Crayfish, in other words, behave much like a bunch of roisterers out on the town of a Saturday night.
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The effect of "Andrei Rublev" is elemental; the camera prowls among earth-clogged roots, pursues the flaming torches of pagan roisterers as they run, unclothed, into the embrace of a river, and hitches a breathless ride into the air, in a primitive balloon.
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Even with his overstuffed portfolio, Cromwell makes time, and room in his household, for a procession of "roaring boys" — "runaway apprentices, roisterers, ruffians" — in whom he sees the combination of hard knocks and gumption that led to his own rise in the world.
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The streets between Leicester Square and the Haymarket had been of insalubrious reputation until shortly before the construction of the Comedy Theatre, but by 1881 the "doubtful resorts of the roisterers" had been removed. J. H. Addison held a plot of ground in Panton Street at the corner of Oxenden Street, for which he commissioned the architect Thomas Verity to design a theatre."The Royal Comedy Theatre", The Morning Post, 11 October 1881, p. 2 The builders were Kirk and Randall of Woolwich.
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The word garryowen is derived from Irish, the proper name Eóin (an Irish form of John) and the word for garden garrai – thus "Eóin's Garden". A church dating to the 12th century by the Knights Templar, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is the source of the modern area of Garryowen in the city of Limerick, Ireland. Owen's Garden, overlooking the River Shannon was a fashionable retreat and recreational area for the citizens of Limerick. The song emerged during the late 18th century, when it was a drinking song of rich young roisterers in Limerick.
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Although less effusive, The New York Times praised the film as "good minor fun" and noted the likeable pairing of Young and Cummings. Ed Brophy, Edward Arnold and Arthur Treacher were also singled out for praise. However, the Times concluded that Remember Last Night? should be enjoyed "in moderation" as the "halfwit behavior of the roisterers in the film" may make the viewer come away "with the feeling that one or two additional murders among the madcap principals would have made Long Island a still better place to live in".
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The Damned Crew, or Cursed Crew, was a group of young gentlemen in late 16th and early 17th century London noted for habitually swaggering drunk through the streets, assaulting passers-by and watchmen. The earliest certain reference to such a group appears in a sermon preached by Stephen Gosson at St Paul's Cross on 7 May 1598, when he claimed that a gang of roisterers of that name – “menne without feare, or feeling, eyther of Hell or Heauen, delighting in that title” – had all been drowned together when the boat in which they were sailing down the Thames had been upset near Gravesend.The Damned Crew, by S. E. Sprott © 1969 Modern Language Association. Another, possibly earlier reference, is in the work of the pamphleteer Thomas Nashe, who in 1592 described a vain young man attempting to give himself an air of singularity by wearing his hat pulled low over his eyes “like one of the cursed crue”.
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