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    • MR. BOUCICAULT, PLEASE!
    • THE KALEIDOSCOPE REFLECTIONS.
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      Rehearsal At Last — My So I Great Was To...

      to I gave me , except them a the shilling scene and -shifters waited , who the asked arrival me of for Trumpets a pot of . beer . He At never last he introduced came , and me with to him them some , but of began the chief at once performers shouting . directions to the carpenters . The piece began . I could not recognise a word of the which original were dialogue drowned , except by every a most now irritating and then fidgeting a few with sentences their fiddles on the part of the orchestra , which Trumpets said was music . When the hero came on I found he was a most indifferent actor , and that he squinted fearfully . I asked Trumpets why he had selected this man for the part . " Why , my dear fellow , don't you see what a capital squint he has got 1 " I did not see what that had got to do with it . " Well / ' said Trumpets , " the fact is , the part wanted go , so we introduced a squint , just to for give it it . character Everybod — y and alludes there to you his are squinting , Skewken , and ' s the the very audience man immediately see the squint is real . " Before such experienced wisdom I was silent . At last the great scene came . It was a valley in Spain , so Trumpets told me . " You see , he said , we telegrap altered the h wires locale , ran to g across ive it go the . " stage The ; telegrap a road led h posts along , with the real top of a precipice on one side ; on the other was : part artnr of ?^ a wprp low inn . Tn t"hi =: srpnp sfivpral livf » JiTiimnk ^ h ^ sirffh *»

      introduced ; tame rabbits were placed on ledges of the rock ; sheep , tied by the neck to posts , grazed on cut grass ; while my friend the badger turned head over heels for the amusement of the guests of the inn . The live dromedary was also introduced , and went through some very mild performances . The scene concluded by a real diligence , with real passengers , being telegrap plundered h wires by bri , and gands tumbled ( also real the , diligence I should , think with ) , all who its cut inside the passengers , over the precipice on to a fearful bank of feather beds . I was fairly overcome with astonishment . " Good — heavens not from I Mr my . Trumpets piece ? " , " " I M said y dear , " where fellow did , " replied you get Trumpet this from s , your " it ' s your characters idea , I talked assure of you going , though to Spain you , don and ' t so know it at it once . One sug of - gested the idea . Then you called your hero ' s house ' The the Warren badger : ' that I got suggested cheap j the and rabbits you see , and to- the night dromedary if they don and 't rouse the audience to enthusiasm . Reality ' s everything now-adays . I had thought of introducing some live fleas—Spain ' s a very dirty place , you know—but the band objected , and I gave in ; perhaps they would not have gone for much after all !" I went , disgusted , away ; but not before I had heard my Trumpets heroine singing told me a , " comic because duet he had with engaged the villain her , introduced for burlesque , as , and he could not let her voice be idle . " The evening came . I got myself up in my best evening clothes . The piece " went" tremendously . The applause was terrific . and I practised when the bowing curtain between came down the , acts amidst , at the " terrific back enthusiasm of my box , " ; I confess I felt nervous . The audience called the man with the squint , the lady with the comic song ; they called the scenepainter , the carpenter , the gas-man , and the prompter , Then there arose a louder shout than all . I got ready to go on . w Somebody ere hissing cried me I " Come They back were ! calling " Too , late not me , I , w but as on the , and perform they - ing badger !

      176 Tub Tom Ah A Wk. {October 24, 1868.

      176 TUB TOM AH A WK . { October 24 , 1868 .

      Mr. Boucicault, Please!

      MR . BOUCICAULT , PLEASE !

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      the Mr ori . ginal J . Arnold of your Cave original has produced drama , After at the Dark Victoria / Tomahawk Theatre thoroughl is obliged y beaten to Mr — . even Cave the for " " Express showing train you " up ( worth . " You to you are Th some eatre , £ 43 . " , 000 Don isn ' t ' poach t it ?) is again surpa Mr ssed . Boucicault at " Queen —ca Victoria % > e canem 's Own /

      There's No Place Like Frome.—There Was A...

      There ' s no Place like Frome . —There was a report that tradict Mr . Tom it , Hughes the only had foundation gone over for to Rome it being . We that need the scarcel honourable y congentleman for the charms had of deserted ( F ) rome the ? archiepiscopal precincts of Lambeth . 0

      The Kaleidoscope Reflections.

      THE KALEIDOSCOPE REFLECTIONS .

      On Some Characteristics Of Englishmen. B...

      ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISHMEN . BRITISH LOVE OF FAIR PLAY . there Before is no occasion I commence to enter in earnest into , I think articulars I may of wh say at that has passed between us since the publication any p of my rather confused correspondence in your last number . Suffice it to say , that I am important noiv your post recognised , I mean to commissioner enter upon my , and labours that at holding once . that Banks Johnson takes the chair to-night at the large political him meeting . I am at West going Duffington to support , and him he , for has as asked he very me to trul support y says , freedom of speech is one of the birthrights of every Englishman , and its exercise for political purposes is a privilege and a boon that may well excite the envy and the admiratibn of the world the meeting . As there may be will livel be y , speeches and that on I had bot better h sides take , B . my J . th note inks - book with me . A grand thing , this honest , manly interchange of opinion , and a credit to the innate justice of the rough but honest-hearted English people ! The idea was B . J . ' s , but I mo borrowed re at the it , meeting and you . see Here how is I the have carriage headed , and this we letter are off . . C But )

      Just arrived at West Duffington . Have been shown into a small committee-room giving on to the platform . B . J . has introduced me to the mayor and several influential local men . Noticed a great crowd and a good deal of shouting outside the hall as we drove , by a rather circuitous route , to the back entrance . B . J . has just asked the mayor something about the police . I wonder why he did that . Just found out that it is a Conservative meeting , and that they expect some opposition . No use telling B . J . that I am liberally inclined ? Better not ; it might annoy him . Mayor coming across room , smiling , to talk to me . Speaks rather indistinctly , but certainly said something about " showing somebody what we are made of . " Wonder what he meant by that ? Can ' t have meant that there might be a row in the hall ? Better perhaps hint to B . J . that his I don eye ' t . sympathise I thought entirel so . T y hey with are Disr going aeli . on I to will the . platform Can ' t catch ^ ) ( & F- . £$

      we are on the platform . ± J . J . is in the cnair , the mayor on one side , and I am on the other . Behind us lots of local influential men , cutting off all communication with the door . Hall crammed , and uproar terrible . Applause faint and quickly stifled . Hooting , yelling , and hissing almost threatening . Mayor introduces Banks Johnson in dumb show . B . J . rises and but bows c repeatedl an't make y . a Upr word oar of on the . heard increase . Turns . B . to J . me tries , but to I speak can't , hear what he says . Bawls in my ear that 1 had better get up and bow . I do . Increased uproar , deafening jeers , and shouts of "No London soap . " Very dirty but powerful-looking perflourishing son is getting his on fist , a I think form , at at the me . other I wonder end of wh the at he hall want , and s ? Diminished noise and momentary attention to powerful-looking pers person on s ays he knows making me impromptu for " a dand speech y wig . -block Powerful of an -look aristo ing - pose crat , " of and being that forced I have down been " the brought honest from working London man for 's the throat purfin like gt a on do n ot requ am . i re any adds of my also "lies that , soft the men sawder of West , or fiddle Duf - - sticks . " Great confusion at the other end of the hall , and cries peop of I re a pu l ll e y in think him fustian under they seem are the to after pump be me . making " . Better everal angri point objection ly for it the out able p to latform looking Banks him Johnson and . think I do , : I but must he can have 't hear been me overheard . I have . bawled Police it seem out to to was be . , interfering B . J . stro , n but gly advises the fustian me to is speak certainl , and y closer introduces than me it forces in dum me b on show to my legs say in I won midst 't . B of . renewed J . says y I ells must . I have and

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  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 24, 1868, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_24101868/page/4/