DOI issue:
October 19, 1889
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17688#0188
October 19, 1889.] PUNCH, OR. THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 183
Tourist (of an inquiring and antiquarian turn). “‘Now I suppose, Farmer, that large Cairn of Stones has some History?”
Highland Farmer. “ Ooh, aye, that Buig o’ Stanes has a gran’ History whatever !”
Tourist (eagerly). “Indeed! I should like to-What is the Legend-?”
Farmer. “Just a gran’ History!” (Solemnly.) “It took a’ ma Cairts full and Horses Sax Months to gather them
afe the Land and pit them ther-r-re ! ! ”
‘ ‘ Dem Golden Slippers ’ ’ will draw all trippers;
look at them shining upon my feet
In aureate glory ! My wondrous story will
fly the world round than light more fleet,
And very shortly, all brave and courtly,
princes galore at my throne will meet.
My sisters jealous will puff like bellows their
swarthy cheeks at my golden luck.
“ All things that glitter not gold ? ” They ’re
bitter because a gold-field they have not
struck.
Ho! sound the tabor ! Flock hither, Labour!
Fairy Godmother, you are a duck!
\_Left pirouetting.
Leeds Festival.—So great has been the
success of Dr. Mackenzie’s “ Pibroch
written for Senor Sarasate, that for next year
the same composer has been commissioned to
write an Oratorio for the Bagpipes only. The
news has already got wind. Miss Maggie
Macintyre has also been Macintirely suc-
cessful at Leeds. Scots wha hae ! Hurrah
for the “ Two Macs! ”
“Truth Will Out.” — So Lord Mayor
Whitehead commenced life as a bagman!
All honour to him. We never suspected it.
Curious that his brethren of the road, who
recently presented him with a testimonial,
should have waited till the close of his
Mayoralty to let the cat out of the bag.
Suggestion for the D. T.—Another ob-
jectionable use of Tobacco:—“ Chew quoque
FORTHCOMING NOVELTY.
We understand that arrangements are
already made for the serious Opera by Messrs.
Sulbert and Gillivan. The title of the
piece has not as yet been settled. It is not
improbable that it may be called The Prince
of Padua; or, The Sexton and the Suicide;
but at the last moment, or any other moment,
for the matter of that, this may be changed.
The story is briefly as follows :—The young
Prince of Padua, a youth of scholarly tastes
and melancholy temperament, is much
grieved and distressed by the hasty marriage
of his mother, a widow, with the brother of
her late husband, who had met his death
under exceptionally suspicious circumstances.
The one brother was, in point of fact, poisoned
by the other, for the very purpose of suc-
ceeding to his throne and wife. The murder
is revealed to the Prince, his son, by a Scotch
relation, gifted with second sight. He imme-
diately determines to revenge his father’s
death, and in order to accomplish this end
with more certainty and safety to himself, he
feigns idiocy. Among other ingenious de-
vices for bringing home the crime to the
guilty person, he hits upon the following
plan. The murder having been committed
by means of a well-known anaesthetic, ad-
ministered aurally during an after-dinner
nap, the Prince takes advantage of an evening
party at the Palace to get up a charade
—the word chosen being thus divided—Clo'-
Reform. The climax of the scene, when the
convicted assassin, suddenly guessing the
charade, shrieks out, ‘ ‘ Chloroform! ” and then
goes into hysterics, is one of the most highly-
wrought situations in the piece. We need
hardly remark on the splendid opportunity for
a grand finale which the situation affords.
At a later stage of the drama, the Prince,
who has been sent abroad on diplomatie busi-
ness by his step-father, returns unexpectedly,
only to find that the lovely Lady Lhilcinea,
to whom he had been betrothed, has com-
mitted suicide by drowning. At this point
the Village Sexton first appears. This part
was originally intended for Mr. George Geos -
smith. His humorous business (with a song),
while engaged in digging a grave for the
departed lady, would have afforded this
eminent comedian a magnificent opportunity
for the display of his peculiar talent.
The precise incidents which bring about
the denoument have not finally been de-
termined on, but it is understood that they
will include the death of almost all the
leading characters in the drama. The opera
is in rehearsal. Gillivan has already com-
posed the first four bars of the opening song,
which we have been permitted to hear, ana,
without betraying a confidence, we may
just whisper to the music-loving'public that
the new work will probably be the popular
composer’s chef d'ceuvre. The objection
raised by one timid friend of the Management
that portions of the plot too nearly resemble
the incidents of a Shakspearian Play, has
very properly been dismissed as frivolous,
and the greatest success is anticipated for
the forthcoming novelty.
Tourist (of an inquiring and antiquarian turn). “‘Now I suppose, Farmer, that large Cairn of Stones has some History?”
Highland Farmer. “ Ooh, aye, that Buig o’ Stanes has a gran’ History whatever !”
Tourist (eagerly). “Indeed! I should like to-What is the Legend-?”
Farmer. “Just a gran’ History!” (Solemnly.) “It took a’ ma Cairts full and Horses Sax Months to gather them
afe the Land and pit them ther-r-re ! ! ”
‘ ‘ Dem Golden Slippers ’ ’ will draw all trippers;
look at them shining upon my feet
In aureate glory ! My wondrous story will
fly the world round than light more fleet,
And very shortly, all brave and courtly,
princes galore at my throne will meet.
My sisters jealous will puff like bellows their
swarthy cheeks at my golden luck.
“ All things that glitter not gold ? ” They ’re
bitter because a gold-field they have not
struck.
Ho! sound the tabor ! Flock hither, Labour!
Fairy Godmother, you are a duck!
\_Left pirouetting.
Leeds Festival.—So great has been the
success of Dr. Mackenzie’s “ Pibroch
written for Senor Sarasate, that for next year
the same composer has been commissioned to
write an Oratorio for the Bagpipes only. The
news has already got wind. Miss Maggie
Macintyre has also been Macintirely suc-
cessful at Leeds. Scots wha hae ! Hurrah
for the “ Two Macs! ”
“Truth Will Out.” — So Lord Mayor
Whitehead commenced life as a bagman!
All honour to him. We never suspected it.
Curious that his brethren of the road, who
recently presented him with a testimonial,
should have waited till the close of his
Mayoralty to let the cat out of the bag.
Suggestion for the D. T.—Another ob-
jectionable use of Tobacco:—“ Chew quoque
FORTHCOMING NOVELTY.
We understand that arrangements are
already made for the serious Opera by Messrs.
Sulbert and Gillivan. The title of the
piece has not as yet been settled. It is not
improbable that it may be called The Prince
of Padua; or, The Sexton and the Suicide;
but at the last moment, or any other moment,
for the matter of that, this may be changed.
The story is briefly as follows :—The young
Prince of Padua, a youth of scholarly tastes
and melancholy temperament, is much
grieved and distressed by the hasty marriage
of his mother, a widow, with the brother of
her late husband, who had met his death
under exceptionally suspicious circumstances.
The one brother was, in point of fact, poisoned
by the other, for the very purpose of suc-
ceeding to his throne and wife. The murder
is revealed to the Prince, his son, by a Scotch
relation, gifted with second sight. He imme-
diately determines to revenge his father’s
death, and in order to accomplish this end
with more certainty and safety to himself, he
feigns idiocy. Among other ingenious de-
vices for bringing home the crime to the
guilty person, he hits upon the following
plan. The murder having been committed
by means of a well-known anaesthetic, ad-
ministered aurally during an after-dinner
nap, the Prince takes advantage of an evening
party at the Palace to get up a charade
—the word chosen being thus divided—Clo'-
Reform. The climax of the scene, when the
convicted assassin, suddenly guessing the
charade, shrieks out, ‘ ‘ Chloroform! ” and then
goes into hysterics, is one of the most highly-
wrought situations in the piece. We need
hardly remark on the splendid opportunity for
a grand finale which the situation affords.
At a later stage of the drama, the Prince,
who has been sent abroad on diplomatie busi-
ness by his step-father, returns unexpectedly,
only to find that the lovely Lady Lhilcinea,
to whom he had been betrothed, has com-
mitted suicide by drowning. At this point
the Village Sexton first appears. This part
was originally intended for Mr. George Geos -
smith. His humorous business (with a song),
while engaged in digging a grave for the
departed lady, would have afforded this
eminent comedian a magnificent opportunity
for the display of his peculiar talent.
The precise incidents which bring about
the denoument have not finally been de-
termined on, but it is understood that they
will include the death of almost all the
leading characters in the drama. The opera
is in rehearsal. Gillivan has already com-
posed the first four bars of the opening song,
which we have been permitted to hear, ana,
without betraying a confidence, we may
just whisper to the music-loving'public that
the new work will probably be the popular
composer’s chef d'ceuvre. The objection
raised by one timid friend of the Management
that portions of the plot too nearly resemble
the incidents of a Shakspearian Play, has
very properly been dismissed as frivolous,
and the greatest success is anticipated for
the forthcoming novelty.