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H. Byron, the author of 'Our Boys, Mr. Wills, the author of 'Charles I., Mr. Burnand, the author of 'The Colonel, and Mr. Gilbert, the author of so much that is great and glorious in our national drama; at all events they proved themselves able to arrest and retain the attention of very ordinary audiences.
"English Men of Letters" series. To F. C. Burnand, Esq., Peebles, N.B. SIR: The jokes which you forwarded to Punch on Monday last are so good that we used them three years ago. Yours faithfully, J. MOGGRIDGE, Ed. Punch. To Mr. D'Oyley Carte, Cross Stone Buildings, Westminster Bridge Road. DEAR SIR: The comic opera by your friends Messrs.
Apropos of du Maurier's early homes, Sir Francis Burnand, in his Records and Reminiscences, tells an amusing story, which, whilst of necessity abbreviating, we shall try to give as nearly as possible in his own words. Some members of the Punch staff who, with the proprietors, were visiting Paris during the Exhibition year of 1889, took a drive in the neighbourhood of Passy.
Again they drifted apart, and Sullivan turned once more to his old friend, Sir Frank Burnand. Together they produced 'The Chieftain' , a revised and enlarged version of their early indiscretion, 'The Contrabandista. Success still held aloof, and for the last time Sullivan and Mr. Gilbert joined forces.
"What shall we get up next?" was the question raised. "Something new and original," suggested the host. "Now, Sullivan, you should write us something." "All right," said Sullivan, "but how about the words? Where's the libretto?" "Oh, I'll write that," said Burnand. And thus those two were started.
And it came to him to do something such as in him lay to be more worthy of her. 'I often used to say, he said now within himself, 'that if I had time and money I would try to write a comedy. Well then, here goes. Not one of the flimsy Byron or Burnand frivolities, but a comedy with heart in it, and motive in it, and honest, patient labour.
"Du Maurier was presented with a son and heir on Saturday, so we baptized the infant in a bumper of Champagne." December 20, 1865. "While the Great Cut is being hatched, Burnand, du Maurier, and Silver all make little cuts of their initials on the Punch table. Henry Silver between William Thackeray and John Leech Burnand where
F. C. Burnand, who took the idea from the last scene of the first act only, and does not seem to have known how many connections the Grail legend had with mediaeval Freemasonry or Templarism. There are more elements associated with the old Knights Templars and their rites in Wagner's drama than I am able to discuss.
At No. 16, Madame Albani has chatted over five o'clock tea and deliciously thin bread and butter; at No. 27, Mr. F. C. Burnand once frankly declared that to become a successful humorist one must needs possess a serious turn of mind, and refuse to yield to it!
I proceeded: "In England you encourage an orator by exclaiming, 'H'yaah! h'yaah! We pronounce it heer in some sections, 'h'yer' in others, and so on; but our whites do not say 'h'yaah, pronouncing the a's like the a in ah. I have heard English ladies say 'don't you' making two separate and distinct words of it; your Mr. Burnand has satirized it. But we always say 'dontchu. This is much better.
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