A THEATRE OF NOVELTIES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2142, 6 January 1881, Page 3

A THEATRE OF NOVELTIES.

A curious report (says the London “ Times”) has been issued by the managers of the Folic*. Bergore Theatre as to the number of novelties • put before the public during the year between September 16th, 1879, and September 15th, 1880. There were 364 representations, in the course of which 312 fresh performers appeared, being at the rate of about two novelties every throe days The following are the details, viz., fifteen ballets, eight pantomimes, one marionette theatre, one American rifleman (Dr. Carver), one sleight-of-hand performer, one dislocated man, one manipulator of “ epileptic plates,” one crocodile charmer, one instantaneous portrait painter, ton soloists on different instruments, one Zulu company, two Japanese jugglers, two stuffed orang-outaugs, one company of comic gnomes, five dancing troops, eight equilibrists, nine gymnasts, three velocipodists, one spiral aecensionist, one rink skater, five troupes of performing animals including a learned cow, two clown dancers, two athletes, ten symphony marches, twenty-two fantasias, nine quadrilles, thirty-one overtures, twenty-three waltzes, three galops, eleven polkas, seven mazurkas, two fanfares, one gypsy band, one company of Spanish students.