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    • THE AMATEURS! THE AMATEURSt/ By an ex-Amateur of Two Feet.
    • SPECIAL GRIEVANCES.
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      March 20, 1869,3 The Tomahawk. 129

      March 20 , 1869 , 3 THE TOMAHAWK . 129

      The Amateurs! The Amateurst/ By An Ex-Amateur Of Two Feet.

      THE AMATEURS ! THE AMATEURSt / By an ex-Amateur of Two Feet .

      Third Study.—Adolphus Noodle, The Amateu...

      Third Study . —Adolphus Noodle , the Amateur Actor-The Rehearsal . Noodle as Claud . Lady Scarboro and her Tale wasplayed . Lord . Rosherville The end of the . Wh Rehearsal y the " . Handsome Charming Husband Unselfish- " ness oj the Amateurs I friend You Adolphus may possibl to tak y remember e part in Lady that Scarboro I was engaged ' s theatricals by my as " Second Officer " in the Lady of Lyons . Punctual to my time , a I turned few minutes up at the Noodle while ' he chambers brushed , and up was his kept hair b y him arranged waiting his soon necktie gallop . ing This away done in the , we direction chartered of a Sout Hansom h Kensington , and were , in which situated favoured . spot the town house of the Scarboro ' in " the You cab 'll find ; " Lady ' s awfull S . rather y stout a , strange and «//// woman play Pauline , " said Adol . Peop plius le tell Claud me . that YouVe they never wouldn see ' t n come my Claud to see ? her /' if I wasn ' t so good in

      on " -the Ah -Ooze , you should and the see Loomshire it . I was We play ekl Post it down declared at Poniton that it - were was a the performance very , words— ' lete lete with with pathos pathos y and and passion passion . . " ' Those " " Well Highly , I ' m flattering not a conceited , I ' m sure . man " ; but really , I do think my without Claud is gaining a gem thunders in its way of app ;— lause at least . " , I know I never play it " " I It ' m ' sure very the good app of lause you is to deserved say so . . " But see , here we are at Lady We Scarboro descended ' s . knocke Pay the d at cab the . " doorand were duladmitted to the gorgeous , salons of the Scarboro , ' mansion . y Our cards were very found gilding bi taken three g and drawing up ladies its b - atmosp y room a very , whic here big and h of footman seemed two aristocratic , chiefl who y ushered remarkable discomfort . The us first . into for lad We its a was very " fat and forty present ; . " she , looked gentlemen as if she must have been y presence " dentl rather y her a of fine dau thei woman g r hters mother , ; sir they looked , " in were 1820 as decidedl . if The the day other y pretty must ladies , come but were in whe e the vi n - they too would be " fat and forty . " The gentlemen may be deof scribed the Leech in a very school few , the words second . The a perk first y was youth an of amiable some eighteen " swell " summers , who looked as if he would be awfull y old if he could . troduce " Lady to Scarboro' / ' friend said Adol Mr . p Blank hus , " who will you is allow anxious me to in to - play the Second you my Officer ?" , , very

      Lady me Scarboro a little bow ' looked and turned at me her through back a double n me . eye This -glass I , found gave afterwards was , tantamount to her Lad upo yship telling me that to a I tale was of not some pretty half —the doze aristocratic n inane but female handsome was accustomed youths , sury chiefly , with chosen whom from she carried Guards on , a mild War but Office not altogether , and the Trea inno - - cent flirtation—I was not " nice " enough to be added to that happy The tale rehearsal ! commencedand I sat down on a chair and waited * ' swell fo " r my two to play minutes Glavis to , , a n rrive d th . at I found e you that th w the as c langu ast for id Dumas " Our . friend After N awhile oodle , has the not languid introduced " swell us " came , " said up to e a me miable . self " swell . I " had with the rather pleasure an inan of e hearing grin , " so u I beg nam to e int an roduce d so I my will - tell At you this mine moment . My name Adolphu ' s Roshervilie s rushed . up " to us , and said hurriedly " I , forgot that you hadn't met one another before . Mr . Blank—Lord Rosherville . Lord Rosherville—Mr . Blank . " served We bowed with charming to one ano candour ther p , olitely , and my new friend obyou " You I haven know ' t the it ' s faintest utterly absurd notion making of the sort me of act thing . I can I ought assure to be know . I rather I can ' t think do that Glavis kind should of thing be a . kind It ' s of too rascal ab — surd well — , it you is really . I know T shall make an idiot of myself . "

      comfort I tried from to console remarks him , but . B he - was and- far b too he depressed was called to gather to the portraits business of in a my photograp stage , and h book I was y . After left ye I alone had been to look thus over engaged some for about an hour , Lady Florence Folkestone ( the younger of dition Lady Scarb , came up ' s to two me daug and hters opened ) , taking a conversation pity on my . forlorn conlooking " We are at me going with to a . p pair lay of A very Handsome fine eyes Husband . " Do I you n she think said it , a pretty " I have piece never ?" seen it , " I answered . " Is the plot amusing V * the " heroine Well , no regaining ; I can scarcel her sight y call . She it has amusing been . blind It turns , but when upon the piece begins she has quite recovered , and has a pair of beautiful " Really eyes ! are " the characters at all interesting ? " with " Well the , eyes I can has ' t say such they a good are . part But . " then , you know , the lady " And that is played by ? " At "Oh this , / point play , th af at ter !" I had been in the room some couple of awfull hours , y Noodle sorry , but came we up shan to ' me t rehearse and said any , " M more y dear to- fellow day . , Our I'm awfull next rehearsal y sorry we will couldn be on ' t Tuesday get on as , at far four as your . Don part ' t be . late However . I ' m , we I are bowed nearl myself y sure out of , doing and was so next gone time . . " thing I had , and been the kept average in the value place of two my hours time is , doing a shilling absolutel a minute y no- !

      Special Grievances.

      SPECIAL GRIEVANCES .

      The Case Of Saurin Versus Starr, Like Ot...

      The case of Saurin versus Starr , like other nine days' sentake sations us , out is almost of one forgotten scene into , another so rapidl , so y do immediately th ^ daily do journals incidents ourselves arrive or more in every engrossing day life of to more public important attention . interest But the to specials can scarcely who were have on forgot the , jury perhap during s in that some contemptible individual cases affair never will forget , the dreary waste of time spent in watching that waste case of time from 1 their Are not wooden the services prison , the of these jury-bo specials * . But remune how a - rated guinea in . One some guinea way or ! When other . perhaps Certainly one , by or the all of gift them of may one have There lost is so hundred mething guinea uncommonl s by absence y rotten from in their the state daily of work jury . - law of juries , by which , when we mean man , the for whom laws which time regulate is money the , who composition may deand pend the on necessary his daily negotiations support of an for increasing the improvement family of , is his liable income to be for seized the benefit , on penalty of his of country a fine of ' s conventional ten pounds , customs and impounded without incurred any remuneration . Your l worth mentioning will tell for losses Sirthat or annoyance the fine old English custom awyer should meet with a patriotic , , response from that every sh householder ould you get , and into that trouble it is sufficient , or com re muneration suicide , to a know Jury , benefit special To the , and man coroner at no c ' s ost thinks , will to yourself no be" empanelled ore . of ten pounds fo r your than parti a gr c o ular om does of a grain of barley , this is a matter of little moment ; he pays name s of fine bankers , and on nothing . the lists more of j is urors said . are It crossed is a fact out th as at use the - le sum ss , m a oning s the authoritie them , for s they know would perfectly not come well if that the there fine was is no four use - larg fold . e class It does of intelli not touch gent these men men who in have any little way . if anything But there to is do a liable beyond to b u e nging summoned into Clubs simp ly r lo be un ca g u se they out again are in , who apartm are ents not , and can flit from one set of chambers to another if inconvenienced . a Saurin So then v . Starr liability case for to b weeks e a sp at ecial one ju guinea ror , tha is t i a s tax to assi on st the at h ouseholder the nuisan . A ce man s co may nnected be a with happy bachelor establish , , utterl ment y igno he r ant s not enough long , a i n n findi to s n g hi e , m self hi a mse pap lf a , , but he finds he marries it necessary , and ; as to put is

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 20, 1869, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_20031869/page/11/