Humpty Dumpty

“The Olympic Theatre.—Last evening Mr. George L. Fox’s comic and spectacular pantomime ‘Humpty Dumpty’ entered upon its thirty-second week reconstructed, enlivened by fresh allusions to current events, and for the first time adding to its original attractions a grand Parisian ballet, in which Mlle. Rita Sangali was supported by Mlles. Setti, Kurtz, Pagani, Reimsberg, Madeline Negri, Rosina Negri, and the accomplished maître de ballet, Mr. David Costa. Niblo’s Terpsichorean delights have thus been revived at the Olympic. Neville’s new song and chorus, ‘Hurrah for the National Game,’ won loud applause from all the base ball [sic] players who happened to be present. Clown and Harlequin, Pantaloon and Columbine rejoiced in new and gay costumes. No reconstruction was requisite or possible for the inimitable and mirth provoking face which belongs to Fox alone. This great ‘comedian and pantomimist’ has certainly never been surpassed in his impersonation of Clown. The transformation scene with which the pantomime concludes is extraordinarily brilliant. It is almost superfluous to say that the theatre was crowded with spectators, all of whom ceased to wonder at the prolonged success of ‘Humpty Dumpty.’ Long may it wave!”

Notes the resumption of Wednesday matinee performances at the Olympic this week.

Notes that G. L. Fox was married the previous day.

“‘Humpty Dumpty’ is in the thirty-fourth week of its presentation at the Olympic Theatre, and it is attracting equally as densely crowded audiences now as during the first weeks of its production… Surely this has been one of the greatest successes ever known in the history of the American stage, and bids fair to outrival the ‘Black Crook’ in the length of its run and in a pecuniary view.”