The Tomahawk Volume 3; A Saturday Journal of Satire (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...within none, for the public appear to have already gone mad over mere "properties," and will in all probability welcome anything, however monstrous, provided only theyhave seen its prototype outside the house a hundred times a day. Under such a condition of things it must be admitted that the drama had fallen upon evil times. The author is gradually becoming the slave of the machinist. The picture now is valuable only for its frame. Should any young dramatic writer who has looked on ambitiously to those heights where Bulwer and Jerrold once have trod, and in despair feel that the best thing to be done with the pen in these days is to lay it down, let him pause and take heart. Let him peruse the following prize piece. He will find it full of hints, and a perfect model of the new style, 1868. Act I. Scene.--Knightsbridge at halj-past two o'clock in the afternoon. Omnibuses, carriages, cabs, foot passengers, policemen, &c, passing and repassing throughout the entire scene. Enter Hero and another man. Hero.--While I have time let me unfold a piece of the plot. Other Man.--Never Hero.--Nay, you had better hear it while you can. There is a prodigious amount of sensation to be got through before Other Man.--Ha, ha Sensation I I believe you. Know, then, that / am the very identical individual who times the real omnibuses at the real Knightsbridge Green Curtain descends amidst thunders of applause. Act II. Scene.--The interior oj St. Martin's Baths and Wash-houses. People purchasing tickets, receiving towels, buying pennyworths of soap (extra), and having hot baths throughout the whole of the following scene. Enter Hero and somebody else. Hero.--Hopeless to seek Lady Feodora here This must be the gentlemen's second class department Somebody Else.-...