Punch, Volume 230Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1956 - English wit and humor |
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... PLAY Exhibition of Juvenile Drama ( VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM ) HE miserably laconic vocabulary of Tour theatre managers is much to be regretted . In 1822 they still retained the power of language . Take this , from a playbill at the ...
... PLAY Exhibition of Juvenile Drama ( VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM ) HE miserably laconic vocabulary of Tour theatre managers is much to be regretted . In 1822 they still retained the power of language . Take this , from a playbill at the ...
Page 282
... PLAY The Threepenny Opera ( ROYAL COURT ) Ring for Catty ( LYRIC ) GO to the theatre to be interested , moved , entertained ; and if all three , then so much the better . I do not go to the theatre to be instructed in the elements of ...
... PLAY The Threepenny Opera ( ROYAL COURT ) Ring for Catty ( LYRIC ) GO to the theatre to be interested , moved , entertained ; and if all three , then so much the better . I do not go to the theatre to be instructed in the elements of ...
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... play the game , and therefore when we timidly mentioned the subject or hinted delicately that we had once dipped into a book by a man named Culbertson , would smile kindly , remark that , of course , it took years to make a player and ...
... play the game , and therefore when we timidly mentioned the subject or hinted delicately that we had once dipped into a book by a man named Culbertson , would smile kindly , remark that , of course , it took years to make a player and ...
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