DOI Heft:
January 31, 1880
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[January 31, 1880.
THE RISING BUFEO.
(•Judged by the Setting One.)
<6 Largo al Factotum.' ” Ah!
Feels the character, no doubt.
L“Hailed as leading buffo ?” Bah!
Older hands could bowl him out.
'Of my quality a touch
Might perhaps his pride diminish.
Lots of “ go”—maybe too much—
But no finish!
I
Bellows plenty, acting fair,
Phrasing' sometimes really neat,
But he overmarks the air—•
Surest proof of green conceit.
Reeds no end of tact to tell
How to manage fiorituri—
Deals too much in trill and swell,
Flash and fury.
Toujours perdrix—rather say,
Dish that is all Sauce piquante
Palls on palate. ’Twill not pay—
This crude vigour that you vaunt.
Forte and staccato tire ;
Dolce does it very often.
Florid force and firework fire
Art should soften.
Clear cantabile, with swell
Of crescendo now and then—
That’s the sort of thing to tell,
With the general run of men.
Public has a taste for throats
That can run the scale—it fires
them;
But a song that’s all top-notes
Quickly tires them.
Much to learn, my Buffo hold!—
Though your “means” arc fairly
good—
Ere the house you fix and hold
As a leading Singer should.
Mellowness, restraint, and tonS,
Taste of point and flash less greedy:
These are things to make your own—
Experto crede !
Bark and Bite.
Mu. Sheleungus writes to suggest that as Quinine is the known
specific for Ague, and as sufferers in the cold fits of the shakes are
Chilly ’uns, par excellence, no doubt the Chilians owe their recovery
from their cold fits to having taken the Peruvian Bark, not, how-
ever—under its usual name of Chinchona, but Huascar.
MOST WELCOME.
The House of Representatives of the United States have voted
Mr. Parnell a reception in their Chamber. Suppose they kept him
there till they see how they like him as a Representative Man.
Aboard the Bacchante.—A False Alarm—the Royal Tattoo.
Disorganisation of Charity.
A benevolent man, named Gardner, has left a sum of no less
than £300,000 for the benefit of the blind. Let us hope that most
of this money is not destined in the long run to be expended on
bricks-and-mortar, and so prove less beneficial to the Blind than
the Builder.
THE GRANUH SALIS.
One true thing Parnell said in his Newark speech the other
day—
“ We in Ireland are not listened to in England.”
Would we could add, “ Nor in Ireland either.”
Messmates.—Waders in the mud of the London streets after a thaw.
NATURE. LOVE, AND BILIOUSNESS.
Mas. Frank Jolibois, as she appears,
seore or less, in her Photographs and
to the World in general : and a very
charming Person she is when once you
know her!
Moral.—Don't Sup at the
Mrs. Frank Jolibois, as she still
appears to that best of Fellows, her
Husband, when in his normal condi-
tion ; and long may she continue to do
i so !
Gridiron, or any other Club. In point
Mrs. Frank Jolibois, as she appears
to the Same, when he has been Supping
overnight at the “Gridiron,” with a
lot of other Jolly Boys, as he some-
times will !
of fact, don’t Sup at all !
[January 31, 1880.
THE RISING BUFEO.
(•Judged by the Setting One.)
<6 Largo al Factotum.' ” Ah!
Feels the character, no doubt.
L“Hailed as leading buffo ?” Bah!
Older hands could bowl him out.
'Of my quality a touch
Might perhaps his pride diminish.
Lots of “ go”—maybe too much—
But no finish!
I
Bellows plenty, acting fair,
Phrasing' sometimes really neat,
But he overmarks the air—•
Surest proof of green conceit.
Reeds no end of tact to tell
How to manage fiorituri—
Deals too much in trill and swell,
Flash and fury.
Toujours perdrix—rather say,
Dish that is all Sauce piquante
Palls on palate. ’Twill not pay—
This crude vigour that you vaunt.
Forte and staccato tire ;
Dolce does it very often.
Florid force and firework fire
Art should soften.
Clear cantabile, with swell
Of crescendo now and then—
That’s the sort of thing to tell,
With the general run of men.
Public has a taste for throats
That can run the scale—it fires
them;
But a song that’s all top-notes
Quickly tires them.
Much to learn, my Buffo hold!—
Though your “means” arc fairly
good—
Ere the house you fix and hold
As a leading Singer should.
Mellowness, restraint, and tonS,
Taste of point and flash less greedy:
These are things to make your own—
Experto crede !
Bark and Bite.
Mu. Sheleungus writes to suggest that as Quinine is the known
specific for Ague, and as sufferers in the cold fits of the shakes are
Chilly ’uns, par excellence, no doubt the Chilians owe their recovery
from their cold fits to having taken the Peruvian Bark, not, how-
ever—under its usual name of Chinchona, but Huascar.
MOST WELCOME.
The House of Representatives of the United States have voted
Mr. Parnell a reception in their Chamber. Suppose they kept him
there till they see how they like him as a Representative Man.
Aboard the Bacchante.—A False Alarm—the Royal Tattoo.
Disorganisation of Charity.
A benevolent man, named Gardner, has left a sum of no less
than £300,000 for the benefit of the blind. Let us hope that most
of this money is not destined in the long run to be expended on
bricks-and-mortar, and so prove less beneficial to the Blind than
the Builder.
THE GRANUH SALIS.
One true thing Parnell said in his Newark speech the other
day—
“ We in Ireland are not listened to in England.”
Would we could add, “ Nor in Ireland either.”
Messmates.—Waders in the mud of the London streets after a thaw.
NATURE. LOVE, AND BILIOUSNESS.
Mas. Frank Jolibois, as she appears,
seore or less, in her Photographs and
to the World in general : and a very
charming Person she is when once you
know her!
Moral.—Don't Sup at the
Mrs. Frank Jolibois, as she still
appears to that best of Fellows, her
Husband, when in his normal condi-
tion ; and long may she continue to do
i so !
Gridiron, or any other Club. In point
Mrs. Frank Jolibois, as she appears
to the Same, when he has been Supping
overnight at the “Gridiron,” with a
lot of other Jolly Boys, as he some-
times will !
of fact, don’t Sup at all !