Glass Lantern Caravan

A travelling company selling portraits, lantern recitations and musical evenings from market halls to private houses.

A travelling company that returns to the Red Shed every second year. A travelling artists' caravan whose name recurs in market talk.

At the table

Named as the sort of troupe that appears when money, boredom and ambition accumulate in one place. Carries gossip and foreign mannerisms as efficiently as song and paint. The receipts are excellent.