AUGUSTIN DALY'S Company has left us just as play-goers had
taken a fancy to _Nancy & Co_. To paraphrase the old refrain--
And all their fancy
Dwelt upon NANCY
The play called _Nancy & Co._
It went as a lively laughter-raiser should go, with Miss ADA
REHAN excellent in every way; Miss MAXINE ELLIOT
charming; JAMES LEWIS inimitably funny, and Mr.
WORTHING ("quite a Bright'un," as WAGSTAFF says)
capital. That the fun of a farcical comedy should be kept up through
four acts is a tribute to the original work and to the skill of its
adaptor, Mr. _Daly_ himself. _"Vive la Compagnie!" et au revoir!_
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A Sportsman's View of It.
CHAMBERLAIN _vice_ ROSEBERY! What fun!
The change means order, peace, and lots of tin for us.
What are the Derbies twain young Primrose won
To the _New Markets_ many JOE will win for us?
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"AFTER THE CALL WAS OVER."
(_Notes for an Additional Chapter to the History of Hullibulgaria._)
The Deputation did their very best. They were most anxious to make
things smooth. "He whom they desired to obey" would wear an inferior
sort of crown, robes of cotton-backed velvet, trimmed with imitation
fur. He would not give away orders--he would only take them. He would
not command the army, save as an agent acting under direction from the
Master. There is nothing he would not do to secure the goodwill of his
great, his benevolent, his all-powerful Master.
The Bear was very amiable. The Bear was pleased with the Deputation
and with the nation they represented. And having said this, there was
nothing further for the Bear to say.
"But, most powerful of powers, most clement of sovereignties," urged
the Deputation, "there is another matter needing decision. How about
the Prince?"
"What Prince?" softly murmured the Bear, in a tone of curiosity
combined with astonishment.
"The Prince we wish to serve," explained the Deputation; "the Prince
who desires to serve you."
"Have you read the Treaty of Berlin?" asked Bruin. "It is a most
excellent agreement, and deserves special attention. Does the name of
any Prince appear therein?"
"No," replied the Deputation; "and the same painful omission is
observable in the _Almanac de Gotha_. So we would petition on our
knees that the painful omission should be supplied. We ask that the
Prince----"
"Stop! stop!" cried the Bear. "You are talking of a myth. As Mrs.
GAMP--a well-known Englishwoman--once observed, 'I don't
believe there ain't no sech person.' So think I, and so thinks the
Treaty of Berlin."
And so the Deputation returned from whence they came, and "the Prince"
continued to "take the waters" without obtaining the cure he desired.
It was disappointing to His Highness, but not to the Editor of the
_Almanac de Gotha_, who found a revised edition of his excellent
periodical was, at least for the present, unnecessary.
* * * * *
What title will Baron DE WORMS take? Viscount
CHRYSALIS? to end by becoming Le Duc DE PAPILLON?
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