Or Kate’s fair face, and facile grace
Will “mash” you in a moment’s space;
Then yours will be a hopeless case—
K. V.! K. V.!
Truth, May 22, 1884.
(Referring to Miss Kate Vaughan’s performance of the part of Lalla Rookh, in Mr. Horace Lennard’s burlesque extravaganza of Moore’s poem).
Picked up at the stage entrance to the
Novelty Theatre:—
I know a masher dark to see,
J. D., J. D.