LITERARY, MUSICAL, & DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1264, 6 April 1878, Page 3

LITERARY, MUSICAL, & DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Novel features are frequently added to the London Circus now performing at Gilmore's Garden. The latest are ;MUe, Afcls. Pvtvnzini, who ridos the ilery, hare-hack v.eloeipede, and Signc-r' fyjirje, 4 graceful and intrepid equestrian performer. Madame Dockrill remains, of course, and gtvos her extraordinary act with four horaea. Madame Dockrill, although naturally a pretty and graceful woman, does not appear to the best advantage when her slender form is straddled over four horses running side by side. Her appearance under such circumstances is comically suggestive of a turkey's "wishbone" stretched to the breuking-poin.t, Everybody has heard of tbe roiwi who fr\. lovyeil a circus about the country 'i'pr s, 'year or indre to sde the* lion 'bite the Hon tamer's head off, and it would not be wonderful if some S"gh individual visited Gdmore'g Garden nightly ho that he might be on hand if Madame Do'okrill should come apart in this act.—" Forest and Stream." The following curious letter appears in the " Era" :—" What's in a Name?"—(To the Editor of the "Era.") "Sir,-Ford, Welford, Weyford, Wenford, Waxford, &0., represented by the 'T.nfies,' '.l'eli.egraph,'- « Observer,! \ Daily Sfe'ws; • ; ' * * The Era,'.'\£ci as saving played, the part of MealyaiQuth in the Pantomime at Covent Garden, are unfortunate victims of my obsoure name, created in the perturbed minds of dis'racted 1 ©port' rs. Permit me (jo protect'the reputation of any person haying the misfortune to be named aiter the above,* by exposing 1 thr, reaj[ £ms>al!' »r. Suffer me to co.n.t fcc'tiofe IVeilty odd newspapers by stating that Tarn still fooling along with th« part at Covent Garden, and still rejoice' in the % u,n-' jsroßounoable name of MARJS Mj£M?Qs,p)'