Show my pantomime i die there ia nothing of w which 1 I 1 am moie thoroughly convinced than that 1 I the writer ite n of this article I 1 was bom boi n a poet and when I 1 say say pact I 1 desire it to be understood th eliat t I 1 do not mean a mere ingler 0 0 OF I 1 hymes but the ical article fino frenzied ps to the eye arid and turned down as to the collar it is of very little consequence to me whether you thy leader believe tills this or not 1 I believe it arid and that is ia enough 0 for my feelings under the ficai t lending circumstances circum circumstances cum stances I 1 am ain about to i elate ielati think of this tin s think of tile the poet your most devoted servant with this conviction in his breast arid and five act tragedy in his pocket being waited upon ly by the hia manager nager of a theater arid and asked to write a pantomime I 1 ai imagine moses and on waiting upon alfred tennyson with a commission for an ode upon tiow sers I 1 this is where the sting still i lay I 1 had spoken to tho the mariag manager or about my lily tragedy I 1 had given it him to lead lie had read it at least lie had said so and sent it back with the opinion and decision that it was an excellent trig edy but would not do for his establishment lish ment then a month or two afterwards within 1 a ver very Y short time of christmas lie comes to my humble abode in ill his cary carriage lage 1 I I 1 and says says my imy dear si sir r awant I 1 want you yoi to wi it my cla chait ie t mas pantomime once moie call ballu up 11 in in your mind muses afo i r s ay making 1 t li ins his boy bov arid and i 1 hist his request L in ill the study noflie of lie Lai laureate Lauie ate I 1 was shocked hurt wounded ill est cst par pait t wil tc a pantomime il J 11 I 1 1 in ili my lily attic chamber I 1 fl felt elt as indignant di nant as andrew marvel is said to have felt when nhen lie ho declared liis his for cold mutton and virtue in maiden lane to white whitebait bait and wickedness C in whitehall ii r 1 I have the alie alicel of a dutch cace S 0 arid and half of a penny loaf in my cupboard arid and 1 I had ot thus far in the preparation of a wither mg 7 arid and indignant reply to the degrading proposal when the nia manager nager inteli antei posed 0 af d you see my dear sir I 1 am in ill a difficulty syllabus 1 bus who usually does docs my pantomime lias has two others on oil his hands this year lie ile lias has the lane arid and the garden to wi waite ite arid and so lie he shows show his gratitude to the man mail who made him by leaving 0 mo in the lurch the scenery and properties are arc ready arid and all I 1 av want ant is the opening you must do it 1 I III I 1 I 1 I 1 mr ale alabelle Ma Ala beily belly mr ml 1 labody said emphatically you what on earth mr maberly Ma beily i ay made you think thill t of tile me for lucli sue a task whal loade me ine t think ii ink of you my lily dear fellow wl eliy ay iy your tragedy IM my 4 tragedy I 1 0 o it yes I 1 read i it t did upon p my lylion honor and beffie beaole f got through though the first act I 1 said to myself this is tile man mail to do my pantomime his stylo style is exactly the thing ali ing was vas it for tin this s that I 1 had devoted my da days Y s and nights to the study of the immortal bard was avas it for this that I 1 had made a in a very pair of boots to his shrine shrill ej 1 how I 1 restrained committing an art of violence I 1 do not know but I 1 did and I 1 said with ter aible calmness sir have 3 on oi conic como hither to insult nip mo 9 1 0 on n the contrary said mr Afa borly 1 I have como come hereto hero to do you a service vicc look book hw ht rc ny you u areja ph youngster ingster A L w you have never lad had a t piece produced you want all ai anti inti introduction I 1 am pro pio pared to give you one waite in my pantomime your name will appear in the bills tile the papers and the public will speak of you and there at once a diamatis dia matic author with the ma maikut I 1 ket open to you 1 beginning to perceive that af Mr r ma afa beily really meant well by me I 1 said sadly 1 I had other views i c 1 I 1 know you have said mr ma afa barly you aim at the high ili 9 11 flown sort of tiling thing tragedy five act comedy and so forth but my dear sir you must creep before you walk walk befaro you can call run begin with pantomime then try came comedy dy arid and no doubt in the course of time you will arrive at tragedy dy edmund kean sir played liar before lie attempted richard jrichard garrick occasionally wrote his own pantomimes panto mimes beginners Begin neis should not be too particular take my iny advice and accept the gifts the gods provide you I 1 can asslie you oliero is nothing 1 I the gods are so partial to a as s a good pantomime toi mr eloquence and nd per persuasive reasoning z wele gradually undermining der mining theao the foundations of my lofty aspirations aspiration 4 gan ick had written I 1 pan i tom to mimes anes edmund kean had played harlequin arid and here heie was in an offer of 30 for lines of doggo iel verse well tilde c was no h harm arm in in doing ali whit tt garrick ganick had done and 30 was more than the great johnson jol inson got for irene I 1 consented but I 1 sio stooped loped an to conquer in th 0 end that thai the i 1 it n 0 should be the ahm n end odthe alic iv d c arid and that I 1 should eventually rend tile deep rooted prejudice anade ind dc based taste by the thick end of bla blank n k and rive five acts very well aard mr maber maberly I 1 here I 1 0 fo is the scene plot and I 1 inay may tell you that the scenes are all bottled c and most of them painted arid and you must manage your story to fit them I 1 ventured to te express some sill primio 0 at this arrangement 0 which appeared to me a good deal like plit putting ting 0 the cart before the horse mr manager Afalla ger however gave me to understand that in iii the matter of pantomime arid and indeed even in the case of drama lie regarded re ard tile scene painter ns as tho the lio ibe arid and the author as the cart 11 no disrespect c to you sir said lie but ira m those days theres nothing I 1 like ike the best of your craft require tho scene painter to pull you through dont suppose for a moment thit that I 1 alp ilp prove of this state of thin thins things 0 s why mrily should I 1 what do L give you for the piece thirty pounds I 1 but tile the acne with tile the flying f fairies costs me ille a couple 0 of lit hundred indred if pens ink and paper were ivere as dear as wood paint and canvas I 1 affeid to pay for authorship at ill all I 1 should have to gag 0 it arid and apon pon my lily word sir mr without any aily disrespect lis respect to you I 1 think I 1 should ge get t on oil justas just as well upon injury I 1 but I 1 bore it calmly ef arid and said 1 I think nil you mentioned something about the atory of the piece all yes to bo be sure I 1 the story I 1 I 1 was neaily forgetting t 0 that let mo me see sec every things nga boon done so arid and new things thin 7 aro are hazardous after all theres n nothing 0 thing like one of tile old nur iery tabs everybody known the names of them abat hat do you say to jack tho ole giant killer 1 1 Con continued hinted fo b fourth page elsaid I 1 said I 1 thought it t had been ca used K 71 a P f y often C r j yes so 80 it has well mother 1 other hub aiji 1 4 ord bardi t that has been done also and very lately true rue the year before last then alien red ed riding Iti oling hood but now I 1 remember 1 that was done last year everything been bce n done the fact nev JN ever mind P ill I 1 tell you what well do well comb combine no two or three of them and make up lot fot lack of what is new bya ya liberal lib eral abundance of what is old so lot let us its say harlequin jack the giant killer eiller or old mother hubbard little red riding hiding hood and the field of forty Fout footsteps steps theres nothing new nowadays now a days but combinations and ture ther tu re eyou have one kid by the way na Y 1 Z inight ight g 1 I ve 1 if do a little ola dash sli of originality by making 0 the number of footsteps afif fitly ty instead of offo foi ity ty tile the alliteration it quita as i s good and ad 11 it shows a disposition on oil the part of tile management to give as much as possible tor alie money now set to work fellow j 1 ashall expect the last scene in by saturday week 0 one lie woi woid 1 sit before you oil go I 1 dont quite see my way to the the eu I 1 5 r not tec your way to tiro the combination r ji loelf vei not exactly how am I 1 to connect IN mother Iother hubbard with jack I 1 no allin eiliv 0 g moi e e eay a sy make glicr liis mole i br stop say grandmother if you can call got get more fun out of I 1 or er that wiy way 11 and little red riding hood sir jacks sister of conise coi iise or his swum tiFe art which you like and the field of pot foi ty footsteps 11 jyon can wainage that make it bilic alte afie tm t acen ce ii thi eves 01 01 anything that wilt will tit fit and look now new good in morning orning I 1 expect you yon to to lead on oil Satu saturday iday week bell oto illy it mind ackois cant cadt listen listell to A ary b ifal et whole weeks in their pocket and 1 I apolla na czmyr was left to contemplate ino s cetie quin jack the giant killer or old 0 d wilier mother 11 Hilb bard 11 latue lied d kidding hood and the field of T for 0 y footsteps and to till lill it up tip with im and jingling pansi pun sI went to the dialer dia and looked at my tragedy in bonow and ald in shame with hon at my soul bout and bettels fett cis upon my illy hands ifor I 1 was tied and bound in ill tile thu service ol of I 1 took my ti tragedy out and read a portion of it when I 1 carno came to CLoin well bids them 11 take aw away y ali eliat at vi b couble aubac I 1 felt til that it tile the wor words 8 wenoa my bauble ving lying on oil tho tho table in the shapo shape of n piot t or a pantomime I 1 put oliver cromwell in ill live acts away and dra dragged agod myself in ill my chains to in my y table I 1 sat down to apte wl ditc itc scene abt cottage cottano 0 of old at mother bor Hab habbard baid alother aling bicak fisl jack ek sleep asleep in byl it w wag ts a t long time tian e be before fra I 1 got but after much I 1 in ing 1119 out tile putting opening scene I 1 lead it over to ll 11 myself aloud alond whether it was i in it alio t lle dialogue dilo alle or in ill the manner ol of lending leading it I 1 1 I dont know but but it seemed to to nic me that 1 the opening 0 scene of my illy 1 lie e ver very y like tile open 1 ing 1119 scene of my tragedy mother other 31 Hubb aids admonition to jack was wa s illige 11 ill 1 tile the vein ein of queen adil le gon prince chaales Ch ailes leg eweg to to see ahat th it I 1 was not equal to I 1 had undertaken my I 1 key was a deal too eigil but liow how was I 1 to ow eritt to kllc 0 10 o tile alie prop pitch 7 1 I had no io bobki of 0 f pan az all U tomines ll i ines to read aud study and I 1 of 0 coln bopa 1 na baing jig played in ill Nove niber that I 1 could collid g go and see sec in clocking 16 oking through the Utu urK kicul I 1 ju iu jiyo pa pers however a biff burlesque lesque ivas was running at one of the houses that was as near an approach to a pantomime is as I 1 could have I 1 reso resolved I 1 to io go that very and study I 1 it I 1 went and sat for two houis it in I 1 the fiant row of the pit with my chin resting on the back of the orchestra andary and ny eyes fixed on the stage I 1 studied the method attentively and minutely and with the puns and parodies ringing in in my cars went home to with an all entirely now new inspiration I 1 rewrote re wrote the scene between jack and his mother and this time it was not so like the tragedy still it seemed to be wanti wanting ncr 0 in the breadth bread th and familiarity of exar expression c ss oil which characterized my model for example I 1 had made mother bid jack shake seductive slumber i from his eyes and also alao inform hira that labor awaited hirn him at the gartell garden gate 11 espic expressions s gioi is w 11 ich were undoubtedly neat but not by art adv means of the gaudy gandy character which becomes a pantomime A friend ot of great experience calling on oil tile me while I 1 was struggling with this difficult difficulty ty recommended tilt use of the slang die dic and kindly lent me ine a copy the study of this enabled me to to make great improvements in my my MS IHS ilius tor for eyes I 1 wrote peepers 11 11 lor or lead head nut 11 for handa maw leys and where any one was told to vanish or go away I 1 substituted hook it or walk your chalks 11 when I 1 made anade these and similar alterations my lily 1 t i liend declared that th atthe the dialogue was much funnier though lie thu thought tight it c r might inight bv bi still furoli further er improved by a little pep peppering licie and by peppering I 1 understood hitti him to mean I 1 lie ilio insertion of puns and I 1 flat flattail teiL d Illy myself that I 1 lind introduced a good many very excellent puns ahmady all ali my lily dear fl fellow ellow said aai d in my flient ind counsellor counsel lur nanal the mistake stake your puns are too good its the alio bad ones that tell hole fol fo example you have jack Mut ther herja ja great ll 11 long oil 0 ores agres 0 at the door brother i great bogic say you a buic bole nut not bud bad but it is 1 8 too tame fl i ur or the highly educated taste rf athe alio present day put it in it this way for example 3 molher her hub you must be wrong tack rack no etwas a great long 0 i e mother hub oil 1 blung 0 long excuse me I 1 s said 1 id but I 1 dont quite see the 11 not nol see sec ita it long 0 agic 0 oli bulong ulong the sound moufid ab according c ordin to tile the ird is is precise precisely I 1 1 the iame same yes yea but the sense I 1 said sense sells c I 1 if you stick at souse sense you will nevor succeed in this brunch bratich ol of lite literature litera tuie C acting upon this friendly advice I 1 sot set to to pepper my production pio pi with puns a after the I 1 approved appi ippi oved model I 1 am ain bound to confess that it iras hard and I 1 soon began to perceive t it was absolutely necessary in many i instances lista i ieva i indeed in in most tu to change tilt alio natural subject of tile dia log 1011 logreen c ft i i e elyj I 1 sn order r d e r tb introduce fcc ucc them thein finigin 0 lib flee word w ord opportunity in ill a speech anit and ell en dea deavel voting i it 0 pun pull upon iti arrived at hop or two anity and bopra lopra tune ity t y 4 now ow as neither the act of hopping 0 nor the subject of opera tunes properly prop etly ly belonged to the theme I 1 w waa ob obliged lied to drag them thein in ill neck and deec heels I 1 am quite willing tt to confess that the tragedy never gave me ine half so io much trouble tio uble there 1 was anva all day long hunting through johnsons Johnso irs die dic words lo an upon dupoin and often 0 illan not when 1 I n fi ad twisted t ali them in about and wined tinned them upside down low and inside out upon slips of paper pcr nop iiii would come collie of it and I 1 bed budt lo 10 utako word aud re apat the same possibly you are arc not ware aware what it is to g go 0 o to bed a and nil dream of puns arid and beat tile the devils tattoo on tile the patie in the effort to produce couplets the manager called several times to see how I 1 was getting on oil I 1 read the scenes scene to him and lie was pleased to say they would do chedid he did not bestow any higher praise candidly confessing concessin that lie made it a point never to praise a piece until lie he saw how it went with the audience and what the newspapers said of it even then lie he was not disposed to be extravagantly eulogistic unless lie he found full warranty for so being behig in the treasury to be concluded |