Название: Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas
Автор: F. Anstey
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664562661
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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
EAN 4057664562661
Table of Contents
xii. —THE PLAINTIVELY PATHETIC.
xiii. —THE MILITARY IMPERSONATOR.
i .—THE LITTLE CROSSING-SWEEPER.
xii. —CONRAD; OR, THE THUMBSUCKER.
MODEL MUSIC HALL.
INTRODUCTION.
INTRODUCTION.
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 СКАЧАТЬ