Punch (52.1867)

PUNCH, OR THE LON "PON CHARIVARI

[June 1, 1867.

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IRISH ARCHITECTURE.

Angler {in Ireland). “ Hullo, Pat, what are you about now ?"
Pat. “ Shure, I’m Raisin’ me Roof a bit, yer Honour-r ! !”

HINTS TO HISTRIONICS.

If our actresses take leaves out of the Music Hall books in the
matter of familiar Christian names (to which fashion Mr. Punch objected
in a recent number) why should not our Managers adopt the elegant
Music Hall nomenclature in their ordinary bills F The comic singers
style themselves thus, “The Jolly Nash,” “The Eccentric So-and-So,”
and after this manner might the theatrical programmes be drawn out.
This evening, for instance, will be presented the laughable farce,
written by the mirth-moving Martin Tupper, entitled,

Benjamin Boodle
Nicholas Noodle

Charles Fenham .

Captain Mountjoy
Julius Dolnger .
Mrs. Mountjoy
Emma

CATCHING A WINKLE.

. . . By the Side-splitting Phelps.

. . By the Fantastic Chippendale.

I By the Star-comique Stuart.

. -! (By kind permission of managerial Ben
( Webster).

. . . By the Champion Comic Arthur Stirling.

. . . By Le Petit Paul Bedford.

. . By “The Funniest Woman Out,” Mrs. Poynter.

j By the distinguished Shakspearian Soloist and
’ ' ■ | Swaness of Avon, Miss “ Avon”-ia Jones.

After which a Petit Comedy-drame-burl-farce-panto-tragedy by the dashing
Merry-Andrew Halliday, entitled,

And when the thing is thoroughly over done then will come the re.
action, and it will not be the loudest trumpet that obtains the largest
audiences.

FLORAL AND CHORAL.

The other morning Mr. Punch, as he chipped his second egg, saw
his youngest daughter smiling at this notice in the Guardian:—

WANTED, a Situation as HEAD GARDENER.

* ’ in flowers. Lately taken bass part in surphced choir,
reference. Address, &c.

Has great interest
SiDgle. Steady. Good

Well, what is there to laugh at, Miss F was Mr. Punch's stern
remark. There is nothing very ludicrous in the fact that a gardener is
able to sing bass. 0, you are tickled by the surplice, are you F A
gardener in a surplice ! Well, pray, and why not, Miss ? “ A saint in
serge is twice a saint in lawn ; ” and a bass voice in a surplice may to
some ears sound far finer than if its possessor merely wore a fustian
jacket. Resides, the surplice shows the gardener is a man of High
Church views, and not a dangerous dissenter; and this may serve to
recommend him very strongly to some people. There are persons in
the world who would hardly eat asparagus, if they knew that it was
cut by a go-to-meeting gardener.

THE GREAT PITY.

Privo.te Box .... By the Irresistible Horace Wigan.
Corporal Cox . ... By the “ Talking Arm,” Walter Lacy.

Paddy O' Rafferty . . . By the Funny Kean.

The Great Pitt . . . . By the Juvenile Addison.

The Duchess of Mountserrat . By the Tear-compelling Marie Wilton.

Ritualistic Duologue.

Says Sarum to Oxon,

1 shall put these togs on.
Says Oxon to Sarum,

I should like to wear ’em.

Of course every professional should be at full liberty to adopt a
descriptive pnenomen for himself, and stick to it. Dramatic authors
should do the same, and in a very short time the novelists, whose
name is legion, will have to coin titles for themselves, which will be
placarded in glaring colours on the posting boards of the Metropolis.

CHANGE OF NAME.

At St. George’s Church (in what Parish we will not tell) in conse-
quence of the Sermons being so iong and tedious, the parishioners
propose getting the name changed to St. /aecge’s Church.