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Updated: September 11, 2025
As Dundreary says, 'It's something no fellow can understand. But that ain't what I wanted to say it's this: if you're willing, and Trix is willing, I'll get leave of absence and come over by the next ship, and we'll be married. I I'll be the happiest fellow alive, Stuart, the day your sister becomes my wife."
Ah, a gay dog was I. That was before I saw 'Lord Dundreary. Sure I changed thim so quick then the gir-rls didn't know they weren't flirting wid the same fellow. Next to being taken for an Englishman, an Irishman would prefer old Nick himself. So I let thim grow solid, the luxuriant and becoming gr-rowth ye're admiring this very minute. . . . Look at that now!" He indicated the work of unloading.
A crowd always collected quickly, and more than once the police were summoned to relieve the putative uncle from the presence of his unwelcome nephew. Sothern told me that he was driven nearly mad during the long run of Lord Dundreary or, rather, Our American Cousin, as the play was named at the Haymarket.
On engaging the two-franc room he had interviewed the only person who seemed to be about that sleepy afternoon, an elderly waiter with Dundreary whiskers and a drowsy courtesy, who had ambled lazily towards him across the stone yard; but on coming downstairs again for a little promenade in the town before dinner he encountered the proprietress herself.
Sothern, in "Lord Dundreary," and jauntily twirled his crop, the while he declaimed: "Waltz me round again, Willie, Willie, Round and round and " "Round!" finished Slavin, with a horrible oath.
He had a long beard shaved in the Dundreary, Dawn always says he must have been a howler with a beard of that description; but times change, an' these clean-faced women-lookin' fellers the girls think is very smart now will look just as strange by-an'-by. However, he was runnin' strong with me, an' me mother considered him favourable, him bein' a swell an' makin' his way.
Gladstone himself went to see Sothern act Dundreary, and laughed till his face was distorted not because Dundreary was exaggerated, but because he was ridiculously like the types that Gladstone had seen or might have seen in any club in Pall Mall. Society swarmed with exaggerated characters; it contained little else.
Pangloss, and then came "Our American Cousin," in which he gained a notable success as Asa Trenchard, and in which Edward A. Sothern laid the foundation of the fantastic character of Lord Dundreary, which was to make him famous.
It is not in Punch that we find Dundreary, but in the funny department of the Oshkosh Monitor and the "All Sorts" column of the Bungtown Clarion. Even Puck contributes to perpetuate the belief in the continued existence of Dundreary by devoting a column a week to observations on American society in the Dundreary dialect, which thirty years ago might have been decidedly funny.
"Side-burns" found nourishment upon childlike profiles; great Dundreary whiskers blew like tippets over young shoulders; moustaches were trained as lambrequins over forgotten mouths; and it was possible for a Senator of the United States to wear a mist of white whisker upon his throat only, not a newspaper in the land finding the ornament distinguished enough to warrant a lampoon.
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