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    • LOW&OJV, DECEMBER 21, 1867.
    • A NICHT Wr BURNS.
    • WHAT IS A COMEDY ?
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      ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ -' » 340 The Tomahawk. [Decembe...

      ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ' » 340 THE TOMAHAWK . [ December 21 , 1867 .

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      * * Editor Correspondents on any consideration are informed whatever that . Contributions Contributors should cannot make possibly copies be of returned their articles by the if they attach any value to them . Letters , on purely business matters , should be addressed to the Publisher to insure attention .

      Low&Ojv, December 21, 1867.

      LOW & OJV , DECEMBER 21 , 1867 .

      The Following Advertisement Appeared In ...

      The following advertisement appeared in the Whitehall Gazette last week : — To be Oisposed of by a Private Firm ( in consequence of the chief partners going abroad ) , Several First-rate Agencies . Apply to Messrs . and Co ., F . O ., Whitehall Gardens . N . B . — Very pretty pickings .

      The Papers Say That Several Shiploads Of...

      The papers say that several shiploads of Australian beef chemically preserved , and packed in tin canisters , have recently arrived in this country . This is good news . The high prices of food have by degrees all but robbed us of our nationality . Once upon a time , there were few families who could not scrape together enough money to buy themselves a Christmas dinner , but for the last few years , the Roast Beef of old England , or rather , the unroast beef of old England has been a shilling a pound , which is more than a good many people have been able to pay . Australia has now come to the rescue , by deluging the market with a good wholesome article at threepence . This is no doubt very satisfactory , but the less we talk about the national fare , and Christmas cheer , and king of joints , & c , & c , the better , when we have to fetch it all from the Antipodes .

      A Nicht Wr Burns.

      A NICHT Wr BURNS .

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      tical Encouraged suggestion , a probabl propos y of by the Mr . destruction Dion Boucicault of Her ' s very Majesty prac ' s - b Theatre y the conversion , to the effect of that Play " -houses theatrical into fires gigantic " might shower be prevented -baths , ful several hints Correspondents and notions on have the subject forwarded : to us the following use-One who has never entered a theatre in his life , suggests that mi concrete

      the faced stage with migii iron . ( Our maae correspondent 01 scone covevea has been > y anticipated , ana by a leader writer in the Times . ) should A Stcpporter be made of of iron the , Drama and no suggests lights be that allowed all the in any scenery part converted of A the Practical theatre into under a Man large any suggests swimming consideration that bath the . wh The auditoriu atever seats . m should ,.., should be be so above arranged the that water onl . y In the winter heads of of course their occupants the water should should be appear hot ,

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      over of any . flames The chains this tank should should be , padlocked by means to of keep the chains children , be tilted from kept playing by with the clergyman the machinery of the — parish the keys . of the padlocks should be through An American Parliament Cou , maki in suggests ng the use that , by a the law lessees should of be theatres passed , of his " Anti Fire and Explosion Paste" ( in boxes , is . i £ d . ) , rommilsorv .

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      What Is A Comedy ?

      WHAT IS A COMEDY ?

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      leading we and written journal s by ee *** , a gentleman who , we who have is . been the dramatic assured , possesses was critic *** of our the , most undoubted refined talent taste . , the This m tim ost e we quisite made certain gment that , and we the should most flashes see a real of wit p icture and teaching of human under Nat cover ure , lig hted genial up with satire brilliant a true lesson Certainl from y a farce , the book in three of acts life . is We amusing were , rather but we disappointed should , like . to to have cnaracter character at at least least which have lain lain under under

      the nave grave seen seen imputation one one of having been wmcn drawn mignt might from nave Nature . We clusion suppose of the the author second is not act to in be whi held ch a responsible Pantomime for baby the con was - which banged induced about us by to all believ the , characte e that in r early s with youth an amo they unt must of gusto have , aspired to the part of " clown . " The extraordinary indelicacy of wife a , young avails lady herself , who of her consenting equivocal to position appear to as convert a young the man pre ' s - ten bVtAVv ce into AltVV a « -V reality * W **** W J , y WWW seemed »** % * % ¦* to W us V » fc * a r creation W * W «« V * W- ** which VV « AtWJ & would »» KSM-l ^ t be + **•*

      more eve those r , the at inviolable home audience on tem the seemed ples corrupted of morality to think stage , an otherwise of English Paris . theatre than We may in . one How only of - mention that in our humble opinion Mr . Buckstone ought not to feelings try and " imitate his audience " Dund , reary and record as long our as earnest he retains hope any that friend Mr ly . enough Sothern in may itself soon to find preven some t the character necessity which for his may introducing be strong a representation of that too familiar creation . We conclude with a Comed original ? question— " According to modern notions " what is y

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      A Lay Figure . — " The Odds on the Favourite . "

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Dec. 21, 1867, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_21121867/page/4/