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Tom Ellar died April 8, 1842, aged 62. Previous to his death he must have fallen upon evil days, as Thackeray, in 1840, wrote: "Tom, who comes bounding home from school, has the doctor's account in his trunk, and his father goes to sleep at the Pantomime to which he takes him.
But our clown lies in his grave; and our harlequin, Ellar, prince of how many enchanted islands, was he not at Bow Street the other day,* in his dirty, tattered, faded motley seized as a law-breaker, for acting at a penny theatre, after having wellnigh starved in the streets, where nobody would listen to his old guitar? No one gave a shilling to bless him: not one of us who owe him so much.
Our old favourites, the Grimaldis, father and son, Mr. Ellar as Harlequin, and Mr.
Swimming in the briny deeps that washed the rocks, he felt in that solitude so sufficient, so much in harmony with the spirit of the place, its rumination, its content, its free and happy birds, as if he were Ellar in the fairy tale. The tide caressed; it put its arms round him; it laughed in the sunshine and kissed him shyly at the lips.
Tom Ellar was another famous Harlequin, first making his appearance at the Royalty, Goodman's Fields, in 1808. For several seasons he played Harlequin at Covent Garden. Many years ago penny portraits of Mr. Ellar "In his favourite character of Harlequin," were published by a Mr. Skelt, or a Mr. Park, of Long Lane, Smithfield, and were the delight of those, who, if living now, are old and gray.
Pater infelix, you too, have laughed at Clown, and the magic wand of spangled Harlequin: what delightful enchantment did it wave round you in the golden days 'when George the Third was King? But our Clown lies in his grave; and our Harlequin Ellar, prince of many of our enchanted islands, was he not at Bow Street the other day, in his dirty, faded, tattered motley seized as a law breaker for acting at a penny theatre, after having well nigh starved in the streets, where nobody would listen to his old guitar?
Pantomimic Families Giuseppe Grimaldi James Byrne, the Harlequin and Inventor of the modern Harlequin's dress Joseph Grimaldi, Junior The Bologna Family Tom Ellar The Ridgways The Bradburys The Montgomerys -The Paynes The Marshalls Charles and Richard Stilt Richard Flexmore Tom Gray The Paulos Dubois Arthur and Charles Leclerq "Jimmy" Barnes Famous Pantaloons Miss Farren Mrs.
Plots of the old form of Pantomimes A description of "Harlequin and the Ogress; or the Sleeping Beauty of the Wood," produced at Covent Garden Grimaldi, Père et Fils Tom Ellar, the Harlequin, and Barnes, the Pantaloon An account of the first production of the "House that Jack built," at Covent Garden Spectacular display Antiquity and Origin of some Pantomimic devices Devoto, Angelo, and French, the Scenic Artists Transparencies Beverley Transformation Scenes.
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