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Updated: June 8, 2025
It is very well known to all playgoers and pantomime-seers, that the scenes in which a theatrical clown is at the very height of his glory are those which are described in the play-bills as ‘Cheesemonger’s shop and Crockery warehouse,’ or ‘Tailor’s shop, and Mrs.
The days of old came o'er me the benefit nights the play-bills, with the "Storm," "Black-eyed Susan," &c. in the largest type, as forming the most attractive morceaux in the bill of fare. Never were Milton's lines, so illustrated as in the last line of Gay's "Black-eyed Susan," "Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand," as sung by Incledon in his prime.
And certainly a lion I was, as the play-bills have it, 'for that night only. I had to tell my story ten times over, and to submit to questionings and cross-questionings without number.
In 1865 occurred the sixth centenary of Dante's birthday, and the four greatest Italian actors were invited to perform in Silvio Pellico's tragedy of Francesca di Rimini, which is founded on an episode in the Divina Commedia. The cast originally stood on the play-bills thus: Francesca, Signora Ristori; Lancelotto, Signor Rossi; Paulo, Signor Salvini; and Guido, Signor Majeroni.
This last was a rendezvous for actors, artists, musicians, newspaper-men in short, the Bohemian set of that day and its walls were covered with old play-bills, newspaper clippings, and portraits of tragedians and comedians of the past. But already a demand had been felt for viands of another nature; hospitality of another sort.
Laura met his salutation by lifting the accusing butterfly attached to Vittoria's dress. 'Yes; I expected it, he said, breathing quick from recent exertion. 'They are kind they give her a personal warning. Sometimes the dagger heads the butterfly. I have seen the mark on the Play-bills affixed to the signorina's name.
They had almost their choice of places in the boxes of the theatre, which was no better filled than country theatres usually are in spite of the "universal burst of attraction and galvanic thrills of delight" advertised by Bingley in the play-bills.
A common fellow, a carpenter, who, on the strength of political partisanship, asked B 's assistance in cutting out great letters from play-bills in order to print "Martin Van Buren Forever" on a flag; but B refused.
Mademoiselle Olympe's engagement finally did come to an end, and she departed. But her engagement had been highly beneficial to the treasury-chest of the up-town theatre, and before Van Twiller could get over missing her she had returned from a short Western tour, and her immediate reappearance was underlined on the play-bills.
As the play-bills on which this important piece of information is to be found, will doubtless be bought up by all the mystogogii of the Metropolis, and shortly become scarce, we shall take the liberty of inserting it in our imperishable pages, for the benefit, not only of posterity, but for those of our own day, who are infected with the building mania, and who, we think, ought to make Mr.
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