The opening scenes, like a soap bubble, began to grow larger and larger, the double plot was abandoned, the Transformation scene became the principal feature, and a long Harlequinade at the end.
The whole of the persons engaged in the scene now undergo the prescriptive Pantomimic changes, and the ordinary succession of Harlequinade adventures, tricks, and transformations ensue.
Then, to a shrill whistle, the first scene of the Harlequinade closes in, and shuts out the brilliant vision.
The world is certainly curious, and I suppose that an Elizabethan revisiting us to-day would find but one thing the same, the humour of the harlequinade and the Punch and Judy show.
The harlequinade of "The Talking Bird" was produced at Sadler's Wells this season, in which he first enacted the Bird and afterwards the Clown.
This harlequinade was distinguished by several unusual features besides its great success; foremost among them was an entire change both in the conception of the character of Harlequin and in the costume.
In modern pantomime it may be said that the opening is everything, and that the harlequinade is deferred as long as possible.
Leigh Hunt complained in 1831 that pantomimes were not what they had been, and that the opening, "which used to form merely a brief excuse for putting the harlequinade in motion," had come to be a considerable part of the performance.
The light of the Judean sun came in a harlequinade of twenty colors, but, where it fell and was reproduced, Nature had mastered the kaleidoscope and made it a glory.
The present writer ventures to predict wonderful possibilities for harlequinade if revived and developed on the romantic and grotesque lines of the Russian ballet, to say nothing of the opportunities which it affords for satire.
But it could not have lasted; your real self could not have long endured thatharlequinade we once thought was real life.
I've committed only anotherharlequinade of a brand-new sort.
And in the Harlequinade she's Columbine, but that only means a dove, and a dove is the symbol of the soul.
The Harlequinade For some time now she has been sitting there.
If you please, this is going to be a Harlequinade .
All this was the result of real hard work, and these men in the harlequinade gave the whole of their mind to it as though it were a matter of life and death.
Perhaps it is because the harlequinade required more rehearsing than the pantomime burlesque itself (written by Reece, F.
