Show PANOMIME HAD HAD h > cECT London Youth Copied Crimes of Her of Stage Aro modern melodramas harmful to uneducated minds Sonic of the old time pantomimes In London proved to be In the eighteenth century one of tho most popular productions at tho Drury Lane theater of thoso days was a pantomime called Harlequin Jack Sheppard which was simply n reproduction of the crimps of this popular young criminal who was only 23 when ho was hanged Ills chief appeal to tho popular Imagination was his brilliant escape from Newgnte prison with the fetters on his hands and when ho wns made the subject of a Christmas entertainment hundreds flocked to see It It was even proved that numbers of boy pickpockets who filled tho prisons about that time had got their first Inspiration to thlovo from this melodramatic entertainment and one boy confessed that ho stolo In order to got to tho pantomime and hoped some day to be as clever as Jack Shcppaid |