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"The scheme of the piece I sent you is the game we used to call Angels and Devils or colours. The Angels, girls, are grouped behind the Angel, Shawn, and the Devil has to come over three times and ask for a colour. If the colour he asks for has been chosen by any girl she has to run and he tries to catch her..." [more] letter 22Nov30
synopsis: programme for the upcoming pantomime — the mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies
Every evening at lighting up o'clock sharp
Dublin newspapers used to give lighting-up time for cyclists (ie, time for lighting bicycle lamp; eg 7:32pm for 2Apr04)
U359: "People afraid of the dark. Also glowworms, cyclists: lightingup time."
and until further notice in Feenichts Playhouse.
no fee
Teatro la Fenice: famous opera house in Venice
Phoenix
German nichts: nothing
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| Teatro la Fenice |
Bar and conveniences always open,
HCE's bar
convenience = bathroom
Diddlem Club douncestears.
slang diddlem club: lottery? savings scam [rare]
diddle = fuck [wkt]
downstairs
dance?
bounce?
tears
(what could this refer to in Earwicker's pub???)
Entrancings: gads, a scrab;
entrance fees
entrancing
free/shilling (gods, free; the gentry, one shilling)
gad: to wander (hence, wanderers, vagrants)
gods: gallery in theatre
egads
Bearlagair Na Saer: scrab: shilling (a gypsy cant used in Ireland)
scrap
crab
the quality, one large shilling.
Anglo-Irish the quality: the gentry
large shilling: brass coin minted in James II's Gunmoney Coinage of 1689-91
Newly billed for each wickeday perfumance.
built (rebuilt weekly???)
theater billing
weekday
wicked
perfume (whose? Issy's?)
performance
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