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Page 199
... penny gaff * since I first read my Dickens and looked at Doré's drawing in Jerrold's " London , " of a dark , cavern - like place , where a man , with a bag over his head , walked the tight - rope in the gloom . But penny gaffs are not ...
... penny gaff * since I first read my Dickens and looked at Doré's drawing in Jerrold's " London , " of a dark , cavern - like place , where a man , with a bag over his head , walked the tight - rope in the gloom . But penny gaffs are not ...
Page 201
... penny gaff . The performance I have just described was but one of many I have already seen . In its utter but un- conscious senselessness it is a fair type of the class to which it belongs . There is not space , even did I think it ...
... penny gaff . The performance I have just described was but one of many I have already seen . In its utter but un- conscious senselessness it is a fair type of the class to which it belongs . There is not space , even did I think it ...
Page 202
... Penny gaffs have a dozen audiences every night ; Wall's Phantasmagoria ... gaff and the Phantasmagoria actors had without doubt been to the Ly- ceum ... penny - gaff stage they have become so without disguise . Mr. Irving advertises the ...
... Penny gaffs have a dozen audiences every night ; Wall's Phantasmagoria ... gaff and the Phantasmagoria actors had without doubt been to the Ly- ceum ... penny - gaff stage they have become so without disguise . Mr. Irving advertises the ...
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