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io6 THE TOMAHAWK. [July 6, 1867.
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I SEEING RIGHT AND WRONG. 1 _^^^_^_____^...
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little Although time before that us mi w...
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MR. DISRAELI'S REFORM TACTICS DURING THE...
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Io6 The Tomahawk. [July 6, 1867.
io 6 THE TOMAHAWK . [ July 6 , 1867 .
I Seeing Right And Wrong. 1 _^^^_^_____^...
I SEEING RIGHT AND WRONG . 1 _^^^_^_____^___
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little Although time before that us mi we ghty are organ not going , the Times to deprive , has ground the public out its of our remarks on a subject which demands such general castigation as that of the reception of certain pieces now playing at the St . James ' s Theatre to delighted audiences . A third-rate company of French actors arrives in London and
produces their repertoire of the Palais-Royal ; a theatre to which women who respect themselves won ' t allow they have ever been been played , althoug there h which no doubt do many not come capital into pieces the category are and have pronames scribed are . Immediatel conspicuous y in every the fashionable body , which column means of the those Aforning whose Post put on , rushes the boards to roar of the over St . anything James ' s Theatre that the for manager their acceptance chooses to .
fear because The for Times the the critic safety pieces , who of future not , for being once dramas , says by a of what rival his he own author think , mentions , s he , probabl has the no y production of " Le Caporal et la Payse" in which Mons . Ravel was so intensely droll that the loveliest of chaste English maids and matrons were simply in fits at his performance . The ^^ V ^* 4 > ^^ P same ^^^ W ^^ v ^ B ^ P ^ F ^^^ critic V ^ ^^ * ^* ^ ^^ F charitabl ^ fe ^ ^^ iV ^^^ V ^^ ^ ^ f ^^^ V P ^^ P ^ v y ^ suggests ^^^ ^ V 3 ^^^ | fe ^ k ^^^ **^ V ^^^ that ^ V ^ m ^* ^ W ^^ nine ^^ ^* ^> ^* ^^ ^ S ^ -tenths ^ P ^ . ^ ^~ * " ^ V ^* ^ «^^ of ^^^^ ¦* . the W * .. ^^ ^ k ^
much audience of the did acting not understand would have what been they hissed were as a laughing scandal at at , any as East-end theatre . you Now must , when be perfectl you have y aware once that seen were Ravel he in not the to farce open mentioned his mouth during many of his drollest scenes no one but a short-sighted lunatic could doubt as to the meaning of his gestures . We can only say that when this gentleman (?) is left in care of the babies no one , but a French writer would dirty his pen with a descrip-
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tion of the nasty pantomime which so many charming mothers that and sisters even the of the Times aristocracy remarked enjoyed thereon last with week asperity with . such gusto Wright who could be vulgar enough heaven knows , never forgot which himself is a translation to this degree by one in of the our farce original of " dramatists Seeing Wri of g this ht ? same " Caporal et la Payse . "
Chez This une week Petite , among Dame other . The Palais title Royal is quite gems sufficient , they are to p exp laying lain the nature of the action . national We are pride thus , for left either in a dilemma the modesty anything of our but ladies flattering is regulated to our by fashion ( and we know how much that is la mode comes from Paris for home consumption ) , and is only a conventional veil ,
unsophisticated to to be be thrown thrown aside aside , that at at will will the , , grossest or or the the dear dear jest creatures creatures beneath are are their so so hel helolesslv very plessl eyes y fore is accepted fit to be as repeated not understood as often by as their Mons chaste . Ravel minds likes , , and which there ge- - nerall Many y happen people s , as especiall often as y Mons those . Ravel who roared plays . so at the St . James though 's , they will mi cry ght " with Honi equal soit , " justice as usual lift up on their such legs occasions to show ,
the garter which originated the misused legend . To such we don can 't onl lay y answer claim the , " Go next into day fits to being if you classed find indecency among funny the noble , but women of the land ; or if you acknowledge that you don ' t cause understand the flock French of sheep in word around or gesture you are , don doi ' ng t go the and same laug thing h be . " - " third One -rate word " before parting of actors with and the subject we mi . ht We be have asked said on !
what grounds company we say this . The , names en evidence g are those of with Ravel the , Mdlles stars . . Deschamps and Milla : so we have only to deal knows by Ravel his coarseness Paris has p well lenty , must is of very talent be much aware , but impaired that how talent often by , when Ravel age . not Any disfi one be gured who met with in the provinces , and how seldom at his old haunt may of the Palais Royal .
where Mdlle she . Deschamps seldom played is a anything pretty g like irl who a first was part at . the She Bouffet after- , wards where she was had taken little as a chance pensionnaire of showing at the what Theatre talent Francais she may , possess . That she is graceful and agreeable there is no denying . Martin Mdlle . and Milla Chatelet has played and as burlesque far as we pages could at then the jud Porte her St .
talents were confined , to showing the most possible of her ge , legs , and fixing an eye-glass in her right eye . We have so much admiration for everything connected with dram the stage atic excellence in France , and as far the as instinctive regards the knowled national ge of sense stage of combination are not produced , that we by wish ill-nature it to , be but understpod by regret that ; first our , sorrow remarks to find that h f such pieces should be tolerated by the Lord
Chamber-^~ ¦ —* - *¦ w ^^^ b ^ m" » ^^^^ v ^ p * mmr ^^ v ^^ r ^* ^ V ^^ ^ t ^ ^ B' ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ** *^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ h ^ V ~^^ ^^~^ ^ B ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ B" ^ V ^^ ^^ B * ^^^^* P ^ B' J ^ v ^^ ^^ ^^ V ^^^^^ m ^^^ ^* ^ . V ^ B ^^^ V ^^ ^^ ¦¦ v ^ p *^^ *¦* ^^ v ^^ F ^^^ ^ W at lain feeling and accepted that if our by London an educated companies public were ; and better secondl there y , would regret not be so much interest taken in such a troupe as that brought over by Mons . Raphael Felix to the St . J ames's Theatre .
Mr. Disraeli's Reform Tactics During The...
MR . DISRAELI'S REFORM TACTICS DURING THE PAST WEEK .
It Does Not Require Much Knowledge Of Te...
It does not require much knowledge of technical politics to form Mr . Disraeli a pretty has just done notion towards of the furthering value to be his attached Reform Bill to all during that the which Fir last stly , equall seven , on y Friday briefl days . y last stated Briefl he , y are allowed stated these , he a : proposition has done , two which things had , ori should ginall not y emanated be considered from payable Mr . Denman before , to they the had effect actuall that y rates been ¦ demanded House bi ¦ emanated ¦ , but which directl , in y fro the m form himto that be it defeated was stated . " Allowed ¦¦ to the
«^ ^^^ r ^ ^ n > w ^ ^ B > « , ^^ A A ^ * A ^ 4 « w ^ Aft ^^ wk ^»« ^^ ^ v ^^ V J ^^ 4 * , J ^^ ^^ V ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ . ^^ « ^» V ^ * A 4 a ^^ * W A ^ B V ^ ^ fM there gentleman to be defeated is not chosen a shadow , " we to say of exert , because a doubt himself , of that course in it any would , had way have the for honourable been its success victo- , j rious say with by re a ference triumphant to this majority startling . And manoeuvre what did ? Mr Simp . Disraeli ly this : that he had consented to the motion in the first place , because
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 6, 1867, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_06071867/page/8/
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