News from 03/12/1892
1892; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Mont Blong, Robert Blatchford, Simeon Twigg, Oswald Birchall, Joseph Waddington,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Clarion. News: In Addition to This, the Great Drury O'Lanus Is Running a Winter Season of Opera at Covent Garden, Which Will Be Succeeded by "The Prodigal Daughter," When That Successful Young Lady Is Removed from the National Theatre, A Uganda "Boy" in England, Personal Visit Not Necessary, Mr. J. J. Dallas Has Secured the Rights of the Screaming Farce, the County Councillor, A Very Mournful Ballad of the Alhambra, It Seems There Is Another Well-To-Do Gentleman Who Has a Fine House That He Is Anxious to Account For, "For Many Years We Used to Play Notts Forest Home and Home, and These Were Amongst Our Most Enjoyable Fixtures", Sangers' Circus No. III, Well, Let Us Urge on Our Wild Career, The Duchess of Rutland on Women in Workhouses, Looking Back upon the Contest with Calmness and Impartial Scrutiny, and Recalling All the Principal Incidents of the Game to Mind, I Feel That I Should Be Guilty of a Piece of "Ananiasism" If I Did Not Say That It Was Wonderful How Lancashire Escaped Defeat, First of All Comes a Lengthy Document, Signed,"Anti-Humbug," from a Medical Practitioner of Forty Years' Standing, The Pantomime of the Babes in the Wood Is to Be Produced at the Bristol Prince's Theatre on Christmas Eve, with a Cast Including, Peace, Dublin, Peace!, Slumber, Gentle Spirit, Slumber, A Lion at Large, Charity Rewarded, Religious Persecution in Vienna, The Would-Be Illustrator Revived When Cheery Voices Were Raised on the Yorkshire Side, and Lancashire Was Being Pushed Back to a Seat Far Removed from the Front Stalls, and It Was Our Turn to Assume a Ducked-In-The-Pond Kind of Attitude; for Dicky Lockwood, the Irrepressible, with Snig-Like Slipperiness, Slided through the Defensive Fingers of Lancashire, and Made the Game Quits, Ought Women to Be Punished for Having Too Many Children?, G. Jackson, A Douglas Correspondent Says That Cooper Complains of the Treatment He Receives in Gaol, About Artists, A Dramatic Love Affair, At Wulff's Continental Circus Has Been Added a New Novelty—Rather Taurological, but Let It Stand—In the Shape of Kennedy and Lorenz, Who Are Second-Sighters, Familiar Quotations, The Eviction Business, as It Is Being Carried out in Ireland, Doesn't, Look Very Creditable to Those Responsible for It, There Is Another Case in This Connection That Is Going to Cause Some Trouble, There Has Been a Great Conflagration, a Great Divorce Case (with a Theosophistical Parsee for a Co-Respondent); and Good Old Choppy Warbutron (When Shall His Glory Fade?) on Monday Last, Won the Great Ten Miles Veteran Handicap, Promoted by Sir John Astley, at Stamford Bridge, Italian Signalmen, To-Day Is the Title of the New Comedy Play, Dan Leno Has Had Another Bumper Week at the Manchester Palasserieties, and Has Been Supported by a Troupe of Varied Wonders, Including—Langslow and Clemence, Whose Feats on the Lofty Wire Must Be Seen to Be Believed; Gale St. John and Neruda Wright, Well-Known Singers and Dancers; Elsa Joel, Marie Le Blanc, &c., &c. The Ubiquitous Overture from Cavalleria Rusticana Is Also a Feature of the Week's Programme, "As to Our Players of To-Day, Tom Brandon Is Perhaps the Most Prominent", What—What—What—What—What—What—What!, The Drury Lane Pantomime Will Be Entitled "Little Bo Peep, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hop O' My Thumb"—Almost a Triple Bill, in Fact, I Am Still a Youngish Man, and Therefore Not "Practical," I Fear; Which May Be the Reason I Am Obliged to Laugh at This Eminently Practical Wisdom—For Fear I Should Swear If I Didn't, If Ever a Piece of Imbecility Was Displayed by the Ruling Powers, It Is in Regard to the Brothers James, Whose Names Are Becoming as Familiar as the Only "Simeon's", The Stockport Chronicle Says, So Much for "Anti-Humbug", What a Nuisance It Is to Be a Person Who "Wants to Know, Don't You Know", "Personally, as You May Guess, I Am Very Fond of Football", Sunderland yet Is to Be with North End a Close Companion in the Great Race for Classic Honours, Manchester Amusements Next Week Include a Welcome Return Visit from F. R. Beason's Shakespearean Company; Who Will Bring the Dramatic Season to a Close; at the Prince's, Nicbe Is to Be Presented Again ; at the Comedy, the Merry Criterion Farce of Betsy Is to Be Revived ; and at the Queen's, the Attraction Will Be Alone in London, One Owd Chap Fra Owdham Gave Me a "Straight" Tip before the Match, News of All Sorts Labour "At Home" in Manchester, Such an Opportunity as This Is Not Likely to Occur Often, The Bishop Has a Dim Recollection of Something about the Foxes Having Holes, the Birds Having Nests, and the Son of Man Having Nowhere to Lay His Head!, The Ashton Evening Reporter Says, Vaccination A Few Opinions of Anti-Vaccinists, No Dramatic Novelties This Week, for Which the Lord Be Thankit, A Result of Competition, What Are We Coming to in the Way of Dances?, Salutary and Beneficial Was the Lesson Received by Sheffield Wednesday on the 19th, and, Taking Full Advantage of the Tuition, They Drew Such an Uncompromising Network of Points around Everton in the First Half of the Battle in Goodison Park That Even When the Old Champions Awoke and Struggled so Manfully to Extricate Themselves in the Last Half, the Blades Were Able to Put up a Couple of Points in the League Table, Beating Their Opponents by Five Goals to Three, But F. C. H.'S Postscript Moral Excites My Wonder, Admiration, and Awe, So Far as I Have Discovered by Careful Study, Mr. Holden's Theory Is That the Most Practical Scheme for Attaining Universal Happiness Is That Wealthy Manufacturers Should Live in Ostentatiously-Contrived Mansions, and the Working People Should Have the Felicity of Seeing 'Em Do It, Notice The London Office of the "Clarion" Is at Victoria House, Newcastle St. Strand, "For Years We Sought Admission to the League", The Passing Show, I Did Attend at the Avenue Theatre on Tuesday Afternoon, and I Did Sample a Drama in a Prologue and Five Acts, by Henry John Smith, of Birmingham, Murder by a Youth, Oh, about That Extraordinary Feat Performed by the Circus Riding Officer in Dangle's Story in the Christmas Number, To Be Brief, I Want a Change of Air, The Most Perfect Medicine of Its Day Jackson's Febrifuge, Twenty Years Ago a Select Committee of the House of Commons Reported That Parents Ought Not to Be Prosecuted a Second Time on Account of Non-Vaccination of a Child, Some of the Burnley Spectators Are Anything but Angelic, In Addition to These Advantages the Bishop Says His "Humble Home" Is "The Shrine of Holy Memories, the Home of Great Statesmen, the Laboratory of Great Scholars, the Resting-Place of Kings, The Ashton Reporter Says, Let's Put It Thus, For Myself I Have a Strong Exposition of "Ninepence", Ground Landlords Bid No More Rejoice, They Shake in Patent Leathers, for the L. C. C. And the Commons Agree That Fine Birds Make Fine Feathers, Have We Managed to Shake the Prejudices of Any of the Good Fellows Who Mistakenly Suppose That Whatever Is—Is Right?, Miss Ella Russell of the Carl Rosa Company Generously Gave Her Services Last Saturday Evening to a Free Concert Organised by Messrs. J. H. Phillips and J. Susman at Cheetham, to the Members of the Jowish Working Men's Club, He Great Battle of the Roses Is over, and yet My Dog and I Survive It, But to Get Back to the Subject, The Church and Aged Poor, MacSlaughter and His Band of Resolute Scots Have My Gracious Permission, Fred Williams Writes to the Era Suggesting That, If the Music-Halls Are to Be Debarred from Playing Sketches, the Theatres Should Shelve "The Variety Shows Misnamed Burlesque", A Contributor to a Ladies' Paper Says That Less Paint and Powder Is Now Being Used on Ladies' Faces, Teach the Children to Be Careful of Their Teeth and to Prevent Decay, with Its Consequent Trouble and Expense, by Using Calvert's Carbolic Tooth Powder, Louis Calvert Excels All That I Have Aforetime Seen Him Do, by His Spirited Acting of the Poetic Hero's Part; and Miss May Harvey, When the Introductory Flummery Is Done with, and the Deck Is Fairly Cleared for Action, Plays the Intensely Thrilling Later Scenes with Fine Passion and Power, A Move Towards Restricting Immigration, If a Few More Diverting Entertainments Have to Take Place in Connection with the League This Week, We Shall See, Poor Chap, Lancashire Has Had Nothing to Thank Its Full Back for in the Last Two Seasons, There Is Trouble in the City of London, Where the Medical Officer of Health Is Causing the Churchwardens of the City Churches Much Inward Fuming by the Vigour of His Attacks on the "Cold Corpuses" Who Are Rotting under the Church Floors, Phil May's Winter Annual, The German Navy Now Possesses, Excluding the Three Vessels Which Have Just Been Taken out of the List, 86 Vessels, Either Afloat or Ready for Combat, Representing a Total of 219,063 Tons, Labour Representation, Multiple News Items, The Missing Link—Beg Pardon—Missing Word Competitions Have Been Indicted by the Government, F. C. H., of New Wortley, near Leeds (Let Me See, Haven't I Heard of Leeds before?), Has Been Moved by the Reading of a Postal Romance, to Send Me an Owre True Story of a Parishioner, Who Having Been Ill, Sent to "A Man of the Cloth" of F. C. H.'S Acquaintance, a Letter Acquainting the Person with the Following Amongst Other Cheerful Items, Oldham Have Had Cause to Smile at Last, "The Speculation in Which I Now Embarked All My Savings Was Based on the Excitement Produced in England by the American Civil War and the Emancipation of the Slaves, Robert Courtneidge Has Scored the Success of the Century in the Antipodes, Bogus Plots against the Czar, Mild and Bitter, It Seems as If the Bishop of Winchester—Who Lives in Farnham Castle—Has a Fairly Roomy Little Place, of Which He Appears Rather Uneasily Conscious, Apropos of Music-Halls and Their Performers, I Must Tell Mrs. Grundy Another Little Story to Corroborate That Which I Told You Last Week about Dan Leno, Exiting Strugle with a Madman, Mr. Alex. Wheeler, of Darlington, Asserts, If It Was Not for the Sympathy I Have for Secretary Bentley, of Bolton, I Should Say I Was Positively Hilarious When Her Majesty's Wires Conveyed the Message—"Rovers Three, Wanderers Nil", And That Reminds Me, The Same Question, Put to Brown, Elicits the Opinion That "He Likes It Very Well, but You Want to Knock That Treo out You Know, and That Will Bring the Mountain Forward a Bit, and That Is Just What Is Wanted", Meanwhile We Continue to Enjoy the Latest London Novelties, But about Artists, I Am Asked to Remember the 12th of December, When J. P. Hardacre Is to Take His Annual Benefit at the Manchester Comedy, J. P. H. Will, upon This Occasion, Appear in Three Pieces, Stalybridge Cinderella Club, At the Manchester Comedy, However, a New Play Has Been Presented in the Shape of Louis N. Parker's Love-Knot, a Tale of the Parisian Reign of Terror of 1792—or, Rather, of the September Massacres Which Formed the Prelude to the Terror, The Rumour That Sir Augustus Harris Had Consented to Play the Principal Part in "Widowers' Trousers," and That Mr. Clement Scott Is Returning from the East to Report the First Night for the Telegraph, Has, According to the Star Man, Not the Faintest Fundamental Shadow of a Basic Substratum, Horrible Cruelty, £20, Tobacconists Commencing; Ill. Guide, 3d., At a Bazaar Held in Glasgow for the Purpose of Completing the Endowment Fund of Queen Margaret College, the Total Proceeds Amounted to £11,800, Transom, I Looked for the Special "Illustrationist" of a Yorkshire Comic When Lancashire's Sensational Try Was Being Enacted, but That Individual Would Have Made a More Suitable Subject for a Sketch than the Picture He Was Gazing On, These Plain Facts, My Good Mrs. Grundy, Need No Comment, Two Acts of the Play, the Third and Fourth, Are Very Fine Indeed, Especially the Last, Representing the Interior of the Prison of La Force during the September Massacres, Unfortunately, the Non-Paying Irish Tenants Are Not Being Evicted to Make Room for Those Who Will Be Paying Ones, Because Their Houses Are Being Pulled down Directly They Are Bundled out of Them, The Liverpool Echo Says, The Saturday Herald (Leicester) Says, The Pantomime of Little Red Riding Hood and Bonnie Boy Blue, at the Manchester Royal, Is to Be Produced on the 24th Inst., If a Tailor Advertised,"Buy Our Ten-And-Ninepenny Trousers, We Give a Box of Cigars with 'Em," You Might Find That the Cigars and the Trousers Were Worth the Money; but as a Man Don't Always Want Cigars When He Buys Trousers, It Is More Convenient to Sell 'Em Separate, In the Yorkshire Alliance Competition My Prognostications Were a Little off, as Bradford and Hunslet Were Defeated by Batley and Halifax, and the Good Old Hanson Laners Still Remain at the Top of the Tree, Where They Have a Good Prospect of Finishing, Shoes for Dogs Are the Latest Novelty in Some Sort of Society, "I First Became Connected with the Club," Said Mr. Holmes," in 1869 or 1870, At This Point Mr. Holmes Stopped His Narrative in Order to Indulge in an Explosion, Soldiers' Escape from Prison, Last Week There Were Seven Deaths Directly Due to Privation, Yes, My Friends, Legs and Face Will Be Included, and at the Same Time I May Mention That I Am in Great Trouble about This Forthcoming Book, and I Should like to Have My Readers' Advice on the Subject, Which Is This, I Thought so, God Save Ireland ! ! !, Railway Travellers, Or There Is Another Inventor Who Has Constructed an Electric Motor Which Will Propulse "Things" at 200 Miles an Hour, "Well, I Went to America in 1849 with Tim Hayes, to Introduce Clog-Dancing in the States, at a Joint Salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars a Week", Read What the Papers Say, The Watch Committee of the Manchester Corporation Have, by a Large Majority, Granted a Dramatic License to the Palasserieties, on the Management's Promise That the Excise License Shall Not Be Asked For, I Have No Doubt the Bishop of Winchester Is a Very Fine Fellow, and a Credit to the Church, and I Can Understand Him Feeling a Little Troubled about the Size of His House, and a Little Anxious to Make It Clear That He Lives There in "Modest Dignity" as He Says—More for the Church's Good than His Own Enjoyment, Disabled in War, This Boy Was Drawed for One as Did Somethin', But I Will Go Anywhere out of the Smoke and the Stir—Out of This Miserable, Melancholy, Misanthropic, Miasmatic, Motheaten Metropolis—Any Where, If I Only Get the Thousandth Part of the Thousandth Part of a Chance, There Are Many Ways of Making a Newspaper or a Journal Sell, Besides the Singular and Seldom Practised One of Giving a Good Pen'orth of Literature for a Penny, The Passing of the Old Lady Will Be Accomplished Next Saturday, When Mr. Wyndham Will Resuscitate Mr. Henderson's Agatha, Which Is Not New to the Criterion, Football Interviews Sheffield Wednesday, Boards I Reviewed the Old Lady the Other Day, Something Will Have to Be Done to Mitigate the Hardships These Poor Creatures Will Suffer—Who Live so Far Away That Even the Satisfaction of Gazing upon Oakworth House, the Sumptuous Residence of the Radical Manufacturer, Is Denied Them, A Unique Difficulty, Here I Left Mr. Holmes, and as I Made My Way to the Railway Station the Echoes of His Merry, Good-Humoured, Full-Chested Notes of Joy Were Ringing in My Ears, Pharaoh, Mr. Wilson Barrett's Last New Production, Has Proved a Great Success in Philadelphia, Without Those Two Sterling and Muchpersecuted Players, the Rangers Extracted the Erstwhile Powerful Sting of the Rochdale Hornets, on Which Feat They Cry Hoopla!, "My Illustrious Friend," Said I, Addressing the Grate Cricket—I Men Great Critic "Those about to Lie Salute Thee", The Halifax Free Press Says, And Now, If Some One Will Kindly Turn the Grindstone, I Will Adjust My Shapoly Proboscis to the Circumfery Thereof—In Other Words, I Will "Get on the Job", The Policy of Repression, A City Destroyed, From All of Which It Will Be Seen That the Vaccination Question Is One of Much Difficulty and Complexity, "Jason," of Sheffield, Complains That We Are Too Bloodthirsty—That We Have Slain Four Persons in Our Christmas Number, The Cast of the Pantomime of Blue Beard at the Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool, Includes the Following, Yes, Yorkshire Pummelled the Lancastrians so Far as Punishment Went, but Lancashire Lasted the Given Number of "Rounds," and When the Referee Called Time and the Seconds and Combatants Had Retired from the "Ring," It Was a Case of Equal Points and the Yorkshire V. Lancashire Championship Unsettled, A Terrible Death, A Fight with Robbers, On the Other Hand, a Bald-Headed Friend of Mine Who Has Committed Many Books, Advises Me That Twopence Would Be a Fair Price, Gallant Stoke Are Still on the Upward March, The Legislative Council of New Zealand Has Decided, by 13 Votes to 8, Not Only to Give the Franchise to White Women, but to Extend the Privilege to Maori Women Also, In a Very Able Public Letter, Addressed by Mr. P. Taylor, M. P., to Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C. B., Some Very Telling Arguments against Vaccination Are Adduced, St. Pancras Is to Have a Town Hall, "Nunquam Exhibits a Keen Appreciation of the Merits of Our Principal Poets, and Is Enabled by His Extensive Reading to Give Some Beautiful Examples, Showing the Fineness of His Taste, and the Wealth of Poetry Which We Have at Command, Expelling the Foreigners, Or If You Think the North Pole Is Too Far, There Is M. Mallet, a Young French Aeronaut, Who Has Constructed an Electric Balloon with Which He Purposes Traversing the Whole of Eastern France, the Entire German Empire, and the Russian Dominions, Sam Hague, According to His Own Account of Himself, Was Born at Sheffield in 1828; but, as He Says in Extenuation,"That Wasn't My Fault", Now, Though I Am "Well Beknown" to Many Artists, and a Welcome Visitor to Their Studios in Town and Country; Though I Have Seen Scores of Pictures Painted from Start to Finish ; yet I Have Myself Not the Vaguest Ideas of Art ; but Having Carefully Learnt the Phrase before Mentioned, I Am Enabled to Pose as a Critic of Some Discernment, "Coming down to More Recent Times," Continued Mr. Holmes,"We Have Produced Some Good Players, and We Have Had Many Good Players Who Have Played with the Club, By the Way, Talking about London Playgoers, a Very Curious Band of "Free Critics" Has Been Discovered in the East End, Well, a Man Can but Do His Best, Meanwhile, the Sydney Bulletin, Which "Slates" Everything English, Describes Curmen up to Data as "A Flabby and Dolorous Thing, as Tasteless as a Meal of Stewed Umbrella with Hat Sauce," and Declares That "It Is Glaringly Obvious All through That the Author's Head Was Nudo Inside", A Girl in Male Attire, A Notorious Poacher, Miss Emmott-Herbert, the Graceful, Gifted, and Accomplished, Is to Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La, with Captain Therese, the Comic Opera in Which Miss Agnes Huntingdon Did Not Play the Title Part, My Correspondence, Potiphar, And Further, That the Pantomime Is Constructed on Lines Calculated to Please an Audience Composed of Sightseers and Pleasure-Seekers of All Ages, and Although, Doubtless, Psychological Problems and Theories May or May Not Be Expounded in the Course of the Entertainment, Likely to Satisfy the Cravings of Those Who Yearn for Higher Things, Every Effort Will Be Made and No Expense Spared to Achieve Success and to Satisfy the Public in the Fullest Degree, J. P. Hardacre Has Recovered £250 Damages, with Costs, at the Manchester Assizes, from the Rev. Mr. Haworth, the Landlord of the Queen's Theatre, for Breach of Contract in Connection with the Rebuilding of the Theatre, Snazelle, Formerly of the Carl Rosa Company, Recently Gave a Shilling Entertainment at Bau, Fiji, in a Wesleyan Church!, "The Names of Prominent Players I Call to Mind Are Harry Ellis, Harry Ash, Castleton, Lindley Wright, H. Bockin, Charley Hill, and William Littlehales", Fantasias, In a Recent Speech, the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes Classes Betting Men with Scoundrels and Criminals, An Exposition of Black Humour A Chat with Sam Hague, Stage Land, Restrictions on Emigrants, If I Have a True Recollection of What "Consistent" Once Said, I Was Advised to Look upon the West Bromwich Birds as a Clue to the Championship, Howard and Wyndham's Pantomime in Newcastle This Season Will Be Mr. Charles' Successful Manchester and Glasgow Production of Little Bo Peep, and the Cast Is to Include, The Council of the German Empire Has Adopted a Bill Increasing the Excise Duty on Foreign Beer and Phosphorus Matches, A Hearse in a Ditch, "The Whole of These Sketches Are Enjoyable", The Evolution of Nunquam, It Is Delightful to Know That It Gives Mr. Holden Almost as Much Pleasure to See Poor People Admiring His Unostentatious Little Crib as He Derives from Being Its Owner, and Living in It, A Very Strong Indictment of Vaccination Is Made by Dr. Alfred R. Wallace in a Pamphlet Published in 1888, and Addressed Mainly to Members of Parliament, Here, for Instance, Is Mr. Hobart Accusing Me of Being "A Full-Souled Poet", My Glasgow Correspondent Writes, Events of the Week, Really, Gentlemen, I Do Not Understand What There Is to Smile At!, My Friend, Fitzroy Morris, Is the "Solo Whistleist" This Saturday Afternoon in Re Burnley V. Rovers, but the Founder of Referees' Artistic Costumes Is No Chicken, but a Bird of an Older Growth, and He Will Make a Few Pointed Remarks (Elsewhere) If the Burnley Audience Is Inclined to Develop the Hump. Poem, verse: Modest Dignity, There Is Only One Place I Bar—And That Is Scotland, Pastimes A Doubtful Lay. Letter to the editor: Eh, Sirs!, The Clarion Office: City Buildings, Corporation-Street, The Family Strongly Objected, Charter for the British Nurses' Association, The Unemployed To the Editor of the "Clarion", Brownfield's Guild-Pottery, Correspondence The Local Government Board and the Unemployed, I Am Convinced, Sir, That We Are Progressing through the Tail of That Comet. Editorial: We Are Come without a Doubt to the Heelpiece and Butt-End of the Provincial Season, Answers to Correspondents. Classified ads: Pitts's for Carpets, Pitts's for Office and Library Furniture, Pitts's for Dining-Room Furniture, Pitts's for Bedroom Furniture, The Public Enthusiastic, There Only One Opinion, Multiple Classified Advertisements, Pitts's for Drawing-Room Furniture, "Swift" Cycles.
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