Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas. F. Anstey

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       F. Anstey

      Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas

      Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664562661

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       MODEL MUSIC HALL.

       INTRODUCTION.

       INTRODUCTION.

       POETIC LICENCES.

       MODEL MUSIC HALL.

       SONGS.

       i. —THE PATRIOTIC

       ii. —THE TOPICAL-POLITICAL.

       iii. —A DEMOCRATIC DITTY.

       iv. —THE IDYLLIC.

       v. —THE AMATORY EPISODIC.

       vi. —THE CHIVALROUS.

       vii. —THE FRANKLY CANAILLE.

       viii. —THE DRAMATIC SCENA.

       ix. —THE DUETTISTS.

       x. —DISINTERESTED PASSION.

       xi. —THE PANEGYRIC PATTER.

       xii. —THE PLAINTIVELY PATHETIC.

       xiii. —THE MILITARY IMPERSONATOR.

       MODEL MUSIC HALL.

       DRAMAS.

       i .—THE LITTLE CROSSING-SWEEPER.

       ii. —JOE, THE JAM-EATER.

       iii. —THE MAN-TRAP.

       iv. —THE FATAL PIN.

       v. —BRUNETTE AND BLANCHIDINE.

       vi .—COMING OF AGE.

       vii. —RECLAIMED!

       viii. —JACK PARKER;

       ix. —UNDER THE HARROW.

       x. —TOMMY AND HIS SISTER JANE

       xi. —THE RIVAL DOLLS.

       xii. —CONRAD; OR, THE THUMBSUCKER.

MODEL MUSIC HALL.

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       Music Hall Proprietor.

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      The day is approaching, and may even now be within measurable distance, when the Music Halls of the Metropolis will find themselves under yet more stringent supervision than is already exercised by those active and intelligent guardians of middle-class morality, the London County Council. The moral microscope which detected latent indecency in the pursuit of a butterfly by a marionette is to be provided with larger powers, and a still more extended field. In other words, our far-sighted and vigilant County Councilmen, perceiving the futility of delaying the inspection of Variety Entertainments until such improprieties as are contained therein have been suffered to contaminate the public mind for a considerable period, are determined to nip these poison-flowers in the bud for the future; and, unless Mr. Punch is misinformed, will apply to Parliament at the earliest opportunity for clauses enabling them to require each item in every forthcoming performance to be previously submitted to a special committee for sanction and approval.

      The conscientious rigour with which they will discharge this new and congenial duty may perhaps be better understood after perusing the little prophetic sketch which follows; for Mr. Punch's Poet, when not employed in metrical composition, is a Seer of some pretensions in a small way, and several of his predictions have already been shamelessly plagiarised by the unscrupulous hand of Destiny. It is not improbable that this latest effort of his will receive a similar compliment, although this would be more gratifying if Destiny ever condescended to acknowledge such obligations. However, here is the forecast for what it is worth, a sum of incalculable amount:—

POETIC LICENCES.

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      A VISION OF THE NEAR FUTURE.