Humpty Dumpty

“Two or three centuries ago, more or less—the exact date, however, lives not in the memory of man—the managers of this temple of uncontrollable revelry tried the experiment of amusing the public by the production of a pantomime framed after the ancient English models. The composition met with surprising success, and was acted so often that the performers actually began to forget their duties. To recover their tottering intellects, change of scene was advised, and last evening the change of scene took place. The second volume of ‘Humpty dumpty’s’ advenrtures was perused on the occasion by a ravenous concourse of people, who seemed to devour every new leaf with unmeasured delight. In fact, the reconstructed piece pleases better than the original. Many of the scenes and transformations are far superior to anything in the specialty of dumb show yet exhibited on the New-York stage. The ballets are particularly ingenious, two of these were received with special favor; in the first, a Scandinavian dance, half the girls were employed in striking music from a number of wood and straw pianos, while their companions kept graceful time to the odd sounds; the other was quite unique, and may be styled the Dance of Deportment; in this half the ladies were attired in gentlemen’s full evening dress and the rest in the long ball costumes of their own sex—a dash of humor being contributed by he introductionof Clown as ‘Lord Dundreary’ and of Pantaloon as ‘Capt. Cuttle,’ some movements of the former with Mlle. SANGALI attaining the height of the ludicrous. After this effort, a happy burlesque of the bouquet nuisance came in order, and from two ridiculously large bunches of flowers Clown and Pantaloon were supplied with monstrous noses, of entirely unique pattern! It is our pleasant privilege, however, to record success for all. Mr. G. L. FOX is again the joking genbiusto whom the present feast of fun is to be credited, and he has once more given rein to a liberal fancy, so that in the matter of scenery, dresses and mechanical contrivances, everything is bright and everything is commendable. The liveliest performer, also, is clown—personated, as before, by Mr. FOX, who has long rivaled the grotesqueness, dispatch and unconquerable humor which made GABRIEL RAVEL famous in the species of entertainment. The most sumptuous addition which has been made is comprised in the magnificent final tableau which Mr. HAYES has left us as a legacy. The stage represents a fretwork of coal, which stretches from the footlights to the furthest limits, the gorgeous monotony bein broken by numerous cradles of sea shell in which the mermaids repose upon masses of their own golden locks and above which a chariot of marine nymphs rises in a chariot of silver shell. Enough. Let us conclude with the announcement that volume 2 of H. D. will be opened every evening till further notice.”

No mention of music.