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Second night of the new Christmas Harlequinade, which was received last night with unprecedented success!
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Broadside playbill from the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland, from December 20, 1849. Printed by Reid, Printer, Nottingham Place, Edinburgh. It advertises the "Second Night of the New Christmas Harlequinade," featuring the comedy "The Rivals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, along with a "New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, founded upon an Old Nursery Tale," titled "Little Boy Blue!![;] Or Harlequin and the Goblin Gnome of the Californian Gold Mines," written by Nelson Lee, Esq. The broadside lists features of the pantomime extensively, including characters and a "Brief Programme of the Principal Scenes, Accidents & Incidents," including a miner named Grizzle, his daughter, Primrose, and his servant, Little Boy Blue. It features "Metallic Gnomes and Aerial Fairies," and settings include "Avarice Farm on the Banks of the Rio Sacramento." It also mentions the "Bull and Mouth Tavern," and "A Moonlight View of the Thames & Hungerford Suspension Bridge." This broadside represents the earliest known reference of the California Gold Rush in Europe.
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Portable home on Summit, Pasadena, Jan. 1918
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Exposed walls, windows, and furniture, including a bed frame, trunk, and bathtub, sit on the raised foundation of a house in Pasadena, California, following a tornado on January 26, 1918. A large pipe lays to the side, and a little boy stands in the lower left.
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Our souls at night
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness. "No, not sex," she clarifies. "I'm talking about getting through the night. And lying warm in bed, companionably." Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with.
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Peter Pan in Kensington gardens
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J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a revised version of that same story, and the Peter Pan we meet is a younger, slightly different character to the Peter Pan of Barrie's later, better-known works. Peter is a small boy who is, like all boys, part bird. When he hears his future being discussed he flies out the window and away to Kensington Gardens. There he discovers that he is now more boy than bird, and so he is stranded in the park, unable to fly any longer.
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Lyceum Theatre
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Playbill titled "The English Opera"; Text features the "Up all Night" with "Master Wallack" playing "Boy"
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The life of a fireman. The night alarm. - "Start her lively boys."
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Image of an eye-level street view of firefighters pulling a double-deck manual fire engine out of a firehouse and into the street, presumably in New York City, at night to go fight a fire, with a link-boy carrying a lantern at front, a lighted lamppost on the sidewalk, and a wall clock visible in the firehouse.
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