2-798-562 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from "Harlequin Crotchet and Quaver", at Covent Garden Theatre, 1844. London stage production of 'a new comic pantomime by Mr. Nelson Lee...called "Harlequin Crotchet and Quaver, or Music for the Million"...which, despite '...feats upon the corde volante...had the fault of being too long. It wants cutting...and there were not many of those jokes and allusions which the public are now accustomed to expect in a piece of this kind. The scenery "hitched" several several times, but this is excusable on a first representation...Mr. T. Blanchard was very good; and Miss Massall is an attractive young lady, with a nice figure, and an excellent dancer. The scenery is beautifully painted; and a mazurka, which must become very popular, composed by M. Jules de Glimes, was played with great spirit and effect by the band'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.