Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama
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Actor (on the stage). Me mind is made up!
Voice from the Gallery. What abeaout yer fice?
WITH 140 ILLUSTRATIONS
BY CHARLES KEENE, PHIL MAY, GEORGE DU MAURIER, BERNARD PARTRIDGE, L. RAVEN-HILL, E. T. REED, F. H. TOWNSEND, C. E. BROCK, A. S. BOYD, TOM BROWNE, EVERARD HOPKINS AND OTHERS
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MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY
MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY
HUMOURS OF MUSIC AND THE DRAMA
THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
BEFORE THE CURTAIN
MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY
SOMETHING FOR THE MONEY
The Drama.
TRUE APPRECIATION
ON A DRAMATIC AUTHOR
THE MANAGER'S COMPLAINT
A First Night.
"The Desire of the Moth for the Star.
The Counter-Check Quarrelsome.
Sweeping Assertion.
DRAMATIC NOTES OF THE FUTURE
MODERN IMPRESSIONIST ART. A MUSICAL COMEDY
AT THE PREMIÈRE
THE BILL OF THE PLAY
Amenities of the Profession.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN
Private Theatricals.
An Infant Roscius.
A Soliloquy.
"Shakspeare and the first Quart O"
"Shakspeare and the last Quart O"
The deplorable issue.
"MOST MUSICAL, MOST MELANCHOLY"
MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. SENSATION OPERA.
"Cross Old Thing!"
Our Theatricals.
Technical.
A Double Disappointment.
Modest Appeal.
A MODERN REHEARSAL
NEO-DRAMATIC NURSERY RHYME
HINTS TO AMATEUR PLAYWRIGHTS.
QUITE OF HER OPINION
THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA
CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS NURSERY RHYMES
IN THE STALLS
IN THE STALLS
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
A Studied Insult.
"The Sleeping Beauty."
Collaborateurs.
WHY I DON'T WRITE PLAYS
Her First Play.
Mellow drammer
First Night of an Unappreciated Melodrama.
THE COMMISSARIAT
A NOTE AND QUERY
MR. PUNCH'S OPERA BOX
SIC VOS NON VOBIS DRAMATISATIS, WRITERS!
MEM. BY A MANAGER
REVISED VERSION OF SHAKSPEARE
A solo on the horn
After the Performance.
Ambiguous.
Our Theatricals.
Distinguished Amateurs. The Actor.
Distinguished Amateurs. The Jeune Premier.
Music by handle.
THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM
Turning a Phrase.
"Men Were Deceivers Ever"
The Commentators.
A Disenchantment
THE MOAN OF A THEATRE-MANAGER
Ibsen in Brixton.
A five bar rest
LESSONS LEARNED AT A PANTOMIME
THE NEW PLAY
A quick movement with an obligato accompaniment.
TERRIFIC SITUATION!
APPRECIATIVE!
SCENE FROM SHAKSPEARIAN PANTOMIME
A Disenchantment.
The Problem Play.
CHURCH THEATRES FOR COUNTRY VILLAGES—THE BLAMELESS BALLET
Confrères.
A PROP OF THE DRAMA
An Unkind Cut.
A CROWDED HOUSE
THE PROVINCIAL DRAMA
A CONDUCTOR OF HEAT
"STARTLING EFFECTS!"
EX NIHILO NIHIL FIT
PREHISTORIC SHAKSPEARE.—"MACBETH"
MUSIC-HALL INANITIES.—I.
MUSIC-HALL INANITIES.—II. The Illustrative Method.
ATTENTION AT THE PLAY.
Melodrama in the Suburbs.
The Ruling Passion.
HIS FIRST AND LAST PLAY
Paradoxical.
FORM
PROPERTY HAS ITS RIGHTS
The Point of View.
THE FORTHCOMING PANTOMIME
MR. PUNCH'S PATENT MATINEE HAT.
Heard at a Provincial Circus.
The Amateurs.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
"EXCLUSIVE"
The Drama.
The Maiden's Point of View.
A COMEDIE FRANÇAISE
"Those Who Live in Glass Houses," Etc.
A very cold audience.
A CASE OF "NO COMPRENNY"
BETWEEN THE ACTS; OR, THE DRAMA IN LIQUOR
An Irresistible Appeal.
What our Dramatist has to put up with.
OVERHEARD OUTSIDE A THEATRE
STUDY
COLOURED CLERGY
SUPEREROGATION
After the Theatricals.
A DOMESTIC DRAMA
PROGRESS
"HAMLET" A LA SAUCE DUMB-CRAMBO
"Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt!"—Act I., Sc. 2.
"Lend thy serious ear-ring to what I shall unfold!"—Act I., Sc. 5.
"Toby, or not Toby? that is the question."—Act II., Sc. 2.
"The King, sir."—"Ay, sir, what of him?"—"Is in his retirement marvellous distempered."—"With drink, sir!"—"No, my lord, rather with collar!"—Act III., Sc. 2.
"Oh, my offence is rank!"—Act III., Sc. 3.
"Put your bonnet to his right use—'tis for the head."—Act V., Sc. 2.
"Coming Events cast their Shadows before them."
A SENSITIVE EAR.
DUMB-CRAMBO'S GUIDE TO THE LONDON THEATRES
Drew wry lane
Cove in garden
Cry-teary 'un
Prints of whales
"A—mark it!"
Gay at tea
Princesses and royal tea
Globe
"Scent, James?"
Strand and "save, hoi!"
Only in play!
The actor who has his head turned with applause
CURTAIN-RAISERS
MUSIC HALL TYPES
MUSIC HALL TYPES
MUSIC HALL TYPES
On Tour.
Art and Nature.
CONVINCING
