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Punch’s Almanack for 1849
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FEBRUARY XXVIIL DAYS.
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THE COUNTRY ACTOR'S ALIV1ANAOK.
January. — London actors act
plays at Windsor. Pretty mess, no
doubt, they've made of it. Humph !
Think there's somebody, the letters
of whose name are Daggkhwood,
ought rather to have been there. But
the old Manager cry—the old cant—
" No Talent in the Provinces."
February.—Determine to leave
these Goths (after my benefit), and
strike for the Metropolis. All my
points last night flew over their heads.
Nobody but boy that brings my bundle
has a true feeling for the art. Down,
busy devil !—down ! Let me think
of John Kemulk, Edmund Khan,
and other lions, like myself, fettered
in the country—other eagles, chained
to barn-doors. Yet then—even then—
'twas the old story : " No Talent in
the Provinces."
March.— Oh, the degradation of
making a benefit! Rang at boarding-
school - had tickets in my hand. A
pampered menial, in the form of a
housemaid, cried—" My good man,
we don't want no lucifers ! " Will
certainly write to London. Yes ; I
will take the London Public by the
throat, and make them confess there
is (I mean, there was) Talent in the
Provinces.
April.—A dreadful house for my
ben. Am somewhat like lago, can-
not " distinguish a benefit from an
injury." Nevertheless, there is- balm
for hurt minds. Cuff, the tailor—
and tho' he *s a tailor, is he not a
man?—Cuff gave my health at the
Blue Pig, when the play was over, as
"a man not able to tread in the shoes
of Edmund Kkan, and for this reason
—they were too little for him." Am
£2 out of pocket; still, it is cheering
to know that one true critic—and
that critic a creditor—acknowledges
Talent in the Provinces.
May.—Wrote to London for engage-
ment. No answer. It is thus the
Metropolitan despots treat Talent in
the Provinces!
June.—London Manager comes to
"star." I act sublimely. Have an
opening offered me by Manager for
London. Now they shall have Talent
from the Provinces!
July.—Come to London. Open
with thermometer at 100, and with
audience about 50. Hear actors ma-
levolently whisper, " A nice slow
coach ; but who expects Talent from
the Provinces ? "
August.—Am shelved, but take my
salary.
!Treasurer every week
mumbling, as he pays me,
" This is Talent from the
Provinces! "
November. — New Play. First
actor taken ill 'by the Sheriff) in
Cursitor street. Get his original part.
Bursts of applause. All the fress
exclaim to this effect:—" Where has
this genius been hidden ? We did
not believe there was such Talent in
the Provinces ! "
D ec em b er.—'' Star " it a few nights
(taking half-receipts) in my old coun-
try circuit; and must confess that I
was astonished - more, I was surprised
—to find so very little Talent in the
Provinces.
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JANUARY XXXL DAYS
IO.C.D.
Ep.Tw.Uny
IS.af.Bpip
H.CT. beg.
2 8.af.Kpip.
Oxf.Ter. be.
4S.af.Kpip.
K.C.Marty:
FEBRUARY XXVIIL DAYS.
Purif.C«nd.
Blaine
Se ptuag.Sii.
A guilt*
THE COUNTRY ACTOR'S ALIV1ANAOK.
January. — London actors act
plays at Windsor. Pretty mess, no
doubt, they've made of it. Humph !
Think there's somebody, the letters
of whose name are Daggkhwood,
ought rather to have been there. But
the old Manager cry—the old cant—
" No Talent in the Provinces."
February.—Determine to leave
these Goths (after my benefit), and
strike for the Metropolis. All my
points last night flew over their heads.
Nobody but boy that brings my bundle
has a true feeling for the art. Down,
busy devil !—down ! Let me think
of John Kemulk, Edmund Khan,
and other lions, like myself, fettered
in the country—other eagles, chained
to barn-doors. Yet then—even then—
'twas the old story : " No Talent in
the Provinces."
March.— Oh, the degradation of
making a benefit! Rang at boarding-
school - had tickets in my hand. A
pampered menial, in the form of a
housemaid, cried—" My good man,
we don't want no lucifers ! " Will
certainly write to London. Yes ; I
will take the London Public by the
throat, and make them confess there
is (I mean, there was) Talent in the
Provinces.
April.—A dreadful house for my
ben. Am somewhat like lago, can-
not " distinguish a benefit from an
injury." Nevertheless, there is- balm
for hurt minds. Cuff, the tailor—
and tho' he *s a tailor, is he not a
man?—Cuff gave my health at the
Blue Pig, when the play was over, as
"a man not able to tread in the shoes
of Edmund Kkan, and for this reason
—they were too little for him." Am
£2 out of pocket; still, it is cheering
to know that one true critic—and
that critic a creditor—acknowledges
Talent in the Provinces.
May.—Wrote to London for engage-
ment. No answer. It is thus the
Metropolitan despots treat Talent in
the Provinces!
June.—London Manager comes to
"star." I act sublimely. Have an
opening offered me by Manager for
London. Now they shall have Talent
from the Provinces!
July.—Come to London. Open
with thermometer at 100, and with
audience about 50. Hear actors ma-
levolently whisper, " A nice slow
coach ; but who expects Talent from
the Provinces ? "
August.—Am shelved, but take my
salary.
!Treasurer every week
mumbling, as he pays me,
" This is Talent from the
Provinces! "
November. — New Play. First
actor taken ill 'by the Sheriff) in
Cursitor street. Get his original part.
Bursts of applause. All the fress
exclaim to this effect:—" Where has
this genius been hidden ? We did
not believe there was such Talent in
the Provinces ! "
D ec em b er.—'' Star " it a few nights
(taking half-receipts) in my old coun-
try circuit; and must confess that I
was astonished - more, I was surprised
—to find so very little Talent in the
Provinces.
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