Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, July 13, 1895

Vol. 109.
July 13, 1895.

Monday. —Quite new Opera, Faust . Some people say they've heard it before. Others add, Yes, and more than once this season. Unwritten law in Codex Druriolanum is You can't have too much of a good thing. There are a hundred different ways of dressing chicken; so with Faust . This time Faust comes and is Faust served with Sauce Marguerite à l'Emma Eames . Uncommonly good. Faust lui-même à l'Alvarez goes down uncommonly well. Mefisto-Plançon Sauce au bon diable , a little overdone, perhaps, but decidedly a popular dish. Baton of Bevignani keeps all the ingredients well stirred up. House full.
Tuesday. — Carmen. Madame Bellincioni and Signor Ancona going strong. Capital house, spite of shadow of dissolution being over us all.
Wednesday. — Nozze di Figaro , with Emma Eames as Countess, singing charmingly, and looking like portrait of Court Beauty by Sir Peter Lely. Maurel-Almaviva all right for voice, but not up to his Countess in aristocratic appearance. However, this is in keeping with character of nobleman whose most intimate friend is his barber, and who makes love to the barber's fiancée , who is also his wife's femme de chambre .
ROUNDABOUT READINGS.
At the Oxford and Cambridge Athletic Sports on Wednesday last, great surprise was expressed at the defeat of the hitherto invincible Mr. C. B. Fry by Mr. Mendelson in the Long Jump. Mr. Mendelson, who comes to us from New Zealand, has not only done a fine performance, but he has also jumped into fame. It is at any rate obvious that it is quite impossible for him to represent his University in the High Jump, for
With a musical name (though he varies the spelling), This youth from New Zealand is bound to go far. He couldn't jump high, since (it's truth I am telling) No master of music e'er misses a bar.
The Long Jump, snatched like a brand from the burning, practically gave the victory in the whole contest to Cambridge, who also won the Weight, the Mile, the Three Miles and the Quarter.