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    Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama
    Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama
    Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama
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    Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama

    By John Alexander Hammerton, others and Charles Keene

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama

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      Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama - John Alexander Hammerton

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Punch at the Play, by Various

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      Title: Mr. Punch at the Play

      Humours of Music and the Drama

      Author: Various

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Illustrator: Charles Keene

      and others

      Release Date: June 27, 2011 [EBook #36529]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY ***

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      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.

      Some pages of this work have been moved from the original sequence to enable the contents to continue without interruption. The page numbering remains unaltered.

      PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Edited by J. A. Hammerton

      Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to Punch, from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.

      MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY

      Actor (on the stage). Me mind is made up!

      Voice from the Gallery. What abeaout yer fice?

      MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY

      HUMOURS OF MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

      WITH 140 ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY CHARLES KEENE, PHIL MAY,

      GEORGE DU MAURIER, BERNARD PARTRIDGE,

      L. RAVEN-HILL, E. T. REED,

      F. H. TOWNSEND, C. E. BROCK,

      A. S. BOYD, TOM BROWNE,

      EVERARD HOPKINS AND OTHERS

      PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE

      PROPRIETORS OF PUNCH

      THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD

      .

      THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo. 192 pages fully illustrated

      LIFE IN LONDON

      COUNTRY LIFE

      IN THE HIGHLANDS

      SCOTTISH HUMOUR

      IRISH HUMOUR

      COCKNEY HUMOUR

      IN SOCIETY

      AFTER DINNER STORIES

      IN BOHEMIA

      AT THE PLAY

      MR. PUNCH AT HOME

      ON THE CONTINONG

      RAILWAY BOOK

      AT THE SEASIDE

      MR. PUNCH AFLOAT

      IN THE HUNTING FIELD

      MR. PUNCH ON TOUR

      WITH ROD AND GUN

      MR. PUNCH AWHEEL

      BOOK OF SPORTS

      GOLF STORIES

      IN WIG AND GOWN

      ON THE WARPATH

      BOOK OF LOVE

      WITH THE CHILDREN

      BEFORE THE CURTAIN

      Most of the Punch artists of note have used their pencils on the theatre; with theatricals public and private none has done more than Du Maurier. All have made merry over the extravagances of melodrama and problem plays; the vanity and the mistakes of actors, actresses and dramatists; and the blunderings of the average playgoer.

      Mr. Punch genially satirises the aristocratic amateurs who, some few years ago, made frantic rushes into the profession, and for a while enjoyed more kudos as actors than they had obtained as titled members of the upper circle, and the exaggerated social status that for the time accrued to the professional actor as a consequence of this invasion.

      The things he has written about the stage, quite apart from all reviewing of plays, would more than fill a book of itself; and he has slyly and laughingly satirised players, playwrights and public with an equal impartiality.

      He has got a deal of fun out of the French dramas and the affected pleasure taken in them by audiences that did not understand the language. He has got even more fun out of the dramatists whose original plays were largely translated from the French, and to whom Paris was, and to some extent is still, literally and figuratively a playground.

      MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY

      SOMETHING FOR THE MONEY

      (From the Playgoers' Conversation Book. Coming Edition.)

      I have only paid three guineas and a half for this stall, but it is certainly stuffed with the very best hair.

      The people in the ten-and-sixpenny gallery seem fairly pleased with their dado.

      I did not know the call-boy was at Eton.

      The expenses of this house must be enormous, if they always play Box and Cox with a rasher of real Canadian bacon.

      How nice to know that the musicians, though out of sight under the stage, are in evening dress on velvet cushions!

      Whoever is the author of this comedy, he has not written up with spirit to that delightful Louis the Fifteenth linen cupboard.

      I cannot catch a word Macbeth is saying, but I can see at a glance that his kilt would be extremely cheap at seventy pounds.

      I am not surprised to hear that the Tartar's lips for the cauldron

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