PROLOGUE...Spoken by FLORENCE MARRYAT,
and interrupted by GEO. GROSSMITH, JUN.
HUMOROUS MUSICAL SCENA... "On the Sands" ... _Grossmith_.
GEO. GROSSMITH, JUN.
COSTUME RECITAL... "Joan of Arc in Prison" ... _James Albery_.
FLORENCE MARRYAT.
(With the Scena by LINDSAY SLOPER.)
HUMOROUS MUSICAL SCENA... "A Cold Collation" ... _Grossmith_.
GEO. GROSSMITH, JUN.
COSTUME RECITAL... "The Grandmother" ... ... _Tennyson_.
FLORENCE MARRYAT.
HISTORICAL MEDLEY... "Richard Coeur-de-Leon" ... _E. Draper_.
INTERVAL OF THREE MINUTES.
To conclude with a Satirical Musical Sketch, entitled
"CUPS AND SAUCERS."
(Written and Composed expressly by GEO. GROSSMITH, Jun.)
MRS. EMILY NANKEEN WORCESTER
(A China Maniac) ... FLORENCE MARRYAT.
GENERAL DEELAH
(Another) ... ... ... GEO. GROSSMITH, JUN.
The above is the last joint entertainment I ever gave, except with
my father, and I only fulfilled one or two more with him.
"Cups and Saucers" was afterwards played before _H.M.S. Pinafore_,
at the Opera Comique, for about 500 nights. It is still played a
great deal by amateurs all over the country, both with and without
my permission. This entertainment with Miss Marryat was more of an
artistic success than a financial one. Sometimes we did very well,
and sometimes we did not. In Scotland we always had crowded rooms;
but at the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin, we played a whole month,
the majority of the time to half-full rooms. I enjoyed the month in
Dublin, for all that. The people were most hospitable; and so
Florence Marryat, her companion (Miss Glover), Mr. George Dolby, and
myself managed to enjoy ourselves. Henry Irving was in Dublin at the
time, and, as I had the privilege of being an old friend of his, I
naturally came in for all his parties; and Irving is a prince of
hosts.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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