING of SHARE HOLDERS in the hhave Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on MONDAY, the 24th February instant, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1889, the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
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THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company No. 14. Praya Central.. on MONDAY, the 20th instant, at 4 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1889.
The TRANSFER ROOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the roth to the 24th instant, both days inclusive.
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Teat at the end of Article No. 11 of the
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the manager of the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, was really the father of English panto- mime. He himself was the harlequin, playing it under the name of Lun, in the old fallan fashion, and winning from David Garrick this frank tribute to his excellence-
"When Lon appear'd, with matzblena nyt art and whilan,
Hrve the power of speach to every limb; Though mask'd and mute, convoy'd fils quick latenz
And told to frulle gesture what he mean
But now the motley cost and aword of wood Raquire a tongue to make them understood.!" Calley Cibber was very angry with these fooleries," as he called themn, and Pope has preserved a description of some of their features in the Dunciad "-quarte
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That pantomime should have survived the fall of the Roman Empire, that it should have con, Unued to be one of the most popular forms of public entertainment known to the Italian people, and that Harlequin or Arlecchino should have gradually gathered round him several histrionic personages, each of whom reflected a pronounced and distinctive type of provincial character, are circumstances which seem to Indicate how firm and deep a hold this form of amusement had taken upon the immediate dea- cendants of the Latin race. They were, more, over, pre-eminently qualified by natural gifts and national temperament to excel in performances of a pantominic character. To this day the Italians excel in die sprache ohne worts. No one has described their accomplishments in this respect better than Mr. W. S. Stery, the sculptor, who say "The language of signs and gestures Theece a new word, to nature's law unknown,
Breaks out refulgent whili a haaran lu own comes to them like Dogberry's reading and write
Aucthar Cynthia ber new journey tunk, ing-by nature. What the northern nations put And other planets chicle viher suus),
The foreta dunia, the rivers upward slat, into words the ttalions express by gestures.
While sportlo woods and dolphlasia the skies, Their shrugs contain a history, their action is
And last, to give the whole creation gract, a current commentary and explanation of their arang kot ope tant ser practions hymnG TROD=" speech. Oftentimes they carry on conversations The egg here referred to was one out of which, purely in pasiontime, and it is as necessary for in Rich's pantomime, Harlequin was hatched. stranger to learn some of their signs as to upon the stage. So popular were his performances study his dictionary and grammar. The that persons of fint quality in England" were lassarend at Napies cheat you before your face known to attend them 20 and even 30 times in a in the simplest way by this language of signs, season. N
and passing each other in their calessino, they: At the commencement of the present centary have made an agreement to meet, informed each century Harlequin retired into the background, other where they are going, what their fare pays, and Grimaldi, Iba Garrick of clowas,asche given a general report of their: family, and was called, who invented the costume now 'worn. executed a commission, by a fow rabid gestures.") by then, made his part the central figure of No Italian air sister, a number without using the pantomime, - And Charles Dickens -Was
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Ste of the Race Corrige during the 【O SERVANTS will be allowed Inside the
Rice days without tickets, which can be had on application from the Undersigned, stock ph ONE H. GORE-BOOTH,
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to which share-
existing Articles of Association with its marginal note be cancelled, and that in lieu thereof the following Article and merginal note be inserted, that is to say, Number of vote [49)-Every Shareholder (if duly Baldae entitled, registered for cna month previous
the Meeting at which he claims | to vole but not otherwise) shall have one vote for each share up to ten and one vote for every complete
additional number of ten shares.
4-That immediately after the Company's next Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting. Article No. 93 of the Company's existing Articles of Association be cancelled, and that in lieu thereof the following be inserted :—‹
"No Ferson shall be eligible to the Office of Director unlers he be the bolder' of, at least fifty shares."
By Order of the Board of Directors,
... D. GILLIES,
Secretary. Hongkong, 18th February, 1890.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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WM. H. FORBES, For the Local Commitee. Hongkong, 8th February, 1890..
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“HE Eighth Ordinary Annual MEETING af
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st February to the 6th March, both days inclusive.
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• NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
Third Ordinary Annual MEETING of Company will be held in the Chamber of Com the SHAREHOLDERS in the above merce Rooms, at the City Hall, at Twelve o'Clock (noon), on FRIDAY, the 7th March next, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1889.
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TURING COMPA JY, LIMITED.
HE Sixth Ordinary General MEETING- SHAREHOLLERS will be held
at the Office of the Company, Praya Central, on FRIDAY, 2150 February, at Three o'Clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General M nagers, declaring a Dividend, and electing d Consulting Committes and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th to 21st. Inst., bot days inclusive.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will he CLOSED from the 14th to the 28th day of February, both days inclusive.
J. FOREMAN,
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"HE Seventh Ordinary General MEETING
THE SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of the Company, Praya. Central, on SATURDAY, the 8th March, at Noss, for the purmase of receiving the Report of the General Managers, declaring, a Dividend, and electing Consulting Committee and Auditors.
TheTRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the arst February to 8th March, both days inclusive.
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THE EAST BORNEO PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE OF CALL,
THE Directors having decided to make the
FINAL CALL, on the Shares in the above Company, notice is hereby given that the sum of Ten Dollars ($10) per Share, will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
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INTEREST at the rate of Twelve per cent. per annum will be charged on all Calls unpaid on the due date,
By Order of the Board of Time'nrs,
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & ̊Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th February, 1890.
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“REEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
DIRECTORS-
C. EWENS, Esq., Chairmani
L. PRESNECKYR, E-q., Vice-Chairman, J. D, MUTCHISON, Fiq. CHANTREY INCHBALD, Esq. LEE SING, Esq.
PUN PONG, Esq,
The above Company is now prepared to supply PORTLAND CEMENT of best quality.
Offices-62, Queen's Road Central.
J. FOREMAN,
Secretary,
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Hongkong, 3rd February, 1890. THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL .......................$5,000,000. PAIN UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND,
mombinácie 2,500,000. 1,250,000.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hon. J. J. KESWICK,"
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Chairman, Hon C. P. CHATER,
Vice-Chairmani]
LEX SING, Esq.
S. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq. 1.S. MOSES, Esq. G. E. NOBLE, Esq. POON PONG, Esq. D, R. SASSOON, Esq.
Managing Directors,
BANKERS,
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Mad Buildings.
'ONEY advanced on Mortgage, on Land,
Properties purchased and sold.
Estates Managed and all kinds of Agency and Commission business relating to land, etcy conducted,
Full particulars can be obtained at the Come pany's Offices, No. 5, Queen's Road Central.
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary, Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1889.
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS'
ASSOCIATION, S
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UNTIL NEW PREMIs, will be curled
TMNTIL the PREMISES are ready the
on at Nos. 2, 4, and 6, High Street, above the
Government Civil Hospital. [262
1... MALLORY)
This Final Call will make the Shares fully paid up, and all Scrip in the hands of unregis-. tered Holders should be sent in for registration, Interest at the rate of Twelve per cent, per annum will be chargeable on all Calls unpaid, on due dates.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS, F. HÁRTON, Acting Secretary,
·Hongkong; 3rd February, 1899,
Good Accommodation for M. M. Officers -1.
Terms Moderate.
JAS, EDWARDS,
Proprietor.
J. A. CLARKE, Teacher of Offcers and Engineers, Above Address. Hongkong, and September, 1889.
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