Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
FANCIED FAIR. The Duke of Wellington, says a correspondent of the
Times, left his umbrella behind him at a fancy fair, held for
charitable purposes, between Twickenham and Teddington. On discovering
it, Lady P. immediately said, Who will give twenty guineas for the
Dukes umbrella? A purchaser was soon found; and when the fact was
communicated to his Grace, he good-naturedly remarked, Ill soon supply
you with umbrellas, if you can sell them with so much advantage to the
charity. We trust his Graces benevolent disposition will not induce
him to carry this offer into execution. We should extremely regret to
see the Hero of Waterloo in Leicester-square, of a rainy night, vending
second-hand parapluies. The same charitable impulse will doubtlessly
induce other fashionable hawkers at fancy fairs to pick his Graces
pockets. We are somewhat curious to know what a Wellington bandana would
realise, especially were it the produce of some pretty lady P.s petty
larceny. Charity, it is said, covereth a multitude of sins. What
must it do with an umbrella? We fear that Lady P. will some day figure
in the fashionable departures.
A man picks another's pocket FOR SYDNEY DIRECT.
PUNCHS THEATRE. MARTINUZZI AS THE ACT DIRECTS. The production upon the
stage of a tragedy not intended for an acting play, as a broad
travestie, is a novel and dangerous experimentone, however, which the
combined genius of the Dramatic Authors Council has made, with the
utmost success. The Hungarian Daughter was, under the title of
Martinuzzi, received, on its first appearance, with bursts of applause
and convulsions of laughter!
The plot of this piece our literary reviewer has expressed himself
unable to unravel. We are in the same condition; all we can promise is
some account of the scenes as they followed each other; of the
characters, the sentiments, the poetry, and the rest of the fun.
The play opens with an elderly gentleman, in a spangled dressing-gown,
who commences business by telling us the time of day, poetically
clapping a wig upon the sun, by saying, he
Shakes day about, like perfume from his hair,
which statement bears out the after sentence, that the wisdom he
endures is terrible! An Austrian gentlemanwhose dress made us at first
mistake him for Richard III. on his travelsarrives to inform the
gentleman en déshabilleno other than Cardinal Martinuzzi himselfthat
he has come from King Ferdinand, to ask if he will be so good as to give
up some regency; which the Cardinal, however, respectfully declines
doing. A gentleman from Warsaw is next announced, and Castaldo retires,
having incidentally declared a passion for the reigning queen of
Hungary.
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