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PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 
 
 
 THE "A. D. C." CamB 
 
THE "A.D.C." 
 
 BEING 
 
 crsonal ^emiittsctntts 
 
 UNIVERSITY AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB, 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 WUITTKN BY 
 
 P. C. BUEN 
 
 Thin. Cojt. Camb^ 
 
 H-«:C OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT. 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 LONDON : 
 CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY, 
 
 1880. 
 [All rights reserved.] 
 
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BY PERMISSrON.] 
 
 TO 
 
 THE PEINCE OF WALES. 
 
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 WnOSR MOST GOODNATURED ENCOURAGEMENT THE CLUB IS MAINLY 
 
 INDEBTED FOR ITS PRESENT RECOGNISED POSITION, 
 THIS BOOK OP 
 
 '*A. D. C." REMINISCENCES 
 
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 GRATEFULLY DEDICATED 
 
 BY 
 
 ITS AUTHOR. 
 September, 1879. 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 Several Dramatic Clubs liavc been started, from 
 time to time, either by Town or Gown, in Cam- 
 bridge, but no one of these has ever achieved 
 the permanent success of the A. D. C, or Amateur 
 Dramatic Club of the University, which it Avas my 
 good fortune to have had the opportunity of founding 
 in 1855, so that next year, 1880, it will have existed 
 for a quarter of a century, a duration unexampled in 
 the history of Cambridge Dramatic Clubs, whether 
 Academic or Oppidanic. 
 
 The most celebrated non-academic University Dra- 
 matic Society in Cambridge, called the Cambridge 
 Garrick Club, was started in 1835. Among its 
 members it numbered very few University men, and 
 these were graduates, professors, and fellows of Col- 
 leges, who were elected, not qua University men, but 
 as Eesidents in the town of Cambridge, who, having 
 a taste for English Dramatic Literature, were willing 
 to encourage a Club that could show on its list of 
 honorary members, the names of Charles Kemble, 
 
VI Preface, 
 
 W. Macready, Sliericlan Knowles, Liston, and Douglas 
 Jerrold. 
 
 Whether any of these distinguished characters, 
 — ^with the exception of Sheridan Knowles, whom 
 the Club entertained at a banquet given in his 
 honour, and Macready, to whom the Club presented a 
 silver cup, — ever actively assisted at the meetings, 
 or performances, of the Cambridge Garrick Club, I 
 have been unable to ascertain. As, however, in the 
 last published notice of their performances at the 
 Earnewell Theatre, where Macready played Knowles's 
 Virginiiis^ the critic of TOe Camlridge Chronicle^ -^^g- ^j 
 1836, expresses a hope that the subscribers to the Club 
 may ^'see Mr. Tilbury on the next Garrick perform- 
 ance in a character of more importance," it is just 
 probable that the Cambridge Garrick continued its 
 representations for some little time after the Great Mac- 
 ready Star had disappeared in that one overpowering 
 blaze of triumph, which must have been enough to ruin 
 any ordinary Club ; for who would pay their money 
 to see the attempts of local talent, after witnessing 
 the finished performance of a great Dramatic genius ? 
 
 This Club may exist now in some shape, and twenty 
 years ago there was a to^vn Dramatic Club, but 
 nobody of any note belonged to it, and its repre- 
 sentations, which took place out of term time, as a 
 rule, at the Barnewell Theatre, were given by Messrs. 
 Quince the carpenter, Snug the joiner, Flute the 
 
Preface. vii 
 
 bellows mender, Snout the tinker, Starveling the 
 tailor, and last but not least. Bottom the weaver, 
 all tradesmen of the town, with aspirations, but 
 without aspirates, who, for aught I can recollect, 
 may have been associated together under the style and 
 title of the Cambridge Garrick Club, — but I do not 
 think this was so, neither do I suppose this society had 
 anything whatever to do with the Cambridge Garrick 
 of 1833, which, apparently, came to an end in 1836. 
 
 But of all University Amateur Performances the 
 most ambitious was on Friday, 19th March, 1830; at 
 the Hoop Ilotel, when Much Ado about Nothing was 
 given, with an Epilogue Avi'itten by Lord Houghton 
 — then Mr. E. M. Milnes — through whose kindness I 
 am enabled to place before my readers the cast of the 
 Dramatis Personam on this occasion, together with the 
 Epilogue above mentioned. It was spoken by Mr. 
 Staftord O'Brien, who then exhibited those admirable 
 di'amatic faculties which he afterwards showed to such 
 advantage in the amateur theatricals at Lord North- 
 ampton's seat (Castle Ashby), at the Duke of Bedford's 
 (\Yobuni Abbey), at Lord Lyveden's (Farming Woods), 
 and many other country houses where a fine dramatic 
 taste was then prevalent. The burlesque, A Knock 
 at the Door ; or, Worsted toorks Wo7ide?'Sj written and 
 acted by him and Mr. Milnes at Castle Ashby, was 
 privately printed and is now a great bibliographical 
 curiosity. 
 
via 
 
 Preface, 
 
 EPILOGUE 
 
 TO 
 
 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY 
 
 -MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING." 
 
 Performed Friday^ \Uh March, 1830, and printed at the 
 request of the Performers. 
 
 Don Pedro 
 Don John 
 Leonato . 
 Claudio 
 Benedick 
 
 Antonio 
 Borachio . 
 Conrade 
 Friar 
 
 Dogberry 
 Verges . 
 
 Seacoal 
 
 Oatcake . 
 Sexton 
 
 Hero . 
 Beatrice . 
 Ursula 
 
 Margaret 
 
 Cast of tfje (lITijaractcrs. 
 E. Elltce (present M. P. for St. Andrews). 
 R. "W. Blane (late Colonel in Grenadier Guards). 
 A. FrrzRoY (son of the Rev. Lord Henry FitzRoy). 
 R. MoNTEiTH (of Carstairs). 
 S. A. O'Brien (Augustus Stafford, Secretary of the 
 
 Admiralty in Lord Derby's first Administration). 
 H. Arundell. 
 H. MooiiE. 
 
 J. H. Preston (Sir Jacob Preston, Bart.). 
 E. B. G. Warburton ( Eliot Warbnrton, author of The 
 
 Crescent and the Cross; lost in the fatal fire of 
 
 the Amazon). 
 J. M. Kemble (son of the eminent actor, Charles Kem- 
 
 ble, and author of i\\Q History of the- Anglo-Saxons). 
 A. H. Hallam (Henry Hallam, son of the historian, 
 
 and author of the remarkable Memorials pub- 
 lished after his death). 
 J. B. Bowes (winner of the Derby in 1853, with "West 
 
 Australian). 
 E. Bruce (now Marquis of Ailesbury). 
 C. Vandeleur (Crofton Vandeleur, long M.P. for 
 
 Co. Clare). 
 
 C. L. KlEWAN. 
 
 R. M. MiLNES (now Lord Houghton). 
 
 E. H. BuNBURY (distinguished scholar, Fellow of 
 
 Trin. CoU.). 
 H. Clarke. 
 
 Stage-Manager 
 
 R. M. MiLNES. 
 
 Before our corps their scenic task renew, 
 Gentles, I would a word or two with you ; 
 And fear not — Benedick forgets to sneer, 
 When he remembers he is acting here — 
 And Beatrice, your graces to obtain, 
 Anxiously doffs " her Ladyship Disdain." 
 
 [LooHnc/ at Beatrice. 
 
Preface. ix 
 
 Some weeks ago we tortured every ear 
 
 With the trite nonsense of a scribbling peer,* 
 
 To-night we dare the opposite extreme, 
 
 And Shakespeare, Natures nohley is our theme ; 
 
 But chance if then we sunk our shaft too low, 
 
 To-night we aim too high — well — be it so. 
 
 Our cause is good, and it may claim some praise 
 
 To have restored the forms of Shakespeare's days ; 
 
 {^Pointing to the Ladies. 
 When the men-ladies, as their parts might fall, 
 Were taught to trip and simper, and *' speak small " — 
 And, when delayed, th' impatient Monarch raved. 
 The excuse was, " Sire, the Queen is not yet shaved." 
 'Twas thus we chose to act — the risk is run — 
 Our will has triumphed, and the play is done. 
 No power has tightened the scholastic rein. 
 And gate-bill thunders have been hurled in vain. 
 What ! if we thus our unchecked coui*se pursue, 
 Who dares to tell us what we may not do 1 
 Why may we not in living truth upraise 
 The masquing meri'iments of antient days 1 
 Why may we not, at no far moment, see 
 Juliets M.A., and Romeos D.D. % 
 Then shall the witches dance, or Caesar fall 
 Stabbed by his Brutus, in a College Hall. 
 Then in most tender converse shall be seen 
 An amorous Proctor and an ogling Dean — 
 While Heads of Houses don the gamesome gear. 
 And Chafyt makes a grand debut in Lear ! 
 Some short time more, the Drama shall replace 
 Euclid's grim frown, and Algebra's lean face. 
 And they who, lusting after laurels, now 
 Gaze with such rapture on a curve's cold brow, 
 Or who, in deference to a father's word, 
 Pay forced addresses to an ugly surd, 
 
 * The Follies of Fashion, by Lord Glengall, also performed at the Hoop 
 Hotel, 
 t Master of Sidney College— then Vice-Chancellor. 
 
Preface. 
 
 Shall find, within our Drama's golden store, 
 
 Garlands to win, and beauty to adore. 
 
 "You're going out in honours, my dear fellow?" 
 
 " Yes — I shall take my Master's in Othello." 
 
 ** And I, more humble, for my Senior Op., 
 
 In ^ Charles the Second ' — take up Captain Copp." 
 
 *' What, you not passed ?" " No ; for the rascals say 
 
 I acted well, but did not know the play." 
 
 " Hamlet, our Senior Wrangler — the Buffoon 
 
 In Twelfth Night, second — Cato, Wooden Spoon." 
 
 Are these the phantoms of a stage-sick brain % 
 
 Well, we have other hopes not qidte so vain. 
 
 Tho' some full sated with collegiate lore. 
 
 May tread these boards, or shift these scenes, no more- 
 
 Tho' all of us too soon may actors be 
 
 On wider stage, with sadder scenery — 
 
 Still other Tyros shall give utterance here. 
 
 New hands applaud them and new voices cheer, 
 
 And fan to flame the fire we humbly lit — 
 
 The simple exercise of harmless wit — 
 
 While fresh rewards, each rising genius hail. 
 
 Till Time itself, or Trinity, shall fail. 
 
 But ere our artless pageant disappear. 
 
 We ask one boon — if, in some after-year. 
 
 In evening hours, your eye should chance to light 
 
 On any name you recognise to-night — 
 
 On some brief record of their mortal lot — 
 
 Married, or murdered, ruined, or Avhat not % 
 
 While natural thought returns upon its track. 
 
 Just pause, and murmur, ere you call it back, 
 
 With pleasant memory, sipping your liqueur — 
 
 " Yes, yes, he was a Cambridge Amateur." 
 
 The Rivals^ Lord Houghton informs me, was also 
 played, first in Cameron's rooms, over the Combination- 
 Eoom, in Trinity. This Mr. Cameron, now an eminent 
 
Preface, xi 
 
 clergyman in Kent, is the father of the wonderful 
 African pedestrian. Its second performance took place 
 in lung's College, at the rooms of the Eev. William 
 Giiford Cookesley, who, by the Avay, was subse- 
 quently my tutor at Eton, in whose pupil-room my 
 first play was produced. In Tlie Rivals Mr. Cookesley 
 played Sir Lucius^ besides undertaking the stage- 
 management ; Mr. Bernal Osborne was Young Abso- 
 lute^ and he has not belied the character in his public 
 life; Sir James Colville, now ''Eight Honoui-able" 
 and Judge of the Privy Council, was Sir Anthony ; 
 Lfjdia Languish found an admirable representative in 
 the Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, afterwards Viscount 
 Canterbuiy, to the last ''the prettiest man about 
 town;" and Lord Iloughton was Mrs. Malaprop, 
 Avliich accounts for liis being a master of the Eng- 
 lish language. On this same occasion they j)layed 
 Bomhastes, which explains my tutor's accurate 
 knowledge of the dialogue and the business, when 
 we got it up under his superintendence, in his 
 pupil-room at Eton in 1852. The above-mentioned 
 performances, however, never resulted in the forma- 
 tion of a Club. 
 
 As far as I can ascertain, an endeavour to start a 
 sort of Dramatic Society was made in 1849 by Mr. 
 Alfred Thompson, the present editor and illustrator 
 of The Mask, to whom I have alluded in the course 
 of these memoirs, but it did not succeed. 
 
xii Preface. 
 
 Until we hit upon the plan of possessing ourselves 
 of our own rooms — giving ourselves a local habitation 
 and a name — the notion of forming a Club had been 
 limited to merely getting together a number of ama- 
 teur actors, and arranging for a performance, to 
 which each should subscribe his share of the ex- 
 penses. In this there was not even the permanent 
 bond of union that existed in our ancient University 
 Dinner Clubs, ''The Beefsteak" and ''The True 
 Elue," and the modern Qiiare Hcec — i.c.^ "Why this 
 Club?" — to which the members subscribed by the 
 term, and were jointly interested in the Club pro- 
 perty of dinner-plate, wliich had been purchased out 
 of the subscriptions. 
 
 The idea of the A. D. C. was an adaptation of the 
 Cambridge Union Club, substituting dramatic enter- 
 tainment for political debating. I now see that the 
 Society, if recognised and directed by judicious autho- 
 rity, could work for a higher end, and for a far more 
 important object, than was contemplated by its first 
 founders, who will readily admit that their notion 
 in starting the Club was to obtain a fair oppor- 
 tunity for the exercise of their dramatic talents^ thus 
 affording themselves novel and intellectual recrea- 
 tion, and their friends a considerable amount of 
 amusement. 
 
 In these days when the question of the estab- 
 lishment of a School of Dramatic Art is being 
 
Preface. xiii 
 
 earnestly discussed, where could it find itself better 
 placed than in the University, which, tardily but 
 certainly, has already shown itself not unfavour- 
 able to the legitimate development of energy in this 
 direction ? 
 
 Dramatic Art requires that its leading professors in 
 every department should be men of education, of taste, 
 of refinement. Consider for one moment what is in- 
 volved in the conscientious production of an Historical 
 Drama. What care, what research, what accuracy in 
 details are absolutely necessary. Here are study and 
 work for the painter, for the archaeologist, for the 
 designer of costumes, for the musician, and, if there 
 are to be ^ mechanical effects,' plenty of exercise for 
 the ingenuity of the machinist. 
 
 In a school of Dramatic Art should be comprehended 
 all the above-mentioned studies, while, — but cela va 
 sans dire^ — first and foremost, should be placed the 
 study of our National Drama, side by side with that 
 of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, past and present, — 
 so that the instruction should benefit the aspiring 
 author as well as the intending actor, each of whom 
 would here master the first principles of his art, 
 while the latter, at this early stage of his career, 
 would learn to appreciate, intelligently. Dramatic 
 Art as a profession, eminence in which demands 
 exceptional acquirements, apart from \h.Q^ possession 
 of exceptional gifts. 
 
xiv Preface. 
 
 HithertOj into the much-abused ^ Theatrical Pro- 
 fession ' fools have rushed where angels would fear 
 to tread — being afraid of soiling their wings. Now- 
 a-days there is a growing desire to see the profession 
 of Art generally recognised as bestowing on the artist 
 an honourable status in society. 
 
 Ladies, to whom the schools of painting and music 
 are open, no matter how gifted by nature for the 
 stage, are nervously shy of having anything to do 
 with it, except as a dernier resBort of absolute necessity. 
 Yet, in these days, when the disabilities under which 
 the gentle sex formerly suifered, are gradually being 
 removed, when they have a College to themselves, 
 near Cambridge, under the very eye of Alma Mater ^ 
 surely they could participate in the advantages which 
 would be offered by a University School of Dramatic 
 Art? 
 
 In time there would be burses, prizes, dramatic 
 scholarships of a respectable pecuniary value, with 
 which the aspirant for dramatic honoiu'S could make a 
 start. 
 
 The University gives its B.A. and M.A., and the 
 Eoyal Academy its E.A. and A.E.A. If the Ai'ts of 
 painting and sculpture are thus evenly privileged 
 with the University, why should there not be also 
 founded a Corporation of Dramatic Art ? Music has 
 its degrees : our Literature its prizes and professor- 
 ships. Perhaps wo may yet hear of a ^ Garrick 
 
Preface. xv 
 
 Scholarship/ — a Eosciiis' Professor, and degrees of 
 'F,R,A: (First-Eate Actor), 'M.D.A.' (Master of 
 Dramatic Ai't), and so forth. 
 
 If these hints, however lightly put forward, 
 suggest action in the matter, the cause, which so 
 many of us have at heart, will have been so far 
 served. 
 
 In concluding my ^ recollections ' I have to record 
 my thanks to Mr. Ion Trant Ilamilton, the most 
 indefatigable of secretaries, for his notes, and to 
 Lord Carington, a former president, for his most 
 cheerfully given assistance; to Mr. Kelly, Mr. Free- 
 man, Mr. Charles Ilall, and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, 
 for their contribution of ' recollections,' and to vari- 
 ous members of the ^A. D. C.,' past and present, 
 who have kindly aided my memory. Also I must 
 specially acknowledge my obligation to the Club 
 generally, which some years back confided to my 
 care the only records extant. To Mr. J. W. Clark, 
 M.A., Fellow of Trinity, who has so heartily 
 and generously laboured for the good of the 
 Club, I tender my best thanks for the information 
 he has afforded me during the progress of this 
 work. 
 
 Finally, it must be ever gratefully borne in mind 
 by our members, that it is to H.E.H. The Prince of 
 
 /^5 
 
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xvi Preface. 
 
 Wales, who, as a member of the University, most 
 goodnaturedly accepted the Honorary Presidency, 
 and is still personally interested in its welfare, the 
 Club owes its first recognition by the authorities, and 
 thenceforward its existence as a quad Institution. 
 
 Floreat ' A. D. C ! 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 PAOR 
 THE FIRST STEP, — LENT TKIIM, 1854 1 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE "athenaeum" PERFORMANCE AND THE FIRST INSPIRATION. 18 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 REPORTING PROGRESS. — MAY TERM, 1855 32 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1855 52 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 END OF OCTOBER TERM, '55. — LENT TERM '56 . . . .76 
 
 CHAPTER YI. 
 
 LENT TERM 1856 80 
 
 CHAPTER YII. 
 
 PASSING NOTES.— SUMMARY OF FIRST YEAR, 1855-185G .. . 92 
 
 CHAPTER YIII. 
 
 MAY TERM, 1856.— SECOND YEAR 07 " A. D. C." . . . . 105 
 
 h 
 
xvili Contents, 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 PAGE 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1856 124 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 FINANCIAL CRISIS. — DEBT. — DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTY. — WRITTED. — 
 NOT ARRESTED. — WE RISE LIKE A PHCENIX FROM THE ASHES 
 OF THE PAID ACCOUNTS 139 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 MAY TERM, 1857. — THIRD YEAR 148 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1857 159 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 LENT TERM, 1858 171 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 FOURTH YEAR OF THE " A. D. C." : 1858-'59. — END OF THE 
 
 OLD CHRONICLE. — COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW RECORD BOOK 180 
 
 CHAPTER XY. 
 
 FIFTH YEAR : MAY TERM, 1859, TO LENT, 1860. — FIRST PERFORM- 
 ANCE. — NEW STAGE 189 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 SIXTH YEAR .* COMMENCING MAY TERM, 1860, TO LENT, 1861 . 201 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 VACATIONS.- THE " A. D. C." AT BRIGHTON 205 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 I:ND OF SIXTH YEAR. — EXTRACTS FROM THE KIRBY COLLECTION . 207 
 
Contents. xlx 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 PAQR 
 
 RUNNING ALONE IN 18G2. — LENT TERM. — END CF SEVENTH YEAR 219 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 EIGHTH YEAR. — ANOTHER COUNTY NIGHT 22S 
 
 CHAPTER XXL 
 
 EIGHTH YEAR. — OCTOBER TERM, 1862. — REMARKS ON THE " A. D. C." 
 AS A PROBABLE SCHOOL OF ART, AND OF THE DUTIES OP 
 THE STAGE MANAGER 237 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 END OF EIGHTH YEAR.— LENT TER^f, 1863 249 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 NINTH year: MAY TERM, 1863, TO LENT, 1864.— RULES OF 1870 
 AND 1871. — REMARKS, TOAST, AND SENTIMENT. — CURTAIN. — 
 BLUE FIRE 255 
 
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 
 
 OF 
 
 THE '^A. D. C." CAMB, 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE FIRST STEP. — LENT TERM, 1854. 
 
 The initials "A. D. C." stand for Amateur Dramatic 
 Club. It is composed entirely of members of the University 
 of Cambridge, but it admits as ** honorary members " Oxford 
 men who belong to a similar institution at the sister Uni- 
 versity. I am not aware if this rule has been in any way 
 enlarged, for the sake of exceptional amateurs who may be of 
 neither University. 
 
 Although with true Pickwickian modesty, ** I cannot put 
 myself in competition with those great men, Plato, Zeno, 
 Epicurus, Pythagoras, who," as Mr. Leo Hunter pointed out 
 to that eminent character, were " all founders of clubs," yet, 
 at least, I may claim for myself the largest share in the 
 original idea; and those of my co-aequales, and contem- 
 poraries, whose memories will carry them back to 1855, will 
 not, I think, be inclined to deny me the credit of having 
 stuck to the ship, — certainly to "the boards," — and of having 
 brought her, with the assistance of good men and true, per 
 varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, into those smooth 
 waters, where, propelled by friendly breezes, she has since 
 held on her prosperous dramatic course. It is about nineteen 
 
 ^ 
 
2 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 years since I resigned tlie direction, and often have I had ifc 
 in my mind to publish some memoranda of what ^yould, I am 
 sure, be interesting to so many. 
 
 The Club has increased and multiplied from very small 
 beginnings, and on its list are to be found names of the 
 highest eminence, whether by virtue of rank, or talent, — 
 names of those who have since made their mark in life. 
 
 Fortunately, when the " A. D. C." was started, we kept a 
 record of our doings. At first it appears to have been 
 carefully, but rather prosily, written, and was intended to 
 contain " full, true, and particular accounts " of the per- 
 formances. Several hands were engaged on this work. 
 Gradually the writers became lazy, and the book degenerated 
 into mere businesslike minutes of committee meetings, elec- 
 tions, and so forth, until, probably, an entirely new volume 
 was purchased, and a fresh system inaugurated.* This early 
 record of the "A. D. C," as well as many of the first play- 
 bills, I have before me for my guidance, and now, without 
 further preface, I will draw upon my own recollections of the 
 commencement of the Club. 
 
 In the October term of 1854, my first term at Trinity, 
 the notion occurred to me how much more amusing than 
 cards, drinking, and supper, would be private theatricals, 
 with, of course, supper to follow. Perhaps the fact of 
 my having written a piece — an " original work," compiled 
 from my recollection of farces, in which I had seen Buck- 
 stone, Charles Mathews, Compton, Keeley, Wright, and 
 Paul Bedford — was at the bottom of this idea. Besides, 
 I came up to the University with some reputation for this 
 sort of thing, among Etonians at least, as a farce of mine 
 — (another original work composed in much the same w^ay, 
 
 * This new book which I have now by me — thongh the kindness of Mr. 
 Brookficld, one of the best amateurs I have seen, either on or off the "A.D.C." 
 stage, is half filled with long-winded descriptions of the performances, and 
 amateur criticisms which are most amusing. But it lacks the fun of our first 
 book of records. 
 
The First Step. 3 
 
 only more so) — had been performed in my tutor's pupil^ 
 room, under the special patronage of my tutor himself (the 
 Rev. William Gifford Cookcsley), — ^Yho was an admirable 
 audience, — and this farce had been not only actually printed 
 in Windsor, and sold for a shilling a copy — (I fancy it must 
 have paid its expenses, as I do not quite see how I could 
 have otherwise settled the printing bill — I hope I am not 
 still in his debt ; but anyhow I was a minor, and there is the 
 Statute of Limitations for my protection) — but it had also 
 been played in public, for a benefit, to a crowded house at the 
 Theatre Eoyal, Worthing, by a company of professionals, for 
 One Night Only ! * 
 
 So it became known and accepted, at college, that I was an 
 authority in theatricals, and before the term was out, we had 
 contrived a capital little stage in our rooms, opposite Trinity 
 College, over a grocer's shop, now swept away, and its place 
 taken by Trinity New Buildings; we had got together our 
 company, which was quite Shakspearean, in one respect, i.e., its 
 ladies. But here we were most fortunate, as was the "A. D. C." 
 afterwards. Lads between eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-one, 
 
 * I haven't the heart to dispel the ilhisive impression in anything lint 
 whispering type, wbicli I give as a sort of aside to the reader, but I must in 
 all honesty explain how this work of an unknown author of fifteen years of 
 age came to be acted before a crowded audience at a public theatre. The 
 AVorthing Theatre was not at that time much of a place either to speak o/, of 
 to speak in. I am talking of what it was a quarter of a century ago, in 1852. 
 The players came and went, and generally managed to pick up something 
 from " bespeaks " and " benefits." The manager called on a relative of mine, 
 and asked him for his patronage for a certain evening. He happened to have 
 my farce lying on the table (all my family, I believe, had been supplied with 
 copies, whether gratis or not, I am unable to say), and stipulated that its 
 performance should be the condition of his patronage. The manager accepted 
 the farce — promised, and played it. I remember seeing the bill. There was 
 the usual "great attraction " and so forth ; but 1 regret not having witnessed 
 the entertainment. So that is how my first farce came to be played in public 
 by the sad sea wave. By the way, I think I have got my dates pretty correct. 
 By reference to an Eton list, 1 llnd I left Eton in 1853 ; therefore, as I 
 matriculated at Cambridge in the following year, my first term Avas in 
 October, 1854, before I had completed my eighteenth year. 
 
 n 2 
 
4 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D.Cr Camb. 
 
 slim and guiltless of whisker or moustache, downy fledgelings 
 whose delight was then not to encourage hirsute growth, hut 
 to shave, could easily ''make up" for the female characters, 
 and represent them admirably, voice excepted. At that time 
 the " moustache movement" had only barely commenced, and 
 I remember sending up to Pitncli a sketch of a mistaken 
 young undergraduate appearing before the dean, under the 
 impression that he had been summoned to receive a reprimand 
 for his moustache, a mere sprout ; and the dean was made to 
 answer sarcastically, " I didn't perceive you had any." Both 
 dean and undergraduate were portraits. That of the dean 
 was, by the merest chance, exact, and in my letter I requested 
 the editor (Mr. Mark Lemon) to request the artist, Mr. John 
 Leech, not to alter either face in transferring the sketch to 
 Punch's page. Mr. Leech executed an inimitable picture, of 
 course, faithfully retaining the likenesses, while giving real 
 life to what had been mere pen-and-ink outline ; but I notice 
 that he did not put his well-known signature to the picture. 
 I sent up two other sketches from Cambridge, and on refer- 
 ring to John Leech's collected drawings, I find that his 
 initials are absent from both. Li his collection there are many 
 unsigned, so I suppose it was his custom to omit his initials, 
 when he could not claim the originality of the design. At all 
 events, moustaches and whiskers were conspicuous by their 
 absence at that time, and so the difficult question that invari- 
 ably arises at every amateur performance, of, " Must I shave 
 for the part ? " did not give us much trouble. 
 
 The performance of this piece in our rooms — rooms belong- 
 ing to a friend and myself who " kept" together — was such a 
 success as to suggest a repetition of the entertainment. Our 
 little company, the nucleus of the future Club, met together 
 to consider this, early in the following term ; but our ambition 
 led us to higher flights, not dramatically, for, if I remember 
 rightly, we only wished to play Morton's immortal Box and 
 Cox, Frank Talfourd's burlesque oi Macbeth, written by him 
 at Eton, and a short burlesque of my own, called Villiklns 
 
The First Step. 5 
 
 and his Dinah, of wliicli I had just made a sketchy plan,* 
 and instead of confining our talent to our apartments over 
 the grocer's, we wanted to take the big room at the Bull,f 
 (that was the name of the hotel, I think), where the county 
 balls were held, have a stage down from London, go in heavily 
 for costumes, and — charge for admission ! 
 
 Nor did we stop at this proposition. The inch had been 
 taken, why not the ell '? Why go to the Bull, when there was 
 a real bond fide theatre, with real boxes, real pit, real gallery, 
 real scenes, and real lights, within half an hour's walk of us, 
 namely, at Barnwell ? 
 
 At the mention of the Barnwell Theatre, the meeting looked 
 grave. There were objections. " There were," I admitted, — 
 " but not insuperable." It was only my second term, and I 
 was, as yet, unacquainted with the unsavoury reputation 
 this suburb of Cambridge had acquired. The celebrated 
 uncle- slayer, George Barnwell, could not have been worse 
 spoken of, as a man, than was tliis Barnwell, as a place. 
 
 I stood out for Barnwell. Somehow, my theatrically- 
 attuned ideas associated the name of the place with that of 
 the famous tragedy, whose hero I have just mentioned above, 
 of which I had heard, as usually preceding a Drury Lane 
 pantomime. I stuck to the Barnwell Theatre. 
 
 My elders remonstrated, and represented, that, for such a 
 performance as I contemplated, the Vice- Chancellor's per- 
 mission was indispensable. 
 
 This — audacious juvenile that I was — had no terrors for 
 me. I had not an idea what a Vice- Chancellor was like. I 
 didn't believe in him, any more than did Mrs. Prig in Sairey 
 Gamp's Mrs. Harris. I thought he was a sort of Guy Faux 
 figure on a woolsack. I had no reverence. I was for blindly 
 
 * I find by dates that tliis burlesque was not actually written until the 
 October term of 1855, but the subject was i)opular enough in 1854, and had 
 been for years. 
 
 T The Bull was suggested in the first instance, as there was some floatin*? 
 vague tradition about a performance which, "oncenpon a time," had been 
 given there by undergraduates. The Bull was then the chief hotel. 
 
6 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Camb. 
 
 rushing in where my betters refused to tread. I had said in 
 my heart, There is no Vice- Chancellor ; and, in fact, I did 
 not, at that time, realize the full extent of University autho- 
 rity. I was going to teach my alma mater, not my alma 
 mater me. Alma mater was to he instructed how to get up 
 Box and Cox,- Villikins and his Dinah, Macbeth burlesque, 
 and. Bomhastes Furioso, *' which had only one woman in it, 
 and was, therefore, very easy." 
 
 All commencing amateurs rush for Bombastes: few know 
 anything at all about playing it. But, for the matter of that, 
 even professionals make an utter muddle of it, and misconceive 
 its bathos. I had, however, enjoyed the advantage of instruc- 
 tion from as great an authority on Bombastes as he was on the 
 Antigone, and that was Mr. W. G. Cookesley, who had in- 
 sisted upon our playing it at Eton, and who had coached us 
 in the true serious vein of this old-fashioned, genuine bur- 
 lesque. Talfourd's Macbeth was set aside in favour of Bom- 
 bastes, and the Barnwell Theatre scheme was relinquished 
 in favour of the room at the Bull. Then Bombastes was 
 supplanted by my VilliJdns and his Dinah, which I under- 
 took to have finished in plenty of time, and which, like 
 Bombastes, having only one female character in it,' was there- 
 fore to be easily managed. We fluctuated between Bom- 
 bastes and Villikins, but we determined upon the room at the 
 Bull.* 
 
 But, for this it appeared we should also have to obtain 
 the Vice-Chancellor's permission, or the Proctors could come 
 in, ask for our " names and colleges," and report actors and 
 audience to the authorities. Rustication was vexation ; and 
 we were not at all sure what penalty might be incurred for 
 acting stage-plays without a licence. Probably rustication 
 would not follow, but we might be "gated " for the rest of 
 
 * Of course the "A. D. C," when started, took up its quarters in the roar 
 of the Hoop Hotel ; hut before the idea was concreted into a chib, the pro- 
 jectors of the performance merely thought of hiring a room at the Bull or 
 some other hotel, "for one night onl)%" 
 
The First Step, 7 
 
 the term, and as that meant a most severe restriction on our 
 liberty, no one cared to run such a risk, especially those who 
 lived outside college, and who when " gated" would have no 
 companions to share their imprisonment, and no cheerful 
 quadrangle, or cloisters, to lounge in. 
 
 It was finally decided that the Vice-Chancellor's permission 
 should he obtained (we felt confident that it would be granted) 
 for our performance at the Bull, or, — I stipulated for this 
 alternative, — at the Barnwell Theatre. For my part, I held 
 firmly to the latter, and, as they unanimously selected me 
 for the mission to convert the Vice-Chancellor to our theatrical 
 views, I undertook the office, on the distinct understanding, 
 that I was to use my own discretion as to the place to be 
 chosen for our performance. 
 
 The Vice-Chancellor was to be found at Cains College. 
 
 I had some vague idea that in calling on a Vice-Chancellor 
 some official dress was dc ngueur, I did not know what, 
 and no one could tell me. I decided, ultimately, for cap 
 and gown. Cap and bells would have been more appro- 
 priate. As the hour a])proached for my visit, I began to be 
 nervous. If I had previously treated the idea f a Vice- 
 Chancellor with more than indiflerence, I now, for the first 
 time, commenced to think of him with something akin to 
 awe. I had not believed in him, and now I was going to see 
 him. He had been in perspective, at the vanishing point, 
 and now I was going to walk up to him and see him in 
 ju'ojmd i^ersond. If I could have visited him by deputy, I 
 would have done so : but I couldn't. 
 
 The time came, and hot and uncomfortable, I entered the 
 gate of Caius, and walked to the Vice- Chancellor's house. 
 Of course the entrance to it was ancient and dingy, all such 
 entrances are. I was left in the sombre passage by a clerical- 
 looking butler, who took my card in to his master . 
 
 Beyond the present interview which I am about to recount, 
 I know nothing of this excellent man. (Not the butler, the 
 Vice-Chancellor, though the remark applies to both equally.) 
 
8 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Cmnb, 
 
 I never, to my knowledge, saw, or spoke to, him again. This 
 was our first and last meeting. Presently I was ushered into 
 a dull, dimly-lighted room, and into the presence of the Vice- 
 Chancellor, a short, wizened, dried-up, elderly gentleman, 
 with little legs and a big head, like a serious Punch doll, 
 wearing his academical cap, and with his gown hitched up 
 under his elbows, which gave him the appearance of having 
 recently finished a hornpipe before I came in. He had the 
 fidgetty air of a short-sighted person who has just lost his 
 glasses. This I believe was the truth : he had mislaid his 
 glasses. After saluting me, as I stood, timidly respectful, 
 cap in hand, in the middle of the room, he commenced the 
 conversation. 
 
 *' You want to see me, I believe, Mr. — , Mr. — ," here 
 he referred to the card, but, the light being unfavourable, he 
 was unable to read it without his spectacles, and so gave it up 
 as a bad job. I did not feel inclined to help him. Somehow, 
 why I don't know, I felt that my name would be against me. 
 It was like one of those ohitar dicta, about which you have 
 to be very careful, lest it should be " used against you at 
 your trial." 
 
 *' Yes, sir," I said, twiddling the tassel of my cap, which 
 had been cut off rather short. 
 
 Then there w^as a pause. I didn't see how to plunge in 
 viedias res, and he wouldn't help me. 
 
 " I've got a meeting of the Heads in a few minutes," said 
 the Vice-Chancellor, taking out a large watch, pretending to 
 consult it, and then returning it to his fob. 
 
 A " meeting of the Heads " had a pantomimic sound about 
 it, w^hich was, in view of my errand, reassuring. I hoped 
 that the "Heads " in " Meeting" would not hurt themselves. 
 In my mind's eye I pictured those Heads, and I remember 
 now how the unfamiliar use of the word " Heads " struck me, 
 and how I formulated a sort of riddle to myself about " how 
 many Heads together make one body." Had I been allowed to 
 chat with the Vice-Chancellor about these " Heads," and could 
 
The First Step. 9 
 
 I thus have gradually proceeded to the object of my visit, I 
 am sure we should have got on quite pleasantly. If I could 
 only have said, " Never mind the Heads, listen to my tale,'' 
 the ice would have been broken. But I was too nervous for 
 this ill-timed levity. 
 
 I felt I must begin. I began accordingly, very hot, and 
 uncomfortably parched : and in a husky voice, as if I had 
 been breakfasting on nuts. 
 
 " I've come, sir, to ask you, sir," I said, "for your permis- 
 sion " — my sentence was not as clear as this, but confused 
 and jumbled : "for your permission, to — to — " and then I 
 thought I could put it better, and so tried back. " I mean, 
 sir, we had some idea of getting up a — a — a — " like Mac- 
 beth's amen, the words " theatrical performance " stuck in 
 my throat. If there had been a trap-door at my feet, and I 
 could have been let down easily into the cellar beneath, 
 startled the clerical-lookuig butler, and then escaped, I would 
 have given a trifle to have done so at that moment. Never 
 shall I forget this interview. 
 
 " Yes," he said, taking my sentence up at the point where I 
 had dropped it. "You are getting up a — subscription, eh? 
 For what object ? " 
 
 I had a great mind to adopt his suggestion, and make it a 
 subscription, instead of theatricals. The idea struck me, 
 " How about saying, we propose to play for a charity. The 
 Something Hospital. I know there is one "; but on second 
 thoughts I discarded this notion, as a detail to be subsequently 
 considered, and made for my point, by the shortest and most 
 direct route in my power. 
 
 "No, sir," I replied ; "not exactly a subscription, though 
 the object," and here the charity idea again recurred, as 
 softening it all down, " would be the benefit of some hospital 
 — the Adenbrook Hospital, for instance," I added, so as to 
 interest him, as it were, with a certain local colouring. He 
 merely nodded, and peered at me ; he was peering at me 
 during nearly the whole interview ; and at first I could not 
 
lo Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CJ" Camb, 
 
 make out why — absence of glasses and nearness of sight 
 would not sufficiently account for his searching regards. 
 It was not long before I discovered the reason of this 
 scrutiny. 
 
 " And, sir," I went on, rather vaguely, '' I thought — at 
 least we thought — that a theatrical performance — " he 
 started, as my cat jumped thus suddenly out of the bag, 
 and his start frightened me, but I managed to resume as 
 steadily as I could, '' a theatrical performance — of — in fact 
 — ahem ! — some one or two plays — or one — perhaps," — 
 thinking not to overpower him with too large a programme all 
 at once — '' and— and — and — " here I came to a standstill. 
 But I breathed more freely now. The first step had been 
 taken, and the words "theatrical performance " had been pro- 
 nounced. 
 
 The Vice- Chancellor peered at me, as though I were grad- 
 ually melting before him in a mist. 
 
 *'Um!" he said, so portentously, that it sounded tome 
 like an awful rebuke of my rashness, in daring to thrust my- 
 self forward, and disturbing the peace of the University. If 
 I could, even then, have begged his pardon, and have said, 
 like Mr. Toots, " It's of no consequence," I would have with- 
 drawn. But I was not acting for myself, I was a Deputy 
 with a mission. 
 
 *' Um ! " said the Vice-Chancellor ; and, giving his gown a 
 good hitch up over his elbows, he put his head on one side, 
 as though he were meditating the commencement of another 
 hornpipe on the spot. Had he done so, I could have joined 
 him in a breakdown. Of course, his dance would have been 
 " the College Hornpipe." On second thoughts, however, he 
 gave up the idea of dancing, and after some consideration, 
 during which he seemed to be trying to realise, in his aca- 
 demical mind, the full scope and bearing of my request for a 
 *' theatrical performance," he said, 
 
 *' And where do you propose giving this dramatic represen- 
 tation?" 
 
The First Step. 1 1 
 
 The question was more than my wildest hopes could have 
 expected. In effect, he had granted the application, so it 
 seemed to me, and was now going into details. At once I 
 was more at ray ease, and answered, with an inquiring, per- 
 haps almost a patronizing, smile, as if rather inviting a sug- 
 gestion from Kim^ than making one myself, — 
 
 " Well, sir, we had thought of the — the — " I hesitated a 
 little — hut out it must come, and it came — " of the Barnwell 
 Theatre," and seeing his severe expression, I hastened to add, 
 as if I in no way insisted on the Barnwell Theatre as the only 
 place — " or the large room at the Bull." 
 
 Somehow I felt that I had put my foot in it — that Barn- 
 well and the Bull had done it hetween them. 
 
 His manner was courteous, hut very grave, when, peering 
 at me more intently than ever, he said, — 
 
 '' I have not the pleasure of heing ji^rsonally acquainted 
 with you, I helieve, Mr. — Mr. — Mr. — " and he referred to 
 my card, which he could not see to read. 
 
 I was bound to help him. My name, I informed him, was 
 Burnand ; somehow it didn't sound to my own ears as if I 
 said it well ; in fact, I pronounced it so badly, that I should 
 have been prepossessed against myself, on the spot, had I 
 been somebody else hearing it for the first time. He went 
 on with his examination, as though I were trying to keep 
 something back from him. 
 
 " Of Trinity ?'' he asked, persuasively. 
 
 *' Of Trinity," I answered. 
 
 *'A — um — a Fellow of Trinity?" he inquired, with a 
 courtesy of manner, and an emphasis on the word " Fellow " 
 that implied a doubt. 
 
 *' No, sir," I answered, respectfully, but with as much 
 carelessness as I could muster at the moment, — "no, sir, I 
 am not a Fellow." I tried to give myself the air of saying 
 this, as though I could have been a Fellow if I had liked, only 
 that, somehow, it had not suited my purpose. 
 
12 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Carnb. 
 
 His manner towards me changed visibly. He became 
 stiff er, and more decidedly the academical Don. 
 
 " Um !" he said, with decreasing courtesy, and increasing 
 emphasis on the test word, *' A scholar of Trinity ?" 
 
 *' No," I replied, getting rather tired of this ; '' I am not a 
 scholar." 
 
 I did not like to tell him I was an undergraduate, and that 
 this was only my second term. 
 
 '' Oh," he said, with some asperity, as though he resented 
 my having obtained an interview with him under false pre- 
 tences, "I did not see your gown." 
 
 That was what he had been peering at. At first he had 
 thought that I was wearing the gown of a Master of Arts ; 
 now, he was not quite clear whether it was a Bachelor's, or 
 not. 
 
 *' You have taken your degree and are staying up?" he 
 suggested, inquiringly. 
 
 It was like a doctor's guesses at a patient's health, and 
 being wrong every time. 
 
 " No, sir," I w^as obhged to admit ; " I have not yet taken 
 my degree." 
 
 " Oh ! " he said, with a sort of pitying air. " Still an 
 undergraduate ?" 
 
 He had guessed right at last. The opportunity for pre- 
 senting him with a pun on his own name — which was Guest 
 — was almost too good to be lost. But the interests of our 
 dramatic scheme were at stake, and I felt, that, at this critical 
 moment, a false step on my part would ruin our not very 
 bright prospects. Somehow we seemed to have wandered away 
 from the subject, to which I saw no road back. This time 
 he took the initiative. Now he was quite the Don. His un- 
 certainty had vanished. It was no longer an interview be- 
 tween a colonel and a captain, or a lieutenant, but between 
 a colonel and a private. Once more he hitched up his 
 gown, but this time it was not with the air of a man who 
 might be going to dance, but with the determined action of 
 
The First Step. \% 
 
 a truculent counsel, who is not going to be browbeaten by a 
 witness. 
 
 " So you want my permission for a dramatic perform- 
 ance?" 
 
 " Yes," I said, humbly, that was what his petitioner, &c., 
 and if he granted it, then, in effect, his petitioners would ever 
 pray, &c., &c. 
 
 "Um!" he said, giving another violent hitch up to his 
 gown. " And — ahem ! — what play do you propose ?" 
 
 "What play?" This was an unexpected question. We 
 had, as I have said, fixed on Box and Cox, Vlllikins and his 
 Dinah, if done in time, or Bomhastes, and perhaps Talfourd's 
 Macbeth Travestie. 
 
 "Well, sir," I replied, diffidently, "we have not yet quite 
 decided," but, as I didn't want him to make this a pretext for 
 deferring his answer, I added, " but we are considering two 
 or three." 
 
 "Ah!" he said, with a more satisfied air, which argued 
 well for my success, — " ah ! Of course," he went on, most 
 seriously, " there's a large field for selection." 
 
 I was delighted to agree with him. 
 
 " There is," I observed, with the authority of a student of 
 dramatic literature, "a very large collection of plays." 
 
 My thoughts reverted to " Lacy's Acting Edition," in many 
 volumes, and I thought what a choice we should have, if we 
 once got permission, and how we might play, Did you ever 
 Send your Wife to Camhenvell ? * My Precious Betsy, 
 That Blessed Bahy, Betsy Baker, Domestic Economy, 
 Grimshaiv, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw, and a heap of others, 
 in which Wright, the Keeleys, and Buckstone had been so 
 inimitably funny. 
 
 " Yes," the Vice-Chancellor continued, very gravely, and 
 balancing himself alternately on his toes and heels ; " there 
 is a large choice. Is it a Greek play that you propose ?" 
 
 * This was one of the first farces performed by the " A. D. C." 
 
14 Personal Reininiscences of the ''A.D.C!' Camb. 
 
 I might have been knocked over with a feather. I saw it 
 was hopeless ; I saw he was on the wrong tack ; I saw, that, 
 unless he granted permission, without further inquiry, there 
 was an end of the matter. 
 
 " No," I replied, as if I were most reluctantly divulging a 
 deep secret ; "it is not a Greek play." And I wondered to 
 myself what he would think of Villikins and his Dinah, if I 
 had mentioned the subject to him. 
 
 " Well," he continued, as if inclined to yield a point in my 
 favour, " perhaps you are right. Terence is a favourite. 
 You have, you say, selected a Latin play ?" 
 
 "No, sir, I," — I hesitated, — "it is — it is not a Latin 
 play." 
 
 I devoutedly wished I could have said Box and Cox was a 
 Latin play. It flashed through my mind, " If I could only 
 call it Balbus et CaitiSf or Castor and Pollux. But it won't 
 do : he would find it out afterwards." 
 
 " Not Greek, or Latin ! " he exclaimed, as if these were the 
 only two languages he had ever heard of anywhere. " Then 
 what is the play you propose ?" 
 
 " Well, sir, it's — it's English," I answered ; and I began 
 to have my doubts as to the truth of that statement now. 
 
 " English !" he repeated, with an air of surprise. " One 
 of Shakspeare's ? Surely that's rather an undertaking ?" 
 
 I admitted most readily, for it was the first loophole he had 
 given me, that Shakspeare would indeed have been far too 
 much of an enterprise for us, and that, in fact, we did not 
 aim quite so high. 
 
 " Then what do you propose to play?" he asked, severely. 
 I looked at him to see if I could detect the slightest tremble 
 of humour in his eye, or the pucker of a smile on his lips. 
 No. He was as hard as granite. He had suggested Greek 
 plays, Latin plays, and had conceded Shakspeare. Evidently, 
 as Vice-Chancellor of the University, he could not be expected 
 to take cognizance of any compositions outside these three, 
 or rather these two, for Shakspeare was a concession. From 
 
The First Step, 15 
 
 Sophocles to Terence, from Terence to Sliakspeare, was all 
 very well, very proper, and both classical and correct ; but, 
 from the Antigone to the AdelpJd (Terence's, not Webster's), 
 from the Adclphi of Terence (who, when I first went to Eton, 
 was, I thought, an Irislt dramatist) to the Comedy of Errors, 
 and from that to Box and Cox, and thence to Villikins and 
 his Dinah, the fall was too great for serious consideration. 
 Still the truth had to be told. 
 
 "Well, sir," I began humbly, "we were not thinking of 
 attempting anything great. It is merely among ourselves." 
 
 " Members of the University onli/, of course," interrupted 
 the Vice- Chancellor. 
 
 " Oh, of course ! " I returned, quite cheerfully, being de- 
 lighted to find myself at one with him on any point. "And, 
 sir, we were thinking of merely playing a little — a little 
 piece." 
 
 A grand idea struck me. I would not mention the name. 
 Box and Cox, which might only make the Vice-Chanccllor 
 think I was laughing at him, but I would mention the name 
 of its author, Mr. Maddison Morton, by which, I fancied, he 
 would be impressed ; for I knew that I, personally, had 
 always been impressed by the name of Maddison Morton, 
 which, I still think, does sound wonderfully imposing ; only 
 it sounds better without the prefix of ^'Mister,'' which rather 
 vulgarizes it. However, I felt that the Vice- Chancellor was 
 bound to give the " Mister." So I finished up thus, — " We 
 are thinking of playing a little piece by Mr. Maddison 
 Morton." 
 
 " Perhaps," it occurred to me, " the Vice- Chancellor may 
 know Maddison Morton ; and, if so, all right ! " 
 
 But Dr. Guest only appeared puzzled, and repeated several 
 times, — 
 
 "Morton — Morton! " as if he were either trying to recall 
 an acquaintance of that name, or were learning the word, by 
 heart, like a parrot. 
 
 " Maddison Morton," I explained, affably. 
 
1 6 Pei'sonal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C^ Cainb, 
 
 " Um ! " he considered. Then he paused and examined 
 the carpet. Receiving no assistance from that quarter, he 
 looked up suddenly at me, and asked, " Fellow of Trinity? " 
 
 " No," I said. I was not aware, — he might he — hut — in 
 fact, Maddison Morton had never presented himself to me in 
 that light. For me, it had heen sufficient that Maddison 
 Morton should have heen the distinguished author of Box 
 and Cox, 
 
 ''Not a Fellow of Trinity?" said the Vice-Chancellor, 
 suspiciously. 
 
 "No; I don't think so." 
 
 *' Um ! And you propose acting a play written hy Mr. 
 Morton, who is not a Fellow of Trinity ? Yes ; what is the 
 name ? " 
 
 I could not help it. It was hound to come out at last. 
 
 "It is called Box and Cox,'' 
 
 Even then I was afraid he would ask me if ' Box and Cox ' 
 were Fellows of Trinity, without which qualification their fate, 
 I felt at once, was sealed. I even regretted not having intro- 
 duced them as Mr. Box and Mr, Cox, the other title sound- 
 ing so familiar. If I could only have metamorphosed them 
 into the Rev. Mr. Box, M.A., Fellow of Trinity, and Dr. 
 Cox, D.D., Fellow of Caius, it would have heen perfect. 
 
 But the Vice-Chancellor was very grave and serious over it. 
 He did not know either Box or Cox, hy name. They were not 
 members of the University, any more than Mr. Maddison 
 Morton was a Fellow of Trinity, and so he could not recognize 
 them, officially. Box, and Cox, might he, he seemed to 
 think, very worthy persons, without a stain on their charac- 
 ter, hut he could not countenance them, as performing in this 
 University. He had misunderstood me, and thought I had 
 proposed a theatrical entertainment to he given hy Messrs. 
 Box and Cox (of the London theatres) in a play written hy a 
 Mr. Morton, — not a Fellow of Trinity.* 
 
 * How I subsequently wished that I had been acquainted with the fact 
 of Mr. Tom Taylor having been a Fellow of Trinity. I was acquainted with 
 
The First Step, 17 
 
 I thought he was going to ask mc for the name of the 
 other piece, and I would rather have relinquished the whole 
 affair, there and then, than have given up the name of yUli' 
 Jiins and his Dinah, and have avowed myself the author. No : 
 I had got into a difficulty, and made myself a martyr for the 
 sake of Box and Cox, and that was ridiculous enough for one 
 morning. If I added Villikins, he would think that there was 
 a lunatic undergraduate at large in Trinity College. 
 
 Fortunately the clock reminded him, that, at that hour, a 
 council was sitting, — where his attendance was imperative. 
 
 " I will lay this matter," he said, solemnly, " before the 
 Heads, and will forward you our decision." 
 
 The idea of the Heads again struck me, only this time in 
 connection with the tossing shilling and the lucky sixpence, in 
 " Box and Cox." *' Heads I don't win," I thought to myself 
 as I thanked the Vice- Chancellor for his polite attention, and 
 so withdrew. Through an open side-door in the hall, as I 
 passed out, I saw the "Heads" assembling, and I could not 
 help feeling intensely amused at the notion of the Vice-Chan- 
 cellor's gravely submitting for the careful consideration of this 
 august body the names of Box and Cox, not being members of 
 the University, associated with that of Maddison Morton {not 
 a Fellow of Trinity), and of F. C. Burnand, undergraduate, 
 Trin. Coll. Cam. 
 
 This was the first step taken towards obtaining official 
 recognition for an amateur University performance, with what 
 result remains to be seen. 
 
 And this interview, which should form the subject of a fine 
 historical cartoon, took place in the early part of the Lent 
 Term — it must have been quite at the commencement of the 
 Term, while the fervour of the previous Term's theatricals 
 was still warm within us, and before I had settled down to the 
 routine of University life. 
 
 some of his plays, performed, I think, by the Wigans, and then there was 
 Our Clerks, with the Keeleys in it. But, advanced as I was in theatrical 
 matters, I did not know everything at eighteen. 
 
 
 
CHAPTEE 11. 
 
 THE " ATHENiEUM " PEKFORMANCE AND THE FIRST 
 INSPIRATION. 
 
 I HAVE never felt any profound veneration for a Don — I 
 mean, of course, a University Don, as tlie regular Spanish 
 Dons, or, rather, the irregular Spanish Dons, as, for example, 
 Don Quixote or Don Cesar de Bazan, have always commanded 
 my admiration, if not my esteem and respect. 
 
 But for the representative, typical, college Don, I have not, 
 and never had, I say it boldly, the slightest atom of respect, 
 and the sentiments of my youth, as regards Dons in general, 
 have never been modified, or altered, by the experience of 
 middle-age. What was at first a very natural undergraduate 
 instinct, has grown into a most firm and honest conviction. 
 
 Of course I am aware that there are Dons and Dons ; but 
 when a Don, who is a Don by position, is at the same time not 
 a Don by disposition, then he ought not to be a Don at all ; he 
 is so clearly out of place, that, when you inform your friends 
 that the gentleman in question is a resident fellow of S. Boni- 
 face, they will hardly credit your assertion. 
 
 There is no such creature, properly speaking, as a young Don. 
 If a man is a Don by nature, he is never young. There are 
 no such comfortable places anywhere as those held by the 
 college Dons in residence. Their life is simply a luxurious 
 development of bachelor existence in club and chambers, but 
 their chambers are above suspicion, and the obhgations of 
 their state are a guarantee for their individual local respecta- 
 bility, while their public morality is as unexceptionable as 
 
''Athencetnn'' Pe^^formance — First Inspiration, 19 
 
 their dinners at tlie high tahle in Hall, and their wine in 
 the common room of the College. 
 
 Dons seem to forget they have ever been undergraduates ; 
 and, for the matter of that, they have very little to forget, as 
 they, probably, never partook of the generally hilarious under- 
 graduate's temperament, — the healthy outburst of youth and 
 the overflow of animal spirits, peculiarly English in its 
 boisterous character, easily directed for good by judicious 
 control, and turned off into various channels of harmless 
 recreation, where a discriminating superior, if he chose to 
 trouble himself about those placed under his care, would be 
 able to detect the bent, inclination, of many a young man, 
 whose peculiar talents might be then and there fostered with 
 the most beneficial results. 
 
 The "A. D. C." has had some valuable assistance from 
 Dons, but these belong to the exceptional class, who were 
 not Dons by Nature, but by Grace of the senate, — that is if 
 a Grace of the senate be required for the creation, which I 
 doubt; but the sentence turns itself well, and has a theo- 
 logical air suited to the gravity of the subject, and so, right 
 or wrong, with Grace or Graceless, let it stand. 
 
 The Vice- Chancellor who wanted to know if Box and Cox 
 were " Fellows of Trinity," and who seemed to ignore all 
 dramatic literature, except what was strictly classical and 
 within the limits of an ordinary examination paper, was, and 
 has always been, my heaii-idcal of an English University Don. 
 Why have we not Schools of Dramatic Art, and Schools of 
 Painting within the University? Why not a professorship 
 of Dramatic Literature, the lecturer explaining the art of 
 construction, the method of development of plot, and the 
 examination requiring a competent knowledge of the English 
 drama first and foremost, and then of the French, the Italian, 
 the German and the Spanish ? 
 
 Have we all of us a natural taste for mathematics, or for the 
 military tactics of the ancient Greeks and Bomans ? Let the 
 usual grounding, as we have had it — and as it still is, and 
 
;20 Personal Raniniscenccs of the ''A.D.C^ Camb. 
 
 must he, — be retained, and our sons will be more interested 
 in Balbus and Caius building their wall, if the wall itself 
 is made an object of interest to us in the first instance. 
 If Balbus and Caius, both authors, actors, and managers, 
 and joint proprietors of a theatre, having purchased the suit- 
 able plot of ground, commence their w^ork with a wall — why 
 here, at once, is more than a field, — a number of provinces of 
 knowledge, — open at once to the art student, who would pick 
 up incidentally an acquaintance with practical business, and 
 be directed to the schools of Law to master the questions 
 of freehold, copyhold, tenancy, sale and purchase, ancient 
 lights, compensation, &c., &c., to the school of architecture 
 for the best models, to gain information in various languages 
 concerning the theatres in various parts of the civilized world 
 — and so on — ad infinitum. 
 
 Would not many of us have taken a personal interest in 
 Caius and Balbus — from this point of view ? 
 
 Directly a lad finds a line of study that interests him, he 
 will study. 
 
 The lad who has not got the taste for the studies which go 
 to make a senior wrangler, will never arrive at that degree, no 
 matter how good his will, how hard his w^ork. It will be all 
 up hiU and against collar, and, as in a crowd of competitors 
 there must be some one to whom the work is pleasant and 
 comes easily, the misplaced student will expend his energies 
 to no purpose — save one, which I admit is an important one. 
 I mean the exercise of his will in obedience to a call of 
 duty. But what would not such a young man have done with 
 congenial w^ork ? What eminence would he not have 
 attained, early in life, in that line for which nature had 
 fitted him ? 
 
 Which disquisition and inquiry after all comes to this, 
 that if the Vice- Chancellor had been struck by my application 
 for a performance to be licensed by the University, he might 
 
'^AthencEtim'' Performance — First Inspiration, 21 
 
 have gone a step farther and have instituted a Dramatic 
 College, whence in the course of a few years, would have 
 issued highly educated Keans, Kembles, Macreadys, and 
 Garricks, with an English Sardou or two, and an Alexandre 
 Dumas 'pcre etfils to write for them. But that was not to be. 
 
 In what form the Vice- Chancellor presented my request to 
 the Heads — oh, those Heads ! — always a pantomimic idea to 
 me — I have never been able to leai'n, nor can I easily 
 imagine. 
 
 Whether he got confused in his names and told them that 
 Mr. Maddison Box, who was noty he regretted to say, a Fellow 
 of Trinity, and Mr. Morton Cox, of No College as far as he 
 could learn, wished to give a theatrical entertainment for a 
 charity, with his (the Vice-Chancellor's) sanction, and that of 
 the Heads — whereupon they all shook them solemnly, and 
 the request was negatived by the whole lot, — or whether he 
 only casually alluded to it as an insignificant matter, which, 
 as coming from two undergraduates of Trinity, whose names 
 were Box and Cox, who had deputed another foolish under- 
 graduate of the name of Burnand to interview him (the Vice) 
 on the subject, was not worth their consideration — I have 
 never inquired. Suffice it that three days after, — why three 
 days ? there must have been some sort of ceremony — some 
 delay — some formalities — unless the Vice had forgotten all 
 about it, and had suddenly found my card three days after- 
 wards, and determined at once to answer me — three days after 
 my interview, a very pohte formal note was left at my lodg- 
 ings, opposite Trinity, to the effect that " the V.-C. presented 
 his compliments to Mr. Burnand, who would inform his 
 friends " — (he hadn't got Cox and Box out of his head — he 
 evidently pictured me with Cox and Box at wine in my 
 rooms) — " that after due consideration the Heads were unable 
 to grant their sanction for a theatrical performance." 
 
 Well, now we were in a worse position than before. With- 
 out having gone to the Vice- Chancellor we could have given 
 a performance, and if interfered with could have pleaded ho7id 
 
22 Pe7^soiial Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb, 
 
 fide ignorance of all statutes in that case made and provided. 
 But noiVy if we gave a performance, we knew that it must be 
 in direct violation of the University Law. 
 
 Our application for permission virtually amounted to a 
 recognition of the law against theatrical performances in the 
 University. 
 
 And the V.-C.'s explicit refusal — a refusal coming from the 
 collective wisdom of the University — came as an utterance 
 from the Talking Head. The representative of all authority 
 settles the question. If we performed now — we, Box, Cox, 
 and Burnand, at least those were the parties addressed through 
 me, by the Yice — if ive performed now, we defied the law, and 
 ran no slight danger of excommunication, I mean of rustica- 
 tion, loss of term, or gating for a term, or some such 
 penalty. 
 
 We had the available talent at hand. What was to be 
 done ? We consulted together. 
 
 I have already mentioned our first performance in our 
 rooms opposite Trinity Gate — rooms that have now vanished 
 and the space occupied (worthily, I am glad to say) by an 
 annex of Trinity — and therefore we had, as I have said, tho 
 beginnings of a corps dramatiqiie. 
 
 The great dilficulty of obtaining a fitting representative of the 
 " Spindle side," had been got over, and in Mr. F. C. Wilson 
 of Trinity, who subsequently figured in the "A. D. C." Bills 
 as "Mr. C. Digby," we had an artist who, in Shakspeare's 
 time, might have been chosen by the poet himself to represent 
 his Audrey or his Lady Macbeth, — for, strange to say, but 
 fortunately for us, he was excellent in burlesque though his 
 forte was undoubtedly tragedy, of which quality, except in the 
 course of burlesque, he was never called upon to give us a 
 taste. Those who may be inclined to remark, goodnaturedly, 
 that at that time we probably mistook tragedy for burlesque, 
 and burlesque for tragedy, must remember that we were con- 
 stantly seeing Robson in his best days at the Olympic, 
 when in his burlesque he touched the very boundary line of 
 
"At/iejtmmt' Performance — First Inspiration, 23 
 
 tragedy — indeed in Slij'lock and Medea lie passed it, instantly 
 returning, however, to burlesque — and in the Misers 
 Daughter we saw the intensity of his dramatic power. 
 
 Burlesque there was not a mere leg-display, for the ballet 
 was still in existence as an attractive part of the entertain- 
 ment, but it was acted, with a purpose, by the Keeleys, the 
 Wigans, Charles Mathews, the Frank Matthewses, James 
 Bland, Miss Horton, Harley, Madame Celeste, and Mrs. 
 Mellon, and the burlesque, or extravaganza, occupied an im- 
 portant position in the evening's programme. Therefore 
 our notions of burlesque were rather different from what 
 prevails now-a-days, and even from what was in vogue a 
 few years after the " A. D. C." was started, that is when 
 Strand burlesques were made popular by the charm of Miss 
 Swanborough, the pretty faces and the inimitable fun of Patty 
 Oliver and Marie Wilton (Mrs. Bancroft), the earnestness of 
 Charlotte Saunders, the grace of Fanny Josephs, and the 
 original humour of * Jimmy ' Rogers and * Little ' Clarke. 
 
 But at Cambridge in my time our ideal of burlesque acting 
 was llobson ; of light comedy, Charles Mathews ; of farce, 
 Buckstone. 
 
 Of Dramatic Authors, except Maddison Morton, we knew 
 very little. We spoke of any play as " one of Lacy's " — 
 meaning that it was in the catalogue of plays sold by the late 
 Mr. T. Hailes Lacy, of 89, Strand. 
 
 Besides F. C. Wilson there was a Mr. Llewellyn who 
 appeared — in the private theatricals at our rooms on this 
 occasion only, with singular distinction, but who took his 
 degree and his departure soon after, and never belonged to 
 the " A. D. C." So that F. C. Wilson and myself were in 
 effect the entire company. Neither of us wished the idea to 
 be dropped, but besides being my senior, he was in a totally 
 different set from that in which I lived and moved, — and, 
 as the only bond of union between us, at this time, was 
 our taste for theatricals, and as there appeared just now 
 very little chance of our being able to indulge this taste, we 
 
24 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D^CT Camb. 
 
 seldom met. But when we did, it was to talk about the 
 possibility of establishing a Dramatic Club, which he pro- 
 mised to join if it could be once started. 
 
 The Vice-Chancellor had puzzled me. For a time he had 
 paralysed my action. 
 
 I confided my difficulties to some friends, Etonian under- 
 graduates belonging to the Athenaeum Club, which was the 
 swell University Club, for which only the University Tufts 
 were eligible. The Tufts naturally attracted the Toadies, as 
 Athenaeum membership — the rooms were over a tailor's shop 
 in Trinity Street — conferred a dignity on the privileged 
 undergraduate, and for that matter on the privileged grad- 
 uate, — for there were, I fancy, one or two youngish Dons, 
 recently in orders, who thought more of their position as 
 members of the Athenaeum, than of their status as Fellows of 
 Trinity. 
 
 A generously disposed young nobleman might be of con- 
 siderable service hereafter to an agreeable and reverend Don, 
 who in such a patron saw the first sign-post directing him to 
 a bishopric. 
 
 The next thing I heard was that the Athenaeum was going 
 to give a performance at the Red Lion, an hotel in Petit 
 Curey, where there was a first-rate room, generally used for 
 masonic lodges and county balls. 
 
 The Athenaeum made no secret of it. 
 
 They pretended to do so just as a show of such deference 
 as — noblesse oblige — was to be expected for dukes, earls, and 
 other titled members of the aristocracy who had kindly con- 
 sented to come up to the University and patronise the ancient 
 Institution. 
 
 This undoubtedly vexed me, considerably. 
 
 The Vice-Chancellor had refused permission to Box and 
 Cox, and to commoners, plebeians, anybodies, and here were 
 Viscount Box and Lord Cox, with Sir Bluster Bouncer, without 
 a " with your leave," or " by your leave," flaunting their thea- 
 trical programme in the face of the University, or at all events 
 
''Athenceum' Performance — First hispiration, 25 
 
 of Trinity College, which to U8 (of Trin. Coll., Cam.) was 
 about the same thing. 
 
 To quote the immortal work, " Should I curb my indig- 
 nation ? should I falter in my vengeance ? No ! " (vide 
 Box's or Cox's speech, when one throws the other's breakfast 
 out of the window). 
 
 But I did curb my indignation. I did not falter in my 
 vengeance, but I postponed it. 
 
 One of the Athenaeum men, an Etonian, — who was to play 
 Frank Matthews's part in The Bachelor of ArtSy paid mo the 
 compliment of coming to me to be coached. As I have 
 already explained, I had brought with me from Eton this 
 theatrical reputation. I coached him with an imitation of 
 Frank Matthews from memory, and then proffered my ser- 
 vices to assist any one else. 
 
 I had seen the play more than once, and remembered most 
 of the business. 
 
 My usefulness entitled me to a free admission on both 
 nights — for there were two — Charles the Second and The 
 Orifjinal being the first bill, and The Bachelor of Arts and 
 a farce the second — and I went to see the performances, 
 which went off capitally, and were, as far as I can remember, 
 eminently successful. 
 
 The point gained was that it had not been interfered with 
 by the authorities, and so formed a precedent. 
 
 On that very night a member of the Athena3um, George 
 Lennox Conyngham, and a certain medical practitioner who 
 had received a foreign diploma, and who shall be nameless here 
 except as " The Doctor " (for he had nothing at all to do with 
 the University, and was not recognised professionally by the 
 tutors), met at the former's room for supper, and to criticise 
 the whole performance, which we considered could have been 
 vastly improved in various ways. I was annoyed at their 
 having, as I considered, seized on my theatrical idea, and at 
 my having been excluded from active participation in their 
 performance, and so I determined to start something really 
 
26 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C'' Camb, 
 
 *' big," as the Americans say, to which the Athenians should 
 have to pay for admission, and that only as a favour. 
 
 I was not going to have my idea baulked. I proposed a 
 Theatrical Club. 
 
 Conyngham jumped at the notion. It would be a slap in the 
 face for the Athenaeum. The Doctor naturally jumped at it, 
 as he would have jumped at anything that gave him a chance 
 of securing a footing among University men, and getting to- 
 gether a good outside practice. I did not see his motive 
 then. I was only interested in the success of my scheme. 
 
 I proposed a permanent theatre. Where ? 
 
 Old Litchfield — gathered to his ancestors long ago — who 
 used to keep a well-known restauration at Cambridge, whence 
 issued the desserts for wines and dinners, and at whose 
 shop the free-and-easy undergraduate took his dinner when 
 he was either too late, or disinclined for *' Hall," — old Litch- 
 field informed us, as an authority, that he remembered a 
 theatre at what was now Death and Dyson's livery stable in 
 Jesus Lane, and he described it as fitted up with boxes, and 
 pit, and gallery, and how it was patronised by the town and 
 county people — and how the University authoriti-es sat on it, 
 and how it collapsed. Then he told us of another abortive 
 attempt in Swan's auction rooms : and of another at the 
 Hoop. 
 
 " The Hoop ! " we exclaimed ; *' are there rooms at the 
 Hoop?" 
 
 " Of course — the Union {i.e., the Debating Club) had them 
 at one time, and now they're turned into billiard rooms." 
 
 Very evidently the proprietor, whoever it might be, would 
 never consent to forego such a profitable concern as billiard 
 rooms, to turn them into such a very speculative and uncer- 
 tain affair as a theatre supported by undergraduates. 
 
 So after a dinner at Litchfield's we decided to look 
 about. 
 
 Our looking about cost us several dinners at the Hoop itself, 
 where, at length, we found two unused rooms apaii from the 
 
''Athenmwi' Performance— First Inspiration. 27 
 
 billiard rooms, from wliicli they were separated by a strong 
 partition, and a securely fastened door. 
 
 I forget why these were never used. The objection was 
 that they were over a stable ; but the stable was empty, and 
 was used for stowage of beer and wine casks. Another ob- 
 jection might have been that access to the rooms could only 
 be obtained by going through the Hoop itself, or through the 
 side gate of the Hoop Brewery, in Jesus Lane, and so across 
 a badly-paved and dimly-lighted yard, whence we mounted 
 up some dirty wooden steps to these rooms. 
 
 The larger of the two rooms was lighted by three big 
 windows giving on to some leads, and the lesser by a skylight. 
 
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 This is an exact plan of the room. The dimensions 
 originally were :— 33' 10'' X 22' 2" and 14 ft. high. 
 In less than a quarter of an hour we had parcelled it out. 
 
 A. Auditorium witli its door of entrance for the audience. 
 
 B. The stage with its door for the orchestra. 
 
 C. The green-room, to be used as dressing-room, &c., for the 
 
 "artists," with their own private stage door. 
 
28 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C!' Camb, 
 
 What could be more perfect ? 
 
 It was not large, but it was large enough to begin with. 
 
 The next thing was to ask about the lease, which the 
 Doctor undertook to do, as neither Conyngham nor myself — 
 certainly I less than anyone — knew very much about it. 
 
 However, the landlord — Mr. Ekin — would only treat with 
 a member of the University. He did not want to know what 
 it was intended for : enough for his purpose that it should be 
 taken by responsible undergraduates as a Club. 
 
 The rooms were almost useless, and he was very glad to 
 let them at a reasonable rent. 
 
 I suppose by this time (twenty-four years after) now that 
 the Club possesses the entire suite, he is not sorry he enter- 
 tained the original — the very original proposition. 
 
 The end of the Lent Term was fast approaching, and 
 something had to be settled before we went away for Easter 
 vacation, so that during our absence a commencement might 
 be made, and something like a list of members obtained as a 
 security for our expenses. 
 
 With a dash which was worthy of a speculative promoter 
 of these modern times of companies and limited liability I 
 went in for the premises, I think in conjunction with Conyng- 
 ham, and took them by the quarter ; at least, I think such 
 were the terms of our lease. We had something to sign 
 which was easy, and something to pay which was not so easy, 
 but which, being paid, not only gave an impulse to our under- 
 taking, but also induced us to look upon it in a somewhat 
 more business-like manner than we had hitherto done. 
 
 It was, I think, about the first matter of business into 
 which — that is, signing and paying and taking a receipt — I 
 have ever entered. 
 
 I looked upon it as a form, except the payment, and then 
 I felt we were committed beyond hope of return. 
 
 The next step was to plan out the stage. For this work 
 we were recommended to a capital carpenter, one Lovett, a 
 tall handsome intelligent man, with a big beard, and a way 
 
''Aihenmun'' Performance — First Inspiration. 29 
 
 of understanding what you meant before you had uttered 
 half a sentence that saved a heap of trouble. 
 
 I fancy that Lovett, as upright and honest a tradesman as 
 ever stept, wished, like the Doctor, to make a University con- 
 nection, and therefore went to work for us with a will, trying 
 to do everything as reasonably as possible. 
 
 He was theatrically inclined too, and was, I fancy himself 
 a member of some town Cordis dramatique that had its occa- 
 sional performances, out of Term time, at the Barnwell 
 Theatre. 
 
 Once, and once only, while I was staying up to read, did 
 I witness a portion of one of these representations. 
 
 The piece was I think The Field of Forty Footsteps^ but I 
 am not certain. Anyhow it dealt with a Virtue much rouged 
 in distress, who being at her wits' end in a wood alone with 
 a villain of the deepest dye in awe-inspiring boots, cried 
 frantically, 
 
 " 'Elp ! 'elp ! ! 'elp ! ! ! " 
 
 " Aye," cynically replied the scowling ruffian, drawing his 
 dagger — the point of which nearly reached his boots — ** Aye ! 
 'elp! but 'ow?" 
 
 Whereupon the hero rushed in, polished off the double- 
 dyed one in two-twos, and everybody lived very happily ever 
 afterwards except the wicked nobleman who had employed 
 the villain in the capacity of a " creature," and who vanished 
 through a trap in the flames of a burning castle. 
 
 This by the way. 
 
 Lovett undertook to make us a stage, proscenium, and all 
 appliances and means to boot. 
 
 What the amount of the contract was I forget. It may 
 now be in the archives of the Club. But it has been with 
 great difficulty that I have got at any archives at all. The 
 early history of all gi-eat institutions is generally enveloped 
 in mystery, and fact and fable are closely intermingled. 
 Fortunately from almost the very commencement we had some 
 sort of record kept, and this, with our oldest progi-ammes. 
 
-,o Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Camb. 
 
 I have by me. The date of the private amateur performance 
 in the rooms shared by J. H. Norman, Glyn Vivian, and 
 myself, over the grocer's opposite Trinity, was November, 
 1854. 
 
 The date of the Athensjum performance at the Red Lion 
 was about the middle of Lent Term, 1855, and it was imme- 
 diately after this that we went to work. 
 
 So earnest were Conyngham and myself in the matter, that 
 after receiving our exeat for the vacation, we " stayed up " — 
 contrary to all college rules and regulations — for some days 
 at the Eagle Hotel, in order to see Lovett well started, and 
 then fearing lest we should suddenly be interviewed by the 
 proctors, we went to town, where we used to meet either at 
 Limmer's, in Conduit Street, or at Long's in Bond Street, to 
 draw up rules for the Club, which henceforth was to be known 
 as the Amateur Dramatic Club, or "A. D. C." 
 
 The rules were drawn up at Limmer's, and all our corre- 
 spondence proceeded from these head-quarters. We had 
 already several adherents, but not one, except Conyngham, 
 from among the members of the aristocratic Athenaeum Club, 
 which, it was supposed, viewed our proceedings with dis- 
 favour. 
 
 Our original members were not undergraduates who had 
 come up from Eton or Harrow with any particular prestige, 
 but, — ^with two or three exceptions, who set up for possessing 
 a certain intimacy with life in London, — our first members 
 were law-abiding, quiet, well-conducted members of the Uni- 
 versity, and came from Trinity, Caius, St. John's, King's and 
 Magdalene. 
 
 From Limmer's we issued notices of a meeting to be con- 
 vened at the Hoop Hotel, where the objects of the Club would 
 be stated, the rules finally settled, the amount of entrance 
 fee and subscription fixed, and a date settled for our first 
 public performance. 
 
 Conyngham and myself returned as early as possible to 
 Cambridge in the ensuing May Term, and were delighted to 
 
''Athe7iceiLm " Performance — First Inspiration, 3 1 
 
 find that Lovett had made good progress with the stage, and 
 the rooms began to assume a habitable, or rather a clubbable 
 appearance. 
 
 Then came our first public meeting at the Hoop, money 
 was subscribed, the carpenter was refreshed, the landlord was 
 satisfied, and we looked forward to such a sale of tickets for 
 our first performance, as would more than reimburse us for 
 our outlay. 
 
CHAPTEE III. 
 
 REPORTING PROGRESS. — MAY TERM, 1855. 
 
 After several preliminary meetings of those who were the 
 chief promoters of the future Club, we managed to obtain a 
 sufficient following to warrant our calling a public meeting at 
 the Hoop Hotel early in the May Term, 1855. 
 
 The original members of the "A. D. C." who attended 
 this first public meeting, and without whose hearty concur- 
 rence no start could have been effected, were — 
 
 Lennox Conyngham 
 T. R. Polwhele 
 T.White . 
 Gerald FitzGerald . 
 
 F. C. Wilson 
 
 " The Doctor " 
 
 G. Harvey . 
 Reginald JMly 
 
 — Wood . 
 
 — Collins 
 
 — Whitley 
 G. Lampson 
 H. Lampson 
 
 Tyrrel .... 
 H. Snow 
 
 Peere Williams Freeman '. 
 F. C. Burnand . 
 
 Trin. 
 
 John's. 
 
 Trin. 
 
 Trin. 
 
 Trin. 
 
 Unattached. 
 
 Magdalene. 
 
 Trin. Hall. 
 
 John's or Trinity. 
 Trin. 
 
 Trin. 
 
 Trin. 
 John's. 
 Trin. 
 Trin. 
 
 Of these, five besides myself were Etonians, and three 
 Harrovians. We had only one sporting man among us, T. 
 AVliite — who was brought by Gerald Fitz Gerald on the ground, 
 I believe, of his being an excellent subscriber to anything, 
 
Reporti7ig Progress, 33 
 
 and of his not being in the slightest degree interested in 
 theatricals, which qualities, combined, would make him 
 a most useful and most unobjectionable member of the 
 "A. D. C." I remember the readiness with which, at the 
 very first call, he produced five pound notes, and frightened all 
 the quiet and moderate men by the force of his language, the 
 energy of his character, and the amount of money at his 
 command. 
 
 He was one of the best gentlemen riders of the University, 
 and had the reputation among us of being excessively 
 wealthy. 
 
 I am almost sure that over and above his entrance fee and 
 subscription, he insisted on making the Club funds a very 
 handsome present to assist us at starting. 
 
 Whether subsequently he ever witnessed a performance, or 
 knew that he was a member, I cannot precisely say. I remem- 
 ber his appearance in the reserved seats once only during an 
 entr'acte, when, having come in late after a long day's hunt- 
 ing and a heavy dinner, he fell asleep, and was only awoke 
 by the man coming to lock up for the night. 
 
 Demand creates supply. I wanted a *' stage manager " — 
 whoso duties should be to see to all the mechanism of the 
 stage, the carpentering, the gas, the curtain, the trap — we 
 had a trap — and so forth, but who had nothing to do with 
 the acting. 
 
 I was the "acting manager," which in our phraseology 
 meant * a manager of the acting,' but did not imply what I now 
 know to be the sole duties of a professional acting manager, 
 i.e. to see to the advertisements, to the accounts, and the 
 correspondence, the box office, the engagements, &c., &c. 
 
 At the " A. D. C." the * Acting Manager ' was equivalent to 
 a professional stage manager, while our stage manager was a 
 sort of head superintendent of scene-painters, carpenters and 
 gasmen ; a good deal more than a " master carpenter " or even 
 than the scenic artist at any ordinary theatre, his duties 
 corresponding more nearly to those of Mr. Beverley's at 
 
34 Personal Reminiscences of tlie ''A.D.CJ' Camb, 
 
 Drury Lane, though, at first, it included those of the pro- 
 perty master and the machinist. 
 
 Subsequently, of course, those functions were divided and 
 properly apportioned, hut this is how we began, and the 
 gentleman who took the place was Mr. T. R. Polwhele, of St. 
 John's, who was in every way the very man for the office. 
 
 He was ingenious, which was excellent to begin with ; he 
 was practical, which was first-rate to go on with ; and he was 
 economical, which was capital to finish with. 
 
 If it had not been for Polwhele's care from the first, we 
 should have run further into debt than we actually did. 
 
 For my own part, I had not my equal for ordering everything 
 we wanted, and everything else that we didn't want; but 
 fortunately, as a safeguard, I had agreed that no orders should 
 be valid unless countersigned " T. R. Polwhele." This saved 
 us pounds. 
 
 It is also due to his care that the early records, now before 
 me, are so clear, and so well kept. 
 
 I fancy our first secretary was Mr. Sheppard Harvey of 
 Magdalene, but I cannot find his name attached to any docu- 
 ment or notes, so if they were made by him, they were 
 afterwards copied into our book by other hands — in one 
 instance my own — but his signature was omitted. 
 
 Our landlord, Mr. Ekin, was inclined, from the first, when 
 be really saw we meant business, to afi'ord us any assistance 
 in his power, and did not object to bear part of our expenses 
 in improving the rooms, though as they were * improved ' 
 mainly for our special purpose, the alterations could hardly 
 have appeared at the time as likely to be of any permanent 
 use to him. 
 
 The next point was to settle the first programme with 
 which we were to appeal to the sympathies of the Uni- 
 versity public, represented to us, chiefly of course, by under- 
 graduates. 
 
 About the Vice- Chancellor and the Heads none of us ever 
 again troubled ourselves. They had winked—that is, if such 
 
Reporting Prog^^ess. 35 
 
 Heads could be guilty of so indecorous a proceeding — ^they 
 had winked, and wisely winked, at tlie performances of the 
 Aristocratic Athenieum, and it would be marvellously unjust 
 to stop «s, because we didn't happen to represent the swelldom 
 of the University. 
 
 It is true that Gerald FitzGerald had commenced his 
 career as a Fellow-commoner, but as, after a time, he had 
 resigned the insignia of his position, his blue and silver gown, 
 and had become a simple plebeian undergraduate, he didn't 
 carry much weight. 
 
 Some few croakers there were who prophesied dire things 
 about the interference of proctors and the dissolution of the 
 Club, but the majority asked what could be done by any 
 authorities if we kept our own counsel, if we told no one 
 except a few privileged friends who would be willing to pay 
 five shillings for a ticket, which would bo given him, under 
 seal of secresy, and in much the same mysterious way as the 
 rendezvous, and ticket for the train and inner ring at a prize 
 fight used to be confided to the initiated at the " Pugs" bars 
 in the good old days of Ben Caunt, Bendigo, and Tom 
 Sayers. 
 
 It was impressed on every one that the very meaning of 
 the initials "A. D. C." was to remain a mystery: they were 
 to be the masonic ** B — z and J — n " of our craft, not to be 
 revealed to a soul. This would excite curiosity, and induce 
 earnest inquirers to join our little community, whose aim and 
 object was the attainment of the most rational enjoyment by 
 the employment of the least harmless and most beneficial 
 means at the disposition of a secret guild of Dramatic Art, 
 which after all did not deserve persecution because it could 
 not bear the light, but which, if encouraged, might one day 
 have its professors in the chairs of the University. What is 
 this but an initiative of Comedie Anglaise ? All the members 
 had an equal interest in success, and were only inspired by 
 their love of art, by their predilection for this form of amuse- 
 ment, and not by any sort of greed of gain ? 
 
 D 2 
 
36 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D,Cr Camb. 
 
 Yet we were iu the catacombs. We kept our place of 
 meeting a secret. Our records were confided to safe hands — 
 our " writmgs," with which we wouldn't have parted even 
 under the pressure of a Neronic persecution from The Heads, 
 and we actually took such precautions at first that to ensure 
 our safety by flight in case of a raid of Proctors, we had a 
 speaking tube run through from the Hoop bar to our green- 
 room, by which "the office could bo given" in an emergency, 
 and outside the windows of the stage we had a ladder placed, 
 by which the performers could have descended into a yard 
 below, and so out into the street, dressed in our caps 
 and gowns, which would hide the theatrical costume under- 
 neath. 
 
 This never happened, but we were prepared. 
 
 At one time we thought of having a pass-word and a sign 
 of membership, and that there should bo a change of sign 
 and pass-word every night of performance for the admission 
 of non-members, who would then not have paid five shillings 
 for a ticket, but for a pass-word, without which, entrance would 
 be as impossible as into a masonic lodge without the grip 
 and sign. 
 
 However, tickets were adopted. 
 
 We had no idea that we were contravening any act of 
 Parliament made and provided, and no one at any time 
 thought it worth while to inform us that we required a 
 license for a dramatic performance where money was taken 
 from visitors, and we were in delightful ignorance of any such 
 duty on the goods we used as * fees to authors.' 
 
 If wo knew of the existence of the Dramatic Authors* 
 Society at all, we thought of it only as a Club, perhaps, 
 something like ours at Cambridge, where, perhaps, there 
 were rooms for the authors to write in, where probably Mad- 
 dison Morton had a study to himself as a reward for having 
 written Box and Cox^ or that it was a sort of Garrick Club, 
 and that was all we knew about it. 
 
 Now (1879) all this is changed. The performances them- 
 
Reportijig Progress, 37 
 
 selves are under the Vice-Chancellor's rule, and the Club 
 pays its fees regularly to the Secretary of the D. A. S. T/iis 
 is as it should be : that was as it shouldn't have been, but 
 as, unfortunately, it was. But then we were in our infancy, 
 some of us were still legal infants — I mean legally * infants ' — 
 and we couldn't be expected to know everything. 
 
 We had to learn. Ignorance was bliss. It was a very 
 happy time — one of the happiest — as * So say all of us ' who 
 remember those days. 
 
 We were seventeen members, and every one of us could 
 easily get rid of from seven to ten tickets at the least. If we 
 took a hundred and seventy at five shillings a piece, we should 
 do very well. Our ** Auditorium" — this name was not in- 
 vented in those primitive days — would not hold more than 
 sixty, comfortably, exclusive of the row in front reserved for 
 members, which had to be set considerably back in order 
 to allow for our orchestra, and so it was absolutely 
 necessary for us to give two performances, the expense for 
 which would be but a very slight increase on that of one 
 alone. 
 
 If the first night wera a success we might give three per- 
 formances, and announce the extra performance on the second 
 night. 
 
 This actually happened. Our first performance was such 
 a decided success, the novelty was so great, the whole thing 
 so fresh, the fun so spontaneous and hearty, and so much to 
 the taste of the undergraduates, that we did give three nights, 
 and though the extra night was, on account of the short notice, 
 not so good as we might have expected, yet on the whole we 
 recouped ourselves for the expenses, and put by a small sum 
 into our reserve fund. But at the same time, despite all the 
 precautions of our thrifty stage manager, we had expended a 
 great deal more than was necessary, and this outlay was not 
 on our properties, or on our stage carpentering, or on our 
 band, of which more anon, — but, on our scenery. 
 
 Naturally our scenery had presented a real difi&culty. 
 
38 Personal Reminiscences of ike ''A.D.C" Camb. 
 
 Amateurs, such as tlie Athenaeum Amateurs, playing for 
 one or two nights only and there an end, had ordered a stage 
 from London with scenery to hand, costumes, &c. It was 
 paid for and done with. But we wished to make a store of 
 scenery. The stage was our own : and we were determined 
 to have the scenery painted for us. 
 
 By whom ? 
 
 Not one amongst us knew anything whatever of the pro- 
 fessional stage. Nobody knew an actor. What an important 
 personage would he have been considered who could have 
 boasted of such an acquaintance ! no one knew a scenic artist. 
 
 Fortunately I had heard of one. 
 
 A gentleman, who, years before, had worked for Madame 
 Vestris at the Olympic, and had painted pictures for Charles 
 Mathews, had also done some work for a relative of mine, who 
 had recommended him to my father as a good man to paint a 
 likeness of me when a boy of fourteen. He did it. I have it 
 now. Alas poor Jones ! — that w\as his name. I daresay it is 
 like what I was — I hope it isn't. . . . However — passons. 
 When I recommended Jones I had not seen my own portrait 
 for years; I did not remember it, which was lucky, but I 
 remembered who painted it, which was still more lucky — for 
 Jones. 
 
 Jones was his name. We knew him as " Old Jones." 
 An eminently respectable, elderly artist, with grey hair and 
 whiskers, satin stock, low waistcoat, tail coat (in the 
 day time), and double eyeglasses suspended round his 
 neck by a broad black riband. Quito a character; like a 
 father in a farce, who objects to everything up to ten 
 minutes to eleven and then gives in and blesses the young 
 couple. 
 
 He had a number of anecdotes about Macready, and 
 Kemble, and personal reminiscences of Mathews, Madame 
 Vestris, and other theatrical celebrities, on the strength of 
 which he asked us, while at work, three pounds per diem, 
 exclusive of his board and lodging, which, as his introducer, 
 
Reportmg Progress, 39 
 
 and considering him as in some sort of way related to my 
 family, on the portrait side, — I undertook to provide. 
 
 We found everything for the Great Jones, who, I am bound 
 to say, gave us on this occasion three most effective scenes, 
 which served the Club for the first ten years or more. 
 
 They were a Cottage Interior, "which," Jones observed 
 with all the sagacity of an old stager, "will always bo 
 useful." 
 
 And an Exterior — a wood landscape, "which," observed 
 our experienced and intelligent artist, "will serve for a gentle- 
 man's park, or a wood, or a garden, or for any out-of-doors 
 scene in the country anywhere." 
 
 He painted an Act Drop, and with this concluded his labours, 
 which extended over five days, and took the gilt off our gin- 
 gerbread to the tune of eighteen pounds. 
 
 I have heard subsequent members begrudge this outlay. 
 I never did. The scenes were capital and lasted ad- 
 mirably, besides serving as a model for our future amateur 
 artists. 
 
 The Exterior, with four tree wings to match, was to be 
 used for the wood where Bombastes encounters Artaxominous ; 
 the Interior, with two wings to match, was to represent Dis- 
 taffina's cottage. For we had settled upon Bomhastes Furioso 
 as our afterpiece at my instance, seeing that I had a very 
 pleasurable remembrance of having played in it at Eton three 
 years before, and I knew most of it by heart. My part was 
 Artaxominous. 
 
 In order to put the authorities off the scent, we invented 
 noins defantaisie under which we were to appear in the pro- 
 gramme. 
 
 As there is no longer any necessity for preserving our 
 incognitos I will give both the real and assumed names in 
 placing our first programme, entire, before our readers. It 
 was on good, white foolscap paper, or rather what is known at 
 Cambridge as "scribbling paper" size, clearly printed without 
 any sort of ornamentation whatever, and the name of the 
 
40 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C!' Camb. 
 printer does not appear, and there is no date to it. Here it 
 
 IS :■ 
 
 A. D. C. 
 
 THIS EVENING WILL BE PRESENTED 
 
 A FAST TRAIN! HIGH PRESSURE!! 
 EXPRESS!!! 
 
 Colonel Jack Delaware .... Mr. G. Seymour. 
 
 Griffin Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Biffin Mr. A. Herbert. 
 
 TO BE FOLLOWED BY 
 
 DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO 
 CAMBERWELLP 
 
 Chesterfield Houeybim .... Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Crank Mr. W. Smith. 
 
 Mrs. Houghton Mr. C. Digby. 
 
 ]\Irs. Crank Mr. T. King. 
 
 Mrs. Jewell Mr. 11. Johnson. 
 
 TO CONCLUDE WITH THE BURLESQUE TRAGIC OPERA 
 
 BOMBASTES PURIOSO. 
 
 Artaxominous (King of Utopia) . . . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Fusbos Mr. T. King. 
 
 General Bombastes Mr. Jas. Beale. 
 
 Distaifina Mr. C. Digby. 
 
 Army, Courtiers, &c., &c. 
 
 Actiny Manager— TOM FIERCE, Eiq. Stage Manager— N. TATES, Etq. 
 
 Frompter—J. SUEPHEUD, E»q. 
 
 Scenery and AppointmenU hy S. J. E. JONES, Esq. 
 
 That was our first night's hill. 
 
 Mr, G. Seymour was G. Lennox Conyngham; Mr. A. 
 Herbert was Gerald FitzGerald ; Mr. W. Smith, J. M. Wil- 
 son ; Mr. C. Digby, F. C. Wilson ; Mr. T. King, L. Evans ; 
 Mr. R. Johnson, R. Kelly; Mr. Jas. Beale, E. Snow ; 
 N. YaUs, Esq., T. E. Polwhele; J. Shepherd, Esq., Sheppard 
 
Reporting Progress, 41 
 
 Harvey; and S. J. E. Jones, Esq., xms himself, Tom Pierce 
 being myself. 
 
 Why all the actors were " Misters," when the acting 
 manager, stage manager, and even "prompter" were "Es- 
 quires," I don't know. 
 
 This invidious distinction disappeared from our bills after 
 this first term. 
 
 The lever du rideau was chosen by Conyngham, who " saw 
 himself " in the part of Jack Delaware originally played by 
 Charles Mathews. 
 
 I say " G. Seymour " scuv himself, for it was more than the 
 audience did, the stage being so dark — the action is supposed 
 to be at night in an interior — that no one could see anything 
 at all. 
 
 For some time it was a mystery play, and to the end the 
 plot was on the first night very intricate, chiefly owing to the 
 nervousness of the performers, and the insufficiency of the 
 rehearsal of this piece, all our time having been bestowed on 
 the two important pieces of the evening, the middle farce, and 
 the burlesque tragic opera. 
 
 Two out of the three actors in this first trifle bustled about 
 a good deal, and tried to find out the plot for themselves as 
 they went on, while the third, who was supposed to be the 
 hero of the story, rushed on and off in an excited manner, 
 loudly declaring, in what he imagined to be a correct imitation 
 of the American twang, that he was " A fast train, high 
 pressure express ! " that, consequently, he wouldn't wait for 
 anybody to do anything. As Griffin I had to be an old man in 
 a night-cap, perpetually lighting a candle, and tumbling across 
 Biffiiiy whose role consisted in coming on and yawning. What- 
 ever the author might have given him to say, he had reduced 
 to yawning. The difficulty was to get him off the stage when 
 he had once entered. There he stood and yawned, without 
 reference to anybody. Once only he ventured on a "gag" 
 consisting of a single word not ordinarily mentionable to ears 
 polite, which so flabergasted us that we hustled him off, and 
 
42 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D.C1' Camb, 
 
 Yory soon afterwards the curtain was dropped on what we felt 
 to be a hopeless muddle. " A. Herbert " only played in that 
 piece, and his peculiar style on this occasion was due to his 
 having considered it necessary to support his pluck for a 
 public appearance by dining rather too late and too freely, so 
 that all he recollected of his part was the "business" of 
 yawning which, as I have said, he once varied with an 
 exceptional *'gag." 
 
 Let me say that when we repeated so as to do it justice, 
 this piece on the third night, we had carefully rehearsed it ; 
 all three dined together early, and it *'went" capitally. 
 Entre nous I never thought much of Griffin , but it was a 
 ** one part piece," and that part wasn't Griffin. 
 
 The farce of Did you ever send your Wife to C amber ivell we 
 played for three nights, and it took amazingly. It was one 
 of those broad, old Adelphi farces in which Messrs. Wright, 
 Paul Bedford, and 0. Smith were constantly playing, though 
 in this there was no part for *' little Paul,'' Wright's part fell 
 to mc (by my own choice it need hardly be said), and the part 
 of Crank was given to " W. Smith," who was nearly equal to 
 the original "0. Smith " in the gravity and earnestness of his 
 manner. 
 
 Unfortunately " W. Smith'* (J. M. Wilson) was very near- 
 sighted ; indeed, " near-sighted," is hardly the word, as, unless 
 a book were touching the tip of his nose, he could not distin- 
 gish the print, and, when out walking, he was as likely as 
 not to bow to a lanap-post under the impression that it was 
 a tall Don of his College, or to follow a Proctor in full 
 academical costume, with his Master of Arts gown strings 
 flying, thinking that he was on the track of a pretty girl, and 
 would only discover his mistake on the Proctor's turning 
 round sharply, and coming right up against him to ask *' his 
 name and College.'' 
 
 J. M. Wilson had invariably rehearsed in the daytime 
 when there was plenty of light, but he had never attempted 
 to walk on any stage at night. 
 
Reporting Progress. 43 
 
 Now J. M. Yfilson as Crank had to appear at a door at 
 the back of the stage — had to walk slowly forward, and address- 
 ing the other character, Honeybun, who is on the opposite 
 side, and taking no notice of his entry, had to ask him, — 
 
 " Sir, would you oblige me with the loan of a bellows ? '* 
 
 The stage directions at rehearsal were that he was to repeat 
 " Sir " several times in order to attract Honeybun's attention. 
 
 This was done : and the third repetition of the word ** Sir " 
 was to bring Wilson down to the flote, i.e., the footlights, 
 which, of course, were unlighted in the daytime. 
 
 At the last moment, outside the door of the scene by which 
 he had to enter, it struck "Wilson that he shouldn't be able to 
 see his way down the stage. 
 
 The scene w^as, necessarily, partially dark, and the gas was 
 not very brilliant ; the flote threw a clear and decided light 
 on the toes and up as far as the knees, but the remainder was 
 in shadow. This was rectified during the burlesque when all 
 the wings were open, and the side-lights were added, but the 
 farce was played in a close, screened-in scene. 
 
 Poor Wilson appealed to the stage manager. 
 
 " I say, I shan't be able to see." 
 
 ** You must go on," replied the inexorable Polwhele, who 
 never played himself. ** They're waiting for you." 
 
 *' Which way does the confounded door open?" asked 
 Wilson in an agony. 
 
 " Inwards," replied Polwhele, giving it a shove, and at 
 the same time whispering to the unhappy man who was 
 blindly, or shortsightedly, rushing on his fate, " Go straight 
 on, there's nothing in your way." 
 
 On came Wilson, like the street blind man without his 
 dog, groping along, dazed by the peculiar glimmer he en- 
 countered, and just able to pull himself together sufficiently to 
 recollect that he had to say '* Sir " three times, and that the 
 third " Sir " would land him in his proper place. Unfortunately 
 he forgot that his first " Sir " ought to have been said at the 
 door, in which case his calculation would have been exact — 
 
44 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C' Camb, 
 
 for lie was an excellent mathematician, and would have been a 
 wrangler — and the consequence of the omission was that as 
 he gave his first " Sir " three paces in advance of the place 
 where he ought to have started from, so it followed that his 
 last " Sir " would be also three paces in advance of the place 
 where he ought to have finished, and as this position was just 
 one pace within the flote, so the two extra paces would have 
 been two paces beyond the flote, i.e., in the orchestra. 
 
 Slowly he came down, his back was turned — " Sir ! " I 
 heard him saying gravely once. This was not my cue to 
 turn. 
 
 " Sir ! *' he repeated, and as I was waiting for the third, 
 I suddenly heard a crash, a shout, and a *' Hullo! look 
 out," and saw Wilson's heels above the lamps on the stage, 
 while the rest of him, uninjured, was in the arms of the 
 tiddler and the cornet player below. Luckily our orchestra 
 were watching the piece, and in their anxiety to catch every 
 word, had caught the speaker tripping. 
 
 J. M. Wilson was set on his legs again, provided with his 
 spectacles, which had been fetched for him from the green 
 room, the gas was turned up, and the piece went on as if no- 
 thing had happened, the audience being in a most excellent 
 humour. 
 
 But our greatest cause for congratulation w^as the real 
 hondfule unqualified success of BomhasteSj which it is still 
 my honest belief, was, if roughly, at all events earnestly 
 played, with a true sense of the dignity of burlesque and 
 with a genuine and intelligent appreciation of the fun of the 
 piece, that won the most thorough approval of our audience. 
 
 The great success of Bomhastes Furioso, however, was un- 
 questionably due to Mr. C. Digby's (F. C. Wilson's) per- 
 formance of Distaffma, which fairly took the audience by 
 storm. Had F. C. Wilson been the most piquant burlesque 
 actress within remembrance, the triumph could not have been 
 greater. It surprised us all. So rapidly did the news of this 
 impersonation get about, that the next night ** the house" 
 
Reporti7tg Progress. 45 
 
 was crammed, the tickets went like wildfire, and we then 
 decided on an " extra night." 
 
 On the second performance of Bomhastcs, which was then 
 placed in the middle of the bill, all the Maudlin men — I 
 mean the Magdalene men — came with bouquets of lilies of 
 the valley, which they showered on the representative of 
 Distaffina at the end of the Burlesque. Evans (of King's) was 
 an excellent Fusbos, while our Bombastes, though very good, 
 was just a trifle too noisy. 
 
 Before we rang up for the burlesque there was an alarm, 
 not of Proctors but of fire. Something had gone wrong with 
 the gas. With inimitable presence of mind, I, as manager, 
 addressed the audience, informed them that " there was no 
 ground for alarm, that it was only a gaspipe gone wrong which 
 could be mended in a second," — I used to think anything 
 could be done ' in a second ' — and finally wound up by asking 
 them to be good enough to step into the Hoop hotel during 
 the interval that must necessarily elapse before we recom- 
 menced, which they could advantageously occupy in consom- 
 matlons, " at," I generously added, " the expense of the Club.'* 
 
 This was received with cheers. The audience went out, 
 refreshed itself at our expense, and returned in the most 
 intense good humour, evincing the heartiest desire to be 
 satisfied with anything, and to be generally pleased with 
 everything. Consequently, when the something good really 
 did arrive — as it did in Bombastes — their enthusiasm was 
 unbounded. 
 
 There was one other notable feature on this first night, 
 namely, an introduction of a parody on " The Ratcatcher's 
 Daughter" — at that time a very popular song at Evans's, 
 when Evans's was Evans's, when Messrs. Sharpe and Sam 
 Cowell sung and acted there, while Ross was giving us * Sam 
 Hall ' at the Old Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane, immortalised 
 by Doyle in his illustrations to Percival Leigh's Pips's Diary 
 in Punch — which was sung by Artaxominous, and, as I find in 
 the authentic record of the A. D. C, ''created a great furore,'' 
 
46 Personal Rcmmiscenccs of the ''A.D.CJ' Camb. 
 
 The same record states that on the first night " the receipts 
 were scanty, but a start ivas effected^ 
 
 On the second night we played as a lever du rideau, a 
 farce written by myself, my third attempt, entitled Bomance 
 under Difficidties, which, by the way, * still holds the stage,' 
 provincially, and among second-rate amateurs, as I have long 
 since parted with my property in it, and the fees for its per- 
 formance are very trifling, while the opportunities for tom- 
 foolery are great. It was just the sort of farce that a novice 
 fresh from a course of Maddison Morton dialogue, and from 
 seeing Wright, Keeley, and Buckstone, in various farces, 
 might have been expected to write. 
 
 One of our dramatis personce sends me the following 
 souvenir : — 
 
 *' I remember," he writes to me, *'the rehearsal of your 
 farce Bomance under Difficulties, in which you did not 
 originally intend to play yourself, but in which you did play, 
 owing to the incapacity of some one whose name I have for- 
 gotten. My conscience does not altogether acquit me of 
 having failed to satisfy you on that occasion, but there was 
 one worse than I, — I was kept in the cast and the more inca- 
 pable one excluded. However, I remember the frightful 
 ordeal of the rehearsal with the author sitting in front, and 
 his being too evidently dissatisfied with his interpreters. A 
 change was made directly after the rehearsal, and I have no 
 doubt the improvement was very decided." 
 
 What a martinet I must have been ! and in those early 
 days too ! evidently I didn't mince matters and was no 
 respecter of persons where the success of a play, and that my 
 own^^was concerned. 
 
 The cast for Bomance Under Bifficidtles was — 
 Benjamin Newbury .... Mr. T. King. 
 Frederick Markham . ... Mr. Jas. Beale. 
 Timothy Biggies .... Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Miss Fanny Newbury . . . . Mr. C. Eigby. 
 
Repoi'ting Progress, 47 
 
 Then followed 
 
 Number One Round the Corner, 
 
 Flipper Mr. James Bealr. 
 
 Nobbier Mr. Rich. Johnson. 
 
 Second Floor Lodger . . . .Mr. Courtney. 
 
 Mr. James Beale was cast for this part vice Mr. Georgo 
 Seymour, who found the Fast Train quite enough for him, 
 and * Mr. Richard Johnson,' (Eeginald Kelly of Trinity Hall) 
 who had only appeared as Mrs. Jewell, quite a subordinate 
 character, on the previous night, made what may really bo 
 called his first appearance in the role of NolUer, and from 
 that moment was marked as the most original and the most 
 dryly humorous actor that ever appeared on the boards of the 
 A. D. C. Kelly was of the Harley and Keeley school, 
 but so slight was his acquaintance with the London stage 
 that his beau, ideal of a comic actor, after Buckstone, 
 was 'Clarke of the Haymarket,' who used to play valets, 
 waiters, innkeepers, comic clerks, and such like parts that 
 fall to the share of the third low comedian — where three 
 are kept. 
 
 Kelly preferred not acting in burlesque, he did not care for 
 it ; his line was comedy, or farce. I think Clarke of the Hay- 
 market was not great in burlesque — his line was also comedy, 
 or farce. Later on, in the history of the A. D. C, his per- 
 formance of Potter in Still Waters (by Tom Taylor) was 
 masterly. In Number One Round the Corner the back scene 
 suddenly fell on the two actors, who had to support it until 
 the carpenters set it right. The audience were delighted. 
 
 After this performance the popularity' of the Club com- 
 menced, and we looked confidently forward to the next term 
 when, with an accession of members, we should astonish the 
 world with another performance which should be very far in 
 advance of our first. 
 
 I have no news of anything until the following term, the 
 October term ; but as I then find, among the proposers and 
 
48 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 seconders, names not in the original list, I conclude that 
 immediately after the first performance several members were 
 elected. 
 
 Among them was Mr. Gibs6n, who 'was* afterwards our 
 President, and Mr. (jharles Donne, son of the eminent 
 scholar, Mr. William Bodham Donne, who for many years 
 held the responsible position of Licenser of Plays in the 
 Lord Chamberlain's office. 
 
 Mr. Nathan of Castle Street was at this time our costu- 
 mier, and his charges were certainly moderate. It should 
 be added that our requirements were not great. But " they 
 grew and they grew " like the trees in the ballad of Lord 
 Level. 
 
 Now came an important time when my friend Conyngham 
 quitted his rooms in Trinity Street to take up his abode in 
 Green Street, whither I very soon after followed him. He 
 was a second-year man when I had only just commenced 
 residence, and having passed his Little Go, was now going in 
 hard for reading for his degree. He practically withdrew 
 from the Club, and I never remember him as playing any 
 other part on the boards than the one already mentioned. 
 
 He was on our committee, and interested himself more or 
 less in the administration of our Club affairs up to the time 
 of his taking his degree, which was in 1856, when with 
 him disappeared from the University the last of a set, which, 
 I believe, has never again reappeared there, I mean the old 
 Fighting set, who could boast of such amateur pugilists as 
 Jack Sheffield and Ferguson Davie, who, between them, had 
 instituted the " Kepublic of Upware," to which admission as 
 a member could only be obtained hjfightinr/ the champion/ 
 
 It was a Fishing republic, and bargees belonged to it on 
 the same terms as gentlemen. The landlord of the Fishing 
 Hostelrie, where they met after their day's sport, was bound 
 to let them have their beer at a certain reduction — I suppose 
 on taking a quantity. 
 
 Nat Langham and Professor Harrison were frequent 
 
Reporting Progress. 49 
 
 yisitors at Conyngham's rooms in Triuity Street, accom- 
 panied by professional performers on the banjo, and many 
 a queer evening have I seen there, boxing in one corner, 
 quarter-staff in another, a lesson on the banjo from a pro- 
 fessor being given to the proprietor of the rooms himself 
 in another j)art, " The Doctor " amusing a guest with card 
 tricks and conjuring, at which he was an adept, somebody 
 playing on the piano (regardless of the banjo) and myself in 
 a corner by the fire, with some member of the "A. D. C," 
 books in hand, and cigars or pipes in mouth, rehearsing 
 our ** scene," and occasionally refreshing ourselves from the 
 silver tankards on the table. It was very Bohemian, but very 
 pleasant. We were the Bohemian Boys. 
 
 The mention of "The Doctor" brings to my mind the 
 *' tremendous situation " ^dth which, I may say, the second 
 act of our "A. D. C." drama terminated, and which very 
 nearly "brought down the house." 
 
 Nothing succeeds like success, and after our first triumph 
 a sudden accession of members — rich ones among them 
 too — produced a considerable increase to our funds and to our 
 real property, as most of the members gave presents to the 
 Club from time to time, according to their means. Present? 
 of books, chairs, and various articles, both of luxury and 
 necessity, and before we separated for the vacation, it was 
 decided unanimously that a treasurer was indispensable. The 
 offices of treasurer and secretary were united, but they had 
 hitherto been a sinecure, for the gentleman who held both, 
 had to pay out the money as soon as he received it, and the 
 minutes were kept in a very loose, fly-leafy sort of way. 
 
 Now, however, we found ourselves in possession of some- 
 thing like thirty- seven or forty pounds to the good, besides 
 our club property. 
 
 The summer vacation would last a good four months — what 
 a pleasant absurdity by the way ! — and during our absence, 
 who would attend to the rooms ? and, what was still more 
 important, who would take care of the money ? 
 
 £ 
 
50 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Camb, 
 
 We wanted a responsible person to see that our stage 
 was not used, that the damp did not injure our scenes, that 
 our small collection of books was not diminished, and, of 
 course, we wanted a responsible person to hold the stakes. 
 
 From the post of treasurer everybody shrank. It is odd 
 that we never thought of depositing our funds in the bank, but 
 we were inexperienced, and this never entered into our heads* 
 
 Our simple method was to buy a cash-box, with a good lock, 
 and therein keep the money. But in whose charge were we 
 to leave the cash -box ? That was the question. 
 
 There were three of our members staying up for a part 
 of the "Long" to read for their degree, and each of these 
 positively refused in turn to have anything to do with the 
 cash-box. 
 
 Now, about this time, there had been some scandal in 
 diplomatic circles, about the defalcations of a certain Foreign 
 Office clerk, and a great many jokes were made on the sub- 
 ject, and dark hints as to the uncertain future of our cash- 
 box if trusted to any one of our members. 
 
 At last Conyngham proposed " The Doctor " as treasurer, 
 pointing out that as he was a resident, he would be able ta 
 give an eye to the rooms, and look after our interests in 
 our absence, while some one else proposed Gerald Fitz Gerald 
 for the office. 
 
 The Doctor was much liked as a hon camarade, but he did 
 not inspire general confidence, while FitzGerald had already 
 refused, on the ground that he should only stay up a short 
 time, but added good-naturedly, that, faute de mieux, he 
 would undertake the responsibility if we absolutely insisted 
 on it. 
 
 On this occasion several very witty lines were passed 
 round the table, a propos of the scandal above mentioned, 
 and the probability of our treasurer decamping, and, at our 
 final meeting Peere Williams Freeman handed me a copy of 
 verses, which in the free-and-easy and 'chafiy' spirit of our 
 very pleasant society, I read aloud to the assembled company. 
 
Reporting Progress, 51 
 
 I regret I can do no more than call to mind one couplet 
 with which, after humorously hinting that it really didn't 
 much matter to which of the two candidates we entrusted our 
 coin, it finished — 
 
 " One word to the Doctor before he departs, 
 We'd as soon lose our money by Fiiz as by starts." 
 
 However it was decided that the Doctor, for the reasons 
 given by his proposer, would be the safer man, and so he 
 became "j^ro tern., our treasurer. 
 
 This was our last meeting in the May Term and then we 
 broke up. The Doctor accepted the position, gave his receipt 
 for the money, and we all went our various ways. 
 
 End of Act First. Curtain. The Entr'acte is the long 
 vacation, when audience and actors are refreshing themselves. 
 
 The bell rings, or hammer knocks, and we re-enter for the 
 Second Act, which you are already aware, is to have a startling 
 dknoument. 
 
 E 2 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1855. 
 
 This began with a financial statement. 
 
 It was a very simple one. 
 
 The Doctor had disappeared. 
 
 Or, if he had not absolutely disappeared, his whereabouts 
 was uncertain, his most intimate friends looked gloomy, and 
 — our cash-box had gone. 
 
 On referring to the records of the exact sum for which our 
 treasurer had been responsible, I find it differently stated at 
 twenty-eight or thirty- two pounds. The entry is mild, and 
 merely to this effect — I copy it verbatim — 
 
 ** injured the Club by spending its finances ivith icliich 
 
 he had been intrusted; this teas a heavy bloio to a young club. 
 (Loss of £28):' 
 
 But as there is no date to this, I fancy it was made some 
 time afterwards, from memory. And it strikes me that the 
 amount lost is here either no exactly stated, or is put at a 
 less figure, or that the cash received in the May Term 
 was reduced to this by payments, made perhaps, on account, 
 to Lovett our carpenter, to whom we were still in debt, and if 
 so, then this would represent the actual sum of which '' The 
 Doctor" relieved his pa*iients. 
 
 We were ali very sorry for him, and regretted that he had not 
 confided his difficulties to his friends in the Club. He wrote 
 us a letter acknowledging his fault, pleading his necessities, 
 and promising re-payment. I for one, never saw him again 
 
October Term, i8j^. 53 
 
 — to speak to. He was an amusing man, many years older tlian 
 any one of his very young friends (as may be imagined), had 
 seen a great deal of life (as may be also imagined), and could 
 do conjuring tricks as well as any amateur professor of 
 legerdemain I have ever met. He had a talent for making 
 things disappear, but hitherto we had always been per- 
 mitted to recover them. But this final trick with the twenty- 
 eight or thirty-two sovereigns admitted of no return, and he 
 vanished from the scene. 
 
 This is what I have called end of Act the Second. 
 
 Act the Third began with a whip all round, which brought 
 our finances up to the right mark, and then we sat down to 
 arrange our performances for the term. 
 
 I now copy from the minutes. October, 1855. 
 
 *' At a General Meeting held, the prospects of the Club were 
 discussed, 
 
 " Mr, Kelly was elected Treasurer and Secretary,'^ 
 
 And we couldn't have chosen a better man than Reginald 
 Kelly of Kelly, then undergraduate of Trinity Hall. 
 The following gentlemen were then elected : — 
 
 
 Proposed by 
 
 Seconded by 
 
 Mr. Thomas Thomhill . 
 
 , Mr. Harvey . 
 
 . Mr. Gibson. 
 
 Mr. Murray . . , 
 
 . Mr. Kelly . 
 
 . Mr. Donne. 
 
 Mr. Salter 
 
 . Mr. Burn and . 
 
 . Mr. Harvey. 
 
 Mr. Ernwin 
 
 • do. 
 
 , . do. 
 
 Mr. Woodmas . 
 
 do. 
 
 . Mr. Donne. 
 
 Mr. Dalton 
 
 . Mr. Herssel , 
 
 . . Mr. Bumand. 
 
 And it was then decided that the second performances of 
 the " A. D. C." should be given on the 6th and 7th Novem- 
 ber, when ** were performed " (according to the brief entry 
 written by two distinct hands, and filled in with blue ink), 
 "Delicate Ground. — Characters by Donne, Wilson, FitzGerald. 
 Tivo in the Morning. — Burnand and Donne. VilUJcins and 
 his Dinah. — A burlesque by Mr. Burnand, acting manager. 
 Room full." 
 
54 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. B.C." Cainb. 
 
 " Boom Full " speaks volumes for the then gromng popu- 
 larity of the Club, but the success was so great that on 
 November 8th, 1855— the day following our second perform- 
 ance — ^I find a minute recorded thus — 
 
 ** Nov, 8, 1855. In consequence of the numerous applica- 
 tions for tickets, the same pieces ivere performed again, and 
 were received ivith great applause hy a numerous audience,'" 
 
 But not content with this, we thirsted for more blood, and 
 at a meeting on November 12th, it was decided " to have 
 three more i^erformances at the end of Term,'' 
 
 Two performances of three days each in one term ! And 
 this after a three days' performance in the May Term. 
 
 An " A. D. C." enthusiast, in our day, could not go in for 
 much else — specially if he were reading — except out of door 
 exercise ; and if he were reading, he would even give up the 
 " A. D. C." for that term, or would only play in one piece. 
 Of course, I am prepared to admit that in its infancy the 
 "A. D. C." was, necessarily, a secret society, rather Bo- 
 hemian than aristocratic in its sentiments, rather jovial than 
 ascetic in its tendencies. 
 
 The rehearsals were the occasions of delightful little 
 dinners and suppers in each other's rooms, and in these 
 we were not luxurious, nor were our " spreads " anything like 
 so expensive, or so pretentious, as what w^ere called the 
 " Athenaeum Teas." 
 
 Our games of loo, among those of us who played, were 
 for moderate stakes ; and, as we were not a Dining Club, we 
 had no reason for entering into any sort of competition with 
 such ancient University Institutions as the Beefsteak Club or 
 the True Blue, whose glory is in their " potations pottle - 
 deep," and their ' chippiness ' in the morning. Oh ! how the 
 Heads of the University that had been to the 'Steak on 
 Saturday night used to ache at Sunday morning Chapel ! 
 
 The active members of the "A. D. C." went in for small 
 sociable gatherings, the bond of union among them being the 
 
October Term, i8^^, 55 
 
 similarity of tastes, and the one object in view, i.e., the 
 success of our performance. 
 
 As to what the Dons thought of it at this stage of our 
 existence, I had a very good opportunity of judging. 
 
 Some malicious person had spread the report that our 
 meetings in our Club rooms were orgies of the worst descrip- 
 tion. 
 
 The Proctors determined to assure themselves of the truth : 
 and applied to me to show one of them over the " A. D. C." 
 
 I met him at the door of the Hoop Hotel, capped him most 
 respectfully, expressed myself extremely pleased at the oppo- 
 tunity thus aflforded me of making his acquaintance, and 
 walked him up the stairs to our little auditorium. 
 
 To his surprise there were no tables, no chairs, no signs of 
 revelry or drinking. 
 
 The room was uncommonly like a lecture room without 
 desks, until his eye rested on our proscenium. 
 
 Now I must here observe, that, if from the very com- 
 mencement of my University career, I entertained a morbid 
 dislike of Dons, I, on the other hand, felt an intense sym- 
 pathy for the Proctors, who seemed to me to be doing the 
 dirty work of the University. 
 
 I had always considered the Proctors as a sort of ecclesi- 
 astical police, parsons in white ties and bands, paid to do 
 the work of common constables, making domiciliary visits, 
 running risks of being grossly insulted by outsiders, and 
 sure of getting more kicks than halfpence in a Town and 
 Gown scrimmage, or in any other disorderly proceeding 
 where they were bound to interfere. They must be accom- 
 panied — are now I suppose — by two men generally good * on 
 their pins ' and not bad with their fists, who were styled 
 *' bull dogs." 
 
 The Proctors being unable to run, the bull dogs would have 
 to chase the game, and once on the track of an offending 
 undergraduate, their duty is to * run him in.' 
 
 They were also spies — these bull dogs — and detectives; 
 
56 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Canib. 
 
 very useful to an officious, over-zealous Dogberry, but obnox- 
 ious to a quiet gentlemanly Proctor, who happened to be in 
 office because he couldn't help himself, or who was inclined 
 to do no more than what was within the strict letter of the 
 law. 
 
 Now from one such Proctor as this last mentioned, I had 
 received signal kindness in my first term. I never forgot it. 
 I was always civil and courteous to Proctors, and when fined 
 for being without my cap and gown, I paid my money cheer- 
 fully, in the hope that out of it a worthy class of men might 
 get some little percentage for performing so unpleasant a duty 
 as theirs was in the University. It pleased me to think I 
 was contributing a small sum for the support of the Proctors. 
 That their bull dogs should get anything out of it, even a 
 half pint of beer, annoyed me. 
 
 So it happened that instead of being in antagonism to this 
 Proctor who paid the ** A. D. C." a visit, I w^as on the con- 
 trary quite afi'ectionately disposed towards him. 
 
 I was frankness itself. There was nothing to be concealed. 
 There was nothing we were ashamed of. All was open and 
 above board, except under the stage, which was below board ; 
 but there was not much of this — the elevation from the floor 
 being only four feet (we couldn't get more) so that any un- 
 fortunate person who had to disappear down our trap had to 
 lower himself — the only occasion when any member of the 
 " A. D. C." was required to lower himself — and go on all 
 fours in order to disappear altogether. For instance, when 
 Faust and Mephistopheles went ad, inferos together, it had to 
 be done in that way. When in Used Up, Sir Charles had to 
 go down into the cellar and meet the blacksmith — that is 
 how it had to be done, and that was the space they had to 
 do it in. 
 
 I explained all this to the Proctor, without the illustrations, 
 as we had not at that time played either Faust or Used Up, 
 
 and pointed out our many ingenious contrivances in this^ 
 the merest nursery of art. 
 
October Term, 18^5. 57 
 
 He was much interested, considerably amused, o\\'ned 
 that our object was laudable, and our efforts, not only- 
 harmless, but absolutely beneficial. And I daresay he re- 
 counted to several Dons in Hall, or in the common room 
 that evening, his visit to the '* A. D. C," and expressed his 
 wish to see, unofficially, one of our performances. At all 
 events, before we parted, he gave me his positive assurance 
 that, as long as we continued in the path of virtue, as long as 
 we stuck to our professed object of amusing the undergraduate 
 public with our theatrical entertainments, and did not permit 
 orgies, or suppers, or Bacchanahan gatherings in our Club 
 rooms, so long we might be quite certain of not being inter- 
 fered with by the authorities, that is, as far as he could speak 
 for them, lie at all events did not expect Cox and Box to be 
 Fellows of Trinity, and did not wish us to be performing 
 musty old Greek and Latin plays like the Westminster 
 scholars. 
 
 His report must have been good, as during the whole three 
 years and a-half of my University career we were never once 
 molested, or warned, nor, I am bound say, did we, as a Club, 
 ever once in any way give occasion for reprimand. 
 
 Gradually and unofficially the Dons came to us : dropping 
 in, here a couple, and there a couple, saying no more about it 
 to their stricter clerical brethren, than they would now-a-days- 
 had they paid an evening visit to the Aquarium, or if they 
 had gone to see such a naughty French play as hes Dominos 
 Roses at the Criterion. 
 
 There was no harm in a Don coming to witness our perform- 
 ances. He went away, not one whit the worse, but rather the 
 better, as he had generally seen something to amuse him, and 
 had also witnessed the spectacle of a number of young men 
 enjoying a hearty laugh instead of losing more than they 
 could afford at loo, or at billiards, diinking at wines, giving 
 the Proctors trouble in the questionable environs, or steadily 
 over-muddling their brains, while exhausting the midnight 
 oil. 
 
58 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.Cy Camb. 
 
 I have known, as time went on, plenty of reading men who 
 made a point of taking our performances as their one ex- 
 ceptional evening recreation in the course of the term. The 
 *' Coaches" were always there. 
 
 We didn't at first attempt any union with 'the Musical So- 
 ciety at Cambridge, though I now think that this might have 
 been done with advantage. I believe some such amalgamation 
 was tried, but musicians are such uncommonly difl&cult 
 people to deal with, — when, that is, theatrical people are deal- 
 ing with them. On which side the fault lies I cannot say, 
 but this I know that musicians invariably want to have it all 
 their own way, and it is a most difficult task, requiring great 
 tact, courtesy, and patience, to keep the conductor of a 
 theatrical orchestra, or a composer, in his proper place. They 
 begin by apparently yielding everything, they would end by 
 assuming the entire control. 
 
 We commenced with a magnificent band of four musicians at 
 the "A. D. C." under the leadership of " White-headed Bob," 
 who played the violin. He was supported by an Italian 
 looking person, of a sulky temperament, who played the 
 cornet with a settled air of disgust, and another man with 
 greasy hair and no shirt collar, who was very cruel to a 
 violoncello, and who was perpetually being remonstrated with 
 by his conductor, soito voce, and making apologies for wrong 
 notes, or wrong time, in an undertone. There was another 
 musicianer who went about the town tied to a harp, as if 
 he were a public example of the retribution that a man 
 brought on his own shoulders by being a musical nuisance. 
 The violoncello was not one of Bob's regular * merry 
 men,' but the harpist — a sad and seedy-looking man with 
 ringlets peculiar to the gipsy tribe — was one of the three 
 celebrities who played at all our * wines,' at all our after- 
 dinners, and who were paid by the hat going round for every- 
 one to put a shilling in. The host on these occasions gener- 
 ally gave something extra, and, not unfrequently, as a patron 
 of art, I used to give half-a-sovereign between the three, when 
 
October Term, i8j^. 59 
 
 my party was small, and the convives unwilling to go beyond 
 * bobs up.' 
 
 As Bob and his merry men would visit several parties in a 
 night, commencing with wines soon after five in the afternoon, 
 I have no doubt they made an excellent thing of it. The 
 report was, years ago, that these three eminent musicianers 
 had purchased large freehold plots in the neighbourhood of 
 Cambridge, were considerable landholders, were really, besides 
 this, immensely wealthy — * immensely j' of course — and that 
 it was supposed by those who knew something about them, 
 that the harpist would perhaps stand for the county at the 
 next election. 
 
 What has become of the harpist and the sulky cornet- 
 player I do not know, but to my astonishment and delight, on 
 revisiting the glimpses of the moon, in order to witness an 
 ** A. D. C." performance in 1878 — twenty-three years since 
 the foundation of the Club — I saw the white head of White- 
 headed Bob bending over the music score, and his right hand 
 that had lost none of its cunning fiddling away with all its old 
 might and main. 
 
 We had not an opportunity of speaking, but he beamed at me 
 behind his dark blue, or green, spectacles, and I returned the 
 beam that was in his eye with something like a mote in my 
 own, which prevented me from seeing quite distinctly, and a 
 gulp in my throat which hindered me from doing more than 
 murmuring " How d'ye do, Bob ?" from a distance, as all the 
 old scenes, all the old days, all the old companions, seemed 
 to crowd up before me, and I thought of myself twenty-three 
 years before, without a care, without a thought much beyond 
 the enjoyment of the moment — I was only in the beginning 
 of my nineteenth year — and as happy as the day, including 
 the night and plenty of it, was long. 
 
 Ah ! we were a very happy lot in my time at Trinity. No 
 doubt there are just as happy lots now, and have been since, 
 and will be to the end ; but taking our taste for what it was, 
 seeing what we enjoyed most, seeing what liberty we had for 
 
6o Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 social enjoyment, — a liberty which now-a-days, I observe, 
 is considerably curtailed, — and comparing what we wanted to 
 do, and did, with what our successors w^ould like to do, and 
 don't, I reaffirm, that, according to my unchanged notions on 
 this subject, ours w^ere very very happy days at Cambridge — I 
 mean no pun by the italics chough those happy days passed like 
 /lowrs— because there was far more opportunity of enjoyment, 
 far more liberty, far more freedom than there has been since. 
 
 We saw the last and the best of it. 
 
 Some after us took advantage of the liberty, made it license, 
 and brought on themselves and their successors the conse- 
 quence of their foolishness. 
 
 We w^ent right up to the limit of our bounds w4iich were 
 elastic enough, but we never overstrained the band. 
 
 Our active " A. D. C." members were, heart and soul, 
 in our theatre, and we were bound together by the fraternal 
 bonds of good fellowship, hospitality, and conviviality. Like 
 Preemasons, we *' proceeded from labour to refreshment," 
 giving each its proper place in our daily arrangements, for the 
 benefit of the "A. D. C." 
 
 All our dinners and suppers took place at each other's 
 rooms, and consequently I was able to assure the Proctor, 
 that we never had any Club dinners at the Hotel, or in the 
 rooms, that the most ever done was, in the course of rehearsal, 
 to send for a chop, or a glass of sherry, or a pint of beer, to 
 refresh exhausted nature. 
 
 "We didn't even allow smoking on the stage during re- 
 hearsal. 
 
 The scene painter had his fixed hours for work, and the 
 actors had theirs, and the great difficulty w^as to settle some 
 common time, when all, without sacrificing other more impor- 
 tant occupations, or open air necessary exercise, could meet 
 together for rehearsal. But this difficulty we met by mutual 
 concession. 
 
 I will now give the full bill of the performances for 
 Nov. 6th, 7th, and 8th. At the head of one bill marked 
 
Ociober Term, 18^5. 61 
 
 ** Nov. 8th, 1855," I find this note evidently made at the 
 time : — 
 
 " JVednesday.—Full. £15." 
 
 " TJmrsday.— Crowded — mamj members present. ^16." 
 '■^Friday. — Crowded up to the footlights — no standing-room — only six 
 members present. ^18." 
 
 Evidently on the last night visitors were admitted into the 
 seats reserved for members. 
 
 The form of the programme is the same as that used in 
 the preceding term, but there are signs of greater care in 
 drawing it up. All the "Esquires " are omitted except one, 
 and the initials "A. D. C." are in ornamental lettering. 
 
 A. ». C. 
 
 THIS EVENING WILL BK PERFORMED, THE PETITE COMEDY, 
 
 A DELICATE GROUND; 
 
 Or, PARIS IN 1793. 
 
 Citizen Sangfroid l^Ir. C. J. Algernon. 
 
 Alphonse de Grandier . . . . Mr. R. John.son. 
 Pauline {Citizen Sangfroid^ s wife) . Mr. C. Digby. 
 
 AFTER WHICH, A COMIC INTERLUDE, ENTITLED 
 
 TWO IN THE MORNING. 
 
 ]Mr. Benjamin Newx)enny . . . ;Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Stranger Mr. C. J. Algernon. 
 
 To conclude with the Serio-Comic Burlesque (written expressly for 
 the "A. D. C." by Tom Pierce, Esq.), hearing the 
 Jieart-r ending and ivcU-knoion title of 
 
 VILLIKINS AND HIS DINAH! 
 
 Master Grumbleton Gruffin [a rich soap mcr- 
 
 clmnt of Loiulon, the original Paricnt) . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Baron Boski Bumble {ancestor of the cele- 
 brated Beadle — the original Loviery so 
 galliant and gay) .... Mr. F. Houghton. 
 William Willikins {socially and convivially 
 
 knoivn as ^^VilUkins "), in love icith . Mr. L. Courtney. 
 Dinah Gruffin {sole feminine female offspring 
 
 of the above-mentioned soaj) merchant) . Mr. C. Digby. 
 Servants, &e., &c. 
 ACT I. — Feoxt Gaedbit at Geuffin's Villa, Clapham. 
 ACT II.— The Back Garden at Gruffin's Villa, with a view 
 OF THE Vegetables. 
 
 Books of the new Burlesque may be had in the rooms, price One Shilling 
 each. 
 
 Acting Manager— Mr. TOM PIERCE. Stage Manager— Mr. 2f. TATES 
 Scenery by Mr. S. J. E. JONES. 
 
62 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.C." Canib. 
 
 The MS. notes on this bill are that the first piece was 
 " Capital:' 
 
 That the second was *' A great hit on the third night,'* 
 which doesn't imply much for its two first representations. 
 
 That ** All the hooks of the burlesque were solely'' which 
 must have been satisfactory to the author's printer. 
 
 And that " the dresses were hy Nathan of Castle Street, 
 the wigs by Wilson, Strand." 
 
 Messrs. Nathan, the well-known costumiers for amateurs, 
 had supplied the Athenaeum performance, and had probably 
 introduced Wilson, and we very naturally went to them. The 
 band was still by * White-headed Bob and talented assistants,* 
 and against " Villikins " and " Dinah " is written " cajntal." 
 
 It is to be noticed here that, for some reason or other, there 
 was a change in the assumed names. 
 
 " Mr. R. Johnson " no longer stood for Reginald Kelly, 
 but for Gerald FitzGerald, while the latter appeared in the 
 burlesque under the name of " Mr. L. Courtney," and R. 
 Kelly as " Mr. F. Houghton." 
 
 " Mr. C. J. Algernon " meant Charles Edward Donne. 
 " Mr. C. Digby " meant F. C. Wilson. '' Mr. Tom Pierce " 
 — myself ; and the servants were taken by Messrs. Hassall and 
 Murray, two new members, both got up most grotesquely. 
 
 Our artistic friend Jones was invited to pay us another 
 visit at the same terms ; but it is clear that he had begun to 
 be like * poor Dog Tray,' of whom it was written by his 
 affectionate master that — 
 
 " Ten shillings in a year 
 For his company was dear, 
 So I put an end to Old Dog Tray." 
 
 And though we didn't put an end to Old Dog Tray — yet we 
 proposed cur-tailing him considerably, as the committee held 
 a meeting on the subject of " Jones," and it was decided that 
 we were to dine him in turn, but that he was to stay with one 
 of the committee. I forget now who put him up on his 
 
October Term, iSsS- 63 
 
 second visit, but I rather think it was Conyngham who had 
 moved to Green Street, and had a room at his disposal. 
 
 Jones — bless him — fed very well. He deserved it, for he 
 worked hard, and om- connection with him did not cease for 
 nearly a year, and until he had painted for us. 
 
 1. A luood scene, wings, and borders, 
 
 (We noted the borders as " flies " — I thought the word 
 looked technical and sounded well, and we were nothing at 
 that time if not theatrical.) 
 
 2. Palace scene and icings. 
 
 3. Lake landscape. Drop, 
 
 4. Cottage interior and icings. 
 
 5. Dockyard scene. 
 
 I recollect this last one. It really was an admirable example 
 of scene painting on a small scale, and was most effective. 
 We used it in ' Twould puzzle a Conjuror (played here in 1856). 
 
 6. Items, Numerous set pieces ^^ for a pnson scene, a 
 street, a cottage (exterior), a garden and fountain, a view 
 from window, and,'' says the note in the records, *^ very- 
 many other useful pieces." 
 
 The * view from the icindow ' was * the backing ' used in 
 Two in the Morning, showing in perspective the opposite side- 
 of the street, with a transparent blind down, behind which are 
 seen two figures embracing. The figures never could be 
 got to appear at the right moment at rehearsal, but I have no 
 doubt they did so on that third night representation, when 
 this farce made such ' a great hit,' 
 
 We were successful, we were increasing in popularity, and 
 we might have fairly considered ourselves as permanently 
 established, that is, as permanently as any University Club 
 which aims at being something beyond a mere reading room 
 can be. 
 
 Each term brought us new members from among our 
 seniors, our contemporaries, and our juniors. 
 
64 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D. C" Cainb. 
 
 On Nov. 12 we held a committee meeting at Mr. Donne's 
 rooms whicli were at the further end of Jesus Lane, near the 
 corner of Malcolm Street. 
 
 Mr. C. E. Donne, who had scarcely one more year of ' resi- 
 dence ' at the University, came to us with a considerable his- 
 trionic reputation. It was whispered, that, "once upon a time," 
 he and Alfred Thompson, who had taken his degree two or 
 three years before my arrival — after getting up some theatricals 
 at Cambridge, had actually gone to Norwich, or Yarmouth, 
 and had performed on the real stage, in a real drama, with 
 real, live actors, and that Charles Donne was absolutely on 
 speaking terms with one Mr. Sidney, the manager, and Mrs. 
 Sidney the manageress of the Norwich Theatre, and with a 
 Mr. Billington, who, being on the stage himself, had strongly 
 recommended Charles Donne to choose any profession but 
 that. 
 
 For Charles Donne had entertained strong ideas on the 
 subject, and so it appeared had Alfred Thompson, and on the 
 occasion of their Norwich, or Yarmouth, visit, the former, 
 whose voice and manner eminently fitted him for a tragedian, 
 had, with great success, taken the part of Beverley in Tlie 
 Gamester. Heavens! What Mr. Alfred Thompson had per- 
 formed on that occasion we were not then informed, and none 
 of ' our year' up at Cambridge had ever seen the gentleman in 
 question, and very few, of our generation, had even heard of 
 him. And yet he had got up two performances at some rooms 
 — Swan's auction rooms — and he has since informed me, 
 that, three years before I came up, he had most successfully, 
 produced The Rivals in the very rooms subsequently taken by 
 the " A. D. C." 
 
 This our landlord, Mr. Ekin, never mentioned to us, 
 though perhaps it accounts for his unwillingness to hear any 
 details from me as to what use we proposed to put his rooms. 
 
 Had we commenced with llie Rivals, I do not think the 
 " A. D. C." would ever have reached its second, much less 
 its twenty-fifth year. We aimed low, and hit the mark 
 
October Term, 18^5- 65 
 
 exactly. Our selection of pieces does not sliow any great 
 ambition. We only wanted to amuse, and — be amused. 
 
 Charles Donne who had succeeded so well in the role 
 of Beverley at Norwich (or Yarmouth), and who might have 
 been expected to propose himself for The Stranger in Kotze- 
 buo's drama, was cheerfully contented to be cast for the part 
 of The Stranger — the comic stranger, I mean, in Charles 
 Mathews' version of some French duologue, entitled Tico in 
 the Morning. 
 
 The piece had been popular in London, at the Lyceum, I 
 think, with Charles Mathews as The Stranger, and Keeley as 
 Newpenny. 
 
 I have never seen it, but the two must have been inimitable 
 in it. I ftxncy we were inimitable too. 
 
 Charles Donne took great interest in the Club, and ho 
 was a first-rate rehearser, and went at it as in thorough 
 earnest. What was worth doing at all, was worth doing well, 
 and this w^as the opinion of the three who played in Delicate 
 Ground when F. C. Wilson astonished us all as Pauline, 
 and when Alphonso de Grandier's pistol wouldn't go ofi' at the 
 time when it ought to have gone ofi', but, choosing its own 
 moment, nearly set fire to Citizen Sangfroid's white wig — 
 which as a Citizen of 1793 he ought not to have been wearing. 
 
 So it came about — not through the pistol shot, but through 
 Charles Donne's becoming so interested in Club matters — that 
 he was soon on our committee, and that on the 12th of No- 
 vember, 1855, the committee met in his rooms as I have just 
 mentioned. 
 
 On the brief minutes of that meeting I find it recorded 
 that 
 
 " Mr. R. L. Lomax was admitted as Honorary MemherJ'^ 
 
 Mr. K. L. Lomax was a B.A., and had left the University. 
 
 " The Laws were drawn up for the Club J'* 
 
 (So they had been rather vague up till now). 
 
66 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C' Camb. 
 
 " It teas decided to have three more performances .at the end 
 of Term." 
 
 On Nov. 22, 1855, same term, I find this entry : — 
 
 *' At a General Meeting the Laws were 'passed ivith a few 
 amendments,'' 
 
 The first rule shows the deep veneration — for it was more 
 than respect — in which we held the celebrated Garrick Club, 
 of which I — speaking for myself — had only heard, barely knew 
 where it was situated, except that it was somewhere within the 
 (to me) hallowed precincts of Covent Garden, and could not 
 boast of any personal friends among its members : but, on the 
 other hand, I imagined how it consisted of all the wits, and all 
 the literary and dramatic celebrities of the time, — "All the 
 talents " in fact — I was sure that Thackeray was a member 
 of it — how I used to envy anyone who had the inestimable 
 privilege of ' knowing Thackeray at home ! ' — and I fancied 
 that at night its smoking room sparkled with repartee and 
 witticisms ; that actors came in to sup and to tell droll stories 
 of * behind the scenes ' — that Albert Smith sat in a corner — 
 like an entertaining Jack Horner — eating some sort of pie 
 after his hard night's work at the Egyptian Hall, or whatever 
 he might have been doing then, — and that a few — a very 
 select few * men about town,' — such as Andrew Arcedeckne, 
 whom I only knew by sight at the Cider Cellars, Lord 
 Exmouth and Sir Henry Webb, with both of whom I was on 
 the mildest possible speaking terms, when I sat near them in 
 a stall next my father's at the opera, Covent Garden, — lounged 
 about in evening dress, addressing eminent men by their 
 Christian names, or by familiar abbreviations ; I imagined 
 how they drowned care, if they had any, these Olympians, in 
 the flowing bowl, how smoke from fragrant havannas 
 ascended — how everyone was jovial, convivial, chafiy, gay, 
 and brilliant, in the Old Garrick Club, and, when we drew 
 up our rules for the " A. D. C." I recommended a clause which 
 should make membership at the Garrick a qualification for 
 
October Term, i8^^, 67 
 
 membership at the "A. D. C," putting thereby the Garrick 
 on a par, in this respect, with the two Universities ; and rule 
 1 stood thus : — 
 
 I- 
 
 " That this Club consist of Members and Honorary Members , 
 the former to be Resident Members in the University y the 
 latter to have had their names on the boards of one of 
 the Colleges, or to have been elected ad eundem Members 
 of the University, or he Members of the University of 
 Oxford, or of the Garrick did) in London.'' 
 
 I take this from a copy of rules as at a latter date revised, 
 but our first rule was substantially the same, and, as a proof 
 of the estimation in which the Drama was held by us, it re- 
 mains on our ** A. D. C." rules that membership at the 
 Garrick is equivalent to an ad eundem degree. 
 
 The Garrick Club has never returned the compliment, and 
 has not yet considered membership at the " A. D. C." a 
 sufficient qualification for election as an honorary member. 
 
 The next entry is, 
 
 *' Mr, Watt Gibson {of Magdalene) was elected Pre- 
 sident.''' 
 
 *^ Mr, Donne was elected Treasurer and Secretary, Mr, 
 Kelly having resigned." 
 
 I fancy the cares of a prospective Little-Go were weighing 
 on Mr. Kelly's mind, but from the first he had disliked the 
 office of *' Secretary and Treasurer," — which official position 
 was destined to be the cause of considerable trouble to him 
 at a future time, whereof more anon, — though on the defalca- 
 tion of *' The Doctor" he had kindly accepted the post 
 trust. 
 
 " Mr. Baillie was elected Promjyter." 
 
 This 7uas a responsible position with a vengeance. It 
 was not easily filled, as those who cared to be on the stage at 
 all in any capacity, wished at least to be seen, if only occa- 
 
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68 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CP Camo. 
 
 sionally heard by the audience. Now a prompter's duty re- 
 quires* that he should be ne'cer seen by the audience, and 
 heard onlij by the actors ; moreover, that he should attend all 
 the rehearsals, make notes of all the changes and alterations in 
 the stage directions, write out all the "calls," regulate the 
 lights, ring up, ring down, give the cues to the carpenters 
 and the orchestra, and, in the stage-manager's absence, pre- 
 serve order behind the scenes. 
 
 Mr. Baillie, by accepting this post, to which he was unani- 
 mously elected— any one was sure of being unanimously 
 elected to be prompter, as everyone dreaded being nominated 
 for it — evinced his strong penchant for theatricals, and his 
 deep interest in the welfare of a club, which henceforth 
 would demand of him a considerable amount of self-denial 
 in regard to the time he had hitherto allotted to such ab- 
 sorbing field sports as racing at Newmarket, hunting, and 
 the drag. 
 
 He was a capital prompter, and generally came to rehearsal 
 dressed in cords and tops, and with a formidable hunting crop 
 in his hand, which being waved energetically during his stage 
 directions, gave him the air of a refined slave driver. 
 
 He was very hardly used. All our prompters were. When- 
 ever he renounced the drag to attend rehearsal, only two or 
 three of the performers came ; and then, after trying to do 
 something useful, they would all leave together — protesting. 
 ' Protesting ' — is not the word. 
 
 Not being a * hunting man,' and never having been rash 
 enough to attempt the drag, — though I witnessed it, once, in a 
 boldly critical spirit, from the road — and not being a regular 
 attendant at "Newmarket" — nor racket-player — nor a 
 frequenter of the fives courts — nor given to billiards — nor 
 much on the river — I was always ready for rehearsal at any 
 time. My riding exercise I fitted in to my times for re- 
 hearsal. 
 
 Well, Mr. Baillie was elected prompter, in which capacity 
 he contrived to distinguish himself considerably. 
 
October Term, 1855. 69 
 
 At the same meeting 
 
 "• The inosiKcis of the Club were discussed, and found to 
 he in a flourishing condition,'^ 
 
 *' yi rehearsal was fixed for the 2Sth to try neiv memhersfor 
 the next j^erformance." 
 
 There is a sporting, training sort of air about this resolution 
 that seems to betoken our new prompter's influence on the board 
 of direction. The prompter was always a committee-man. 
 
 The Committee consisted of the President, who had the 
 privilege of giving the committee a dinner on the day of 
 meeting, the Acting Manager, the Stage Manager, the Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer, the Promj^ter. 
 
 The next performances, recorded as ^^ very successful,^ ^ took 
 place on Dec. 5th, 6th, and 8th, when the programme was 
 
 A« x>- c. 
 
 THIS EVENING WILL BE niESEXTED 
 
 A FARCE IN REALITY; 
 
 Or, the manager IN DISTRESS. 
 
 Manager {by himself) .... Mr. Yates. 
 
 m"- ^'% f \ (/^-^'^^^^^ 0/^^'^ Manager) \ f'' f ?^^'«- 
 
 Mr. Bustleton P*' "^ \ Mr. A. Jones. 
 
 Prompter {by lumself) .... Mr. G. Lindsay. 
 
 It wasn't long before the new prompter appeared in public. 
 I remember this piece well. We wanted to fill up the bill 
 without repeating one of our former pieces. We got hold of 
 the farce of The Manager in Distress, in which actors appear 
 among the audience, and founded this piece on it. 
 
 *' Mr. Yates " (Polwhele) appeared as himself, and " Mr. 
 Davis " (E. Kelly), and " Mr. A. Jones" (myself) arrived as 
 his friends to take dessert with him in his managerial room, 
 and to help him out of the difficulties, which were announced 
 by the prompter as having arisen from the non-appearance 
 of the principal performers. We dispensed with any actors 
 
70 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb, 
 
 among the audience, merely giving him a taste of our quality 
 as to what we each could do to assist him ; my part I recollect 
 heing to clear the dessert table of all the fruit as rapidly 
 as possible (though I don't quite see how this would have 
 helped any Theatrical performance), while my friend Mr. Easy 
 went in for the wine and biscuits. The prompter re-appeared 
 just at the moment when we had reduced the manager to 
 distraction, and had made him feel very sore in consequence 
 of having pointed all our remarks by the very practical ' busi- 
 ness ' of digging him in the ribs, and slapping him on the 
 back. In fact his part — unwritten but perfectly natural — 
 was limited towards the latter portion of the performance to 
 saying "Oh don't," and "Come! I say," then coughing 
 violently, and subsequently begging for mercy. This was very 
 much to the taste of the audience, up to a certain point, when 
 they began to grow a little tired of the repetition of this 
 pantomimic exhibition, and Mr. G. Lindsay entered to 
 announce the arrival of the principals, when the manager 
 thanked us^ apologised to the much enduring audience, and 
 the curtain descended, to rise again on — 
 
 BI.NKS THE BAGMAN. 
 
 Binks (a coimnercial traveller) . . . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Kit Crimmins {landlord of the '^ Bcnhow 
 
 Inn") . . . . . • . . Mr. K. Johnson. 
 
 Jack Eobinson Mr. S. Vane. 
 
 Boots Mr. E. Courtney. 
 
 Mrs. Crimmins Mr. G. Foster. 
 
 Mrs. Eobinson ]y[r. R. Neete. 
 
 Mary Moggs {housemaid to the '^Benbow") . Mr. S. Edwards. 
 
 The Bear {Jack RoUnson's) . . . Mr. G. Rece. 
 
 TO conclude with the eomance of keal life, entitled 
 BOX AND cox. 
 
 Box {a journeyman 2irinter) . , . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 (^o^ {a journeyman hatter) .... Mr. R. Johnson. 
 Mrs. Bouncer (a laiullady) . . .Mr. F. Millsom. 
 
 76 Manager—Mr. N. TATES. Acting Maiuige) — Mr. TOM PIERCE. 
 Prompter— Mr. LINDSAY. 
 Scenery and Appoinimenta hy Messrs. JONES and CLABKSON. 
 
October Term^ 1^55- 71 
 
 In this bill, several new names occur. ' Mr. S. Vane " was 
 E. Salter of Trinity Hall. Gerald FitzGerald changed his 
 name again and took " E. Courtney. " Mr. K. Neete " was 
 Dalton, "Mr. Edwards" E. Smith, of John's, and *'G. 
 Rece " (grease), who played the bear in the farce, was A. Has- 
 sall. In the last piece Salter appeared as " Mr. F. 
 Millsom." 
 
 The absence from the bill of Charles Donne, "Mr. C.Digby,'* 
 and F. C. Wilson, is one of the most noticeable features. 
 The former, *'Mr. Algernon," had only recently made his 
 first appearance, and was already " a star ; " while the other 
 was recognized as the " Leading Lady," without whose assist- 
 ance it had been considered impossible to have a performance 
 which should prove sufficiently attractive. 
 
 " Mr. C. Digby " was already beginning to read for his 
 degree of January '57, while " Mr. Algernon " was actually 
 on the eve of his degree of January '^^^ so both gentlemen 
 retired into private life, and, deprived of their valuable 
 assistance, we determined to rely on the piece of nonsense 
 already described, a slight farce, and the ever popular Box 
 and Cox — not Fellows of Trinity. 
 
 Without Mr. C. Digby we dared not venture on a burlesque, 
 and without Mr. Algernon we had no one on whom we could 
 rely to support even a vaudeville of any serious interest. 
 
 But our remaining difficulty was our ladies ! 
 
 With the demand came the supply, and " Mr. Neete " — 
 the name was chosen to indicate his nattiness and petite-ness 
 — came to the rescue and appeared as " Mrs. Crimmins," — 
 which was exactly the sort of part that would not have suited 
 Mr. C. Digby, and indeed one which no one would have 
 thought of offering him. 
 
 I call to mind how Dalton, in the smart landlady's dress, 
 took us all utterly by surprise ; so much so indeed, that 
 coming up the stairs of the " A. D. C." to the green room — 
 which served us as dressing room as well — our ascetic prompter 
 mistook him for a chambermaid from the hotel, and indig- 
 
72 Pe7'sonal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb. 
 
 nantly complained of sucli a vara avis having been permitted 
 to appear within our jealously guarded, because still jealously 
 watched, precincts. 
 
 I have said that our green room served us also for a common 
 dressing room, and indeed for a property room, at first ; and 
 its appearance during our performances, when the performers 
 were in full swing of painting, dressing, undressing, washing, 
 going over their words, and hunting for properties, was not 
 unlike Hogarth's ' Strolling Players ' in a barn — only, of 
 course, a gentlemanly and very much Bowdlerised version 
 of that celebrated work. 
 
 This extra performance was for the benefit of the Club 
 funds, and it was expected to pay on the strength of the 
 reputation of the previous performances. No Jones was 
 invited to paint, no Nathan was employed, only Clarkson the 
 perruquier, who brought everything with him, including such 
 costumes as were wanted for the farce, and we were saved the 
 expense of band rehearsals, as we had no burlesque. 
 
 The performances w^ould have passed without a hitch, but 
 for the bear, who would not come to rehearsals, and who, at 
 the last moment, was inclined to be recalcitrant. But it being 
 pointed out to him, that, though this was only his second 
 appearance on the stage (he had been a servant in Villikins) 
 yet the opportunities for distinguishing himself were so 
 numerous and so easily available to a man of his talent and 
 capabilities, that as an ambitious and rising young actor, 
 he would grievously injure his own prospects, if he did not 
 avail himself of the goods with which the Gods had provided 
 him in such a brilliant opening. 
 
 " But," he objected, "what can I do in a bear's skin ? " 
 
 " Everything," was the impulsive answer. 
 
 It was shown him how he could see — and breathe too ! — 
 through a hole under the head, and how his master. Jack 
 Kobinson, played by a capital actor, "Mr. S. Vane" (R. 
 Salter), was most anxious that ho should share the honours of 
 the evening with him ; and he was also earnestly assured that 
 
October Term, i8s5* 7Z 
 
 whatever he, in the character of the bear, wo aid like to do, 
 he would find himself ably seconded — it was put in this 
 flattering way — by Mr. S. Yane as Jack Robinson. " G. 
 Rece " consented, a trusty member of the Corps was told off 
 to bring him to the " A. D. C." on the night of performance, 
 and when he presented himself, still faintly remonstrating 
 and wishing to cry off, if he could have done so with honour, 
 even at the very last moment, we got him into his bear's skin 
 and fastened him up so tightly, that he cei-tainly couldn't 
 get out of it without assistance. 
 
 He waited at the wing for Jack Robinson, who soon 
 ajopeared dressed as a sailor. 
 
 Now Mr. S. Vane was a conscientious actor, and, in thinking 
 out the part of Jack Robinson, he had calculated thoroughly 
 on the Dancing Bear. 
 
 *' Of course," he had argued, "no sailor would go about 
 with a bear, unless he had either a good stout stick or a whip 
 to larrup him with." 
 
 He considered the stick as most appropriate to a sailor 
 ashore, and with this * hand-property ' he had taken good care 
 to provide himself. But, alas, for the unhappy bear ! the 
 stick was not a property sawdust-stuffed staff, such as is used 
 on the stage by pantomimists, but it was a good, stout, sub- 
 stantial, undeniable cudgel. It was realism with a ven- 
 geance. 
 
 Mr. S. Yane before coming up to the University, had, like 
 the celebrated T. P. Cooke, really been in the navy, at least, 
 so it was said. He had a bluff, honest, hearty, rolling sort of 
 way with him, and was a first-rate fellow on and off the stage 
 — as even the unhappy G. Rece would have willingly owned, 
 — up till this minute. 
 
 The farce went on : so did the sailor, and with him the 
 bear led by a chain. No chance of escape. At first the bear 
 tried to be funny — and he was funny — he stood up and 
 danced. Alas ! his fun was but short-lived, for at the first 
 sign of any repetition of such a burst of humour, down came 
 
74 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 Jack Eobinson's thick cudgel on the bear's head and shoul- 
 ders, who, thereupon, swore audibly. It was not a growl, it 
 was an oath accompanied by a remonstrance which went 
 entirely unheeded by the jolly tar, who, seeing the audience 
 highly amused at his use of the stick, thought he couldn't 
 give them, or the bear, too much of a good thing. He was 
 right as to the audience, he was wrong as to the bear's view 
 of the matter. 
 
 **I quite forgot," said the representative of * Jack ashore,* 
 earnestly explaining the matter, afterwards, to somebody, 
 "I quite forgot it might hurt; and I really didn't think he 
 could feel it through that bear-skin." 
 
 In vain the bear attempted to ward off the blows with 
 much the same action of the paws as the bear in the illus- 
 trated fable-book attempts to get rid of the bees. He kept 
 up the character as long as he could. He even pretended to 
 have been taught some sort of dance by Jack Eobinson, which 
 necessitated his putting up his fore-paws in order to guard 
 his head, and taking advantage of the attitude, he was just 
 about to whisper behind his hand a real * aside ' requesting 
 Jack Eobinson to have a little more consideration for his 
 feelings, when the sailor, being in the full swing of his part, 
 and thinking that the bear was playing up to him in first-rate 
 style, angrily exclaimed, "Ah! would you?" and down 
 came a crack from the cudgel, and out came another and a 
 louder oath from the bear. 
 
 At last the bear could stand it no longer — he made a rush 
 at his tormentor, and there was a man and bear fight for the 
 space of about half a minute, during which the audience 
 shouted and applauded vigorously. But the unfortunate bear 
 was heavily handicapped in his dress, and without it he would 
 not have been a match for his antagonist, who, entering into 
 the spirit of the scene, pretended to defend his life from the 
 bear's deadly attack, and inserting his hand in the bear's 
 leather collar, half strangled poor ' G-. Rece,' while at the same 
 time he caught him such cracks over the head, as but for the 
 
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October Term, iS^S* 75 
 
 padding, would most certainly have incapacitated the repre- 
 sentative of the bear from ever appearing on any stage again 
 — at least for a very long time. 
 
 There was nothing for the unhappy bear but entire sub- 
 mission; so, sinking down, he lay as if completely van- 
 quished, panting on the ground, while S. Vane gave him one 
 or two playful taps on the skull, just to finish with, then 
 struck an attitude like a victorious lion tamer, and having dis- 
 missed the bear with a parting kick, he resumed the business 
 of the scene. There was immense applause. ' S. Vane ' bowed 
 his acknowledgments, but the bear had availed himself of this 
 respite to sneak quietly out by the door in the scene — and 
 nothing could induce him to return. In fact, I think from 
 that moment he retired from the Club and never paid any 
 further subscription. His name does not occur again in the 
 bills. He had had enough of it. His histrionic ambition had 
 received a violent blow — several very violent blows — he had 
 paid his halfpence, he had received all the kicks, and if he 
 felt himself aggrieved, I must say I think he was more than 
 justified. 
 
 Those who witnessed the scene, will never forget it, and 
 many among the audience who afterwards became members, 
 have since narrated the story to me from their point of view, 
 and told me how admirably they thought the unhappy bear 
 was acting his part ! 
 
 We had a great many unrehearsed comic scenes in the 
 olden time of the *' A. D. C," and this was one of them. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 END OF OCTOBER TERM '55 — LENT TERM '5Q. 
 
 After this performance, and before we separated for the 
 Christmas vacation, we held a meeting on Dec. 12th, 1855, 
 when we decided to 
 
 ** Furnish rooms and make them more comfortable.'* 
 
 The estimate for this was £40. 
 
 We were getting on. 
 
 This expenditure was advocated by the cautious stage 
 manager, T. K. Polwhele, and by our secretary, C. E. Donne. 
 
 Then these two energetic gentlemen, rising to the occasion, 
 and evidently exhilarated by their success, proposed '' llie 
 alteration of the passage.^' 
 
 The expense for this was to be d610, part of which was guar- 
 anteed by Mr. Ekin our landlord. 
 
 This also was carried unanimously. 
 
 Somebody ' an Honourable Member ' whose name has not 
 been handed down to posterity in our records, proposed that 
 there should be 
 
 *' No smoking in the dining room,'* 
 
 Which was carried unanimously. 
 
 But what was our dining room ? 
 
 It was the auditorium, when, instead of benches, and a red- 
 baize partition, and reserved seats, it was occupied by a couple 
 of property tables, and some kitchen chairs. 
 
 The "dinner" was an occasional "chop and potatoes," 
 
Lent Term, 1856. "JJ 
 
 cooked over at the Hoop, and sent across the yard hy the 
 Boots, for whose services and those of his wife — " Mrs. Boots " 
 — as charwoman, we allowed so much a term. But even these 
 property tables had only been introduced since the friendly 
 Proctor's visit, and I am glad they were not there on that 
 occasion. 
 
 Then the two practical members abovementioned moved and 
 seconded another resolution. 
 
 1st. That Costume dresses he paid hy the Club. 
 
 2ndly. That Farce dresses be provided and paid for by the 
 actors themselves. 
 
 8rdly. That half the exj^ense of female dresses should be 
 
 borne by the Club. 
 Carried unanimously. 
 
 When we did " agree on the stage about anything, our 
 unanimity was wonderful ! " 
 
 Then the stage manager requested that ''he might have an 
 assistant icho should take charcjc of the property department.'' 
 
 Our " Property room " was a mere cupboard somewhere off 
 the passage, and I think Mr. Ekin gave us an unused, loose 
 box in the brewery stable. 
 
 The stage manager's request was granted, and 
 
 " Mr, Ermcin ivas elected Assistant Stage Manager.'* 
 
 Then it was settled that "All complaints be made to the 
 Secretary, and in his absence, to any member of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 The Committee were then re-elected. 
 
 Mr. R. Kelly (Trinity Hall) . President. 
 
 Mr. C. E. Donne (Trin.) . . Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Burnand (Trin.) . . . Acting Manager. 
 
 Mr. Polwhele (Jolm's) . . Stage Manager. 
 
 Mr. Baillie (Trin.) . . . Prompter. 
 
 Mr. Eniwin (Trin.) . . Assistant Stage Manager. 
 
jS Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Cainb. 
 
 At a subsequent private committee meeting (Dec. 17), Mr. 
 Cator . . . was elected as Hon. Mem. 
 
 At the general meeting on the 12th Dec, a bye-law was 
 passed to this effect : 
 
 " That the Committee he held at the Committee Members' 
 rooms in rotation, beginning tvith the President, And 
 that the Member in whose rooms the Meeting is held 
 shall give a dinner to the Committee only.'' 
 
 Up to this time the President, as I have already stated, 
 always gave the dinners, and invited outsiders. This was 
 found to be a check on business conversation and dinner dis- 
 cussion, and also the frequent meetings made the charge a 
 heavy one on the President. Hence the above rule. 
 
 Minute at same meeting ; ^'Agreed with Mr, Ekin to pay 
 i04O jper annum, with coals," This was our rent. As some 
 one has remarked in our records, " what with coals, and 
 other concessions we are EJdn'' out our existence." 
 
 " The sanction of the Members was given to the Committee 
 to incur a debt of £50 for furniture, and to alter the staircase 
 and smoking room," 
 
 The ' smoking room ' was the apartment with a skylight, 
 which served us for our green room and dressing room. 
 
 Our furniture, exclusive of * property ' chairs and tables, 
 at present consisted of Mockers' round the room, used as 
 settees. 
 
 The alterations proposed included a small lavatory. But 
 in those days the luxury of modern lavatories was compara- 
 tively unknown, and a basin under a tap, with a jack-towel on 
 a roller behind a door, sufficed for our wants. 
 
 Thus ended the second year of the " A. D. C.'s " exist- 
 ence." 
 
 It had been successful beyond all anticipation ; it had tided 
 
Lent Term^ 1856, 79 
 
 over a considerable pecuniary loss, and it had paid its way 
 fairly. 
 
 As far as the Dons knew anything about it, they were in- 
 different, or favourably inclined towards it. 
 
 We were on excellent terms with the Athen£eum Club, 
 which always mustered strongly at our performances — several 
 of its new members joining the " A. D. C." 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 LENT TERM 1856. 
 
 The next term, Lent, 1856, we commenced with a Com- 
 mittee Meeting in my rooms. 
 
 Conyngliam and myself were now located in Green Street, 
 and very pleasant quarters they were. We were not parti- 
 cular to a shade at midnight, if we only knew our guests 
 were safe men. 
 
 At this meeting I acted as secretary, in consequence of the 
 resignation of C. E. Donne, who had already taken his 
 degree. 
 
 About this time the Jones question arose again. He had 
 painted well, but he had charged too much. Then it was 
 asked why should we pay his travelling expenses as well as 
 three guineas a-day for his work ? And why should any 
 member have the highly-respected Jones's company forced 
 upon him at his own lodgings ? 
 
 It was clear that we were tired of Jones. We had heard 
 all his stories of Mathews and Yestris, we had never come 
 across anything he had ever done at a theatre — his name was 
 unknown to us as an artist. "Who was Jones?" 
 
 I had introduced him : I was answerable for him. I gave 
 up Jones as a companion, but stuck by him as an 
 artist. " Could any one, " I wanted to know," supply us with 
 abetter?" 
 
 There had been offers. A wheezy little man in the town, 
 a house decorator I think, of a theatrical turn, had proposed 
 to paint anything, for a quarter of what poor Jones would 
 
Lent Term, 1856, 81 
 
 have received. Of course if it did not turn out to be * any- 
 thing we liked,' we should have to take it all the same. 
 
 Our excellent stage manager split the difference. And an 
 arrangement was come to with Jones which was to be taken 
 as applying to this term only — (alas ! poor Jones ! it was the 
 beginning of the end !) — to the effect that 
 
 "7;i addition to his travelling exs he should receive tivo guds 
 l^cr diem " — a drop of one guinea per day for Jones, and not 
 to be made up in the time he took over it, we were too sharp 
 for that — ^^And he was to dine ivith each of the Committee in 
 rotation, and that he should lodge at 27, Green Street, at the 
 rate of twelve shillings per 2veek" 
 
 That settled Jones. 
 
 He arrived and worked harder than ever : but a gloom had 
 come over him. No one would listen to his stories. They 
 watched him at work, took him to dinner, and saw him at 
 lunch. But he was a broken man. Had poor Jones played 
 his cards better, he might have taken up his abode at the 
 University, and made a handsome income as a professor of 
 drawing and painting ; there was no one there who knew more 
 about it than he did, few so much. His mistake was that he 
 Yv'ould patronise the sharp-sighted young men. Then, he 
 never had any new stories, which was a fault, and he repeated 
 the old ones, which vras a crime. 
 
 To this day I am sorry for the worthy and estimable Jones. 
 He did some excellent work for the " A. D. C," which has, 
 by this time, been all painted out. 
 
 lieu prisca fides ! We did, for one term at least, believe 
 
 in Jones. 
 
 ****** 
 
 About this date we began to be strict. Feb. 5, 1856, 
 
 "2?. Kelly fined five shillings for being absent,^* 
 
 He was occasionally very absent. I hope he paid the fines. 
 
82 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.Cy Camb. 
 
 Then there was a general meeting on Feb. 7 at 6.30, which 
 meant, for Trinity men at least, immediately after Chapel. 
 We were very careful not to clash with collegiate regulations. 
 There was plenty of room in the University for both Colleges 
 and Clubs. The University Governing Body ' with power to add 
 to its number ' ought to have constituted us into a Dramatic 
 College. It is not too late now. Celibacy would have to be 
 a qualification for the majority of Fellowships. The master 
 could be a married man. Who should be the first to hold 
 the important office ? Say Mr. Henry Neville. It would look 
 well * in the bills,' Mr. H. Neville, Master of Koscius College, 
 Cambridge ; Senior Dean, J. L. Toole. But this is only by 
 the way. A nos moutons. 
 
 Then, Feb. 7, we elected as honorary members — 
 
 W. L. B. Cator . . Trin. Coll. (mentioned previously, 
 
 and election confirmed). 
 J. Wilkinson . . . St. Peter's. 
 A. Thompson . (late of) Trin. Coll. 
 
 Here for the first time, Mr. Alfred Thompson's name 
 appeared on our minutes. 
 
 As I have before said, some of us had often heard of him 
 from C. E. Donne, his old friend, and there being a part in 
 my new burlesque of St. George and the Dragon which we 
 found it difficult to fill, it was suggested by Charles Donne 
 that Mr. Alfred Thompson should be invited to join our 
 theatricals. 
 
 This led to his being elected unanimously, and welcomed 
 gladly as an honorary member. 
 
 His reputation, which had grown since he had first been 
 mentioned, began to frighten us all, and I was afraid lest I 
 should find some one who knew more about my own burlesque 
 than I did myself, and who would be for putting us all to rightsi 
 However, he accepted our invitation, — writing to Donne from 
 Canterbury, I think, where his depot was quartered — he was 
 in a cavaby regiment — and consented to take the role of 
 
Lent Term, 18^6. ^:^ 
 
 King Lollipop in my burlesque of St, George and the Dragon^ 
 which, I confess, I thought a great condescension on his 
 part. 
 
 I anticipated his arrival with considerable anxiety. It was 
 the first time a comparative stranger to all of us had played 
 at the "A. D. C." 
 
 I well remember our first meeting. 
 
 It was at a dress rehearsal in the evening, a few days 
 before the performance, a very few days — not more than two, 
 I fancy. 
 
 He was cast for a part in Sent to the Tower, which he was 
 to play with Reginald Kelly. 
 
 He soon showed us that he meant business, and that he 
 had his own original ideas of the character of King Lollipop. 
 It was a mad scene, and he came on imitating somebody as 
 King Lear. It was not at all what I had intended, but the 
 idea in execution was so much better, dramatically, than 
 mine, that I watched it closely, adopted his suggestions, 
 and only made one, which was that " the kneeling was in- 
 effective." 
 
 " I'll do it as you wish, you know," he said, kindly, and I 
 did not like to press the matter further. 
 
 Our new honorary member attracted a good deal of atten- 
 tion that evening, and we were looking forward to a first-rate 
 performance, when suddenly a message arrived post haste, 
 informing him that he must at once join his regiment, which 
 was ordered off to the Crimea. 
 
 He left us then and there, and I don't remember our meet- 
 ing again until he had finally given up soldiering, and was on 
 the high road to that position he now holds in the literary 
 and artistic world. 
 
 It is with great pleasure that I have to refer to Mr. Alfred 
 Thompson — as an honorary member of the Cambridge " A. D. 
 C," though his first and last appearance on our classic boards, 
 was at the above-mentioned dress rehearsal of St, George 
 and the Dragon, 
 
 . G 2 
 
84 ^ Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D,Cy Camb, 
 
 His departure, happening as it did on the very eve of our 
 performance, left us in a difficulty. Alfred Thompson was to 
 have played Perkyn Puddifoot in Maddison Morton's Sent to 
 the Tower — we had all an intense reverence for the name of 
 Maddison Morton, and also for that of the author, who, as 
 the late Mr. Charles Mathews said in one of his after-dinner 
 speeches, " cunningly contrived to have himself familiarly 
 christened * Tom ' " — I mean Mr. Tom Taylor — hut this by the 
 way — and the other parts, for which Mr. Alfred Thompson was 
 cast, were, King Lollipop in my St. George and the Dragon, 
 a burlesque, which I am sure was inspired by a picture in the 
 Illustrated Neivs of Paul Bedford, of the Adelphi, in the 
 dress of a dragon — and the part of Mr. Aubrey in the opening 
 piece, a little drama in two acts, adapted, I believe, from 
 some French piece by Charles Mathews, and called A Curious 
 Case, 
 
 Three parts to be filled ! It must be owned that having a 
 star, we had determined to take the shine out of him con- 
 siderably. A star ! He was a meteor — brilliant, flashing, 
 and away ! 
 
 There was no time for further rehearsal, so at once 
 assembling a council of war, we accepted Evelyn Ashley's 
 offer of playing Mr. Aubrey, while I undertook to be perfect 
 in Perkyn Puddifoot. Evidently we were both ' quick studios * 
 in those days. 
 
 How I got up my part, I remember perfectly — as though it 
 were only yesterday. 
 
 Eeginald Kelly was Launcelot Banks, and as the piece 
 is a sort of Box and Cox, the entire business, except two 
 or three scenes with the gaoler (played by Ernwin) was in 
 our hands. I studied hard all the morning, and between 
 three and four my confrere came to a light repast in my 
 room — we dined early, professionally — when, instead of 
 chattering over our meal our conversation was limited entirely 
 to Morton's dialogue, and at night we played it without refer- 
 ence to the prompter. 
 
Lent Term, 18^6, 85 
 
 Years afterwards I had to play it on the new boards of 
 the ''A. D. C," and trusted to my memory. Mr. Charles 
 Hall — our second Charles — who, as the Prince of Wales's 
 Attorney-General for the Duchy of Cornwall, wears a very 
 different wig from the one he used as "Launcelot Banks" 
 — played in it with me on this last occasion, when my 
 trust in my memory was as vain as Macbeth's in the 
 juggling spirits ; and if it be equally true, as on the first 
 occasion, that w^e played it without reference to the prompter, 
 it is only because, had ice stopped to listen to him, there 
 w^ould have been a fearful hiatus between the speeches, as 
 all we could do was to remember a few **cues" here and 
 there, guiding ourselves to the conclusion by a general idea 
 of the action of the piece, and entirely giving ourselves up to 
 the inspiration of the moment. We were both of us in 
 excellent spirits, and the audience did not detect the impo- 
 sition. The prompter, after vainly endeavouring to find the 
 place, closed his book in despair, regarding us vacantly 
 as a couple of hopeless lunatics, and wondering, not how 
 we should *go on,' but how on earth we should ever 
 *get off.' We got right — somehow. Poor Maddison 
 Morton ! had he been there ! I speak now as a dramatic 
 author, with an intense horror of * gag ! ' But more 
 of this anon — in its place. I record it here for future 
 reference. 
 
 On Wednesday, February 21st, 1856, after all our trouble, 
 we were *' all right at night," as the actors say, when they are 
 all wrong in the morning. 
 
 Evelyn Ashley played the part of Aubrey in A Curious 
 Case ; Tom Thornhill the part of King Lollipop in the 
 burlesque ; and for Perkyn Puddifoot, Alfred Thompson's 
 other vacancy, I have already accounted. Here is the pro- 
 gramme, which was an innovation, as to size and details, on 
 what we had hitherto adopted. 
 
jcBlw JUf* x^M 
 
 This EvENiNa will be Presented, the Comic Drama 
 
 ENTITLED 
 
 A CURIOUS 
 
 Mr. Aubrey 
 
 Charles Stanton 
 
 Twiggleton 
 
 Edward 
 
 Mrs. Aubrey . .... 
 
 CASE. 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 Mr. E. Courtney. 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Mr. R. Johnson. 
 Mr. C. DiGBY. 
 
 After which, 
 
 SENT TO THE TOWER ! 
 
 Perkyn Puddifoot 
 Launcelot Banks . 
 Gaoler 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Mr. II. Johnson. 
 Mr. J. Farnham. 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke, 
 
 Mr. E. Courtney, 
 
 Mr. R. Johnson. 
 Mr. A. Herbert. 
 
 Mr. C. DiGBY. 
 
 To Conclude with an Entirely New Historical, Comical, but still 
 
 slightly Mythical, Burlesque, in Three Acts, 
 
 by TOM PIERCE, Esq., entitled 
 
 ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON!! 
 
 King Lollipop {King of Sugar Candia, 
 from wJiom are descended the JRoyal 
 Line of Bonbons) .... 
 
 St. George (no relation to George St. , 
 Hanover Square —an undecided cha- 
 racter, hy Historian) 
 
 Toadee (a Courtier at the Court of 
 Sugar Candia, liolding a fine old 
 Government apjjointment) 
 
 Tuftee {a ditto, ditto) . . . . 
 
 Princess Zara {the Sugar Candian read- 
 ing of the English Sarah, sole re- 
 maining child of King Lollipop— a 
 Damsel Coy) .... 
 
 The Dragon {who is the Lion of the 
 place 0/ whom Ben Shakespeare 
 has written the onemorable descrip- 
 tion, "Monstrum informe ingens 
 cui, regular rum 'un to look at ;" 
 with whom the heir of the p)lo,ce 
 seems to^ agree — sime he has swal- 
 lowed him at the opening of the piece 
 — or, rather, at the opening of the 
 mouth-piece — and who has capti- 
 vated the Princess hy his charms) 
 
 Coiu-tiers and Attendants (who will, and indeed must, be seen 
 to be appreciated,) by Messrs. H. Walker, Gammon, E. 
 Hook, and Sell. 
 
 For Description of Scenery, Hefcrcnces, d:c.,see Books of Burlesque, 
 which can be had in the lioom, price One Sh'illing. 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. N. YATES, Acting Manager— Mr. TOM PIERCE. 
 
 Prompter— Mr. G. LINDSAY. Scenery by Mr. S. J. E. JONES. 
 
 Dresses and Appointments by Messrs. NATHAN and G. W. CLAEKSON 
 
 ofDrury Lane. 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
Lent Ter7ny 18^6, 87 
 
 The names wlien translated are as follows : — 
 
 Mr. Hiimplirey Duke * . . Mr. Tom Tliomliill. 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke*) Hon. Evelyn Ashley. 
 Mr. A. Herbert . ) 
 
 Mr. E. Courtney .... Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald. 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce . ... Mr. F. C. Bm-nand. 
 
 Mr. R. Johnson .... Mr. Reginald Kelly. 
 
 Mr. C. Digby Mr. F. C. Wilson. 
 
 Mr. J. Fambam .... Mr. J. Emwin. 
 
 Mr. N. Yates Mr. T. R. Polwhele. 
 
 Mr. G. Lindsay .... Mr. W. H. Baillie. 
 
 There is no record as to Messrs. H. Walker, Gammon, E. 
 Hook, and Sell, but there is a note to the effect that Mr. J. 
 Emwin *' made his first appearance on this occasion and was 
 very successful." 
 
 St, George " went very well. Three songs, consecutively 
 encored. The performance lasted three nights and the pro- 
 ceeds were ^49 15s.," which at all events, after deducting 
 expenses, would have paid half our yearly rent. 
 
 In the cast of St, George appears the name of Mr. K. 
 Johnson, i.e., Mr. Reginald Kelly. It was his second and last 
 appearance in burlesque, a class of entertainment against 
 which he had all along decidedly set his face. As I have 
 before remarked, Reginald Kelly was one of our best and 
 most original actors, but he had generally excused himself 
 from playing in burlesque on the ground of his not having 
 * a singing face,' of his not appreciating puns and doggerel, 
 and finally of his not being a dancer. 
 
 In vain it had been pointed out to him that " Clarke of the 
 Haymarket " had played in extravaganzas, that Harley, 
 Compton and Keeley had all appeared in burlesque and 
 extravaganza, but he still maintained that in doing so they 
 
 * The name assumed by lilr. Alfred Tborjpsou, whose parts these two 
 gentlemen took. 
 
88 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.C,'^ Camb. 
 
 Lad gone out of their legitimate line. Kelly, could he have 
 had his own way, would have exercised us in standard 
 comedies, and a few modern (now old-fashioned) farces. But, 
 thank goodness ! for the future of the " A. D. C," we, its 
 originators, as a body, had no such daring ambition. Had we 
 attempted The Rivals, or The School for Scandal, or Every 
 Man in his Humour, or The Heir-at-Law — and Kelly would 
 have been an admirable Dr. Pangloss — I doubt whether the 
 Club would have lasted a term. Such things were too high 
 for us, a very great deal too high — and in fact, fortunately out 
 of our reach and out of our sight. 
 
 But in St. George I had modelled two characters on Noodle 
 and Doodle in Fielding's Tom Thumb — their names Tuftee 
 and Toadee — they were two courtiers — being evidently adapta- 
 tions from Thackeray's creations. 
 
 Toadee is described in the bill as " A courtier at the 
 Court of Sugar Candia, holding a fine old- government ap- 
 pointment," and my beau-ideal of the character would 
 have been Compton, and failing him, * our Mr. Kelly,' 
 who, at my earnest solicitation, kindly undertook the part, 
 on condition of dancing and singing not being expected of 
 him. 
 
 The doggerel lines he had to speak were full of wretched 
 puns, and Kelly gave them out at rehearsal, stolidly, in his 
 Comptonian style, without a smile. I was in raptures. He 
 would play it splendidly. As the rehearsals proceeded it 
 was noticed that the more familiar Toadee became with his 
 part, the less glibly he delivered it. He seemed to be 
 lost in meditation before each line, which he would then 
 repeat deliberately, with a puzzled expression of countenance, 
 and a side inquiring glance at me, as much as to say, 
 " Look here, you're the author, what do you mean by this ? " 
 but he never stopped to make any observation, until, at the 
 fourth rehearsal, when he was slowly going over his first 
 long speech — a miserable set of lines at the best, though 
 I say it who shouldji't — now — though then I thought 
 
Lent Term, 1856, 89 
 
 them uncommonly fine, and in answer to Tuftee was 
 saying— 
 
 " The son and heir of our great king, he went 
 To take the siin and air " 
 
 When he suddenly broke off, gave a short but emphatic 
 *'ha ! ha ! " repeated the ** ha ! ha ! " and seemed so utterly 
 unable to proceed with the rehearsal, that I asked anxiously 
 if anything was the matter with him ? 
 
 *'No," he replied, still laughing jerkily. '' Only I didn't 
 see it before." 
 
 ''What?" I asked. 
 
 "What?" he returned, staring at me. "Why, sun and 
 air — son and heir. You mean it for a pun — don't you? 
 Ha ! ha ! " 
 
 I admitted that my intention had certainly been to perpe- 
 trate ^JGii de mots, which I owned did not seem to me abso- 
 lutely novel. 
 
 " Well," he replied, " it mayn't be here— ha ! ha !— but / 
 never saw it before. Ha ! ha ! Son and heir — ha ! ha ! — very 
 good. Why, I've said it over a hundred times without seeing 
 it. But," he finished, by way of consoling me, *^I see it now 
 — and I shan't laugh at it again,'' 
 
 Gradually, by fits and starts, all the puns in his own part 
 broke on him. And each time he exploded in short laughs, 
 like a cracker. When they came very close together — when, 
 as modern critics on burlesque say, "the lines bristled with 
 puns " — then he stopped short, repeated the lines slowly, 
 examined them carefully, as though he were a schoolboy pick- 
 ing plums out of a cake, and not until he was quite certain of 
 having mastered them all, did he proceed with his speech. 
 
 " His heart within liis breast, 
 Began to quaver while he took his rest." 
 
 Here he paused, looked dubiously at me, then exclaimed — 
 "Oh, I see it — 'quaver' — 'rest' — terms in music — ha! 
 
90 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.C!' Carnb. 
 
 ha!" — explaining the joke, as though he were a punster's 
 dictionary. Then he went on — 
 
 «' 
 
 Twas but an idle crotchet of the brain." 
 
 (To himself) " Crotchet— ha ! ha ! — there's another" (to me) 
 " I see it— 
 
 " So trebled his pace to find his liome again." 
 
 (To himself) " ' Trebled'— yes— that's another— ha ! ha !— " 
 And at last, when he reached the description of the Prince's 
 meeting with the Dragon, who — 
 
 " Looked at his scales, and thought 'twas affaire finny" 
 
 he paused— thought it out, slapped his leg, and came out 
 with a tremendous guffaw. 
 
 " I knew that was a pun," he cried, triumphantly. " I 
 told What's-his-name so, when he heard me my part this 
 morning. I told him you meant it for a pun — but he didn't 
 see it." 
 
 Not until the night of performance did the full light of 
 the puns in the other parts break on him, and, whether he 
 were on the stage, or listening at the wing, the most appre- 
 ciative audience for every point in the piece was Eeginald 
 Kelly, who, whenever any of the other characters came out 
 with a punning line, gave his very audible laugh *' Ha ! ha ! " 
 adding, sotto voce, ** Hang it! there's another!" — and at the 
 first representation he undoubtedly led the laugh, for the 
 undergraduate audience, quick to catch at such a peculiarity, 
 took this as an original point in his part, and whenever he 
 unconsciously directed their attention to a pun, which he had 
 only just that minute discovered, and which had surprised 
 him out of his ejaculation of " Oh, hang it ! there's another !" 
 they shouted and roared again, and applauded vociferously. 
 
 Certainly the success of St. George and the Dragon was 
 largely due, on the first night, to Mr. Eeginald Kelly as 
 Toadee, and on the other niirhts to Messrs. F. C. Wilson and 
 
Lent Term, 18^6, 91 
 
 Gerald Fitzgerald, as the unhappy princess Zara and her 
 lover St. George. For myself, I know that while my dress 
 for the Dragon was founded, as I have said, on a picture of 
 Mr. Paul Bedford in a similar character, my embodiment of 
 the part was a copy of Keeley as the Djin in the Enchanted 
 Horse, an extravaganza in two acts, at, I think, the Hay- 
 market, when Miss P. Horton played a Prince, and Mrs. 
 Keeley a Peri, and I fancy that Alfred Wigan was also in the 
 piece, but if not in that, ho was in another — Aladdin — at the 
 same house, when Mrs. Keeley played Aladdin, and her hus- 
 band Ahanazar the magician. How funny it was ! ! 
 
CHAPTEE VIL 
 
 PASSING NOTES— SUMMARY OF FIRST YEAR, 1855 — 1856. 
 
 The performances in the Lent Term, 1856, had brought us 
 to the end of the first year of the "A. D. C.'s" existence, 
 and at the close of the May term — the first season of 
 our A. D. C. year — we were aware of having some really 
 serious changes. 
 
 Mr. Polwhele having taken his degree at the beginning of 
 the year, had only been stopping up out of real liking for the 
 "A. D. C." work, and in order to hand it over in the best 
 possible state to his successor, whoever he might be. 
 
 Without Mr. Polwhele' s careful management, the Club 
 could never have made such progress as it did in its one year 
 of life. He was an ingenious cai-penter, and was never so 
 happy as when looking after the mechanical appliances of the 
 "A. D. C." and making the best of them, such as they were. 
 F. C. Wilson was reading, so also was Reginald Kelly. Wo 
 might perhaps get their services once in the course of the 
 forthcoming year, but we knew it would not be fair to press 
 them, 
 
 Charles E. Donne and Gerald Fitzgerald were away. 
 The past degree time, i. e,, January, 1856, had taken 
 away several of our *' first members," active and inactive; 
 the future degree time of 1857 was keeping others well 
 occupied, and I was beginning to feel University age 
 creeping upon me as a second-year man who had braved the 
 Little-Go. 
 
 As for our financial position, we paid our way and our rent. 
 
Passing Notes and Summary. 93 
 
 We were still in debt to our carpenter for his work in 1855, 
 and had only paid him from time to time on account, while, I 
 imagine, he was being called in to do all sorts of odd jobs 
 about the place. 
 
 The subscriptions came in regularly, and our number was 
 always up to the limit, with the names of candidates on the 
 election board every term. 
 
 No club, with such expenses, could have done better ; and 
 there was an esprit de corps which united in a common cause, 
 as it were, a number of young men of very different tastes, 
 and in very different sets. 
 
 Our performances were invariably the occasion of the most 
 jovial supper parties — not the least among the inducements to 
 become an " acting member " — held at each other's rooms, 
 when conscientious landlords and landladies, who had to make 
 *' the returns" of the hours kept by their lodgers, would allow 
 their clocks and watches to get very much behind the time, 
 when college porters would be less exact in noting down the 
 precise moment of the undergraduates' rentree, and when less 
 scrupulous landlords took no notice whatever of the hours, 
 except to ask their lodgers where they had been, who had seen 
 them, and to trust to their honour for the truth. 
 
 A lodging-house keeper making a false return, or omitting 
 his return, would be "discommoned" by the University, 
 after, or without a warning ; and of course, as the lodging- 
 house keeper was also a tradesman, this meant the loss of 
 University custom, and something uncommonly near ruin — 
 at all events a great loss for a time. 
 
 But the "A. D. C." performances came to be gradually 
 accepted as a valid excuse for late hours — just once and away, 
 — that is during our three days' entertainment. Was it 
 not evident that actors required refreshment after a per- 
 formance lasting from eight till past eleven ? Was it not 
 equally clear that the audience also stood in need of some 
 refreshment ? Naturally. This was no " drinking for drink- 
 ing" but "drinking for dry;" and after all, none of our 
 
94 Personal Remimscences of the ^'A,D.C" Camb, 
 
 '* A. D. C." men had ever come across the police after mid- 
 night, nor had hroken off hell-handles, and made night 
 hideous with their shrieks, as was the custom of the mem- 
 bers of certain old-established, hard-drinking, port-wine Uni- 
 versity societies. 
 
 No ; as a club, we were a quiet, orderly set — I mean we 
 must have had that reputation to have gradually won the 
 hearts of the Dons, who, after a while, granted leave and 
 license to acting members of the ** A. D. C." to stay out till 
 one a.m. on the performance nights. 
 
 I say " after a while " — as I don't think it was a rule in my 
 time. Not that it mattered to me personally. I bore a 
 charmed life, as did the other men (only two) who *' kept " in 
 my house. 
 
 I have said that " as a cliih " we were quiet and orderly ; 
 but sectionally, so to put it, we were occasionally a trifle 
 frolicsome. 
 
 But of all the pleasant cheery evenings I ever remember to 
 have spent — noisy, I admit — sustained chiefly by the animal 
 spirits of youth, I allow — commend me to some of those 
 after-performance " A. D. C." suppers we used to have down 
 in Malcolm Street, especially when there was a goodly 
 number of our members congregated together, and when, at 
 a particular house, the fun was invariably at its fastest, at 
 its most furious, and at its latest. One of our Irish members 
 was famed for his hospitality, and the flowing bowl — was it a 
 bowl of bishop ? — never stood still in his room — not even 
 when it was empty — for then it was moved to be refilled. 
 
 Pleasant convivial evenings they were, when all the mis- 
 takes of the performance were good-humouredly reviewed, and 
 amusingly recounted; when " chaff" flew about, and rough- 
 and-ready repartee, more forcible than brilliant, knock-down 
 blows from a cudgel, rather than sharp, pointed thrusts from 
 flashing rapiers, were exchanged amid shouts of uproarious 
 merriment. 
 
 I recollect nothing like those supper-parties, except the late 
 
Passing Notes and Summary, 95 
 
 Charles Lever s descriptions of similar festivities in the old 
 days of Charles O'Malley at Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 One of the strongest bonds of union among Freemasons is 
 the banquet, when the brethren " proceed from labour to re- 
 freshment " ; and though of less importance among the mem- 
 bers of the " A. D. C." than among the " Sons of the Widow," 
 yet our performances would have lost much of their zest, if, 
 after strutting our brief hour on the stage, we had then been 
 heard no more, and had sneaked off supperless to bed. 
 
 Old I^University men were our guests on these occasions, 
 and were welcome to any ** A. D. C." member's rooms where 
 there happened to be an " After the Opera was over " supper. 
 Every old member of the Club — and our Retired List had 
 already commenced in 1856 — was free of the Club, and a 
 guest at any of the feasts without. invitation, though, as a 
 matter of courtesy, the invitation was usually given. The 
 " Entertainers," however, generally accompanied their written 
 or verbal invitations with the expressed wish that you would 
 " bring anyone you like " — which of course was only applicable 
 to non-resident members of the University, or " strangers " 
 on a visit. 
 
 Never were members of one society more thoroughly in 
 earnest than were the first members of the " A. D. C." So 
 entirely penetrated with the esi^rxt de corps were we, that we 
 were willing to take any parts for which we might happen to 
 be cast ; while as for our beardless youths who played the 
 women, so heartily did they " enter into the skin " — as the 
 French say — of the feminine character, that I remember, 
 on one occasion, when we played Still Waters run Deep, the 
 representative of Mrs. Mildmay, thinking his *' get up" insuffi- 
 cient, secreted the diamonds that Mrs. Sternhold ought to 
 have worn. The latter was in the greatest distress. The 
 costumier couldn't malre out where they had been mislaid. 
 Of course Mrs. Mildmay knew nothing about them, or, at 
 least, baffled enquiry by returning, not the jewels, but the 
 reply, *'What should I know about Mrs. Sternhold's dia- 
 
g6 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A,D.Cy Camb, 
 
 monds ? " And imagine the latter's feelings when the first 
 thing that caught her eye in John Mildmay's drawing-room, 
 scene last, act 3rd, on the occasion of the dinner-party, was 
 her lost par lire round meek Mrs. Mildmay's neck ! 
 
 The piece was, however, just drawing to a close, and the 
 business of the scene did not permit of any irrelevant 
 remarks. 
 
 Before the tag, indeed, all was forgotten and forgiven, and 
 the amiable young Collegians, who played the two parts of 
 Mrs. Sternhold and Mrs. Mildmay, sunk their jealousies for 
 the public good, contributed largely to the success of the 
 drama, " forgave " each other, — but never " forgot," — for the 
 incident was too absurd, and is well worth recording. 
 
 In the early days of the "A. D. C." one of the patrons 
 among the Dons was the Rev. Dr. Donaldson, who was just 
 then very popular among undergraduates, on account of his 
 decidedly anti- donnish and liberal views. He highly approved 
 of the "A. D. C," and asked me to show him over the 
 rooms. He stood on our little stage and gave us (Charles 
 E. Donne and myself) some account of his theatrical re- 
 miniscences. 
 
 Apropos of Dr. Donaldson, and not at all of the *' A. D. C." 
 — except that some members, who shall be nameless, as I am 
 not yet at liberty to divulge the secret, were mixed up in the 
 hoax — I remember how, one Sunday morning, the walls in 
 and about the University were placarded to the effect that 
 *' the Rev, Mr. Clayton " — a well-known clergyman in the 
 town, — *' would hum Dr. Donaldson's heretical Book of 
 
 Jasher in front of Trinity College at " then the hour in 
 
 the evening was specified. The bills were headed — 
 
 " Heresy ! Heresy ! ! Heresy ! ! ! " 
 
 which looked uncommonly attractive — especially on Sunday 
 morning, when there was nothing doing except church. 
 During the day, in spite of the police having torn down 
 
Passing Notes and Summary, 97 
 
 most of the posters, the news spread far and wide, and by the 
 time for evening chapel at Trinity, the whole of Trinity 
 Street was in an uproar. 
 
 Mr. Clayton, coming out of Caius to go to his church, was 
 followed by a mob of roughs and undergraduates — they were 
 very much mixed on such occasions, until a strong line of 
 demarcation was drawTi by a positive Town and Gown row — 
 hooting, shouting, and calling upon him to burn the heretical 
 publication. 
 
 The air resounded with cries of "Jasher! Jasher ! Clay- 
 ton ! Heresy ! " raised, of course, by those who knew very 
 little of either Dr. Donaldson or Mr. Clayton, and nothing at 
 all of the Book of Jasher. 
 
 The police were called out in full force ; Sergeant Robinson 
 — " Bill Robinson " — being at their head, who, if any muni- 
 cipal official could have quelled the riot, would have been the 
 man to do it, as he was immensely popular among under- 
 graduates. 
 
 The gates of Trinity College were closed against all comers, 
 and the porters were resolved to do, or die, in defending their 
 post, should the fortress be besieged. 
 
 But a new difficulty arose from the men within, who, 
 coming from chapel, wished to get out. Egress and ingress 
 were alike forbidden. 
 
 " Force the gates ! " was the cry from within and without, 
 and the emeute would have assumed a most serious aspect, 
 had not some quick-witted junior Don been inspired to sacri- 
 fice an old Euclid — supposed to represent the Book of Jasher 
 — to the fury of the mob, which was about as orthodox as that 
 in the Gordon riots, which shouted "No Property," as 
 synonymous with *' No Popery ! " 
 
 In answer to the vociferous cries of " Bum the Book ! '* 
 the junior Don above-mentioned issued forth from the por- 
 ter's lodge gate at the side, with the flaming Euclid in his 
 hand. 
 
 In a few moments the book was reduced to ashes, the crowd 
 
98 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camh, 
 
 cheered and broke up, the gates were opened, Bill Robinson 
 went about cheerily assuring everybody that there was nothing 
 more to be done or seen, and in another half-hour Town and 
 Gown were quiet. 
 
 *' Dr. Jasher," as we used to call him, was always a very 
 good friend to us of the "A. D. C," and besides attending 
 several performances, used invariably to plead our cause, when- 
 ever the necessity arose, in those University Common Rooms 
 from which his authorship of Jasher had not banished 
 him. 
 
 To resume. 
 
 Since the commencement of the Club in the May Term, 
 1855, we had had about, as far as I can make out, four per- 
 formances ; and as our University year consisted of only three 
 terms, we must count these as representing the first year of 
 the "A. D. C.'s" existence as a Club. 
 
 FIRST YEAR OF 
 
 May Term, 1855 
 October Term, 1855 
 Lent Term, 1856 . 
 
 A. D. C 
 
 One performance. 
 Two i^erformanees. 
 One performance. 
 
 1855. 
 Pieces Played. 
 A Fast Train ! High Pressure ! ! Express 1 1 
 Did you ever send your Wife to Camberwell ? 
 Bomhdstes Furioso .... 
 
 Romance under Difficulties 
 Number One Round the Corner 
 
 Delicate Ground 
 
 Two in the Morning 
 
 Villikins and his Dinah 
 
 A Farce in Reality 
 
 Binhs the Bagman .... 
 Box and Cox 
 
 ■■] 
 
 1856. 
 
 A Curious Case ..... 
 
 Sent to the Tower J. Lent Term. 
 
 St. George and the Dragon 
 
 This represents the first year of the "A. D. C.'s " existence. 
 
 ]\Iay Term. 
 
 1st performance, 
 October Term. 
 
 2nd performance, 
 October Term. 
 
Passing Notes and Summary. 99 
 
 Of these fourteen pieces, three — one farce and two bur- 
 lesques — were original works, of which two are still played in 
 •the provinces and by amateurs. 
 
 Oar new members elected previous to the Lent Term per- 
 formance were — 
 
 February 18, 1856— 
 
 Mr. Arbouiu Trinity. 
 
 G. Feiklen do. 
 
 E. Ashley do. 
 
 And 
 
 February 20, 1856 — 
 
 Mr. Cresswell St. John*s. 
 
 Mr. Foster Christ's. 
 
 Mr, Graham do. 
 
 But this second entry has been partially erased in the book, 
 5xnd their election is not confirmed until Feb. 28th, after the 
 performance. 
 
 On the 10th March the following members were elected: — 
 
 'fc) 
 
 Oliphaiit . 
 A. C. Lee . 
 W. P. Lysaght . 
 Robert O'Hara 
 C. R. Lutwidge . 
 R. Wharton . 
 Simpson . 
 
 Trinity Hall. 
 Trinity. 
 
 do. 
 Caius. 
 Trinity. 
 
 do. 
 St. John's. 
 
 This batch proves the cosmopolitan character and the ex- 
 tended popularity of the Club. We had by this time 
 representatives from Trinity, John's, Christ's, Caius, Trinity 
 Hall, lung's, and Magdalene — sporting men, serious men — 
 not too serious, but with ecclesiastical tastes — reading men, 
 lounging men, political debaters at the Union, as were 
 Messrs. O'Hara and Ashley — both of whom, 1 daresay, have 
 found that their public appearance on the boards of the 
 "A. D. C." was not the least part of the advantages of their 
 University experience, for both were excellent actors, and as 
 an exponent of one type of Irish charactei', llobert O'Hara 
 
 H 2 
 
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 (now a distinguished counsel in the Committee Kooms at 
 "Westminster) had only one rival among us, viz., Mr. Rowley 
 Hill, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose name 
 appears as a candidate on the "A. D. C." list, the 16th 
 April, 1856. 
 
 The list of members for our first year, 1855-56, included — ► 
 
 T. K. Polwhele 
 
 G. Sheppard Harvey 
 
 G. Lenox Conyngliam 
 
 G. H. Evans 
 
 G. Fitzgerald 
 
 W. K. Snow 
 
 G. E. Hassall 
 
 G. C. Lampson 
 
 H. Lampson 
 
 J. C. Wood 
 
 F. C. Wilson 
 
 W. H. Baillie 
 
 J. Watt Gibson 
 
 H. J. Whitley 
 
 K. Kelly 
 
 W. E. Smith 
 
 P. W. Freeman 
 
 C. Grant 
 
 Arthur C. Cumberlege 
 
 M. N. K. Fitzgerald 
 
 J. F. M. Wilson 
 
 C. E. Donne 
 
 G. Tyrrell 
 
 T. Utton 
 
 W. Lysagbt 
 
 Hon. A. E. M. Ashley 
 
 W. H. Evans 
 
 Alfred Thompson (honorary) 
 
 A. C. Lee 
 
 G. Feilden 
 
 J. Graham 
 
 E. Cresswell 
 
 J. H. Simpson 
 
 K. Wharton 
 
 C. E. F. Lntwitlge 
 
 E. O'Hara 
 
 Eowley Hill 
 
 Thos. Thornhill 
 
 E. Tennent. 
 
 There was always a difficulty about our secretary. That 
 office involved a large amount of trouble without any ade- 
 quate recompense. A member in his ignorance generally 
 accepted the post with avidity, eager to show how he could 
 set everything straight, and what an example lie would give 
 to his predecessors of what their stewardship oiicjlit to have 
 been. 
 
 But alas ! he invariably found that on his devoted head 
 fell all the blame. He had all the writing to do, all the accounts 
 to audit — for the office of treasurer was combined with that 
 of secretary— he was fined, in earnest, if he failed to 
 attend a meeting— he had to yield an account of tickets sold, 
 of bills printed, &c., &c., and, finally, as an unpaid and over- 
 
Passing Notes and Summary, loi 
 
 worked official, he generally seized the first opportunity of 
 resigning the situation. 
 
 But in doing this he was very careful to conceal the real 
 nature of his grievance. He would generally plead " reading'* 
 as a valid excuse, and he would add that nothing hut this 
 would have induced him to resign, so delightful was the work, 
 so congenial and so pleasant. 
 
 Had he not said this, we should have experienced some 
 difficulty in finding a successor. It was like the simple 
 countryman who having been inveigled into a show by tht 
 glowing description of what is to be seen within, is passed 
 out by a side door, after seeing positively nothing, and im- 
 plored not to say a word to the public without, but let 
 them all be taken in as he had been. The victim at once 
 becomes a party to the hoax, chuckling over the sell, which 
 has already cost him sixpence. 
 
 We had had up to this time several secretaries, and the 
 record shows how they had incurred fines of five shillings for 
 absence, and had then so to speak, * chucked it up.' 
 
 The fate of Mr. W. H. Baillie was as that of the others 
 before him in this chair. He was fined on the 7th February, 
 1856, and resigned on the 28th of the same month. 
 
 This might be the epitaph on all our secretaries in the 
 early days of the "A. D. C." — 
 
 Being fined, 
 He resigned ! 
 
 And then they sat at the board and took their turn at 
 worrying * the new man.' 
 
 But, strange to say, so much was this official post sought 
 after, that on this occasion there were two candidates — 
 
 G, M. Wilson (of Caius), proposed by F, C. Burnand, 
 seconded by Mr, W. Arbouin, 
 and 
 
 Honble, E, Ashley (Trin.), proposed by T, R, Polwhele, 
 seconded by G, S, Feilden. 
 
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 The latter was elected by a majority of eight to two, where- 
 upon the resigned secretary, Mr. W. H. Baillie, was unaui- 
 mously elected prompter — and I am not certain whether he 
 was much the better for the change. 
 
 However, he was the right man in the right place — when 
 he was in the right place — and when he did prompt, it is a 
 tradition among the "A. D. C." men, that he was /<xciZe 
 princejys, and without a rival in this difficult department of 
 dramatic art. 
 
 If anyone thinks I am wrong in classing it under the head of 
 " Art " — let him try it himself. The prompter, like the stage 
 manager, should be able to enter into the spirit of every 
 individual part ; should acquire a consummate knowledge of 
 all the words and all the business of the play ; should possess, 
 sufficient imitative power to enable him to pitch the word he 
 has to give in the same key as the actor, to whom he has; 
 to give it, is speaking in ; and, on occasion, to assume any 
 character in the piece. 
 
 On the professional stage one frequently meets with these- 
 qualities combined, and such a one must have been a perfect 
 Godsend at the Vaudeville during the run of Our Boys, when 
 the prompter played Mr. David James's part whenever thi& 
 gentleman was indisposed, or while he was " on the con- 
 tinong," touring with his partner, Mr. Thomas Thorne. The 
 prompter could only of course have taken one part at a time,. 
 so I suppose that, at this theatre, there was somebody who- 
 formerly was an institution at Covent Garden and Drury 
 Lane, "viz., the "under-prompter," who possessed talents 
 of the same order. 
 
 At the " A. D. C." the prompter was seldom called upon 
 to appear in public, but we required him to be with us for 
 every rehearsal, when W. H. Baillie used to appear 
 booted and spurred, with a whip in one hand, and a ' Lacy's- 
 edition ' in the other, requesting us to * get on,' as he wanted 
 to *get off,' and 'get on' too — his horse being at the 
 door. 
 
Passing Notes and Sitm7nary. 103 
 
 Our prompter was immensely popular, and no one more 
 thoroughly enjoyed the " A. D. C." work than he did. His 
 election as prompter is facetiously entered thus — 
 
 *^ Baillie the Great, as prompter, proposed by F, C. Bur* 
 nand, seconded hy W, H, Evans, and unanimously 
 elected:* 
 
 Then our careful stage manager, Polwhele, moved — 
 
 ** That memhers should buy their own performance books:* 
 (Carried), 
 
 We arrived at this through the negligence of our memhers, 
 who were perpetually losing their playbooks, with which they 
 had been supplied at the Club's expense, and then pleading 
 their loss as an excuse for their imperfection. 
 
 The next resolution to be adopted as a bye law was also 
 carried nem. con., i.e. — 
 
 ** That no dogs be admitted;'' proposed by T. K. Polwhele, 
 seconded by R. Kelly. 
 
 The proposer and seconder were the two most cautious 
 and careful men in the Club ; and it must be remembered 
 that in December, 1855, the Club had authorised the com- 
 mittee to spend fifty pounds in furniture, alteration, and 
 ornamentation. 
 
 The Club was not going to the dogs, nor were the dogs 
 allowed to come to the Club. 
 
 Against this resolution, and in a hand I think I recognise 
 as that of the newly-elected secretary's, is appended the 
 remark in brackets, " Sad dogs /" 
 
 Finally it was now decided that the Club should be limited 
 to forty members. 
 
 This was '^Proposed by W, H. Baillie (Magnus), and 
 seconded by T. R. Polwhele (sub-member), carried by a 
 majority of Hi:' 
 
104 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 Why " sub-member " was added I don't know, except as 
 antithetically to " Magnus." 
 
 From this bill Mr. C. E. Donne, who had just taken his 
 degree, disappeared; but he was coming up again. "He 
 would return, we knew him well." 
 
 Eeading-men, who were acting members, never found that 
 
 he performances at the "A. D. C." interfered with their 
 
 studies : on the contrary, while they dropped all other amuse- 
 
 jnents, all parties and convivialities, the rehearsals and the 
 
 performances came as a refreshing recreation. 
 
 The best evidence on such a point would come from Mr. 
 E. Gorst, and Mr. Grove, who were active members of the 
 "A. D. C." while reading hard, and their interest in the Club 
 did not prevent them from coming out, the one as Senior 
 Wrangler, or at all events high up among the Wranglers, and 
 the other a first Classic. 
 
 Some of our acting members, however, within two terms 
 of their dreaded degree examination, retired into their cells 
 not to emerge again until they could write B.A. after their 
 names. To this circumstance it was owing that we were 
 once more deprived of the services of F. C. Wilson, on 
 whose representation of female characters so much had 
 hitherto depended, and who now felt himself compelled se 
 reciiler pour mieux sauter, and to put himself in training 
 for the grand coup which was to come off at the commence- 
 ment of 1857. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 MAY TERM, 1856. — SECOND YEAR OF "A. D. C." 
 
 We were emerging from the catacombs. "We were no 
 longer a secret society. We were not officially recognised, 
 only tolerated. Our accommodation being limited, we had no 
 difficulty in disposing of tickets. Dons—junior Dons of course 
 — visited us and reported favourably in Common Rooms. 
 
 AVhether the excellent Master of Caius, after relinquishing 
 his Vice-Chancellorship, ever thought any more about us, I do 
 not know. I think not — or he would have inquired after 
 *' Box and Cox Fellows of Trinity," and have asked us to get 
 up some light trifle by ^schylus or Sophocles for his own 
 personal delectation. 
 
 It would have been an attractive bill. 
 
 ANTIGONE, in the original Greek, for one night only ! 
 By special desire. Under the immediate patronage of The 
 Tice-Chancellor and The Heads of the Colleges ! ! 
 
 To conclude with the laughable after-piece, Bof Kal Kof, 
 adapted from the classic work by T. Mabha-ov Moprov, 
 
 4t * * * Mfr 
 
 About this time the financial accounts were not, I fancy, 
 very clearly kept. We were in debt for one lump sum, but 
 as to current expenses, we paid as we went, and we went 
 very w^ell. 
 
 In our records there is no very clear statement as to how 
 the " A. D. C," sharing the fate of clubs, nations, states. 
 
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 and individuals, got into debt, but there is very precise in- 
 formation as to how we got out of it. 
 
 Such bills as I have as yet been able to discover, simply 
 relate to the performances, and not to their cost. 
 
 Internal evidence shows we were becoming more carefuL 
 The scenery was still by Old Jones, '' his last appearance." 
 The costumes were still by Messrs. Nathan of Castle Street,. 
 Leicester Square, and our perruquier was now Mr. Clarkson 
 of Drury Lane, vice AVilson of the Strand. 
 
 Our next meeting was on April 8, 1856, when Mr. Pol- 
 whele's motion that '* the present system of issuing tickets 
 be improved, and that all members receive forms, certifying 
 that Mr. So-and-so is a member of the University, which they 
 shall give to any gentleman, who may then obtain tickets at 
 the * A. D. C rooms on application, or presentation," was 
 carried by a majority of twelve. 
 
 Its a funnily-worded resolution, but on that day some one 
 with rather a cramped hand directing a steel pen was at work 
 with the minutes, and the next entry is — 
 
 " Projposed by Pohvhele " — he was always proposing some- 
 thing — ^'that a voluntary subscription'' — there was no- 
 seconder to this — " be set on foot for a neiv proscenium." 
 
 " (Rejected by an enlightened and excited audience by a 
 viajority of two),'' 
 
 "We wanted a new proscenium badly. It was only a can- 
 vassed frame, over which was pasted some very ordinary cheap 
 room-papering. However, the members thought it 'good 
 enough ' for them. 
 
 Then the brave but partially unsuccessful Polwhele made 
 another proposition for " a voluntary subscription " — he was 
 as fond of voluntaries as an organist, — '* to provide a mirror 
 to be placed over the mantel-piece in smoking room " — and 
 this was carried by a majority of ten. 
 
 Then it was arranged that, henceforth, the stage manager 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year. loy 
 
 should be also treasurer, wLicli was carried by a majority of 
 eight, evidently a tribute to tlie care, caution, and energy in 
 all matters affecting the " A. D. C." displayed by T. R. Pol- 
 whele, who was now thoroughly in his element. 
 
 At a Committee Meeting held after the General Meeting, 
 Mr. R. Preston, of Trinity, was elected, and on April 16th 
 were elected — 
 
 L. T. Baines Trin. Coll. 
 
 E. 0. Lamb Trin. Hall. 
 
 EowleyHill Trin. Coll. 
 
 On the 17th April, 1856, our performance consisted of the- 
 following bill, for two nights only. 
 
 A. ». C. 
 
 
 This Evening v:iU he pirscntcd a new Farce, 
 
 hi, TOM PIERCE, Esq. 
 
 {author of '* Romance under Difficulties," ^^Villikins,'* 
 
 "St. Geonfc," d-c), entitled 
 
 A REGU LAR 
 
 SELL! 
 
 Augustus Stanhope, Es*!- 
 
 . Mr. B. Norton. 
 
 Hon. Tom Lester .... 
 
 . Mr. J. Seymour. 
 
 Benjamin Twozzle .... 
 
 . Mr. R. 0. Balslfa-. 
 
 Miss Twozzle 
 
 . Mr. C. Dighy. 
 
 This was our lever du rideau, and it was simply put in to 
 eke out our bill. 
 
 It might have been described as "Apiece of impertinence " 
 — as no such piece existed, either in MS. or in print, and 
 was invented entirely on the spur of the moment by the 
 actors. 
 
 Of course we had arranged a scheme, a sort of charpente 
 as it were, but each one was left to fill up the sketch of char- 
 acter with his own business and dialogue. 
 
 As part of the "regular sell " we had included in the cast 
 the name of " Mr. C. Digby," (i,e, F. C. Wilson) who, owing 
 
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 to academical engagements elsewhere, was unable to appear 
 this term, much to our loss, as the record will show. 
 
 The account of A Begular Sell in our minutes is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " A piece not ivritten hut gagged throughout by O'Hara 
 and Burnand on the stage, and Lee and Arhouin in the 
 audience," 
 
 The two latter had to hiss and make themselves objection- 
 able, and then to be called on to the stage in order to show 
 what they could do themselves. This, of course, was 
 founded on The Manager in Distress, and is the same as the 
 business of My Wife's Bonnet, Le Chateau de ma Femme, 
 and many other pieces where the actors mix with the 
 audience. 
 
 Unfortunately for Messrs. Lee and Arbouin, they made 
 themselves so energetically obnoxious, that the audience 
 began to cry " Order, order," and hush them down. 
 
 It had been arranged that I should ask the dissentients 
 " if they could provide a better entertainment than we were 
 giving," that to this they should reply " yes," whereupon I 
 was to invite them to step up on to the stage ; but seeing the 
 fun in front, I delayed to do so, and O'Hara and myself went 
 on with our impromptu dialogue, wiiile our confederates, in 
 order to attract our attention to their position, which was 
 becoming more and more unpleasant every minute, increased 
 their interruptions in frequency and noise, until some mus- 
 cular undergraduates sitting on the benches just behind our 
 two dramatis personce, threatened to bonnet and kick them 
 out if they didn't there and then ** hold their confounded 
 row." 
 
 This settled our confederates, for the undergraduates 
 would have been as good as their word. 
 
 Taking our cue from this unpremeditated and genuine inter- 
 ruption, we entered into a pourparler with Messrs. Lee and 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year, 109 
 
 Arbouin, who were only too glad to avail themselves of our 
 invitation, to avoid the dangers with which they were threatened 
 by the infuriated undergraduates. 
 
 The piece was not repeated a second night, as it was 
 impossible to find any members bold enough to encounter 
 the danger from which our two friends — who thought 
 they were going to have such fun among the audience — had 
 escaped on the first representation. 
 
 *' On the ichole,^' says the record of this performance, 'Hhe 
 piece IV as just enough to put the audience in a good humour, 
 and prepare them for the great piece of the evening, viz., 
 ^TwouUl puzzle a Conjuror,'^ described on the hill as — 
 
 " An Historical Comic Drama in two acts, by the author of 
 ' Paid Pry: " 
 
 This was our first attempt at anything at all elaborate. 
 All our previous pieces had been one-act Vaudevilles, or 
 farces, — the Curious Case was merely a farce in two acts, — 
 and burlesques. 
 
 But there is this to be remarked as something commendable 
 in amateurs, we played original burlesques and farces, where 
 everyone had to " create " his role, or we played pieces that we 
 had never seen performed on the stage, and therefore, our 
 impersonations, if not entirely original, were certainly not 
 slavish copies of any professional interpretation, though some 
 of us, well acquainted with the peculiarities of estabHshed 
 London favourites, might attempt to reproduce them. 
 
 The one exception to the above was myself, as I had 
 been a theatre-goer since I was about eight years of age, 
 and had acted in Box and Cox when I was about fourteen 
 Still, even as far as I am concerned, I had never seen Bom- 
 hastes, or A Fast Train, or Number One round the Corner, 
 or Delicate Ground, or Tivo in the Morning, or Sent to the 
 Tower, 
 
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 To return to our first May Term programme for the 17th 
 April, 1856. The cast was as follows, for 
 
 'TWOULD PUZZLE A 
 
 CONJUROR ! 
 
 Peter [Czar qf Muscovy, working uiuler 
 
 
 thp, name of Peter Michloff) . 
 
 Mr. M. Caxtox. 
 
 Admiral Varensloff {Bussiari Ambas- 
 
 
 sador) 
 
 Mr. Desmoxd Blake. 
 
 Count de Marville (French Ambassador) 
 
 Mr. J. liAINGER. 
 
 Baron Von Clump {attached to the Ger- 
 
 
 man Embassy) .... 
 
 Iklr. Miles Hall. 
 
 Van Dunder [Burgomaster of Saardam) 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Van Block [Master of the Dockyard of 
 
 
 Saardam) 
 
 Mr. HuMniREY Duke. 
 
 Peter Staumitz (head icorkman in the 
 
 
 dockyard) 
 
 Mr. P. JoHNsox. 
 
 Officer 
 
 Mr. E. Gaaul. 
 
 Bertha (Burgomaster's niece — betrothed 
 
 
 to Peter Staumitz) . . . . 
 
 llv. F. HUMBY. 
 
 "Workmen, Guards, &c., Messrs. H. Smith, Beowx, AValker, | 
 
 and E. Hook. 
 
 
 For this piece the ever-faithful S. J. E. Jones — " none hut 
 himself could he his parallel " — painted a new scene repre- 
 senting the dockyard, and an admirahle one it was. This 
 was his last work for us, and we hecame aware of rising 
 talent among ourselves, while there were rumours ahout a 
 mysterious man " in the town " — as mysterious as the man in 
 the moon, — who, for a consideration, less hy far than what 
 we had given to our eminent professional friend — our now 
 ex-associate Jones — would he willing to paint, or assist in 
 painting, whatever scenery we might require. 
 
 At present, however, we had a very fair stock of scenery in 
 hand, and we wished to he economical. 
 
 The key to the noms de theatre is here : — 
 
 Mr.M. Caxton represents \ Hon. K Ashley. 
 ^ { — bimpson. 
 
 The latter playing the part of Peter at short notice on 
 account of Evelyn Ashley's heing suddenly unahle to 
 play. 
 
May Ter77i, 18^6— Second Year, 1 1 1 
 
 Mr. Desmond Blake 
 
 represents 
 
 — 
 
 O'Hara. 
 
 Mr. J. Rainger 
 
 
 — 
 
 A rbouin. 
 
 Mr. Miles HaU . . 
 
 
 — 
 
 Murray. 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce 
 
 
 — 
 
 Burnand. 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke 
 
 
 — 
 
 Thornhill. 
 
 Mr. R, Johnson 
 
 
 — 
 
 Kelly. 
 
 Mr. E. Gaaul . . 
 
 )> 
 
 — 
 
 Ernwin. 
 
 Mr. F. Humby 
 
 » 
 
 I- 
 
 Simpson. 
 Fielden. 
 
 And 
 
 Messrs. Smith, Brown, Walker, and E. Hook stood 
 for R. Preston, A. C. Lee, W. Lysaght, Lutwidge, 
 and Evans, «S:c. 
 
 Mr. Feilden, who had never played before, and was quite a 
 novice — it was only his second term at the University — played 
 and "looked" Bertha to general admiration. Kelly's 
 Peter Staumitz is briefly and emphatically recorded as 
 ^'crt^n^aZ," and the others all more or less satisfactory. Of 
 *' the office?' " it is recorded that " he was of the arms 
 army.''' 
 
 I should here observe that the " notices " are in various 
 handwritings, and were generally the concoction of three or 
 four of the members, who, meeting together after the per- 
 formance, each in turn acted as secretary, while tobacco and 
 ■" modest quenchers " refreshed us during our labours of 
 composition. 
 
 They were generally written in Evelyn Ashley's room, or 
 in Tom Thornhill's. 
 
 In 'Twonld puzzle a Conjuror, our *' supers," the soldiers 
 find workmen, had been very irregular in their attendance at 
 rehearsal, and caused a good deal of trouhle on the night 
 of performance, by invariably coming on at the wrong times, 
 and then positively refusing to be moved off, except at the 
 command of their legitimate superior, the Master of the 
 Dockyard. As to the prompter, they ignored him entirely, 
 and W. H. Baillie used to be seen waving his hands 
 in utter despair at the wing — which they, the workmen, 
 look either as signs of encouragement generally, or indica- 
 
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112 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D.Cy Cmnb. 
 
 tions that they ought to cheer, on which latter under- 
 standing the word was passed, and a seriously interesting 
 scene between Peter and the ambassadors was suddenly inter- 
 rupted by an outburst of misapplied loyalty on the part of 
 the workmen of Saardam. They were immediately repri- 
 manded, in a forcible aside, by one of the ambassadors in 
 disguise, whereupon they retired sulkily, and it was with 
 difficulty they could be induced to make their re-appearance 
 at the right moment. Strikes were not so common twenty- 
 four years ago as now, or their conduct might have been 
 easily accounted for. 
 
 As it is the "A. D. C." record ironically states that " The 
 soldiers and workmen ought to have been seen to have been 
 appreciated,^* 
 
 Then came the farce of 
 
 WHO DO THEY TAKE 
 
 ME FOR? 
 
 Colonel Templeton .... 
 
 Mr. :Miles Hall. 
 
 Terence O'Reilly {travelling artist) 
 
 Mr. Desmonb Blake. 
 
 Isaac Pickings {steward of the Hard- 
 
 
 acre Estate) 
 
 :Mr. R. JoHxsox. 
 
 Posset {landlord of the ^^ Hardacre 
 
 
 Arms") 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Mrs. Dorrington (a rich widow) , . 
 
 Mr. M. Caxton. 
 
 Miss Pradena Pickings 
 
 Mr. C. Keeper. 
 
 The new name that appears here is Mr. C. Eeeper (Mr. 
 Wharton), who, I think, was coxswain to the Third Trinity 
 — the Eton Boating Club, and who had come up from 
 Eton with the sobriquet of " Creeper Wharton," — why, the 
 boys only knew, I never did. Hence the name, Mr. C, 
 Beeper. 
 
 Mr. O'Hara was very original as the Irish hero. He was 
 remonstrated with as to the force of some of the language 
 which was not that of the author, as we had heard, that for 
 the first time since the commencement of the "A. D. C," some 
 Dons were to be among our audience, and as these Dons were 
 clergymen, we were afraid that our institution would be 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year, 113 
 
 endangered by Terence O'Beilly's impulsive vivacity. In 
 compliance with a very general request, Terence toned him- 
 self down considerably on the second night; "but," as he 
 explained to us, " you must throw some little dash into 
 the part," — to which it was at once replied that " no one 
 objected to a little * dash,' but only to a good deal of 
 d ." 
 
 Eobert O'Hara afterwards observed that *'he had been 
 told of how great Power had been in this part, and as we 
 couldn't get the great Power, we must put up with a little 
 force." 
 
 The performance, whether loud or modified, was an 
 excellent one, and its charm was its unconventionality. 
 Terence was magnificently arrayed in bright check trowsers, 
 a very white w^aistcoat, a light dustcoat, and glossy white 
 hat. This wasn't the sort of * Terence ' whose classical 
 works Vice-Chancellor Guest would have had on our 
 boards. 
 
 Then we played, as a revival, with a new cast, the evergreen 
 Bomhastes, with Kelly as Fiisbos^ A. C. Lee as The General, 
 myself as the King, Simpson as Distaffina, and " Mr. 
 C. Keeper " as the fifer, in which character he was very 
 droll, and the General had the greatest difficulty in 
 stopping his music and getting him ofi" the stage. In 
 this, Artaxominus had to sing a parody on a song — then 
 in vogue at the Ci-der Cellars or Evans's — called The 
 Dark Arches, which used to be encored three times every 
 night. 
 
 We were very simple in our tastes. Nowadays, in 
 1879, one of the "A. D. C* actors would as soon think 
 of tying a squib to the Vice-Chancellor's gown as of 
 singing such a song on the boards of the "A. D. C" — 
 whence all burlesque has been pro. tem. banished. Our 
 fun was a trifle rough, perhaps, but it was hearty, spon- 
 taneous, and was throughly enjoyed both by audience and 
 actors. 
 
 I 
 
114 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A^D.CT Camb. 
 On this occasion the record of the Club says : 
 " Distaffina — very good, not eqioal to Wilson.'' 
 
 So that even within one year after our start we had 
 already begun to be laudator es temporis acti. However, F. 
 C. Wilson was to re-join our troupe when his academical 
 studies should permit him. There was a demand for 
 young undergraduates to fill these beardless parts — such a 
 demand as must have been occasionally experienced in 
 Shakespeare's time when he was looking everywhere for an 
 Ophelia, a Kosalind, a Desdemona, or an Awdrey — and the 
 demand created the supply. 
 
 We had another performance in this term, quite an excep- 
 tional case, and a veiy risky thing to attempt in a May 
 Term, when so many men would be engaged in out-of- 
 door amusements up to a late hour of the evening. 
 However, in spite of the enforced absence of some of our 
 * leading artists,' w^e still had a powerful and energetic 
 company, and, of all pieces, we selected the old Adelphi 
 burlesque Norma. 
 
 I don't suppose that such a burlesque as Norma, wTitten 
 by J. Oxberry, and played by Paul Bedford as the prima 
 donna, Wright as Adalgisa, and Miss Woolgar (afterwards 
 Mrs. Mellon) as Pollio would be possible now, either on pro- 
 fessional or amateur boards. The above-mentioned low 
 comedians in petticoats were extravagantly absurd, and in- 
 tensely vulgar, — far beyond anything I ever remember to have 
 seen since. Miss Woolgar was, of course, always elegant; 
 she. Miss P. Horton (Mrs. German Keed) and Miss Julia St. 
 George were, as far back as I can recollect, the princes of 
 burlesque and extravaganza. 
 
 We "saw ourselves" in Norma. Its fun was of the 
 very broadest, the music popular, and, the cast being small, 
 and the whole burlesque, too, being in one scene, it was a 
 great boon to amateurs. 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year. 
 The following is the hill for May 13, 1856 :— 
 
 115 
 
 This Evening will be presented a Farce, in One Act, 
 BY Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, entitled 
 
 THE 
 
 Sir Harry Eingdove 
 
 Harry Ringdove . 
 
 Morny . 
 
 Hobnail 
 
 Miss Longclachit . 
 
 Cecilia 
 
 RINGDOVES! 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 ]\[r. A. M. Sandwich. 
 Mr. M. Caxton. 
 Mr. L. A. Vendar. 
 
 after which, for the first time at this theatre, 
 
 THE ETHIOPIAN 
 
 Messrs. C. N. E 
 
 SERENADERS, 
 
 Green and Black, H. Moore, P. Retty, 
 and E. Hook, 
 
 Who will give some of the most beautiful and popular Melodies 
 of their own Native Land 1 
 
 TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE OPERATIC BURLESQUE OF 
 
 isr O R. M A 
 
 Polio {a Roman consul) . 
 
 Flavins {a Roman centurion) . . 
 
 Oroveso {tlie Arch Druid, no relation 
 
 to the *^ Dark Arches") , . . 
 Norma {a Druidcss) 
 Adalgisa {a ditto) . , . . 
 Clotilda {a nurse) . . . . 
 Two Children {Normals ^^pair of 
 
 kids") .... 
 
 The Moon {icho has condescended to 
 
 descend for this occasion only by) . 
 
 Mr. M. Caxton. 
 Mr. L. A. Vendar. 
 
 Mr. U. Glycove. 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Mr. T. Winkle. 
 Masters Squall and 
 Brat. 
 
 The MAN IN IT. 
 
 Druids, Warriors, &c. 
 
 by Messrs. Heer, T. Hare, Every, 
 and Ware. 
 
 to conclude with the screaming farce entitled 
 
 SLASHER AND CRASHER! 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Blowhard . 
 Sampson Slasher . . . . 
 
 Christopher Crasher 
 Lieutenant Brown {of the Ifarines) . 
 
 John 
 
 Miss Dinali Blowhard . . . 
 Rosa 
 
 Mr. Miles Hall. 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 Mr. E. Gaaul. 
 Mr. L. A. Vendar. 
 Mr. M. Caxton. 
 
 I 2 
 
1 16 Personal Remmiscences of the ''A.D.C." Camb, 
 
 The key to the above is, — Humphrey Duke, Hon. Evelyn 
 Ashley, who still retained the name that Alfred Thompson 
 was to have appeared under in the previous term; Tom 
 Pierce, myself ; Mr. Gorman Bourhe, Kowley Hill ; Mr. 
 A. M. Sandwich, L.T.Baines; Mr.M. Caxton, K. Simpson; 
 Mr. L. A. Vendar, Arthur Cumberlege. 
 
 The serenaders were E. Ashley, Rowley Hill, A. C. Lee, 
 Ernwin, and myself. 
 
 We all blacked our faces severely, and thought we should 
 never get it off again. The audience, who had not been 
 particularly pleased with the Serenaders — it was one of our 
 failures, — clamoured for the commencement of Nonna. "We 
 didn't try the Serenaders — or rather the Serenaders didn't 
 try the audience, again. Washing the nigger white was 
 found too arduous a task. 
 
 The Ringdoves went very well indeed. The notice re- 
 corded is to the effect that — 
 
 " Sir Harry ivas very good generally, hut not made up old 
 
 enough,^* 
 
 '^ Harry, doubly good — his make up as the real Sir Harry, 
 
 capital.'' 
 
 *' Mooney, Mr. HilVs debut, excellent.''' 
 " Hobnail, Mr. Baines' ditto, short and siveet." 
 " Miss Longclachit, first-rate in everything." 
 " Cecilia, rather too old." 
 
 *' Norma." — The special success of this piece seems to have 
 been achieved by the nurse Clotilda, and the two children, 
 played by a chorister and Wharton, the latter " doubling " as 
 " The Man in the Moon." 
 
 We were very proud of this Moon, as it was the genuine 
 article — I mean the real property moon used at the Adelphi, 
 lent to us for the occasion by Mr. Benjamin Webster. 
 
 Of the chorus, by Messrs. Lee, Preston, Lysaght, Evans, 
 Ernwin, Lutwidge, Hill, it is recorded, " All equally good, 
 specially Lutwidge." 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year, 117 
 
 The chorus were very well trained, and had worked hard, I 
 know, for three weeks with White-headed Bob and his band, 
 for whom I had had printed a paper of *' cues for music." 
 
 Our band, as a rule, had to " vamp " considerably, but 
 in this instance we insisted — Mr. Ashley and myself, who were 
 chiefly concerned in the success of the burlesque — on a proper 
 score being made for the fiddle, cornet and violoncello ; we 
 had stipulated that 'WTiite-headed Bob and his Merry Men 
 should come regularly to rehearsals, for which I think they 
 were at first remunerated by shillings all round — " Bobs up," 
 as it used to be called — from everyone in the room. This 
 Bohemian and irregular plan was soon dropped, and a fixed 
 charge was made for their attendance. 
 
 The chorus were immensely imposing in their grey beards 
 and white Druidical robes, their action energetic, and their 
 march — the march — superb. As they complained of not 
 having enough to do, they were brought in on every possible 
 occasion, and plenty of business was invented in order to keep 
 them quiet, as while on the stage they were in very good order, 
 though a trifle uncertain about their notes ; but had they been 
 allowed to remain off for any length of time, we should 
 have heard more than we wanted of them, as, from our 
 experience at rehearsal, they, being a large party, were safe 
 to indulge in a performance of their own in the green 
 room, where every word would be audible to the audience. 
 As it was, over and over again, our anxious stage manager, 
 Polwhele, used to rush into the green-room, shutting the door 
 carefully and exclaiming in an agonized stage whisper, " I say, 
 for goodness' sake don't make such a row. They can hear 
 every word in front." 
 
 But it must be remembered that our green room served us 
 for dressing rooms and temporary property room as well. 
 
 Slasher and Crasher, another old Adelphi farce, and just 
 the thing for that audience. Murray played Old Blowhard, 
 and could not remember his part. Kowley Hill was very 
 funny and very noisy as Crasher. 
 
1 1 8 Pe7'sonal Reminiscences of the ^'A,D. C, " Camb . 
 
 Towards the end of the piece, when the fun becomes fast 
 and furious, and Crasher has to draw a sword and pursue Old 
 Blowhard round the stage, off at one wing and on at another, 
 and then chase him round again, we heard a loud cry of 
 agony, and we attributed it to the excellent acting of Old 
 Blowhard, who was keeping up his character of being 
 frightened by Crasher, even when off the stage. It turned 
 out, however, to be a very real expression of pain, from a car- 
 penter, who accidentally getting in Mr. Hill's way, while he 
 was in full cry after Old Blowhard with a drawn sword, was 
 forcibly reminded of the fact by the energetic Crasher, who 
 wouldn't keep the stage waiting and let the excitement drop, 
 for all the carpenters in the world. 
 
 After the performance the injured carpenter was comforted 
 with a different sort of * tip ' to that which had so dis- 
 turbed him, behind the scenes, during Slasher and Crasher. 
 
 " The idiot wouldn't get out of the way," was Crasher's sub- 
 sequent explanation, and when the O'Crasher's Celtic blood 
 was up, he couldn't stand a Saxon obstructionist. 
 
 The prompter had plenty to do the first night of this 
 farce, for our ** Norma " had occupied most of our time and 
 attention; the ladies were "elderly and respectable" and 
 *' good as usual," and our orchestra, in spite of all the 
 rehearsals, were so nervous in approaching their work, that 
 taking advantage of the twenty minutes' rest afforded by 
 our Serenaders, they so attuned themselves at a neighbour- 
 ing public — perhaps at the bar of The Hoop — as to give a 
 very uncertain sound when called upon. 
 
 For myself as Adalgisa, having been absolutely perfect 
 in the second of the duet at the last rehearsal, I was so 
 nervous when the time came, that I sang all Norma's music 
 and got off anyhow. The second night we were all quite at 
 home in it, but on the whole, as far as the principals were 
 concerned, I don't think *' Norma " proved a favourite. 
 
 At the end of this notice, which is signed by two names, 
 E. Ashley and F. C. Burnand, comes the following eulogy — 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year, 119 
 
 evidently written on the departure of our stage manager, 
 who was now leaving the University, having stopped up two 
 terms after taking his degree in January, 1856 : — 
 
 *' But we have forgotten our great duty to the members 
 of the * A. D. C as well as to the enlightened audiences 
 that have patronised our performances, as having omitted 
 all mention of that energetic gentleman, truly loyal, yet- 
 not -the -less -on -that -account -wonderfully talented stage 
 manager, who, though he has but once attempted the his- 
 ti-ionic line, and * strutted his short hour on the stage,' has 
 deseiTcd the united and cordial thanks of the * A. D. C 
 in general, and the acting members in particular, and who 
 by his comity of expression, his sauvity of temper, his 
 financial acumen, and invariable, and therefore-for-that- 
 reason-not-like-the-weathercock-changeable deportment, has 
 left the name of — (shall we breathe it) — ' Polwhele ' — to be 
 handed down to all future members as an object of affec- 
 tionate regard." 
 
 It was a true word spoken in jest, and though the Club 
 has been most fortunate in its stage managers, yet none have 
 had so difficult a time of it, none have ever had so much to do, 
 as our first stage-manager, whose undoubted " financial 
 acumen " prevented us * running a muck ' at the outset. 
 
 At a General Meeting held May 31, 1856 — 
 
 1. Mr, W, Lysaght (Trin. Coll.) icas elected Stage Mana- 
 
 ger, vice Polwhele resigned, 
 
 (And now the records are in a new hand, the first, very 
 neatly written, being signed "E. Ashley.") 
 
 2. It was agreed that there should he an auditor on the 
 
 Committee, ivho shall audit the accounts at the end of 
 every term, 
 
 J. M. Wilson of Caius was elected unanimously to this 
 office. 
 
I20 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D,C" Camb, 
 
 3. Tlie previous rule respecting the Treasurer and Stage- 
 
 manager being merged into one was cancelled, 
 
 (So that Mr. Polwhele's offices were now divided.) 
 
 4. F. C, Bumandf Acting Manager, E. Ashley, Secretary/ 
 
 and Treasurer, were re-elected, Evans as Prompter. 
 
 (This was vice Mr. W. H. Baillie resigned. I think 
 Norma and Slasher finished him,) 
 
 5. Mr. W, H. Baillie elected President, vice Kelly 
 
 resigned, 
 
 (Mr. K. Kelly had commenced serious reading for his 
 degree. Mr. F. 0. Wilson was also similarly engaged. Two 
 of our best men 'out of it.' Mr. C. E. Donne, and Mr. 
 Gerald Fitzgerald down, and Mr. O'Hara had left the Univer- 
 sity; at all events, he never reappeared on the A. D. C. 
 boards.) 
 
 Then we made a rule — 
 
 6. That the Prompter he present at one undressed rehearsal 
 
 of each piece, and one dresser, 
 
 (Evidently the Prompter had complained of his onerous 
 duties, and, as evidently, the actors had represented that they 
 couldn't get on without him.) 
 
 7. Mr, Lutividge appointed Assistant Stage Manager, vice 
 
 Ermvin resigned, 
 
 (The Stage Manager objected to the entire responsibility 
 being on his shoulders.) 
 
 8. That smoking he alloived on rehearsal nights in the 
 
 large room, hut never on the stage itself. 
 
 This last rule speaks well for the discipline of the Club. 
 In fact we were becoming very orderly and gradually set- 
 
May Termy 18^6 — Second Year. 121 
 
 tling down, and before the end of the term, at a Committee 
 Meeting, June 7, 1856, we decided that — > 
 
 1. ** The second and last Monday in term he fixed days for 
 
 Committee Meetings, and that the days of ^performance 
 he settled finally at least ten days hefore the first night 
 of performance," 
 
 Henceforth " extra nights in consequence of a great success " 
 were doomed. 
 
 2. Immediately on such settlement each gentleman cast for 
 
 any character shall provide himself with a hook, as 
 also the Stage Manager, Prompter, and Acting 
 Manager. 
 
 8. After the settlement of day and pieces the Secretary shall 
 send printed circulars at least a iveek heforehand, spe- 
 cifying the pieces and days of performance to every 
 memher. 
 
 (This was to further the sale of tickets.) 
 
 4. That the performances he always, if possible, on a 
 
 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 
 
 (Saturdays were excluded principally because a performance 
 on that night might clash with a Beefsteak Club dinner.) 
 
 5. That the whole number of tickets he distributed equally 
 
 among the members of the Committee, who shall on 
 payment for the same issue them to members for distri- 
 bution, or to others. 
 
 (" No credit " system.) 
 
 6. That there be afineof2s, Gd. for being half an hour late 
 
 for rehearsal, and 5s. for being absent altogether, the 
 only excuse taken being positive illness. Any memher 
 throwing up his part after once accepting it to be liable 
 to a fine of one guinea. 
 
122 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 (We had suffered from insufficient rehearsals during this 
 May Term.) 
 
 7. Of Rehearsals. That one time especially he set apart 
 for Rehearsal every day after the settlement. 
 
 (This made ten days certain. This term we had had 
 three weeks, hut though the rehearsals were frequent the 
 attendance was irregular.) 
 
 That only one piece he rehearsed at each rehearsal. 
 
 (We had done * bits ' of Norma, * hits ' of Slasher, just as 
 it happened to suit those present.) 
 
 And that notice he put up heforefour o'clock on the previous 
 day in the rooms, the acting memhers determining the 
 time hy hallot, 
 
 (At four o'clock most of us were absent, as at that hour we 
 went to get "marked" in Hall. We were ^marked' if we 
 attended, and we were * marked men ' if we didn't. Four was 
 then the dining hour at Trinity. Now there are three dinner 
 hours. Early for athletes, medium time for reading men, 
 and seven for those who would otherwise prefer dining in their 
 rooms — as most of us, in our time, used to do ordinarily, for 
 " Hall " at Trinity was then a very uncivilised affair.) 
 
 Finally. That the Dressed Rehearsal he the only night 
 Rehearsal of a piece, and it shall commence at 
 6.80 p.m. 
 
 (That is, immediately after chapel, before the men sepa- 
 rated.) 
 
 This allowed for taking an early snack at " Litchfield's,'* 
 the Restaurant — or even something short, and as sweet as 
 possible, in Hall — or a cut off a cold joint in our own rooms, — 
 there was always this luxury chez nous in Green Street — then 
 " keeping chapel," so as to he on the windy side of the law. 
 
May Term, 18^6 — Second Year. 123 
 
 and then going all together to rehearsal, finishing at ahout 
 nine, when we betook ourselves to the pleasantest meal of our 
 day, supper, or an '' Athenaeum Tea," which was the same 
 thing, but only open to members of the Athenaeum, and to those 
 specially invited. The undergraduates' day generally finished 
 with Loo, varying from eighteen pence and three shillings, to 
 three and nine up to half-sovereigns and Club force, and 
 so to unlimited. But these card parties had, of course, 
 nothing whatever to do wdth the **A. D. C," most of the 
 acting members preferring to sup together quietly, and talk 
 over the business of the performances. 
 
 The Club's acceptance of these rules brings the first season 
 of our ** A. D. C." new year to a close. Then came the Long 
 Vacation. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1856. 
 
 We had already made a good start for our second year. 
 Charles E. Donne, B.A. and myself, had commenced an 
 amhitious drama, in two acts, called The Husband^ specially 
 written for the cast we could get at the '*A. D. C." in the 
 following term. 
 
 It was a wonderfully * original ' drama. All the originality 
 came from other original works, from Robert Macaire, from 
 Still Waters Run Deep, from the acted version of The Battle 
 of Life, business from farces, and a hero as gloomy as The 
 Stranger, as tragic as Beverley, and as dashing as Robert Ma- 
 caire. 
 
 How it fell through I don't know, but somehow or other, 
 though we had it printed, and though the cast is down as 
 " for the A. D. C, November, 1856," yet as far as I can 
 remember, it was never read to the company and never 
 rehearsed. 
 
 I fancy that in consequence of F. C. Wilson being unable 
 to play, we gave up The Husband and settled on The Jaco- 
 bite, a comic drama, in two acts, suggested by Reginald 
 Kelly, with four parts in it for all our principals. 
 
 The first move this term was to elect Mr. A. C. Lee, of 
 Trinity, Prompter, vice Mr. Evans, absent. 
 
 The next to elect Mr. Whitley Assistant Stage Manager, 
 vice Lutwidge, absent. 
 
October Te^nn^ 1856. 125 
 
 Then in a very business-like way we " resolved — 
 
 " That the Prompter he requested to provide himself with 
 hooks of the pieces,** 
 
 AYbat trouble we bad with those prompters ! and this in 
 spite of all the recent rules so carefully drawn up the previous 
 term ! 
 
 '' TJiat he shoidd attend every rehearsal^ 
 
 This was more stringent than the latest rule on the 
 subject. 
 
 " And keep an inventoinj of the properties,'* 
 
 This was italicised. It was in consequence of the gradual ac- 
 cumulation of "properties," which were made for us and seldom 
 hired, that, at length, the Stage Manager complained of being 
 unable to get on without an assistant, who should be respon- 
 sible for those troublesome articles. 
 
 Then we resolved ** That all stage accounts (i.e., as separate 
 from Club accounts) shoidd pass throtigh the Stage Manager's 
 hands to the treasurer and he paid hy him,** 
 
 The Treasurer was never to pay without the bills being 
 signed by the Stage Manager. After a while the signature 
 of the Assistant Stage Manager was also requisite. 
 
 Hitherto the orders had been signed by the secretary 
 only. 
 
 Then, in accordance with the statute * made and provided ' 
 in the May Term, we settled that the days of performance 
 should be the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st of November, i.e., 
 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 
 
 There were elected : 
 
 Mr. Charles Hall (Trin.); Mr. A. F. Sealy (Caius); Mr. 
 Julius Rowley (Magd.); Mr. P. P. G^v^nne (St. John's); Mr. 
 R. Tennant (Trin.) ; Mr. H. W. Hoffmann (Trin.). 
 
126 Perso7ial Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C." Camb, 
 
 After vain endeavours to restrict the smoking to one room, 
 we gave it up as hopeless, and on October 27, passed a reso- 
 lution to permit smoking in both rooms. Performance days 
 of course, excepted. 
 
 Our next elections were 29th October, Mr. F. V. Wright 
 (Trin.), and Mr. E. Hobart (Trin. Hall), and on November 
 8th, Mr. Frank Smith (Trin.). 
 
 A great change had come over the spirit of the Club since 
 May Term, 1855, and many of our members belonged also to 
 the Athenaeum, which had never again attempted a perform- 
 ance. 
 
 The ancient Jones having been respectfully congedie, 
 
 " When lie who had painted 
 Had left but the name," 
 
 which we still retained in the bill, as our stock scenery was 
 the work of his hands, — we accepted the services of one 
 E. Gage, a townsman, the precise nature of whose trade 
 I forget — if I ever knew — as he is associated in my mind 
 only with Chinese lanterns, fireworks, transparencies, 
 paint pots, a state of chronic perspiration, and a small shop 
 where there was a muddle of everything. 
 
 He was an ingenious man up to a certain point, and was 
 certainly at first far from an expensive one. Personally, I -was 
 never so struck by the excellence of his scenery as he was 
 himself. 
 
 It was ' not a patch ' on what the discarded Jones would have 
 done, but then the discarded Jones had to be, traditionally, 
 entertained by one committee man, who had to feed him, and 
 listen to his old stories, and Jones's work cost the Club two 
 guineas, or more, per diem, while Gage was at our beck and 
 call, and delighted at the opportunity thus afforded him of 
 extending his connection among the undergraduates. 
 
 Gage — who was a fussy, funny little fat man, always *' hot 
 and hot," no matter what time of year it might be — was 
 persistently worried at his work by Rowley Hill, who after 
 
October Term, 18^6, 127 
 
 inspecting some clicf d^oeuvre of scene painting, intended to 
 represent a window, would ask in the most undeniable brogue 
 — which he could accentuate considerably when it suited his 
 humour — 
 
 " Gage, come here ! What's this at all ? Is it a cow 
 ye've been painting ? Sure then there's no cow in The 
 Jacohite, unless ye think a Jacobite's a cow." 
 
 Of course the listeners kept their countenances, for 
 Gage was a very fair butt, and a very all round one too, 
 besides being exceptionally good tempered with us, as a 
 matter of business. 
 
 *' No, Mr. Hill," he would explain, eyeing his questioner's 
 serious face to find out whether he was really being chaffed 
 or not, " No, sir, don't you see it's a window ? " 
 
 " A window ! " Rowley Hill would exclaim, " That a 
 window ! ! now ask anyone — and they'd swear it's a cow. 
 Why, look here. Gage," and he would point to a branch 
 intended to belong to a tree in the landscape outside, as seen 
 through the window, "isn't this the cow's tail? A window ! 
 get out with ye ! 'tis a cow, and there's its tail ! " 
 
 Gage would then commence an apologetic explanation with 
 the view of proving to us that the scene was not yet finished, 
 and that it was not fair to judge of it in its present state, when, 
 perhaps, he was ready to admit, what was meant for a window 
 might bear some resemblance to a cow : but we had all got the 
 cue, and one after the other informed him that there was no 
 cow in The Jacohite and he must paint it out. 
 
 Next day he triumphed. He had painted an extraordinary 
 piece of di-apery partly hiding the window. "There," he said 
 to us, " That's not a cow, now, is it, Mr. Hill ? " 
 
 " No, Gage, ye've made a bull of it now," returned 
 Rowley Hill. But it's about as much like a window as 
 he'll ever get it." 
 
 The result was a Gothic chamber of a bright reddish brown 
 colour, with impossible lights and shades, and quite a 
 curiosity in perspective. " I'm not a nartist," said Mr. Gage 
 
128 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 complacently, "but I don't think as you've got any think 'ere 
 to beat that." We hadn't, and we never had. 
 
 The theatrical work commenced with the arrival of a dis- 
 tinguished character, Mr. W. G-. Clarkson, the well-known 
 Perruquier {then of 15, Little Kussell Street, Covent Garden), 
 who had undertaken to provide the dresses, and as these 
 came from Mr. May's, the Costumier of Bow Street, it was 
 with the latter that for some time to come the Club regularly 
 dealt. The name of Messrs. Nathan at this time disappears 
 from our programmes, and up to the October term of 1858, 
 W. G. Clarkson is always advertised at the foot of the bill as 
 "providing the costumes and appointments." What the 
 latter word implies I do not Imow, except that we were 
 thoroughly satisfied, and that Clarkson brought with him no 
 <iis-appointments. 
 
 The amount of our Costumier's luggage made a formidable 
 show in our small rooms, and some contemporary wag has 
 written in the A. D. C. Book that " as the Club only pos- 
 sesses a pit and stalls, Mr. Clarkson has brought down with 
 him some private boxes." 
 
 I treat this jeu de mot as Mr. Clarkson did his box on 
 leaving, and re-cord it. 
 
 Our amiable costumier and perruquier — two single gentle- 
 men rolled into one Clarkson — preferred coming down on 
 Sunday early as it gave him * an outing.' He was most willing 
 and obliging, and a great favourite with the members, whose 
 cigar cases were placed at his disposal in the most generous 
 fashion. Where he slept was always a mystery ; but it was 
 supposed that when all the members had retired, he "set" a 
 cottage interior on the stage, and took his rest on a property 
 bed. Except on a Sunday, he was never seen out of doors, 
 but always among pomatum pots, dressed in a white apron, 
 like a man-cook, and with a large comb stuck in his hair over 
 his right ear. So rare was it for him ever to be seen out of the 
 Club, that, when, on one of the above-mentioned Sundays, 
 some member of the *' A. D. C." came up to another's rooms 
 
October Term, 18^6, 129 
 
 with the startHng information that Clarkson was * wandering 
 about the backs of the Colleges,' it was immediately feared 
 that either our informant was hoaxing us, or that there must 
 be something wrong with Clarkson. Several members were 
 at once got together, and this impromptu commission of 
 inquiry immediately sallied forth, in a great state of anxiety, 
 to learn the truth of the extraordinary statement they had just 
 heard. 
 
 Yes, there he was. He had been listening to the afternoon 
 anthem in King's College and admiring the * make-ups' of the 
 Dons, as they issued forth in their academicals. 
 
 We followed him at a cautious distance, as though we were 
 dogging an escaped lunatic, or a rare bird that had escaped 
 from its cage, and which we were only awaiting the first 
 opportunity to capture. He gradually found his way back to 
 the green-room of the "A. D. C." where we found him, all 
 among the grease-pots, slumbering in an arm chair, his head 
 falling forward, and his hands clasped over his well rounded 
 form, and so we left him, happy, undisturbed, playing his 
 own Sunday anthem on his own nasal organ. 
 
 Clarkson once accompanied a party out partridge shooting. 
 He confided to one of us that * Though he'd often eaten the 
 birds he'd never seen 'em undressed.' 
 
 No one ever saw Clarkson arrive — no one ever saw him 
 leave. He was summoned to attend, and lo ! one morning 
 we went to the **A. D. C." and found he was there. 
 
 His mode of living was remarkably unostentatious on these 
 occasions, but his presence was invariably notified in the 
 afternoon by a mixed smell of frizzling fat, and hair-grease, 
 arising, I fancy, from the fact that the curling-tongs were 
 being heated between the lower bars of the fire, where at the 
 top his chop was cooking. 
 
 After the performance he often used to receive an invita- 
 tion to our supper parties, but when he came, though highly 
 appreciating the compliment, he seemed rather scared, and 
 subsequently ^decHned with thanks,' preferring to sit — like 
 
130 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CJ' Camb. 
 
 Marius among the ruins — surrounded by tlie muddle of a 
 green-room after a performance, and take his quiet meal on 
 one of his boxes, while he chatted with "Mr. and Mrs. 
 Boots " — i.e. Boots and his wife — who belonged to the Hoop 
 Hotel, and were told off for the special service of the 
 "A. D. C." 
 
 On Monday we rehearsed my new burlesque, liordi Lovel 
 and Lady Nancy Bell ; or the Bounding Brigand of Ba- 
 kumhoilum. And on Tuesday we played it as a last 
 piece, preceded by The Jacobite, to commence with, and a 
 new farce of mine, In for a Holiday ^ in the middle of the 
 bill. 
 
 The house consisted of sixty-three audience, exclusive of 
 members. This gave us fifteen guineas. It doesn't sound 
 much ; but this for two nights, with an increase on the two 
 last produced about eighty guineas, which gave us a con- 
 siderable profit, and is recorded in the Annals as "pleasing 
 to the Club." 
 
 " 0. E. Bonne,'' says the jocular notice, " as Sir Richard 
 Wrighton. His acting, though the author only lurote 
 thirty-six pages, spoke volumes. 
 
 E. M. Ashley. Major Murray — acted evidently as Major 
 Murray would have done in similar circumstances — very 
 good. 
 
 R. Kelly. His John Duck inimitable. Even Clarke of the 
 Haymarket could have done it no better. ' We ne'er 
 shall look upon his like again.' " 
 
 In the margin, in a different hand, is a query to ' Clarke,' 
 intimating that Buckstone was meant. Another hand has 
 scribbled below this, "It's a joke, stoopid! " The joke being, 
 that Mr. Kelly's beau ideal on the stage was Clarke of the 
 Haymarket. 
 
 The quotation * never look upon his like again,' applies to 
 
October Term, 1856. 131 
 
 the fact of it being probably his last appearance, it being his 
 last term at the University. 
 
 ** Gerald Fitzgerald . . . took the part of Widow Pottle. His 
 ' make up * ivas wonderful ; his voice carefully altered, 
 and his acting so clever as to make a real part of a 
 character which in the hands of an inferior artist would 
 have been nothing at alV* 
 
 [I have an old faded photograph of him now, as I have of 
 all the characters in this piece, except myself, with Clarkson 
 about to try on John Duck's wig.] 
 
 ** Patty Pottle, by F, C. Burnand, his first appearance as a 
 young woman. Ills acting added much to the success of 
 the piece. 
 " Lady Somerfield. R. Hobart. Looked pretty, and acted 
 veiy nicely. 
 ** Great 2>raise is due to the officers and soldiers who so 
 nobly did their duty in the cause they had espoused for 
 four nights only'^ 
 The Officer, — Mr. Julius Rowley. 
 The Soldiers, — Messrs. Wright atid Hall. 
 ** Some people were weak enough to say the soldiers must 
 necessarily have been Hall "Wright ! 
 
 " We ivrite this,^^ the record continues, *' to prevent any 
 young ivag ivhen reading this from perpetrating the bad joke 
 which every one makes on seeing these two names in conjunc- 
 tion:' 
 
 *' The piece teas very successful.^' 
 
 The next night, instead of The Jacobite, we played Used 
 Up, and the final notice is : — 
 
 " The Jacobite and Used Up were two of the most 
 perfect ineces of amateur acting. This remark must espe- 
 cially apply to Used Up. There was not a shaky man in the 
 
 K 2 
 
132 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^ A, D.d' Camb, 
 
 cast, Donne, Fitzgerald, Kelly, Burnand, Ev, M, Ashley, 
 C. Hall, Rowley, B, Hohart. 
 
 " There were four nights, and the first was almost as well 
 filled as the last, 
 
 " The performances never improved from the first night 
 (except, perhaps, in a few minor details), hut the first night's 
 performance was as smooth and as good as the last. 
 
 ** This ivas the effect of careful and timely rehearsals. We 
 had nearly three weeks of daily rehearsaV 
 
 (So that the sad experience of the previous term and the 
 new rules had effected some good.) 
 
 ** There icas no one who did not enter into these two pieces 
 with all his energy y 
 
 The fact is that at this time all our principals were inde- 
 fatigahle rehearsers, and had no counter attraction out of the 
 *'A, D. C." We were prepared to give our undivided atten- 
 tion to the stage business, and we undoubtedly did. 
 
 Charles Donne's Sir Charles Coldstream was a really good 
 performance. I find I played Lady Clutterbuck, and against 
 it is scored ^* good,'* I hope so. 
 
 The burlesque was also successful, but not equal to either 
 Villikins, Bomhastes, or St. George, All our burlesques were 
 more or less successful. The singing, dancing, and costumes 
 were new to our audience in those happy Thespian and un- 
 critical days. 
 
 Evelyn Ashley played Lord Lovel, Preston and Rowley two 
 Brigands, and Tom Thornhill the Baron Bell. 
 
October Term, 18^6. 
 Here is the Bill in extenso. 
 
 ^o3 
 
 Jc5l« XJm tL^m 
 
 This Evening (Friday) will be Performed the Petite 
 
 Comedy, in Two Acts, by DION BOUCICAULT, 
 
 Esq., entitled, 
 
 USED 
 
 Sir Charles Coldstream 
 
 Sir Adonis Leech . 
 
 Mr. Tom Saville 
 
 "Wurzel {a farmer) 
 
 John Iroubrace {a blacksmith) 
 
 Mr. Fennel {a lawyer) . 
 
 James {a servatU) 
 
 Mary ( IVurzeVs daughter) . 
 
 Lady Clutterbuck . 
 
 U P ! 
 
 Mr. C. J. Algernon. 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 Mr. Hawley Charles. 
 Mr. 11. Johnson. 
 !Mr. A. Herbert. 
 Mr. Poler. 
 Mr. Featherstone. 
 H. Audley. 
 F. Mayden. 
 
 Act. I. — Saloon in Sir Charles Coldstream's House. 
 Act. 1L — Interior of "VVurzel's Farm House. 
 
 After which, an entirely new Farce, by F. C. 
 BURN AND, KsQ., entitled 
 
 IN FOR A HOLI DAY! 
 
 Gustavus Popple (« yowig gentleman 
 retained^ hetwccn ten arid three, by 
 Government) 
 
 Rory O'Bobster {a gerdleman retained 
 by a commercial house for his per- 
 suasive jJowers) .... 
 
 Airs. Amelia Waggles (a young widow) 
 
 Mrs. O'Bobster 
 
 Mrs. Comfit 
 
 Mr. Tom Pifjice. 
 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 Mr. H. AuDLKY. 
 Mr. S. Gilbert. 
 Mr. B. Stuabt. 
 
 After which, will he presented for the first tim^, an entirely new 
 Burlesque, written expressly for the ^^A.D.C.,^'' by the author 
 of St. George, Villikins, dec., and bearing the aristocratic 
 but not-the-less-on-that-account-cxcecdingly pathetic tide of 
 
 LORD LOVEL AND LADY NANCY BELL; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE BOUNDING BRIGAND OF BAKUMBOILUM. 
 
 Lord Lovel {a swell betrothed to Lady 
 
 Nancy Bell) 
 
 Baron Billy Bell {no joke can be made 
 
 on such a barren subject, so that 
 
 we ivill simply state that he is the 
 
 parient of Lady Nancy) 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 
 Mr. Featherstone. 
 
134 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 Rumtifoozle {formerly Due di Humti- 
 
 foozle, tiow living in exile under the 
 
 title of *'The Bounding Brigand"). Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 First Brigand "I {making in all two { Messrs. V. Glycove and 
 Second Brigand J Brigands). . ( Polek. 
 
 { {belonging to Lord \ 
 First Retainer \ Lovel who 7nay not I Messrs. J. Norton and 
 Second Retainer jfor this reason be ( F. Roper. 
 
 ( called a Law Lord) ) 
 Lady Nancy Bell {daughter of the 
 
 Baron — beloved by Bumtifoozle — 
 
 married to Lovel — and — and — oh! 
 
 a lot of things /) . . . . . Mr. E. Bishop. 
 
 Guests, Servants, and Bloated Aristocrats by Messrs. Heer, 
 T. Hare, Avery, Ware, and a host of talent. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 'Tm going, my Lady Nancy Bell, foreign countries for to 
 see " — words of Lord Lovel, extracted from old song. To show 
 the why and wherefore of his saying these words, the Curtain 
 being drawn up, will show — 
 
 Scene 1st. — A Dark Wood in the Bakumboilum Country. 
 (Painted by S. J. E. Jones.) 
 
 Scene 2nd. — Baronial Hall in Baron Billy's Castle. 
 (Painted by S. J. E. Jones.) 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 " He rode and he rode (home) on his milk-white steed — 
 After having been absent a year and a day — 
 
 * Now who is defunct ? ' quoth he (Lord Lovel). 
 
 * A lady is dead — and they call her the Lady Nancy.' " 
 
 Extracted from the MS. in possession of Mr. Samuel Cowell, 
 Antiquarian and Lushington Professor, at Evans's Grand Col- 
 lege, Covent Garden. 
 
 Scene 1st. — Lady Nancy's Boudoir. (Painted by S. E. 
 Gage. ) How she took poison and died ! ! ! 
 
 Scene 2nd.— Tomb of the Billy ^qWs— Night. (Painted 
 by Charles Lester, Esq.) 
 
 Arrival of Love ! Defeat of Rumtifoozle ! ! Exhuma- 
 tion ! ! ! Exclamation ! ! ! ! Perturbation ! ! ! ! ! Con- 
 glomeration !!!!!! and something of everything-else- 
 ation !!!!!!! an 
 
 IMPRESSIVE DENOt^TMENT ! ! 
 
 Concluding the Piece with (we hope) approbation. 
 
 Books of the Burlesque may he had in the room, price One Shilling. 
 
 Manager— Mr. O. LESLIE. Acting Manager— Mr. TOM PIERCE. 
 
 Assistant Stage Manage^'— Mr. V. Glycove. 
 
 Promiiter—Mr. CHARLIE CIIUCELER. 
 
 Scenerg by Messrs. S. J. E. JONES, E. GAGE, and C. LESTER, Esq. 
 
 Costumes by J. W. CLARKSON {of Drury Lane). 
 
 Decorations by E. GA GE. 
 
October Term, i8s6^ 135 
 
 " Mr. G. Leslie " was our new stage manager, W. Lysaglit, 
 Trin. Coll. ; R. Preston was his assistant. The Prompter was 
 was A. C. Lee. 
 
 The peculiarity of this bill is that no "Mr.'^ was pre- 
 fixed to the names of those who played the women in the 
 comedy. 
 
 Used Up was the best played piece ever produced at the 
 "A. D. C." Besides having a really admirable Sir Charles 
 Coldstream in Charles E. Donne, we had in Evelyn Ashley, 
 as Sir Adonis Leech, an old beau whose make up and per- 
 formance could only have been surpassed in later days by Mr. 
 Hare in School — where Tom Robertson had given him an 
 imitation of " Cousin Fccnix *' in Domhey & Son. And 
 then there was Charles Hall {oux first Charles Hall, Charles 
 the First, who entered the army, while our Charles the 
 Second went to the bar), who, as Honourable Tom Saville, could 
 not have found his equal, for this small part, among amateurs 
 or professionals. Kelly's Wurzel was excellent. Gerald Fitz- 
 gerald's Ironbrace was energetic and made an excellent foil 
 to the languid Sir Charles, but though a strong character in the 
 play, it was the weakest in performance, yet not so weak as to 
 impair the general excellence. Julius Rowley — called of 
 course " Poler " in the bill — as the lawyer, was another excel- 
 lent bit of character acting, and anyone looking at a photo- 
 graph of R. Hobart as Mary Wurzel, would probably say 
 *' What a pretty girl ! and how exactly she looks her part." 
 Yes, certainly. Used Up — as, apart from the written record, 
 I am reminded by old members of the Club, and as I well 
 remember it myself — was, without exception, the very best 
 played two-act drama ever represented on the ** A. D. C." 
 boards. 
 
 Recent performances may perhaps challenge comparison 
 with it, but good as was their Ticket of Leave Man in October 
 Term, 1878, it was too ambitious an attempt, and though Mr. 
 Brookfield's Jem Dalton was exceptionally good, yet it had not 
 the advantages of such a perfect and experienced cast all round, 
 
136 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 and of such close careful rehearsals for three weeks, as we had, 
 twenty-two years before, for Jjscd Up, 
 
 Notice the author's idea of Goyernment employment, as 
 instanced in the description of Gustavus Popple in In for a 
 Holiday. 
 
 This farce went immensely, Rowley Hill as Rory O'Bobster 
 being wonderfully amusing, both on and off the stage. On 
 the second night the stage manager had set the scene wrong, 
 and Rory O'Bobster's entrance door was omitted. 
 
 " B'dad, then, how'm I to get in at all?" screamed the 
 representative of Rory O'Bobster, as, dressed in red check 
 trousers, with a white waistcoat, a blue coat and brass buttons, 
 he executed a wild war dance of enraged disappointment at 
 the part of the scene where his door ought to have been. 
 
 The prompter, who will be found in the bill as " Mr. 
 Charlie Chuclder " — an irritating name when you want a 
 person who icon't chuckle — recommended him to go on any- 
 where. 
 
 " Anywhere ! " shouted the unfortunate Rory. " But 
 where, man alive ? Where's anywhere ? " 
 
 It seemed to be nowhere. 
 
 But the cue came, and inspired by desperation, Rowley Hill, 
 with a furious energy that would well have suited the 
 character he had to play, if he hadn't had to assume a 
 demeanour all smiles and heartiness immediately he appeared, 
 burst on to the scene through a bedroom door, which puzzled 
 the audience considerably, as they couldn't for the life of them 
 make out why Rory O'Bobster should have been hiding in the 
 bedroom, and why he should appear without any explanation 
 being given or demanded. 
 
 Prompter, stage manager, and assistant stage manager, 
 would have got it hot from Rory O'Bobster that night, for he 
 was armed with a real shillelagh, which he flourished wildly, 
 accompanying the war-dance, all round the stage behind the 
 scenes in search of the offenders who had fled, with *' strange 
 guttural noises " that, as our record of this episode states. 
 
October Term, 1856, 137 
 
 *'were successfully imitated by Mr. Lee" — the "Charlie 
 Chuclder" above mentioned — and "must have been heard," 
 — as they were by two favoured individuals — " to have been 
 appreciated." 
 
 Tom Thornhill, made up and dressed like a carrotty-headed 
 ostler, appeared as the man with the bonnet-box. His busi- 
 ness was limited to scratching his wig dubiously. This was 
 received with rounds of applause, and the more he was 
 applauded the more he scratched. His conduct on this 
 occasion would have qualified him as a member of a 
 ** scratch " company. 
 
 Reginald Kelly, having devoted himself heart and soul to 
 OUl Witrzel and the Jacobite^ had undertaken, at short notice 
 and in the kindest way possible, to master the difficulties of 
 Mrs. Comfit, the landlady, and on the first night he read his part 
 from a tea-tray which he was carrying; but on the second 
 night, having found this proceeding highly embarrassing, ho 
 did away with all the difficulty that might arise from reading 
 and acting at the same time, by coming on, without his book 
 and without his tea-tray, and forgetting his part altogether. 
 
 In our records, Evelyn Ashley has remarked of this piece 
 that " it went without a hitch, except what was apparent when 
 Mr. Thornhill scratched.'' Also 
 
 " The dialogue ran smoothli/, and the author , contrary to 
 his usual custom, seemed very much pleased^ 
 
 "H. Audley," in the farce, stands for R. Hobart; " S. 
 Gilbert," for Gwynne; and " B. Stuart," for R. Kelly. 
 
 As to the burlesque, I am sure that at this time 1 knew 
 nothing of Victor Hugo's Hernani, or the character of Rum- 
 tifoozle, — the exiled Duke living as a bandit — might have 
 been taken as a burlesque upon that absurd personage. Perhaps 
 I had seen the opera Ernani. I do recollect it well, with 
 Mdlle. Bosio as the heroine. 
 
 Our two scenes, "painted by S. J. E. Jones,'' were old 
 ones. The first was the wood scene, which had been his 
 
138 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 work in 1855 for Bomhastes ; and the second had been painted 
 for St, George and the Dragon, We made a flourish about 
 them, because " Mr. E. Gage," had requested that he might 
 have his own name in the bill, and because we had a new 
 amateur scenic artist, whose work had cost us only the price 
 of the paint and canvas. The last was Mr. C. Lutwidge, who, 
 both before and after he became a pupil of O'Connor's, painted 
 several things for the "A. D. C." 
 
 The reference, in the bill, to Sam Cowell, who used to sing 
 Lord Level, will be recognised by all who remember Evans's 
 in "the old days" of Paddy Green, when the room was a 
 quarter of its present size, and only men were admitted. 
 
 After this performance, we had a general meeting in 
 December, whereat were elected 
 
 W. KBailHe . . 
 
 . President. 
 
 Emwin 
 
 . Stage Manager, 
 
 bt resigned. 
 
 
 F. C. Bumand . 
 
 A.C.Lee . 
 
 E. Ashley 
 
 J. M. WUson (Caius) . 
 
 . Acting Manager. 
 
 . Prompter. 
 
 . Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 . Auditor. 
 
 This arrangement was almost immediately upset by Mr. 
 Ernwin's suddenly quitting the University at Christmas; 
 and during the next term — when, after our brilliant exploits 
 there was, for reasons which will presently appear, a lull 
 in our little theatrical circle — the post of stage manager 
 remained vacant, or as good, or as bad, as vacant, the holder 
 being thus named in the bills for the Lent Term — 
 
 Stage Manager . . . Mr. St. Ewpid. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 FINANCIAL CRISIS — DEBT — DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTY— ^VRITTED 
 
 NOT ARRESTED — WE RISE LIKE A PHCENIX FROM THE 
 
 ASHES OF THE PAID ACCOUNTS. 
 
 The Lent Term of 1856 must bo ever memorable in the 
 annals of the Club, as it was then that we first had to borrow 
 money to meet our liabilities. It was our * Money Lent 
 Term.' 
 
 We were brought face to face with our difficulties with 
 a startling suddenness. 
 
 In the January of 1857, Reginald Kelly having taken his 
 degree, stayed up all jubilant for * The Bachelors' Ball,' 
 which was given either just at the very commencement of the 
 Term, or at the close of the Christmas vacation before the 
 men came up. 
 
 Be that as it may, very few members of the "A. D. C." 
 were in Cambridge for this festivity, and Reginald Kelly 
 with his blushing honours thick upon him, appeared on the 
 red-baized steps of the brilliantly lighted hotel, resplendent 
 in the lemonest of lemon-tinted gloves and the whitest of 
 white ties, and had just requested the ladies of his party to 
 wait for one moment while he handed his cap and new 
 stringed Bachelor gown to a polite official who was stepping 
 forward to receive them, when the demeanour of the polite 
 official suddenly changed, his aspect became less polite and 
 more official, and just as the gay young Bachelor was about 
 to ask why he didn't take the proifered cap and gown, the 
 
140 Personal Reminiscences of tJie ^'A.D.C' Canib. 
 
 man produced a neatly folded slip of paper which turned out 
 to be a writ. 
 
 Beginald Kelly couldn't believe his eyes. He had heard 
 something of this sort of proceeding in farces on the stage, 
 when the bailiff generally got the worst of it, and when the 
 low-comedian, who had to escape from him, was shut up 
 in a jam cupboard, whence he issued with his mouth and 
 fingers daubed all over, or in a cupboard with a bottle of 
 brandy, when, of course he reappeared very much the worse 
 for liquor, in which case he usually smashed the bailiff's hat 
 over his eyes, and then effected his escape from an open window, 
 which was immediately the signal for the prompter to let fall 
 a basket of broken crockery, supposed to represent a '' crash,'' 
 and some one would cry out *' he's gone through the conserva- 
 tory " — whereupon the " minion of the law " would follow his 
 victim as speedily as possible, and of course, had far and away 
 the worst of it. 
 
 But in real life, it is evidently quite another affair alto- 
 gether. Here was the bailiff, here was Beginald Kelly, there 
 was no jam cupboard at hand for either to hide in, and no 
 window for either to escape out of with a crash. The 
 crash had come with a vengeance, but how ? Was he 
 arrested, if so, at whose suit ? He owed nothing in the 
 University ? If he had already taken his degree, the conse- 
 quences were not so serious as if the ceremony were still to 
 come, as the Bachelor is supposed to be free of debt. If he 
 had taken his degree, then clearly it was the creditor's inten- 
 tion to catch him before quitting the University for ever. 
 
 At whose suit ? 
 
 Our unfortunate carpenter's, or that of his creditors, for 
 hCy poor man, had failed, and we owed him about two hundred 
 pounds. Somehow he had got hold of Eeginald Kelly's 
 name as a prominent member, as President, and also 
 Secretary and Treasurer, in which latter capacity he had 
 signed the orders, had probably given receipts, and paid 
 money on account. 
 
Financial Crisis. 141 
 
 However, so it was. 
 
 Kelly explained that it was all right, but the server — being 
 anything but a ti?7ie- server — was inexorable. 
 
 Keginald Kelly pointed out to him that he was engaged for 
 the next half-a-dozen dances, and couldn't come. The bailiif 
 simply replied that he couldn't hear of his dancing with any- 
 body but him (the bailiff) and that he had been instructed 
 not to lose sight of him until some settlement should be 
 arrived at. 
 
 The upshot of it was, that, with great presence of mind, 
 the gay young Bachelor excused himself for a few minutes, 
 returned to his College with the man and the writ, interviewed 
 his tutor, the matter was there and then arranged, and 
 apparently free and unfettered Keginald Kelly returned to the 
 mazy dance, cherishing vindictive thoughts against the 
 *' A. D. C." committee, who, by their want of prevision, had 
 placed one of their leading members in, so to speak, " a 
 hole." 
 
 Precisely the same situation occurred the same night or 
 very soon afterwards at Evelyn Ashley's rooms, where the 
 sei-ver was so astonished by his warm reception, that he was 
 for proceeding with a summons on his own account, had it 
 not been shown that the writ was itself illegal, in fact a writ 
 of error — and the bailiff a trespasser. 
 
 Ashley had also been our secretary, and so his name had 
 been given to some of the orders for work. 
 
 Before the Committee came up, however, both our secre- 
 taries had forgiven us, while Kelly, who had been actually 
 out of pocket by the transaction, only wished to be recouped 
 as quickly as possible, for the advance which he had been 
 compelled to make in order to appear at that Bachelor's 
 Ball as gay and light-hearted as the gallant young water- 
 man. 
 
 Before a committee, specially called, Keginald Kelly told 
 his grievance. His narrative was so highly amusing that the 
 board were in fits of irrepressible laughter. But then )ie had 
 
142 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 been the sufferer, not we. Therein lay the point of the joke, 
 as far as it was a joke at all. 
 
 As for Evelyn Ashley, he could join in the laugh most 
 heartily, as )ie had dismissed the bailiff summarily, and had 
 paid nothing for the amusement. 
 
 He reminded us particularly, that when, so far back as 
 the October Term of. '^^, he had been elected secretary and 
 treasurer, he had begged to be excused, and had very soon 
 resigned the post after being fined five shillings for being 
 absent from a meeting. He had, he said, never wished to be 
 secretary and treasurer, he didn't care about writing, and was 
 no hand at accounts, and look ! hadn't it turned out just as 
 he had expected ? Hadn't he, in his official capacity, been 
 compelled to sign everything, and hadn't he now been held 
 responsible for his rashness ? Yes. 
 
 We all agreed that this was the case, and that in fact there 
 could be no argument nor two opinions about it. Good. 
 *' Then what was to be done?" that was what he, Keginald 
 Kelly, as a practical man and a B.A., who was not going to 
 stop up at the University any longer, wanted to know ? 
 
 This brought us to book, or rather to books, and to busi- 
 ness. 
 
 It was very plain and simple. We owed about two hundred 
 pounds or more, and we hadn't got it. 
 
 Kelly had advanced so much in payment on account to 
 Lovett's creditors. He must be reimbursed at once. Carried 
 ncm, con., much to the satisfaction of Kelly, who thereupon 
 declared that he had rather enjoyed the farcical situation of 
 the * Bailiff at the Ball ' than otherwise, but at the same 
 time he was careful not to treat it as too good a jest, lest we 
 should also take that view, and consider him well recouped for 
 his outlay by having been the sole member privileged to enjoy 
 this bit of fun all to himself. 
 
 First of all we got a whip all round from the committee. 
 The next step was to appeal to the Club. We were a little 
 afraid of this, as the possible result might be a whip /or the 
 
Financial Crisis. 143 
 
 committee. However we started with a donation from one of 
 our honorary memhers, Mr. Lomax, and five guineas from Mr. 
 "VVatt Gibson, an ex-president of the Club. 
 
 Whi^t the exact amount was, it is difficult to ascertain, 
 but it was nearer three than two hundred, and, I think, it 
 approached close on four. 
 
 However, be that as it may, unexpected aid was afforded 
 us by a gentleman who had been elected a member in Oct. 
 ''^^, but of whom w^e had not seen much at the Club. This 
 was Mr. A. F. Sealy of Caius. He sent us word, through 
 J. M. Wilson of the same college, our auditor, that he would 
 be willing to lend the Club the money at a small per-centage, 
 and I need hardly say his offer was accepted with thanks, 
 the bond was signed, sealed — or Sealy'd — and the money 
 delivered — which was a deliverance indeed ! 
 
 Mr. Sealy also consented to take a portion of his principal 
 back from time to time, and so reduce our debt. 
 
 Nothing could be more satisfactory. Every member gave 
 one, two and three guineas to our fund. New members were 
 elected, and we were ** on velvet." Feb. 7th, 1857, were 
 elected — 
 
 Mr. Partridge, of Trin. Coll. proposed by F. V. Wright, 
 
 seconded by K. S. Preston. 
 Mr. Gorst, of St. John's, proposed by J. H. Simpson, 
 
 seconded by L. T. Baines. 
 Mr. G. Hawes, of Trin. Hall, proposed by , seconded 
 
 by . {No names recorded.) 
 
 Then, on February, 21st were elected — 
 
 F. Davy, Trin. Hall, proposed by , seconded by . 
 
 (No names recorded.) 
 J. H. Coclirane, Cains, proposed by C. E. LntAvidge, 
 
 seconded by H. W. Hoffman. 
 J. H. Robinson, Magd. Coll., proposed by A. C. Lee, 
 
 seconded by W. P. Lysaght. 
 
 There did not seem to be much chance of a performance 
 
144 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb. 
 
 this term. Kelly was going down, Fitzgerald the s.amc, 
 Charles Donne reading for his voluntary, — which to any but 
 a Cantab suggests the notion of going in for an examination 
 on the church organ. The ' voluntary ' was the theological 
 examination for intending clerics. Other men were reading 
 for little-go. 
 
 Just at this time I had somehow, at Long's Hotel, and 
 through Lacy the publisher, made the acquaintance of a cer- 
 tain theatrical amateur — a captain who has since taken to the 
 stage professionally, I believe — who proposed a short tour in 
 the provinces, if I could get away from Cambridge and bring 
 two friends. Out of seven or eight weeks of the Term, four 
 counted as * residence,' and so armed with an "exeat," I 
 went with Reginald Kelly and Gerald Fitzgerald, both now 
 ** Bachelors " and free, and the aforesaid captain, to play at 
 Leamington, Bath and Plymouth. These were my first 
 appearances on the regular stage. We had a very pleasant 
 time of it, and performed Villikins and Jiis Dinah among 
 other things, and then I returned to Cambridge in time to 
 save my Term. 
 
 On my return we had a meeting, and decided that to allow 
 a term to pass without a performance of some sort would be a 
 dangerous precedent. 
 
 Only Evelyn Ashley, Cresswell, and myself were free. 
 F. C. Wilson consented to play in two pieces, if the part in 
 the first was not too long, and if the second were a revival of 
 a burlesque. 
 
 We chose The Victor Vanquished, by Charles Dance, in 
 which there are only four characters, and Villikins and his 
 Dinah. 
 
 We had all the scenery. Cresswell took a servant in the 
 first piece, and confessed himself unequal to the Baron Boski 
 Bumble in the second. Our original Baron (Kelly) was away, 
 as also our original Villikins (Fitzgerald). 
 
 As unexpectedly as the pecuniary aid from Mr. A. F. 
 Sealy, came the help we needed from Mr. W. H. Baillie, who 
 
Financial Crisis. 145 
 
 having hitherto confined his services entirely to prompting, 
 now wished to be seen as well as heard, and volunteered for 
 the part of the Baron. This settled the question. 
 
 On the 26th and 27th of March we played the following 
 bill :— 
 
 A. »« C 
 
 This Evening will be phesented, a Comedt, in One 
 Act, (by CHARLES DANCE, Esq.), entitled 
 
 THE VICTOR VANQUISHED! 
 
 Charles the Xllth {King of Sweden^ 
 
 surnartud "The Lion of the North" 
 
 wider the assumed title of Count 
 
 d'Oltrcn) ^Ir. Humphrey Duke. 
 
 Baron Gortz {his scci'ctary) . . . ^Mr. Tom Piehce. 
 Olfortz {sei-vant to Baron) . . . Mr. C. Reeswell. 
 Stela {niece to the Baron — a Tartar 
 
 princess) Mr. C. Dig by. 
 
 Scene is laid in the Baron's House at Stralsuucl. 
 
 AfTEH which, the awfully tragic, SLIGHTLY' PATHETIC, 
 
 but-not-the-less-on-that-account delightfully comic 
 Version (by Mr. F. C. BURNAND) of the story which 
 everybody knows as 
 
 VILLIKINS AND HIS DINAH! 
 
 Grumbleton Gniffin {a rich Soa]) Mer- 
 chant — the original ^'paricnt ") . Mr. ToM Pierce. 
 
 Baron Boski Bnmble {ancesto'r of the 
 celebrated Beadle — the lover "so 
 galliant and gay'') . . . Mr. H. Bale E. 
 
 William Wilkins {socially and con- 
 vivially known as Villikins) . . Mr. Humphrey Duke. 
 
 IN love with 
 
 Dinah Gruffin {"An unkimmon fine 
 young gal " — sole daughter of the 
 abovementioned merchant) . . Mr. C. Digby. 
 
 Acting Manager— Mr. TOM FIERCE. Stage Manager— Mr. St EWFID. 
 
 Prompter— Mr. CHARLIE CRUCKLER. 
 
 Scenery and Appointments hi/ Mexsru. S. J. E. JONES and G. TV. 
 
 CLARKSON. 
 
146 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C." Canib. 
 
 Our " A. D. C." record says — 
 
 *^ Tills perforinancG ^v as for two nights only. Various cir- 
 cumstances prevented the usual strength of the company 
 coming forward, Mr. Baillie kindly volunteered and did his 
 best as the Baron, Mr, Ashley played Fitzgerald's old part 
 of Villikins. There was hardly any expense, Clarkson not 
 coming doicn, and no new scenery required. So it gave the 
 club a little assistance, and the term was not allowed to pass 
 without a performance of some sort. Ashley played the King 
 excellently. So for F, C, TVilson as Ikla, and Burnand as 
 the Baron. The servant was very amusing, F. C. Wilso7i 
 lost none of his ancient glory as the original Dinah.'' 
 
 At a meeting held March 28, same term, it was 
 
 " Proposed by J. M, Wilson, seconded by W. Lysaght, that 
 after next term eighteen donors of three guineas shall pay half 
 subscriptions for two terms certain, or three if the funds of 
 the club admit.'' 
 
 This was carried by a majority of seven. 
 Then 
 
 ** Proposed by CHara, seconded by F. C. Burnand, that a 
 Judge and Jury be held in the large roon for three times in 
 the term and the club defray expenses up to two p>ounds. 
 Members allowed to bring two friends." 
 
 The idea of this was that we were to establish a sort of 
 debating society, under the form of Judge and Jury, within the 
 *' A. D. C." that the cases should be regularly got up, the 
 briefs drawn up, the rules of a court of law, civil or criminal 
 ascertained and carried out exactly. It was a capital 
 notion, but it was dangerous, as an innovation to the 
 **A. D. C." However, we had one meeting, when O'Hara 
 showed great skill as a Q. C. engaged for the defence, and 
 several of us figured as witnesses in various dresses. The 
 
Financial Crisis. 147 
 
 Avitnesses were obstreperous, and the stately trial threatened 
 to degenerate into an irregular free fight, as the judge wanted 
 to come down and assist the police, who, in the execution of 
 their duty, had to remove the refractory witnesses, or bring in 
 the prisoners. There was also a difficulty in getting any one 
 to represent the prisoner. True that, on the model of the cele- 
 brated Judge and Jury Society of " Baron" Nicholson's time 
 at the Coal Hole, the prisoner was allowed a cigar and what 
 he liked to drink, on the condition of paying for it himself, 
 and the utmost rigour of the law, if he were found guilty, 
 only condemned him to a heavy fine of glasses round, and to 
 be transported — with joy, at the issue of the trial. Everyone 
 wanted to be the counsel, eveiyone wanted to speak, and no 
 one ivould stop to listen to the judge's summing up. In fact 
 what with the comic witnesses, the police, and Robert O'Hara 
 as counsel, we never got as far as even half-way to a verdict. 
 
 After three trials the Judge and Jury was dropped, and we 
 heard no more of it. O'Hara devoted himself entirely to 
 the Union Debating Club, and was very rarely seen at the 
 " A. D. C." Certainly he never played again on the stage, 
 where, henceforth, there was but one Irish star, Rowley Hill, 
 under the name of " Mr. Gorman Bourke." 
 
 This brings us to the close of the Lent Term, 1857, and 
 consequently to the end of the second year of the " A.D.C.'s" 
 existence. 
 
 A. D. C, YEAR 1856—1857. 
 
 May Term, 185G . . One performance. 
 October Term, 185G . . One performance. 
 Lent Term, 1857 . . One performance. 
 
 Pieces played. — The Ringdoves, Norma (burlesque). Slasher 
 and Crasher, The Jacobite, In for a Holiday, Lord Lovel 
 (burlesque). Used Up, Dearest Elizabeth, Victor Vanquished, 
 Villikins [revived). 
 
 L 2 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 MAY TERM, 1857 THIRD YEAR. 
 
 On May llth there was a Committee Meeting, when were 
 elected — 
 
 MerthjT? Guest 
 
 . Trinity College. 
 
 — Saunderson 
 
 do. 
 
 And on the 18 th — 
 
 
 H. Snow 
 
 . Jolin's. 
 
 Lord Eichard Grosvenor . 
 
 . Trinity. 
 
 E.C.Clark . 
 
 . Peterliouse. 
 
 The performances commenced on Wednesday, May 20, 
 when we plaj-ed A Blighted Being, characters hy R. Pres- 
 ton, E. Hill, J. Thornhill, F. C. Burnand, and R. H. 
 Hohart. 
 
 After which An Unwarrantable Intrusion, Nathaniel 
 Snozzle by Mr. Gorst, and the Intruder by Mr. Bur- 
 nand 
 
 Concluding with, for the first time, a new burlesque, by the 
 author of Villikins, St. George, Romance under Difficulties, 
 &c., entitled Alonzo the Brave, or Faust and the Fair 
 Imogen c. 
 
May Term, i8^y — Third Year. 149 
 
 Of Eowley Hill, as O'Rafferty in tlie farce of A Blighted 
 Being, it is recorded that — 
 
 " He i)layecl it well on both nights, hut "better on the second 
 than either of them,'''' 
 
 " As Job Wort,'' says the record, " Burnund made a poor 
 Job of it the first night, Friday it tvas very good." 
 
 In R. Hobart for our female characters we were most 
 fortunate, and of his Susan Spanker in this farce it is said 
 that *' he never looked or ])layed better " than in this 
 character. 
 
 But there was a scarcity of heroines — the singing and 
 dancing heroines — in burlesque, and we should have been 
 hard put to it for an Imogene in Alonzo the Brave, had not 
 r. C. Wilson * kindly obliged the company ' by coming from 
 town to play this character. 
 
 I copy verbatim from the records a sort of apology for the 
 comparative failure of our first night's performance : — 
 
 " We must here give a short account of Wednesday's 
 proceedings, and show canse ivhy the performances upon this 
 night were not so good as they might have been : — At the be- 
 ginning of the day everyone was fairly tired out by the dress 
 rehearsal (8 p.7n. till 1) of the burlesque on the previous 
 vening." 
 
 (I wonder how that one o'clock was managed? Under- 
 graduates had to be in by midnight.) 
 
 " A new piece as a makeshift was settled upon on Tuesday 
 afternoon (The Umvarrantable Intrusion) and Messrs. Gorst 
 and Burnand learnt it from one book, and rehearsed it twice 
 Wednesday afternoon, from one till tiuo, and from five till six, 
 and this piece 2vas played ivithout needing a prompter. The 
 last rehearsal of A Blighted Being took place on Wednesday 
 
150 Personal Reminiscejices of the ''A.D.CJ' Camb. 
 
 afternoon, as also several of the songs and some of the 
 * hitcliing ' business of the burlesque ; so that from twelve till 
 six the time ivas taken up ivitli rehearsal, and everyone came 
 to the performance fagged and out of spirits. 
 
 *'The Unwarrantable Intrusion ivent very well. Mr. 
 Gorst made his debut very successfully, and by his universal 
 tvillingness and good nature on and off the stage, proved him- 
 self to be several degrees removed from a wrangler.'' 
 
 This alluded to Mr. Gorst's being if not ' a noble 
 lord ' at least ' of high degree.' He only played here 
 once. 
 
 As for the burlesque I find that — 
 
 " Mr. Bowleg played Faust in Faust-rate style.'' 
 
 This joke is signed " T. T." so I suppose it was perpe- 
 tuated by Tom Thornhill. 
 
 Julius Eowley got all the part in his head except two lines, 
 which he never could master. These were — 
 
 (Aside.) Well, of two evils, I the least must choose; 
 {Aloud to Dame.) As you're so pressing, I can't well refuse. 
 Accept my hand. 
 
 Which he invariably gave thus, — 
 
 Of two evils, I the least must choose, 
 As you're so pressing, here's my hand. 
 
 On which, one record has this note, signed "A." — (Evelyn 
 Ashley ?) 
 
 " This STANZA as it stands, sir, does not seem to come out 
 with a very harmonious eoll, eh ? {Roivl-ey)." 
 
 Here is the fac-simile of a pen and ink sketch of Mephisto- 
 
May Terjji, iS^y — Third Year 
 
 151 
 
 pheles, clone by a very constant attendant at our perform- 
 ances, Mr. Johnston of Trinity, who, during our under- 
 graduateship, illustrated an absurd poem of mine called 
 " Croke." 
 
 Johnston, fecit- 
 
 F. C. Bur.NAND AS Mepiiistopiieles. 
 
 Scene I. — {Thimdcr-r-Lightning. Enter 3fe2jh{stopheles through window.) 
 " Good evening, Doctor ! " 
 
152 Pe7'S07ial Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CJ' Carnb. 
 
 " The account of this piece in our book is interspersed with 
 all sorts of absurd remarks signed by different people, into 
 whose hands the book fell, for of course it was open to 
 any member to read. Here is an example, copied ex- 
 actly : — 
 
 ^^ Sijhel, Mr. Thornhill made a good deal of nothing 
 {vide business ivith jam pots). 
 
 " Note by Mr. Ashley — He played this part as if it had been 
 tvrittenfor Mm.'' 
 
 (So it ivas, stupid. The author.) 
 
 Then of Imogeneii is said — 
 
 F. C. Wilson kindly came from town to play this j^art, and 
 played it admirably. The success of his performance icas 
 *' the Cachiica'' accompanied by Mephistopheles on the casta- 
 nets, and Faust on the tambourine. This ivas nightly 
 encored. 
 
 Then is added in another hand — 
 
 " In fact Mr. Wilson did take steps to delight his 
 audience." 
 
 Mr. A. C. Lee is praised for his efficient prompting, and 
 Messrs. Lutwidge and Hoffman, to whom was entrusted the 
 duty of looking after the thunder and lightning for the 
 entrance of Mephistopheles in the first scene — which was a 
 faithful imitation of Charles Kean's arrangement at the 
 Princess's — are memorable in the " A. D. C." annals as 
 " The Boanerges, or Sons of Thunder." 
 
 Of Mr. Hoffman separately it is said that he lightened 
 the heavy business, and of Mr. Lutwidge that he might 
 have been appointed by Sir Eobert Peel as Master of the 
 Rolls. 
 
 Thursday evening we played, with the following cast, Tom 
 
May Tcnn, i8^j — Third Year, 153 
 
 Taylor's capital dramatic version of Charles de Bernard's 
 novelette Le Gendre, 
 
 STILL WATERS 
 
 RUN DEEP. 
 
 Jlr. Potter .... 
 
 . Mr. E. Johnson. 
 
 Captain Hawkslt-y 
 
 . Mr. ILuvLEV Charles. 
 
 John Mildmay .... 
 
 . :Mr. Humph UKY Duke. 
 
 Dunbilk 
 
 . Air. GOUMAN BOUUKE. 
 
 Langford 
 
 . Mr. D'Uleymer. 
 
 Markhani 
 
 . Mr. K. Phipps. 
 
 Gimlet 
 
 . Mr. P. Hef.lrk. 
 
 Jessop . 
 
 . Mr. Cp.esswell. 
 
 Mrs. Milduiay .... 
 
 . Mr. C. DiciBY. 
 
 Mrs. Hector Sternliol.l . 
 
 . Mr. L. FvNNE. ! 
 
 This, being a three act comedy- drama of considerable 
 serious interest, would have been rather too much of an under- 
 taking for us, had it not been that, besides several who had 
 played in Used Up and The Jacobite — the most successful 
 programme we had as yet put forward — we had an excellent 
 representative of Mrs. Mildmay in Mr. C. Digby. All the 
 other parts fitted the men like a glove. 
 
 On this occasion a very serious incident occurred. The last 
 scene represents the drawing-room of Mildmay's house during 
 the maiivais quart dlieure preceding dinner, when old 
 Potter — excellently played by R. Kelly — has to receive 
 the visitors. In order to give importance to the finish of the 
 drama, we had increased the number of guests, and anyone 
 who wanted to come on and say a few vrords as one of "old 
 Potter's guests," had been incited by the stage-manager to do 
 so. We had several volunteers, who all came to a rehearsal. 
 One gentleman — Mr. D'Uleymer — was most anxious about his 
 part. He had three lines to speak, I think, and having con- 
 sulted me as to his dress, decided on a bran new suit, a flower 
 in his button-hole, and a good half-hour at the hair-dresser's 
 before appearing at old Potter's party. He was to be "Captain 
 Langford," and was so announced in the bill. Unfortunately, 
 
154 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.d' Canib. 
 
 the only rehearsal he attended was without scene or properties. 
 He was satisfied with being perfect in his words, which were, I 
 think, *' How are you, Potter ? " and then, in reply to Potter, 
 " Deuced cold," or something of that sort ; and, as he saw no 
 door and no scene at all, it never occurred to him to inquire 
 where he was to enter. He knew nothing of any other stage, 
 and very little of ours. We were so hard up for space, that 
 Mildmay's drawing-room had to be set right up to the back 
 wall, where a conservatory was represented, about two inches 
 deep, widening towards the left, i.e., prompt side, by about two 
 inches or so more, just to enable anyone, not very portly, to 
 squeeze himself in between the scene and the wall, and then 
 gradually to screw himself out, expanding as he stepped in sight 
 of the audience, and throwing open his dress-coat, as though 
 he had lounged at his ease, into the drawing-room, through 
 the conservatory. Mildmay, who had to enter at back by the 
 conservatory, was crushed up in this manner for a second 
 before the curtain rose, as, the scene being one composed 
 of screen pieces, it was so arranged that all the characters 
 had to be at these entrances on the left hand side, hefore the 
 curtain went up, or they couldnt come on at all. 
 This is a ground-plan of the scene — 
 
 a. Entrance from Green-rocni on to Stage on 0. P. (Opposite Prompt) 
 — i.e., R. H. side. h. h. h. The back wall of the building itself. 
 
 c. The Conservatory — -where Mildmay was hiding previous to receiving his cue. 
 d. d. The walls of scene. c. Door of entrance for guests, 
 
 /. Door of entrance for Mrs. Mildmay, &c. g. The Prompter. 
 
 h. , on 0. P. side, a fire-place. 
 
May Term, i8^j — Third Year. 155 
 
 So it will be at once apparent that there was no passage at 
 the back for the guests, and all the entrances were on the 
 iwomi^t side , farthest from the green room. 
 
 Now our screens did double duty ; one side would be painted 
 as an attic and the other as a drawing-room, the openings 
 being filled up either with doors, windows, or fire place as the 
 scene might require. 
 
 It so happened that " /i." the opening where the fire-place 
 was, represented on the side away from the audience^ a door. 
 
 Everyone was in his place for the rising of the curtain, 
 except D'Ule}Tner, who was still beautifying, and who hadn't 
 the shghtest idea of the difficulties to be encountered. 
 
 Up went the curtain ; on went the scene. Keginald 
 Kelly received his guests, fidgeted, wondered where on earth 
 Captain Langford was, looked round, saw no one, went on 
 talking about the weather to the other guests, every now and 
 then casting an appealing look first to the door, and then to the 
 prompter, who was energetically making signs to D'Uleymer, 
 whom he could just see at the opposite corner, and shouting 
 in a hoarse whisper "Come on!" which sounded like an 
 invitation to a pugilistic encounter. 
 
 Kelly, aware of some hitch, contrived to go on with an im- 
 promptu vapid conversation, quite in keeping wdth old Potter's 
 part, and, in the meantime, the unhappy D'Uleymer was on 
 the stage on the wrong side, i.e., 0. P. instead of P. S., 
 utterly helpless, incapable of squeezing round by the back, or 
 as far as he saw, of getting on at all. 
 
 The prompter gave it up as hopeless, and struck with a 
 brilliant idea, he sent on Jessop, the servant, to say to Potter, 
 *' Captain Langford's compliments, sir, but he's very unwell, 
 and can't come." 
 
 " Hey? veiy unwell — can't come — dear me, how very sad," 
 exclaimed Potter, heartily glad that the difficulty was got over, 
 and expecting Mrs. Sternhold to enter, and the piece to 
 proceed. 
 
 But D'Uleymer was not going to be done out of his appear- 
 
156 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 ance on the stage in a speaking part after all liis trouble with 
 the tailor and the hairdresser. If a brilliant idea had occurred 
 to our prompter for cutting him out of the piece, an equally 
 brilliant idea had occurred to D'Uleymer of putting himself 
 back again. 
 
 Before him, on the 0. P. side, was a door. Evidently a 
 door. He was in happy ignorance of the fact that what was 
 a door to him, was, on the other side, a chimney-piece and 
 fire-place to the audience. To D'Uleymer it was a simple 
 door, and "nothing more." He had only got to pull it 
 towards him, and he was on the scene. " What could it pos- 
 sibly matter," he argued with himself, "whether Captain 
 Langford came in right or left ? " So acting on the impulse, 
 and, just as Kelly was standing on the hearth-rug rubbing 
 his hands, with his back to the fire, sayingf — 
 
 " Dear me ! I'm very sorry Langford can't come," he heard 
 a strange noise behind him, and turning round, he saw, to his 
 utter dismay, the looking glass over the mantel-piece suddenly 
 disappearing, mantel-piece and all, and in its place appeared 
 Langford' s head and shoulders in all the glory of a white tie, 
 open front, and flower in his button-hole, while through the 
 chimney came his legs, thus revealing the entire gentleman 
 himself. 
 
 Kelly literally staggered to the centre of the stage as if he 
 had seen a ghost, and uttered so strong an expression in good 
 old Saxon as to make the audience shout with laughter. But 
 D'Uleymer never lost his presence of mind, in fact he was not 
 aware, till afterwards, iliat he had come down the chimney to 
 the dinner-party. So there he stood smiling and undismayed, 
 the welcome but unexpected guest. 
 
 *' How are you, Potter ? " he said, quite coolly, extending 
 his hand. " Couldn't come before, I lost my w^ay." 
 
 "Lost your w^ay ! " gasped Kelly, who hadn't yet recovered, 
 " you must have — with a vengeance — why you've come down 
 the chimney ! " 
 
 D'Uleymer turned, and for the first time became aware that 
 
May Term, iS^J — Third Year. 157 
 
 he had not made his entry through the door. He had no 
 reply ready, except " Well, yes — you see — it's a very fine 
 day," as though the state of the weather would satisfactorily 
 account for his preferring to come down the chimney, instead 
 of in at the door. Then he simpered, twiddled his watch- 
 chain, and fell into his place among the other guests, as 
 though he really had no further explanation to offer, and con- 
 sidered it rather ill-bred of Potter to have made any remark 
 on the mode of his guest's arrival. 
 
 The reason for his coming down the chimney, subsequently 
 given, at supper, was that "he wanted to show his new soof." 
 
 It was hard work for the piece to recover this shock. But 
 it went on well to the end, and was repeated on Saturday 
 night with the burlesque. It was on this occasion that the 
 representative of Mrs. Mildmay secreted Mrs. Sternhold's 
 jewels and wore them herself, as I have already mentioned. 
 
 We were now getting on with what we called the * Lovett- 
 Sealy fund,' and the book shows a fair list of subscriptions, 
 signed by "E. Ashley, Hon. Sec." 
 
 On the 29th May, Committee dinner at Merthyr Guest's, 
 when we found our expenses for performance had been thirty 
 pounds, and our subscriptions forty. And on June 4th we 
 had a general meeting and an anniversary supper, when 
 Evelyn Ashley announced that we were only £130 in debt, 
 and that everything was satisfactory. I resigned my office 
 as Acting Manager, giving an account of all the performances 
 from the commencement, and Rowley Hill was elected to 
 occupy my post. 
 
 The Committee were — 
 
 A. C. Lee 
 
 . President. 
 
 R. Hill 
 
 . . Acting Manager, 
 
 M. Guest 
 
 . Stage Manager. 
 
 W. Lvsaglit 
 
 . . Treasurer and Sec. 
 
 — Evans 
 
 . Prompter. 
 
 K. Snow . 
 
 . . Auditor. 
 
 I find in a note that the exact amount owing at this moment 
 
158 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 was £200, so tliat our retiring secretary took a cheerful view of 
 the matter. Perhaps he calculated on the new subscriptions 
 for the next term, which would reduce it by about that sum, 
 or he took into account the Sealy-Lovett fund. But beyond 
 these notes there is no financial statement, and we evidently 
 got on well enough without it. 
 
 As to the supper, I have tried to obtain particulars of it from 
 members who were present on that occasion, but no one can re- 
 collect anything about it, everyone having a generally vague im- 
 pression that it was * great fun.' 
 
 " ' Ah that I cannot tell,' said he. 
 But t'was a glorious victory." 
 
 Somebody wrote to me to say that he thought he remem- 
 bered having a fight under the table with another man who 
 would squeeze lemons and empty powdered sugar on his head, 
 under the delusion that he was making some sort of cup; 
 but my informant is far from certain as to facts. Some- 
 body else asked me if I didn't remember one of the party, 
 unable to find his way back to college, passing the night among 
 the beer barrels which were stored up in the yard of the Hoop 
 Brewery. But if these things happened, I do not remember 
 them ; I can only find an incomplete record of the names of 
 members and visitors, commenced unsteadily, and abruptly 
 terminated. Was it attempted by our secretary at the table 
 itself ? This could scarcely have been, or it would not be in 
 my possession now. 
 
 With this festivity the May Term, 1857, as far as the 
 *' A. D. C." was concerned, ended. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 OCTOBER TERM, 1857. 
 
 During " tlie Long " I had been introduced at Beaumaris 
 Castle to Mr. Quintin Twiss by Lord Eichard Grosvenor, 
 who thereby did a signal service to the *' A. D. C," for 
 Quintin Twiss, being an Oxford Man, was eligible as a member 
 of the *' A. D. C," and I promised to propose him next term, 
 when he hoped to be able to act for us. He had already 
 a great reputation as an amateur actor, and the "A. D. C." 
 of Cambridge has since been gi'eatly indebted to him for his 
 kindly assistance on many occasions. 
 
 Of course Quintin Twiss was duly proposed, seconded, and 
 elected as early as possible in the October Term, during 
 which our numbers were increased by the accession of 
 
 Cresswell Tayleur . 
 
 . Emmanuel Coll 
 
 W. C. Strecatfielcl 
 
 . Trin. Coll. 
 
 T. G. Pearse . 
 
 . Caius. 
 
 F. A. Hudson . 
 
 . Trin. Coll. 
 
 H. Arkwright 
 
 do. 
 
 Honble. J. Leigh 
 
 do. 
 
 Honble. Lionel Ashlev . 
 
 do. 
 
 R. Wingfield Digby \ 
 
 do. 
 
 The ' Theatrical Week,' as it was now termed, began Nov. 
 18th, first performance, and the last performance was on the 
 21st. Four nights. 
 
 The occasion was memorable as the debut of Quintin 
 Twiss on our boards, and as the first appearance of 
 
i6o Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 Eowley Hill as the author of an original burlesque which 
 was performed every night. 
 
 Here is the programme of the first nights of this series. 
 
 A« »« C 
 
 This Evening (WEDNESDAY), will be phesented the 
 Faiice entitled 
 
 MY FRIEND IN THE STRAPS. 
 
 Mr. Nupkins .... 
 
 Major Capsicum . 
 
 Frederick ..... 
 
 O'Blamey 
 
 Grumpy 
 
 Caroline .... 
 Mrs. Capsicum .... 
 
 ;^^r. jimboly. 
 
 Mr. U. Glycove. 
 
 Mr. HUDDAUGHTER. 
 ;Mr. GOIIMAN BOUIIKE. 
 
 Mr. Nix. 
 
 I\Ir. F. HooLiSH. 
 
 Mr. B. Agpipe. 
 
 After which, will be peiiformed 
 
 TO PARIS AND BACK 
 
 (A Farce, in 
 
 Mr. Samuel Snozzle . 
 
 Mr. Spriggius 
 
 Mr. C. Markliam 
 
 Lieut. Spike 
 
 Pounce {a detect itc cfficcr) . 
 
 Joseph {a v:aitcr) 
 
 Superintendent 
 
 Telegi-apliic Clerk 
 
 Guard .... 
 
 Miss Fanny Spriggins . 
 
 E Act.) 
 
 ]\rr. Oliver Twist. 
 Mr. Nix. 
 
 Mr. HrMPHRF.Y Duke. 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 ]\Ir. U. Glycove. 
 jyir. Caston. 
 ]\Ir. K. Arrois. 
 Mr. F. HooLiSH. 
 
 Mr. JiMBOLY. 
 
 Mr. B. Agpipe. 
 
 Scene —T UNB 11 ID G E. 
 
 To CONCLUDE with THE SeRIO-CoMIC BuRLESQUE, IX 
 
 Two Acts, entitled 
 
 TURKISH 
 
 A TAIL OF 
 Or, me DORA'S 
 
 W^ATERS, 
 
 COAESE-HAIRj 
 PlilA'ATE TEAE. 
 
 Kedschid Seyd {the Sultan's Prime 
 
 Minister — "« Great Gun" Conrai 
 
 If ished to fire) .... Mr. NiX. 
 
 Conrad {a Roving Pirate, who hauled 
 
 cff other s property ; in fact, "he was 
 
 a man'" — take him for haulin' -all — 
 
 yoicll never look vpcn his like again) ]\Ir. E. Polee. 
 
October Terniy iS^y. i6i 
 
 Jumbo (a Plotting Lieutenant, one of 
 those warlike characters who liJce fol- 
 lowing their ^' Mars'" at home) . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Medora {the girl Conrad left behind 
 him) Mr. R. Krong. 
 
 Gulnare {the Harem Queen, who showed 
 her sense in not liking to he the wife 
 of a ''Seed") .... Mr. L. Etterbt. 
 
 Chorus, Turks, Guests, Pirates, etcsetera— especially etcsetera. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 Scene I. — The Island Home of the Corsair. 
 Scene II. — Apartments in the house of Jumbo. 
 Scene III. — Seyd's Palace during the Turkish Festival 
 of the Muzzymuzzum. 
 
 Invasion of the Pirates !— Abduction of Gulnare ! ! TERRIFIC 
 COMBAT ! ! ! CAPTURE OF THE CORSAIR !!!!!! 
 
 ACT II. 
 Scene I. — Prison in Seyd's Palace. 
 Scene II. — Island Home of the Corsair, — a run with 
 the YiVQ-g, and 
 
 GRAND FINALE. 
 
 Scenery by Mestrt. BROWN, JONES, and ROBINSON. 
 
 Costumes by Mr. W. CLARKSON, 16, Oreat Russell Street, Covent Garden. 
 
 Decorations by Mr. GAGE. Acting Manager— Mr. GORMAN BOURKE. 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. M. HOST. Prompter— Mr. A. ZURESKY. 
 
 Key to the names is — 
 
 Mr, Jimholy is Hon. J. Leigh ; Mr, U, Glycove, K. Pres- 
 ton ; Mr. Huddaughter, Hudson ; Mr, Gorman Boiirke, 
 Rowley Hill ; Mr, Nix, H. Snow ; Mr. F, Hoolish, Cress- 
 well Tayleur ; Mr, B, Agpipe, R. H. Hobart ; Mr. Oliver 
 Twist, Quintin Twiss ; Mr. Humphrey Duke, Hon. Evelyn 
 Ashley ; Mr. Caston, Mr. Digby ; Mr. K, Arrots, Streat- 
 field ; Mr, R. Krong, H. Arkwright ; Mr. L. Etterby, Hon. 
 Lionel Ashley. 
 
 The first night My Friend in Straps signally failed, owing 
 to want of rehearsal. In the emphatic words of the record — 
 
 ** The performers, ivith the exception of Mr. Snow, came on 
 the stage with very vague ideas about their exits and entrances j 
 
1 62 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.Cy Camb, 
 
 dec, {especially the etccetera) — which circumstance, added to a 
 very complicated scene, caused a complete mucker J^ 
 
 The last word ' mucker ' is very expressive. 
 
 For the next three nights, as the lever du rldeau, was 
 played The Practical Man, the rest of the bill being the 
 same. 
 
 The failure of My Friend in Straps was redeemed by the 
 great success of To Paris and Back for Five Pounds ; and 
 after the report of the first night had got about, the fame 
 of our new honorary member Quintin Twiss attracted the 
 largest audiences ever known at that time in our very small 
 auditorium. 
 
 The note here is copied verbatim from the records : — 
 
 " N.B. — Snozzle, tvho had come down from toivn on pur- 
 pose to take the part, did it to perfection, and by his great 
 humour and originality, brought down unbounded applause ! 
 He has particularly requested that it should be made known 
 for the benefit of posterity that his shirt front was not painted 
 on this occasion, {Vide picture),'^ 
 
 This allusion is to the studs, which were very large, and 
 Preston had suggested that to avoid losing them, it would be 
 safer to paint them on the shirt front. It was supposed that 
 Quintin Twiss had adopted this suggestion ; and it was gra- 
 dually circulated, and generally believed, that in private life, 
 Mr. Twiss was in the habit of painting studs on his shirt 
 front, in which art it was said he had arrived at such per- 
 fection as to defy the most severe scrutiny. 
 
 Everyone was examining the effect closely; some even 
 brought opera glasses to see * the man who painted studs on 
 his shirt front.' Extra tickets at increased prices, it was 
 stated, were sold every night in order to gratify the curiosity 
 of numbers who were compelled to come early, and submit 
 to be squashed, in order to get a sight of the celebrated 
 painted studs. 
 
October Term^ 1^57' 163 
 
 Members of the " A. D. C." came round into the green 
 room to ask him if they really were painted, and if so, to show 
 them how he did it. At about the hundredth repetition of 
 the question, " I say, Twiss, do you paint your studs ?" our 
 new Star began to think he had had enough of the joke, and 
 proclaimed aloud to all assembled in the green room, that, in 
 order to avoid further unnecessary trouble, he wished it pub- 
 licly known that he did not paint his studs, that he never had, 
 painted his studs, and did not intend to. 
 
 This was received with acclamation. 
 
 The noise attracted the attention of the audience, who were 
 awaiting the commencement of the burlesque, and some 
 among them knocked at our stage door to ask for an explana- 
 tion. The opportunity was too good to be lost, and some one 
 stepping forward, announced in a loud voice at the door of the 
 auditorium that " Mr. Twiss did not paint his studs as a 
 rule, but that perhaps to-morrow night he might do so, to 
 oblige.'' 
 
 This was inaudible to the Star in the green room, who, the 
 following evening, was not a little astonished to see that the 
 number of lorgnettes was increased, and was again bothered by 
 several members, strangers to him hitherto, who were waiting 
 about the green room most anxious to be introduced to 
 Quintin Twiss, who, accustomed by this time to reiterated 
 offers of hospitality — he could have dined and supped out 
 six times in an evening had he been so inclined, not to men- 
 tion luncheons and breakfasts — merely thought that each of 
 them was coming with some fresh invitation, which he re- 
 gretted his inability to accept. But now the form generally 
 was put dramatically in this way — 
 
 Smith {inactive member of '^ A. D. C" to stage manager or 
 some one in authority) — I say, introduce me to Twiss, there's 
 a good fellow. 
 
 Stage Manager {hurriedly). — All righi. Here, come on ! 
 I say, Twiss ! {apjproaching him). 
 
 M 2 
 
164 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C!' Camb, 
 
 TxvuB (pausing in the process of making up for Snozzle), — 
 Yes ; what is it ? 
 
 Stage Manager. — Here, I want to introduce Smith to you 
 — (Tiviss smiles, and hows, and says that as Tw'iss he is de- 
 lighted, hut as Snozzle he must proceed with his *' make- 
 
 np")' 
 
 Smith (apologetically), — Oh, I won't interrupt you. I'm 
 sure we have to thank you immensely — (Tiviss as Snozzle 
 smiles, and deprecates further compliment). Can you come to 
 supper this evening ? 
 
 Twiss (pleasantly), — Thanks — I'm afraid I can't — I'm 
 going to Hill's (continues Snozzling). 
 
 Smith (ivho is not going to IlilVs). — Ah ! I wish you'd been 
 able to manage it — (Twiss, intent on finishing himself as 
 Snozzle, expresses, in pantomime, his despair at heing pre- 
 viously engaged, loondering to himself tvho the deuce Smith is) 
 — but — I want to ask you something — (Twiss assumes an 
 affahle expression, and pauses with a harems foot in his hand, 
 and one cheek rouged, ready to afford any information in his 
 poiver, and Smith continues hesitatingly) — um — ah — do you 
 — do you paint your studs ? 
 
 Whereat there would be a roar from the listeners, in which 
 our Star couldn't help joining. 
 
 He thought he had heard the last of it when he went down 
 after playing on Saturday, Nov. 21st, but immediately he had 
 left, it was carefully entered into our record book by a hand 
 that I do not recognise ; and here I find this joke embedded — 
 a joke which ranks among those that are " so funny at the 
 time," and depend for their success so entirely on the circum- 
 stances and the situation — a joke which, as the record says, is 
 preserved for the sake of *' posterity," — and no doubt some 
 amongst us will remember the pertinacity of the members, 
 and the long-suffering of our honorary member twenty- three 
 years ago. 
 
 Another incident was that on his entering the '* A. D. C." 
 
October Term, i8^y. 165 
 
 rooms, where I took him immediately on his arrival, Preston 
 was the first to be introduced to him, and being a trifle dazzled 
 by the theatrical reputation of our visitor, he became con- 
 fused, and beyond some remark about it being a fine day, 
 when it happened to be raining heavily, was unable to start 
 any subject of conversation, and fidgeted about nervously 
 until a brilliant idea seemed to occur to him, which, beaming 
 all over as at a triumph of genius, he formulated in this 
 question — 
 
 " Will you have some soup ?'* 
 
 Twiss was quite taken aback by the sudden politeness, and 
 for a second was puzzled how to reply. As this was his first 
 visit to the University, he was a little uncertain whether this 
 offer of soup were, like the presentation of the loving cup at a 
 civic banquet, or the vin cVhonneur in France, a custom pe- 
 culiar to Cambridge, which it would be a breach of good 
 manners to decline, or whether it was only an impulse of 
 spontaneous hospitality which a prior engagement prevented 
 him from accepting. 
 
 Preston, however, would take no denial ; he seemed to think 
 that soup would act in some magic manner on Quintin Twiss's 
 constitution, and ordered a basin of some thick stuff from the 
 Hoop ; but, as we were compelled to leave before the soup was 
 ready, Dick Preston had to stay and eat it himself. The 
 story of the soup got about, and in reviewing Preston as Joli 
 Coeiir in Blue Beard in the Lent Term of '58, I find this re- 
 mark, which concludes a long critique on what appears to 
 have been a first-rate performance, " His onad scene, his 
 defiance of Ahomeliqiie — his pathetic maniacal verse — his 
 hoop-de-dooden-doo tag — were all hits, — he wanted but one 
 thing — * More Souji /' ** 
 
 A joke soon became traditional at the " A. D. C." when it 
 had been once started — and for years standing jokes were 
 never allowed to drop. When worn out by use, they are still 
 to be found in our Museum of Curiosities, or Kecord Book, 
 though who the various recording angels were, I am at a loss 
 
ib6 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb. 
 
 to discover, except when I recognise the handwriting, or 
 come across a signature. 
 
 The " chaff " is rough but good-natured, and there are 
 hardly any severe criticisms. 
 
 Mr. Digby in To Paris and Back so distinguished himself 
 as the Waiter, that it was pronounced to be henceforth his 
 peculiar line, and, henceforth, any waiter's or page's part 
 should fall as of right to Mr. Digby. He had his photograph 
 taken in this character. 
 
 Our collection of photographs was fast increasing, but, 
 twenty-four years ago, photography, at Cambridge at least, 
 had not been brought to anything like its present perfec- 
 tion, the consequence being that many of our earliest photo- 
 gi-aphs are partially faded, and some so completely as to be 
 unrecognisable. 
 
 Even now a collection could be easily made, as many of 
 our first photographs have been preserved in portfolios 
 by individual members. In the hope that the " A. D. C." 
 at Cambridge will become a permanent institution, with 
 its examination and prizes, as " an extra " duly authorised 
 by the governing body, former members would be glad 
 to contribute duplicates of the photos in their posses- 
 sion for the sake of compiling an historical " A. D. C." 
 album. 
 
 To return to the performance of this term, Rowley Hill's 
 burlesque was a great success. 
 
 " As * Conrad ' Mr. Julius Rowley " says the faithful 
 record, ** sang very well ; but, as he says himself , * acting is 
 not his forte.' In reciting poetry, too, he has a singular habit 
 of making such ivords as * ^^wJcZi?!^ ' and * crocodile ' rhyme, 
 tvhich gives the audience a very peculiar idea of ivhat the 
 author intended to say.'* 
 
 I wonder if the author himself penned this remark? I 
 think so. 
 
 Unfortunately there is no further notice of this burlesque. 
 
October Term, i8^y. 167 
 
 The opposite page was, it appears from its heading, intended 
 to be devoted to a critique on the Practical Man (characters 
 by Tom Pierce, Huddaughter, Nix, U. Glycove, C. Keeper, 
 Pickles, and K. King), but the intention came to nothing, 
 and there is only a blank where the notice ought to have 
 been. 
 
 The summary of performances for 1857, however, says — 
 
 " This was one of the Club's most successful performances. 
 Everything ivent capitally, with the solitary exception of * My 
 Friend in the Straps.' On the Friday night there ivere 120 in 
 the house, including members, and nearly fifty were turned 
 away from the door.'' 
 
 This extra attraction is attributable to the curiosity about 
 the " painted studs." 
 
 ^^ An extra night was given, ivhen the * Practical Man,' 
 * To Paris' and the Burlesque were played, Mr. Twlss made 
 a great hit. The ' Practical* was another. The acting of all 
 the members xvas a great improvement upon former occasions ; 
 yet, * meliora spcram^is.' We regretted the absence of some of 
 our old and valued members, F. C. Wilson, Kelly, Donne, 
 Fitzgerald; but even the * Used Up' and * Jacobite' time did 
 not equal this." 
 
 In spite of this contemporary criticism, I still adhere to my 
 expressed opinion as to the superior excellence of Used up 
 and The Jacobite. 
 
 There was certainly a great enthusiasm about this perform- 
 ance, which introduced Quintin Twiss, and, with him, the 
 " star system " to our boards, which continued for many years 
 afterwards, until later on it was found, that, to depend upon 
 the exertions of the non-resident and honorary members for 
 the performances, was injurious to the club and unfair to 
 the rising talent — or, as we used to call it, "local talent " — 
 among the resident members, and so, recently, the star system 
 
1 68 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C* Camb, 
 
 has been abolished, the "A. D. C." relying solely and only 
 on * local talent.' * 
 
 This brought the theatrical week to a close. It had 
 inaugurated a new era in our history. 
 
 The remainder of the Term was devoted to business meet- 
 ings and elections. 
 
 Dec. 7. — '^ Proposed hy Sealy, seconded by Preston, that the 
 Club elect memherSf and that one black ball in five excludes. 
 Carried by a majority of six. 
 
 " That any member of the Committee shall have the power 
 to enforce finest' 
 
 Kecord of debt, dSlSO. Signed by W. P. Lysaght, Sec. and 
 Treasurer. 
 
 So we were about ' as we were ' in the previous Term. 
 
 Then we passed another rule as to rehearsals, which were 
 always our difficulty : 
 
 " That no acting member , or the prompter, be allowed to miss 
 a rehearsal in the last week previous to the perfoi^m- 
 ance on any consideration whatever,^* 
 
 This is severe. No excuse ! But notice how *' or the 
 prompter " is introduced. He had inadvertently congratulated 
 himself on not being an ** acting member," and therefore not 
 amenable to the fine. But this didn't serve him, and the 
 amendment settled him — 
 
 " Unless notice be given to the Acting Manager 
 
 three days previously. Fine for total absence, one 
 guinea,'^ 
 
 This was severe on the Total Abstainer. 
 
 * Perhaps an exception might be made in favour of a *' Quarter-centenary 
 Anniversary," which would be in the May Term of 1880. A very strong 
 team might be got together for the occasion. 
 
October Term, i8^y, 169 
 
 We then went into tlie question of Club voting, and de- 
 cided that the ballot was to be open for three days. After 
 this we settled that the subscriptions should be increased to 
 enable us to take rooms, as a club, apart from theatrical pur- 
 poses, to include reading and writing rooms, &c. 
 
 We were expanding. 
 
 Hitherto the subscription had been one guinea per term, 
 now it was doubled. But the difficulty was to find the rooms. 
 The large one was still devoted to bilUards, and of course we 
 didn't wish to move our stage and our stock of scenery and 
 properties from our present homely quarters. 
 
 Our old friend Jones had long since disappeared, but his 
 name, coupled with "Brown" and ** Kobinson," appears for 
 the last time in this term's bill, in connection with the 
 scenery. 
 
 Mr. Gage was the paid local artistic talent, but in the year 
 1857 C. Lutwidge, of Trin. Coll., painted a proscenium for us, 
 representing the figures of Tragedy and Comedy standing in 
 niches under the busts of Shakespeare and Moliere. A scroll 
 ran along the width of the proscenium with the motto " All 
 the world's a stage," and the club initials, ** A. D. C," in the 
 centre. The same amateur artist also painted for us " the 
 conservatory flat " in Still Waters — a very eflfective set-piece 
 — and some other set pieces for the burlesque of Turkish 
 Waters and Lord Lovel, He had also commenced a design 
 for an act- drop. 
 
 The painting-room at the " A. D. C," which was of course 
 the stage itself, might have been, and may yet be converted, 
 into a school of art. 
 
 As we came to depend more on our members for everything, 
 stage carpentry, stage mechanism, painting, &c., so we 
 dispensed with all extraneous help, and Lutwidge and 
 Merthyr Guest— a worthy successor of our first manager, 
 Polwhele — might be seen, in paper caps and aprons, hard 
 at real work on the stage, thus saving the Club great ex- 
 pense, while adding to the interest of the performance, and 
 
170 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Canib. 
 
 strengthening their own personal attachment to the society 
 itself. 
 
 These traditions remain, and the offices of stage manager, 
 and assistant stage manager, and scenic artist have never 
 heen sinecures at the *' A. D. C." 
 
CHAPTER Xlir. 
 
 LENT TERM, 1858. 
 
 I HAD now taken my degree, and this was to be my last 
 term as a resident member of the "A. D. C." 
 
 We began by annulling, at a general meeting, the rule of 
 the former term about the ballot, and we returned to election 
 by committee. 
 
 Whereupon we elected : 
 
 H. Dent (Trin. Coll.) Proposed by W. P. Lysaglit, Tiiii., 
 
 secontled by Eowley Hill, Trin. 
 C. Weguelln (Trin. Coll.). Proposed by Hon. L. Ashley, 
 
 Trin., seconded by Hon. J. Leigh, Trin. 
 Bamett, (Trin.). Proposed by Hon. J. Leigh, Trin., 
 
 seconded by Eowley Hill, Trin. 
 Knapp (Emmanuel). Proposed by Cresswell Tayleur, 
 
 Trin., seconded by W. H. Evans, Trin. 
 
 And H. Robinson of Magdalen, was elected prompter, our 
 former prompter, Mr. H. Baillie,. seconding the nomination. 
 
 The minutes now appear in a clear running hand, kept in 
 a most orderly manner, and signed " W. P. Lysaght." 
 
 Feh» 24. — F. C, Biirnand proposed as President, vice Evans 
 resigned. 
 Mcrthyr Guest as stage manager. 
 Both elected unanimously. 
 
172 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D. d' Camb, 
 
 Feb. 25. — Committee meeting at the President" s rooms. 
 Were elected — 
 
 Lord Pelham (Trin. Coll.). Proposed by W. P. Lysaglit, 
 
 seconded by Hon. J. W. Leigh. 
 Hon. E. O'Brien. Proposed by Hon. L. Ashley, seconded 
 
 by W. H. Baillie. 
 Lord Brecknock. Proposed by Hon. J. W. Leigh, seconded 
 
 by W. P. Lysaght. 
 
 Then we passed seven resolutions as to non-payment of 
 subscriptions and posting defaulters, and determined that no 
 member of the Committee should be either a proposer or 
 seconder. 
 
 Our theatrical week commenced on Tuesday, March 9th, 
 with the comedietta of A Loan of a Lover, the farce of Two 
 Heads are Better than One, and the burlesque. 
 
 Here is the bill of the second nights 
 
 i5L« »« C 
 
 On Wednesday, March 10th, 1858, will be perfobmed 
 THE Farce, entitled 
 
 TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. 
 
 Mr. Strange 
 Mr. Maxvvelton . 
 Master Samuel {his Son) . 
 Charles Conquest . 
 Miss Strange 
 
 After which, a Farce, 
 BETSY 
 
 Mr. Marmaduke Mouser 
 Mr. Christopher Crummy 
 Mrs. Mouser 
 
 Mr. K. Arrots. 
 Mr. IT. Glycove. 
 Mr. Jim Boly. 
 Mr. Huddaughter, 
 Mr. T. HucKEGS. 
 
 IN One Act, entitled 
 
 BAKER. 
 
 . Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 , . Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 
 . Mr. Kickensnau. 
 
 Betsy Baker (a laundress) . . . Mr. B. Agpipes. 
 
 After which the Nursery-known, Child-delighting, 
 Baby-thrilling, Adult-tickling, Blazing Extrava- 
 ganza, with Original Songs, entitled 
 
 BLUE BEARD. 
 
 Baron Abomelique [the celebrated 
 
 Lcuhj-killer, surnamed Blue-Beard Mr. ToM Pierce. 
 Joli Coinr {a nice young man in love 
 
 with Fleurctte) .... Mr, U. Glycove. 
 
Lent Term, 18^8. 173 
 
 0" SI lack O'Back {groom of the Blue 
 
 Cluimbcr and '^Hcad " Valet to the 
 
 Baron) Mr. GoKMAN Bourke. 
 
 Bras (le Fer and Longue Epee {Fleii- 
 
 rctte's two brothers, very sharp 
 
 blades) Messrs.ToppY& Poppy. 
 
 Fleurette (a vewy poothij keathur) . . Mr. T. Huckeos. 
 Anne {^ Sister* Anne) . . . Mr. B. Agpipes. 
 Dame Perroquet {Motlier of the above 
 
 young ladies) ... . Mr, JiM BoLY. 
 
 Margot {A waiting maid) . . , Mr. Kickensnait. 
 A Page {one unread in history) , . Mr. D'Hummi. 
 
 Officers and Gentlemen of Blue Beard's ITonsehold, ti;c., form- 
 ing a Procession, and Chorus unequalled in anything of a 
 similar character {on this occasion only) by Messrs. W. Barlow, 
 S, Hall, Eeuben Wright, and the Batcatchefs Daughter, 
 
 Scene I.— "A COTTAGE NEAR A WOOD." 
 
 {Jones and Gage. ) 
 **Call me early, mother dear" — Arrival of Blue Beard — 
 Tlie momentous question — Who's afraid ? — And the scene 
 changes to 
 
 Scene II.—" CORRIDOR IN BLUE BEARD'S CASTLE." 
 
 {Gage.) 
 
 The forlorn maiden — Reviving effects from a blow on the nose 
 
 — "Tink a tink " — Return of the maniage party, who will be 
 
 found collected in 
 
 Scene IIL—" STATE CHAMBER IN THE CASTLE." 
 
 {Jones. ) 
 The happiest day of his life — Urgent private affairs — Departure 
 of Abomelique — 
 
 Scene IV.— "THE BLUE CHAMBER."— ((?a^e.) 
 A h(eadifying sight) ! — Awful disclosure ! ! ! 
 
 Scene V.— " ANTICHAMBER." 
 Fleurette and Anne on the key vive ! — What can the matter be ? 
 — The maniac — The conspiracy — 
 
 Scene VI. and last.— " CASTLE TERRACE." 
 Return of Blue Beard — Fleurette seized with terrors (terrace) 
 wishes she could slope — Investigation ! — Accusation ! ! — 
 Refutation ! ! ! — Deputation ! ! ! ! — Agonization! ! ! ! 1 — Frater- 
 nization ! ! ! ! ! ! — Fight in which (A) shone !!!!!!! — Flum- 
 bustification !!!!!!!! — Ending in a general congratula- 
 tion !!!!!!!!! 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. M. HOST. Acting Manager— Mr. G. BOURKE. 
 
 Property Manager— Mr. A. PENNIE. Prompter— Mr. E. CRUSOE. 
 
 Scenery by E. OAGE, of Sidney Street, and talented assistants. 
 
 Costumes and Appointments by C. W. CLARKSON, of 16, Little Russell 
 
 Street, Covent Garden. Music by Messrs. SWANBOROUGH. 
 
 Decorations by Messrs. GREEN and GAGE. 
 
 Books of the Incidental Songs, Choruses, Music, &c.,in the Extravaganza, 
 may be had at the door. 
 
 N.B. — 0?! Friday will be performed ''THE PRACTICAL 
 MAN, " by particular request. 
 
174 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.C," Camb, 
 
 It will be noticed that the scenery is now announced by E. 
 Gage, and the name of Jones has disappeared. " Alas ! poor 
 Yorick ! " The Messrs. Swanborough simply meant " White- 
 headed Bob " and talented assistants. 
 
 In the hoan of a Lover, C. Weguelin, under the name of 
 *' Mr. T. Wiggling," made his first appearance. He took the 
 place left vacant by Charles E. Donne, his line being the 
 same, but his style lighter, as he also played and sang in 
 burlesque ; but we still held to Eobsonian tradition as to 
 burlesque, and whether it was Alonzo, Lord Lovely Blue 
 Beard, or Turkish Waters, there were always two principal 
 characters playing extravagant parts with serious intensity, 
 which seems to me to be of the very essence of true 
 burlesque. 
 
 In The Loan of a Lover, the greatest praise in our record is 
 given to K. Hobart for his impersonation of Gertrude; it 
 says, 
 
 " Too much credit cannot be given to Hobart for the 
 literally wonderful manner in which he made up for the part. 
 His reading of the character was most careful. His acting 
 especially clever, F, C. Wilson could play the fine lady in a 
 manner not to be surpassed, but Hobart has taken a different 
 line than that of the soubrette.** 
 
 By " fine lady " I fancy the writer meant in his ignorance ot 
 technical terms, " leading lady," as I never remember to have 
 seen F. C. Wilson play any " fine lady," unless Mrs, Mild- 
 may came under that description. 
 
 Another new member, Partridge, acting under the name 
 of " Mr. Peter Perdix," appeared as Delve, and, says our 
 chronicler, 
 
 " Made it a part to be remembered by those who saw it. 
 His very original ' beer ' and * tvheelbarrow ' business ivcre 
 great hits. . , , Delve never will, and we venture to say never 
 has, found a better representative,^^ 
 
Lent Term, 1858, 175 
 
 *' But,'' adds the faithful Chronicler, ^' the wliole piece 
 was flat,'' 
 
 The Chronicler was then down on Betsy Baker played by 
 Hobart, Hill, Burnand, Knapp, and Digby as a page. 
 This didn't "go." 
 
 " The fault lies with Burnand , Hobart, and HilL Of 
 the first Mouser is not in his line, heing neither light 
 comedy nor burlesque , . . his acting is too exaggerated 
 . . . while Hill ivas too hurried and not sufficiently distinct 
 as Crummy," 
 
 The Chronicler's praise is given solely to Digby as tho 
 page, who is pronounced ^'Excellent," 
 
 Blue Beard by Messrs. Planche and Dance, with new songs 
 and choruses by Messrs. Burnand and Hill, was, like almost 
 all our burlesques, a success ; Lionel Ashley obtaining great 
 praise for his singing as Fleurette, while Hobart was a capital 
 Sister Anne, with whom the only fault found was, that she was 
 rather too jovial when her sister's head was in imminent 
 danger of being cut off. Of * Jimbo ' Leigh, it is recorded 
 that — 
 
 ** His careful playing of this small part (Dame Perroquet) 
 materially aided the success of the first scene. The stoop, the 
 voice, and walk, ivere all perfect, tvhilst the decrepit jig luith 
 which Mr. Leigh made his exit in the procession was delight- 
 fully funny:' 
 
 Preston as Joli Coeur — " his songs were all good.'* 
 Rowley Hill as O'Shack O'Back, " very funny — 0' Shack 
 
 never found a more humorous representative than in Mr. 
 
 Bowley HilV 
 
 He introduced a line about " what Demosthenes said when 
 
 he was sent for by his tutor,'' which turned out to be " Rum 
 
 turn tiddly um," or some such idiotic chorus as the finale 
 
1 76 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A,D. C" Camb. 
 
 to the piece, wliicli took amazingly with our Undergraduate 
 audience. 
 
 The Page was played, of course, hy Mr. Bigby, on whose 
 performance a high encomium — evidently in chaff — is 
 passed. 
 
 " The Page is," says the Chronicler, " one of those small 
 parts, pigmies to ordinary men, which in Mr. Digby's hands 
 become giants of his creative genius." 
 
 The summary says — 
 
 " The secret of the success of the Extravaganza was that ive 
 had nearly three weeks rehearsal, and the rehearsals had been 
 tvell attended hy the Band, Principals, and those ivho had little, 
 and those who had very little to do in the piece ... It was 
 one of the greatest successes we ever had at the * A. D. CJ* 
 We benefited much from the properties having been a present 
 from Mr, Pearse, Caius Coll., while Mr. Norman had given 
 five pounds for decorations. The last night ivas very good, 
 hut no one house has come up to our third night of last term's 
 performance which was a bumper" 
 
 The hit of Two Heads are Better than One, a very slight 
 farce, was made by J. Leigh as the idiot Sammy Maxwelton, 
 ordinarily a very subordinate part, while the success of Cress- 
 well Tayleur as Strange is recorded as a " triumph of 
 dramatic art.'* 
 
 On the last night Keginald Kelly and Evelyn Ashley were 
 present, for the first time, as non-resident members, and 
 heartily congratulated the Club on its continued success. 
 Ashley had played last term, but Kelly had not been in the 
 Club since the May Term of '57. 
 
 We now managed to reduce our debt to ninety-three 
 pounds, and our Secretary and Stage Manager interviewed 
 the landlord in order to come to some arrangement as to the 
 larger rooms en bloc. But in this they appear to have ex- 
 ceeded their commission, as the Club only required one extra 
 
Lent Term, iS^S, 177 
 
 room to be used in reading and writing, so that the Theatrical 
 part would be quite separate. It was inconvenient to have 
 members necessarily present during rehearsal, and as to stroll 
 in during rehearsal was one of the privileges of membership, 
 it was impossible to confine them to our small green-room 
 with its skylight and settees, and so shut them oflf from the 
 stage. The papers were taken in, and there was a writing 
 table. But these matters were of secondary consideration, 
 and the worst place in Cambridge for seeing a daily paper 
 was the *' A. D, C." room. However, it was all coming in 
 due course. 
 
 And now for the first time the rules were published. A 
 new committee was elected, the peculiarity of entry in the 
 book is the addition of " Esq." to each name. 
 
 A. C. Lee, Esq. . . President for the May term, 1858. 
 
 M. Guest, Esq. . . . Stage Manager. 
 
 W. Lysaglit, Es(|. . . Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 H. W. Hoffman, Esq. . . Auditor. 
 
 F. Smith, Esq. . . Property Manager. 
 
 — Eobinson, Es(|. . . Prompter. 
 
 Then it was finally announced that should any arrangement 
 be made with Mr. Ekin for an additional room, the double 
 subscription would commence from next term, and on the 
 25th March, 1858, a considerable payment on account was 
 made of our debt and interest to Mr. Sealy, who had so Idndly 
 assisted us in the Lovett difficulty. 
 
 The Club's prospects were flourishing at the end of the 
 Lent Term, 1858, which brought us to the close of the third 
 year of its existence, and me to the time of my departure 
 from the University. With the Easter Vacation of '58 I 
 ceased to be any longer a resident member of the Club, which 
 I hoped often to revisit, and in which I continued to take as 
 lively an interest as I had from the very commencement of its 
 career. Of course I could not help looking upon it as my 
 child, though but for helping hands and timely assistance in 
 
178 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A,D.C!' Ca mb. 
 
 its infancy, it could never have been reared, far less have 
 been able to run alone, though, as it still relied on '* Stars," 
 it did not succeed in doing this for some time to come. 
 
 PIECES PLAYED IN THE THIRD YEAPv OF THE 
 «A. D. C." 
 
 May Term, 1857. 
 (Four Nights.) 
 
 October Term, 1857. 
 (Four Nights.) 
 
 Lent Term, 1858. 
 (Four Nights.) 
 
 r A Blighted Being. (Farce.) 
 
 \ A Most Unioarrantable Intrusion. {Do.) 
 
 \ Alonzo the Brave. (Burlesque). 
 
 ( Still Waters Run Deep. (Comedy.) 
 
 f A Practical Man. (Farce.) 
 
 ) To Paris and Back. (Do. ) 
 
 ^ Turhish Waters. (Burlesque.) 
 
 C My Friend in the Straps. (Farce.) 
 
 r Betsy Baker. (Farce.) 
 
 ) Loan of a Lover. (Vaudeville.) 
 
 ^ Tivo Heads Better than One. (Farce.) 
 
 V Blue Beard. (Extravaganza.) 
 
 On the last night of performance this Term there was a 
 supper at, I think, Mr. Rowley Hill's rooms, where the Club 
 presented me with a silver inkstand, on which was engraved 
 under the initials " A. D. C." an inscription recording the 
 occasion and date of presentation to me as " Founder of the 
 Club; on leaving the University." 
 
 This gift was perfectly unexpected by me. I had not 
 heard a single word about it, and was quite unprepared for 
 this unrehearsed effect, when, after supper, which had been 
 simply one of the ordinary jovial gatherings, perhaps more 
 crowded than usual — " the more the merrier" — my old friend 
 A. C. Lee, placed something before me wrapped up in tissue 
 paper, and then, after a kind and humorous speech from 
 Rowley Hill, proceeded to " unveil " the testimonial. 
 
 I need hardly say how delighted I was at this token of 
 affectionate regard from my friends and companions. To 
 
Lent Ternty 1858, 179 
 
 quote the notorious swearer, who explained to the friend who 
 had asked him how it was he did not rap out an oath when 
 his new umbrella fell into the mud, " It was impossible to 
 find words equal to the occasion." I was poor in the expres- 
 sion of my thanks, but it was indeed from my heart I thanked 
 them, and not without emotion did I tell them how I should 
 always treasure the memory of a time I can now look back 
 to as the pleasantest, sunniest, and happiest three years of 
 my life. 
 
 N 2 
 
CHAPTER XIY. 
 
 FOURTH YEAR OF THE " A. D. C." : 1858 '59. END OF THE 
 
 OLD CHRONICLE. COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW RECORD BOOK. 
 
 The Star system had now set in at the *' A. D. C," and 
 Mr. Oliver Twist was always ready to give the Cluh the benefit 
 of his services. 
 
 In burlesque Kowley Hill seems to have been the leading 
 spirit; though for the next two terms after my departure 
 only one burlesque, Frank Talfourd's Macbeth (which he 
 wrote when a boy at Eton), was played, and that, as far as I 
 can make out, for only two nights out of the four in the May 
 Term performance. The record of it is chiefly confined to 
 an enumeration of the advantages of playing burlesque, " a 
 form of entertainment," it says, "which has so many attrac- 
 tions for our audience." 
 
 But a Domestic Drama was more to the taste of all con- 
 cerned in the management except Mr. E. Hill, and the result 
 was the following bill for two nights out of the four, and on 
 the other evenings the burlesque was i)layed instead of the 
 two farces. It was the first time that burlesque had not been 
 the feature of the series. 
 
 For my part, personally, I strongly incline to burlesque 
 for good amateurs, but never at the expense of true comedy. 
 In the particular case of the *'A. D. C," the peculiar 
 character of the University audience, mainly composed of 
 undergraduates, ought to be fairly considered before sentence 
 of absolute banishment be pronounced against burlesque. 
 On this subject I shall have more to say later on. 
 
Foicrth Year of the ''A,D.C" i8i 
 
 This is the first hill in which the name of " Mr. Tom 
 Pierce " docs not ai:)pear: — 
 
 Jc\.« jLjm. x^* 
 
 On Fkiday, AfAY 21st, 1858, will be kepresented the 
 Farcical Interlude, in One Act, entitled 
 
 THE FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE 7 DIALS. 
 
 Mr.Slumpiiigton {a retired hutterman) llr. GoR^rAN BoniKE. 
 
 ^ir M\\\\\g\\.9.vfnQy {cook d; confcctimicr) Mr. U. Glycove. 
 
 Mr. Twigley . . . . . Mr. K. Arrots. 
 
 Jacob Mr. Jimboli. 
 
 Mrs. Slnmpington .... iMr. B. Agpipes. 
 
 After which the Domestic Drama, in Two Acts, 
 entitled 
 
 THE HELPING HANDS. 
 
 (BY TOM TAYLOR.) 
 
 Lord Qiiavorly iMr. HuDDArcnTER. 
 
 The Hon. Calverly Hautbois . . Mr, Gorman Bourke. 
 
 Lorentz Hartmniin .... Mr. Darting. 
 
 John Mcrton ^Mr, K. Arrots. 
 
 Isaac "Wolff Mr. U. Glycove. 
 
 William Eiifus, alias Yinkiu, alias 
 
 Shockey {one of the shoe Hack 
 
 brigade) Mr. Oliver Twist. 
 
 Lazarus Solomon {apiyraisei' d: valuer) Mr. Raptap. 
 
 Margaret Hartmann . . . . Mr. T. Huckegs. 
 
 'Tilda Mr. Jimboli. 
 
 Mrs. Booty Mr. Kickensnau. 
 
 To conclude with the Screaming Farce, in One Act, 
 entitled 
 
 THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. 
 
 'Mv.V>onnYC?LsX\(i {alias Jeremiah Jorum) Mr. Oliver Twist. 
 Mr. John James Johnson . . . Mr. Jimboli. 
 
 Mr. Smuggins Mr. Darting. 
 
 Mrs. Boimycastlc Mr. R. Krong. 
 
 Helen Mr. T. Huckegs. 
 
 Patty Mr. B. Agpipes, 
 
 The Drop-Scene, which is eiUirely iiciv, was painted and 
 presented to the Club by Mr. LiUwidgc. 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. M. HOST. Acting Manager— Mr. JIMBOLI. 
 
 Fropertg Manager— Mr. A. PENNIE. Prompter— Mr. B. CRUSOE. 
 
 Scenery by E, GAGE, of Sidney Street, and talented afsi^tants. 
 
 Cosfume$ and Appointments by C.W. CLARKSON, 0/I6, Little Russell 
 
 Street, Covent Garden. Music by Messrs. SWANBOROUGH. 
 
 Decoraiiona by Messrs. GREEN and GAGE. 
 
1 8 2 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A. D. C. " Camb, 
 
 ** Mr. B. Agpipes " was K. H. Hobart, and the others will 
 be recognised by reference to previous bills. 
 
 The Chronicle which dismisses this piece as " rayther 
 flaV^ records the great success of Helping Hands in these 
 words ; — 
 
 " Would that our much lamented and never-to-he-forgotten 
 founder, siijjporter, and actor, F, C. Burnand, had been here 
 to witness this performance, as I am sure it would have 
 pleased him much. It was an entirely new style of piece at 
 the 'A. D. C.,* and many were the doubts whether it woidd 
 succeed or not ; but these doubts icere speedily removed ivhen 
 it appeared before the delighted audience : its success ivas 
 complete.'' 
 
 C. Weguelin, under the name of " Mr. Darting," instead 
 of as formerly " T. Wiggling," was, says the record — 
 
 " Thoroughly good. The acclamation and applause of the 
 house, long and loud, showed how it ivas appreciated. We 
 very much ivish F, C. B, had been here to see it. In a word, 
 it ivas wonderful."" 
 
 Equal praise is meted out to Quintin Twiss as Vinkin, 
 the 'Tilda of Jimbo Leigh, and the Hon. C. Hautbois of 
 Rowley Hill. Isaac Wolff and Solomon, the two Jews, 
 respectively played by R. Preston and Lord Brecknock are 
 spoken of as ''capitally played" — the accent and appearance 
 of the former being " 2)erfcct," while of the latter it is recorded 
 that he '' looked an unmistakahle Jew.'' 
 
 And now the old Chronicle begins to drop off. Here a 
 page and there a page. A few blanks, and then all criticisms 
 cease. 
 
 The last entries are — of a committee meeting held at the 
 Hon. J. Leigh's rooms in the October Term (Oct. 21st, 1858), 
 when the following gentlemen were unanimously elected, — 
 
Fourth Year of the ''A.D.C" 183 
 
 Beecher, F.Lee, Kowley, Augustus Guest, Alec. Baillie — of 
 a general meeting Oct. 22, " Nothing clone hut to receive sub- 
 scriptions,'' and of another meeting Nov. 3rd, when Ion 
 Trant Hamilton, Moncrieff, D. PoweU, S. A. Hankey, were 
 elected, and Evans (of King's), an original member who had 
 taken his name off when he went down, was re-elected on his 
 coming up to reside. 
 
 The pieces performed were Thumping Legacy, Tit for Tat, 
 The Victims, and The Irish Tutor. 
 
 On Friday, November the 26th, the performances were in 
 aid of the Royal Dramatic Fund. This was the first public 
 act of the "A. D. C." 
 
 I came up for this night only, and delivered an address 
 which has been copied into the book without any mention of 
 the author's name. 
 
 j^L. x>. e 
 
 23rd, 1858, 
 
 O.v Tuesday, Xovembeu 
 
 WILL BE PREFORMED AN ORIGINAL COMEDY, IN ThREE AcTS, | 
 
 BY TOM TAYLOR, 
 
 Esq., 
 
 ENTITLED 
 
 
 VICTIMS. 
 
 Ih. Merryweatlier {a Stock broker) . 
 
 Mr. HUDDAUGHTER. 
 
 Mr. Rowley {an Iiidian Merchant) . 
 
 Mr. U. Glycove. 
 
 Mr. Herbert Fitzherbert {a Literary 
 
 
 Gentlcnmn) 
 
 Mr. Darting. 
 
 Mr. Joshua Butterby {his friend and 
 
 
 humble Admirer) . . . . 
 
 Mr. 0. Twist. 
 
 Mr. Curdle {an Economist and Sta- 
 
 
 tist) 
 
 Mr. S. Mc MiAs. 
 
 Mr. Muddlemist {a Metaphysician) . 
 
 Mr. Potille. 
 
 Mr. Hornblower {Editoi- of tlic 
 
 
 * Weekly Beacon ') . 
 
 Mr. A. Host. 
 
 Carfuffle {Butler to Mr. Merry- 
 
 
 toeather 
 
 Mr. Gorman Bourxe. 
 
 Skimmer {Footman to Mr. Merry- 
 
 
 weather) . . . . . . 
 
 Mr. E. Kartz. 
 
 Mrs. Merryweather .... 
 
 Mr. T. Huckeggs. 
 
 Mrs. Fitzherbert 
 
 Mr. Sylva. 
 
 Miss Crane {a strong-minded woman) 
 
 Mr. Jimboll 
 
 Mrs. Sharp 
 
 Mr. OoHRE. 
 
184 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D C Camb, 
 
 To CONCLUDE WITH A FaIICE, BY J. MORTOISr, EsQ., 
 CALLED 
 
 A THUMPING LEGACY. 
 
 Fillippo Geronirao .... Mr. Darting. 
 
 Jerry Ominous . . . . . Mr. 0. Twist. 
 
 Bambogetti . . . . . Mr. M. Host. 
 
 Leoni Mr. Jimboli. 
 
 Brigadier of Carbineers . . . Mr. A. Host. 
 
 First Carbineer . . ... Mr. Bullock. 
 
 Second Carbineer .... Mr. N. Inepins. 
 
 Rosetta {daughter of FilU2>po) . . Mr. T. Huckeggs. 
 
 Scene,— GORSIGA. 
 
 On FiiiDAY, November 26th, there will be a 
 Performance in aid of 
 
 THE ROYAL DRAMATIC FUND, 
 
 AYlien the following Pieces will be played — 
 
 IHISH TUTOR. 
 
 TIT FOR TAT. 
 
 A THUMPING LEGACY. 
 
 New Scenes hj Messrs. LTJTWIDGE and POWELL. 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. M. HOST. Acting Manager— M}'. JIMBOLI. 
 Prompter— Mr. K. LABKE. Artists— Messrs. FOTILLE and N. GAGE. 
 
 Properties hj Mr. A. FENNIE. Dresses hj Mr. S. MAY. 
 
 Pen'uqtiier-Mr. CLARKSON. Leader of Band— Mr. SWANBOEOUGS. 
 
 [VIVAT REGINA.] 
 
 The Club had now two scenic artists among their own 
 members, i.e., Lutwidge and D. Powell. 
 
 The "Properties" had become a separate department. 
 Clarkson was no longer answerable for costumes, which 
 were provided by Mr. S. May of Bow Street. "White- 
 Headed Bob " was now announced as " Leader of the 
 Band." 
 
 The proceeds of the performance in aid of the Dramatic 
 College amounted to d622, which was paid into the hands of 
 the treasurers of that institution by Quintin Twiss. 
 
Fourth Year of the ''A,D,C:' 185 
 
 The address contained these lines : — 
 
 " We youtliful vot'ries of the Thespian art 
 Are called to plaj- a very easy part : 
 Our acting pleasure — 'tis for your deliglit — 
 Kind friends to greet ns — future prospects bright ! 
 Change we the scene — a sterner lesson read 
 In the poor player's life, whose cause we plead." 
 
 And then followed a very gi-im contrast, representing the 
 poor player in the depths of starvation, concealing an aching 
 heart under the motley garb, &c., &c. 
 
 The author doubtless thought it was perfectly true, and, for 
 myself, I'm sure I believed it, my general impressions of the 
 actor off the stage being founded on Charles Dickens's ** Dying 
 Clown," and on certain theatrical sketches by Albert Smith. 
 The address went on to say, that, for once and away, we 
 were playing with a serious purpose, i.e., the benefit of a 
 professional charity, concluding with this couplet — 
 
 " And for ourselves who labour for this end. 
 Pardon our faults, and what is worth commend." \E.dt, 
 
 Here finishes the Ancient Chronicle. 
 
 There is an entry farther on, under date 1860, to which I 
 shall presently have to refer, when the **A. D. C." joined 
 with the Quidnunc Cricket Club to give an annual perform- 
 ance during the ** Sussex week," at Brighton. 
 
 The new Chronicle commences with a record of a meeting 
 Dec. 4, 1858, w^hen the election of committee for the ensuing 
 term took place. 
 
 Lord Brecknock (Trin. Coll.) . . President. 
 
 Hon. J. W. Leigh Acting Manager. 
 
 D. Powell Stage Manager. 
 
 J. T. Hamilton Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 F. Lee Property Manager. 
 
 Alec. Baillie Prompter. 
 
 Hon. L. Ashley Auditor and Assistant 
 
 Acting Manager. 
 
 ^ 
 
 ff 
 
 r*" ^c 
 
 UNJVLrtblTY 
 
1 8 6 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.C!^ Camb. 
 
 As to tlie prompter, it seems to have been hereditary. W. 
 H. Baillie had been 'par excellence our prompter, and now his 
 brother was elected. *' Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds, 
 but Baillie Baillie." 
 
 The original mistake — mine — oi calling the stage manager 
 ** acting manager" was still retained, and was not dropped for 
 a long time, not indeed until some time after the Club had em- 
 ployed a professional to " coach " them, when the name of the 
 member who happened to be the stage manager was omitted 
 entirely (as in the bills now before me as recently as 1877 and 
 1878) and that of '' Assistant Stage Manager, Mr. Coe " (with 
 his town address by way of not losing the chance of advertise- 
 ment), or " Assistant Stage Manager, Mr. Horace Wigan," 
 with Ms town address. 
 
 The professional coach is, sometimes, as necessary for 
 amateur actors as the professional drill sergeant for volunteers. 
 But it is not in this perfunctory manner that I would have 
 the art taught at the university *' A. D. C." 
 
 In Feb., 1859 (Lent Term), were elected Henry Thornhill 
 (Magdalene Coll.), A. G. Knox, G. de Robeck, — Walford, 
 and G. Buxton, all of Trinity. "Mr. Oliver Twist" came up 
 as the star, and Weguelin, R. Hill, and J. Leigh were still on 
 the scene. 
 
 A« »« 
 
 Cn 
 
 BE Performed a 
 
 On Tuesday, March 15th, 1859 
 
 WILL 
 
 Farce, by G. DANCE, 
 
 Esq., 
 
 CALLED 
 
 PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT. 
 
 Hectic {an old hachclor) . 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 JiMBOLI. 
 
 Clover (his friend) 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 U. Glycove. 
 
 Stump {servant to Hectic) . 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 Mural Foord. 
 
 Bridoon {Serjeant of Dragoons) 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 Gorman Bourke. 
 
 Mrs. Carney {lioiisekeeper to Hectic) 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 Ion Trant. 
 
 Anabella {IwuseTceepcr to Clover) . 
 
 . Mr. 
 
 Knight. 
 
Fourth Year of the "A.D.C 
 
 187 
 
 On Thursday akd Friday will be Performed the 
 Screaming Farce, entitled 
 
 TICKLISH TIMES. 
 
 Wlien Mr. 0. TWIST will appear in the Cliaracter of 
 LAUNCELOT GRIGGS. 
 
 After which will be Performed a Comic Drama, in 
 Two Acts, by J. R. PLANCHE, Esq., entitled 
 
 NOT A BAD JUDGE. 
 
 Marquis de Treval 
 Count de Steinberg 
 John Caspar Lavatcr 
 Christian 
 Iktman 
 Zug . 
 Rutly 
 Notary- 
 Servant . 
 Louise . 
 Madam Betiuan 
 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 
 ]\Ir. S. Mc MiAs. 
 
 Mr. Darting. 
 
 Mr, Huddaughter. 
 
 ;Mr. U. Glycove! 
 
 Mr. A. Host. 
 
 Mr. Prettyman. 
 
 Mr. K. Notch. 
 
 Mr. Ochre. 
 
 ]Mr. T. Huckeggs. 
 
 ^Ir. Knight. 
 
 Soldiers, Peasantry, d-c, Messrs. Bullock, Picrcemount, Lucas, 
 Raptap, A. Zuredey, <0c., <Cr. 
 
 To conclude with a Farce, by JOHN POOLE, 
 entitled 
 
 DEAF AS A POST. 
 
 m. Walton . 
 
 Tristram Sappy . 
 
 Captain Templeton 
 
 Crupper {an Ostler) 
 
 Gallop 
 
 "Waiter 
 
 Sophy Walton . 
 
 Amy Templeton . 
 
 Mrs. Plumply , 
 
 Sally Mags . 
 
 Mr, K. Arrots. 
 
 Mr. Jimboli. 
 
 Mr, Darting. 
 
 Mr. Gorman Bourke. 
 
 Mr. A. Host. 
 
 Mr. K notch. 
 
 Mr. T. Huckeggs. 
 
 Mr. Ochre. 
 
 Mr. Knight. 
 
 Mr, Sylva. 
 
 Stage Manager— Mr. FOTILLE. Acting Manager— Mr. JIMBOLI. 
 Prompter— Mr. If. INEPINS. AHists—Mr. FOTILLE ^ N. GA GE. 
 
 Fropertien hu Mr. C. UTTIT. Dresses by Mr. S. WAY. 
 
 Ferruqttier—Mr. CLAEKSON. Leader of Band— Mr. SWANSBOUMNE. 
 
 The form of the programme is as different from our old 
 ones of '57, as is the elegant and over-perfumed programme of 
 to-day from the old flimsy, dirty, inky "bill of the play" with 
 
1 88 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.CT Camb, 
 
 whicli one spoilt one's gloves and dirtied one's fingers at all 
 our theatres twenty years ago. 
 
 Observe that White-lieaded Bob had protested against being 
 called "Mr. Swanborough." His real name was " Swans- 
 bourne." 
 
 Not a Bad Judge was specially successful, owing to the 
 playing of Rowley Hill, R. Preston (who came up to play 
 Betman), and C. Weguelin as Lavater. 
 
 The Two Bonnycastles was revived for the sake of Twiss's 
 Jeremiah Jorum, which had delighted everyone in May 
 Term, 1858. 
 
 The difficulty of getting suitable representatives of the 
 female parts seems to have been got over by Lionel Ashley 
 as Louise, and G. Knox as Madame Betman. 
 
 The Thumping Legacy ^ a great hit in October, 1858, was 
 also revived. So that there was not much novelty. The star 
 of Oliver Twist was in the ascendant at the close of the fourth 
 year of the "A. D. C," ending Lent Term, 1859. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 FIFTH YEAR — MAY TERM, 1859, TO LENT, 18G0 — FIRST 
 PERFORMANCE — NEW STAGE. 
 
 For the first time in the history of the Club there were no 
 performances to record in the May Term, " as " says the 
 record, " the only iccck when iheij could have taken ])lace ivas 
 the Keek of the boat races.'' 
 
 As if boat races would have mattered to us in 1856, when 
 we had two sets of performances in the May Term, The 
 elections were: — " Pouys and Aug, Campbell of Trin. 
 Coll., and II. Doyne of Magdalene. Hon. J. Leigh resigned 
 his stage ma^iagershij)." Here, in the record, the office is 
 called by its right name, but not so in the bill. *' And Mr, 
 Weguelin was elected in his place.'' 
 
 By this time A. C. Lee, R. Hill, W. P. Lysaght, &c., had 
 all disappeared from the scene, and the names with which we 
 first commenced are no longer found, such as R. Kelly, Donne, 
 F. C. Wilson, J. M. Wilson, &c. 
 
 The Club was prosperous, and the tickets were no lono-er 
 distributed in secresy. It had become a recognised form 
 of recreation both for members of the Club and their 
 visitors. 
 
 Already the tutors had given *' leave till one," to acting 
 members of the Club during the "A. D. C." week. This 
 meant that the time of being in in college, or in lodgings, was 
 extended beyond midnight, on the clear understanding that 
 
IQO Personal Reimniscences of ike '^A.D.CJ^ Camb, 
 
 none should avail tliemselves of this licence except genuine 
 acting members of the Club, This concession was almost 
 equivalent to a formal recognition by authority, and v/as cer- 
 tainly something more than mere " toleration," unless the 
 brotherhood of freemasonry with its Boyal Grand Master is 
 considered as merely '' tolerated " in this country — for the 
 Club, as regards the University authorities, was in much the 
 same position as is freemasonry with regard to the govern- 
 ment, which, when closing the lodges of the secret societies, 
 specially exempts, on certain conditions, the masonic lodges. 
 The " A. D. C." was in a similar position. 
 
 In October, 1859, they woke up again. Another term 
 couldn't be allowed to pass without a performance. During 
 the vacation Quintin Twiss had been invited, and, happening 
 to meet him, we talked over a new edition ofAlonzo, in which 
 he was to play — first time in burlesque — Alonzo, and a 
 popular air with chorus, " Sally come up the middle," was to 
 be introduced. 
 
 With delight I went up to Cambridge, having been as an 
 " active member " absent from the " A. D. C." shice the Lent 
 Term, 1858 — for the merely going up to deliver an address 
 does not count as acting — and attended a Club meeting, 
 Oct. 22, when it was decided that the performances should 
 commence on Tuesday, Nov. 29, and that the pieces should 
 be, — 
 
 My new version of Alonzo ^ now ready for rehearsal. 
 In for a Holiday (my farce). 
 Curious Case, a revival. 
 Helping Hands, also a revival. 
 
 Then were elected E. Hambro', Percy Lee, A. E. Guest, 
 — Newton, Hon. H. Bourke, — Plowden, F. W. Hudson, 
 all of Trinity. 
 
 Being once more in harness, Kichard was himself again, 
 and went to work with a will, the rehearsals of Alonzo the 
 
Fifth Year — May Term, iS^g. 191 
 
 Brave, or Faust and the Fair Tniogene, commencing on Oct. 
 24, of course without Quintin Twiss, who could not attend 
 until the last two rehearsals, but who was always a safe man, 
 sure to know his part, and be up in all his music. 
 
 Nov. 25 were elected members, The Duke of St. Albans, 
 Hon. A. Strutt, N. M. de Eothschild, all of Trinity. 
 
 A great success was anticipated, and the Chronicle shows 
 that expectation was not disappointed. 
 
 " So large an audience as that which attended on Tuesday 
 had never been seen on the first night of representation. This, 
 as icell as the unequalled success of the latter performances, is 
 doubtless to be attributed to the combined attraction of Messrs. 
 Twiss and Burnand, the return of which latter gentleman to 
 the ^ A. D. C boards was hailed icith great delight.'^ 
 
 For myself I remember how remarkably ''rusty" I felt, and 
 what a signal failure was my performance in what had been 
 one of my great successes. Here is the critique : — 
 
 *' On Mr. Burnand rested the ivhole ojius of the piece's 
 success, and in this, especially the second night, he perfectly 
 succeeded, as far as the piece in our opinion is capable of 
 going ; a lighter rendering would have been better, and Mr. 
 Burnand spoke too low, but through want of practice he has 
 somewhat forgotten that light and funny style which 2vas so 
 well depicted in * the Practical Man. 
 
 J )> 
 
 This was perfectly true. I was no longer a light-hearted 
 undergraduate, and in the time intervening between my last 
 appearance on the boards and this present one, much had 
 happened to make me take a far more serious view of life in 
 1859, than I had in the beginning of 1858. 
 
 I remember Weguelin's performance of Laurence Hart- 
 mann, " de old Hartmann," in Helping Hands. It was 
 really admirable, as was also Twiss's Vinkin, and J. Leigh's 
 Tilda. 
 
192 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A,D,C.'' Camb. 
 Here is the bill of the last night's performance : — 
 
 A« »« C 
 
 « 
 
 OK SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1859, 
 
 WILL BE PERFORMED, 
 
 A Farce, by J. MORTON, Esq., 
 
 CALLED 
 
 
 A THUMPING 
 
 LEGACY. 
 
 Fillippo Geronimo .... 
 
 Mr. J. Darting. 
 
 Bambogetti 
 
 Mr. M. Host. 
 
 Leoni 
 
 Mr. JiMEOLI. 
 
 Brigadier 
 
 Mr. G. Host. 
 
 Jerry Omijious 
 
 Mr, 0. Twist. 
 
 Rosetta 
 
 Mr. T. HucKEGGS. 
 
 To conclude ivlth a Tragical, Comical, Dc^noniacal, and 
 
 What-ever-yo^L-likc-to-call-it-iacal Extn 
 
 xvaganza, uniting in its 
 
 construction the romantic 2^<^hos of 
 
 the icell-Tcnoicn Ballad 
 
 ^'Alonzo and hnogene," with the thrilling horrors of Goethe's 
 
 Tragic Poem ^' Faust," by F. C. Burnand, Esq., entitled 
 
 ALONZO THE 
 
 BRAVE; 
 
 Or, FAUST AND THE FAIR IMOGENE. 
 
 Alonzo {jpupil to Faust— ^cho steals 
 
 
 time from his studies to join the 
 
 
 rifle corps) 
 
 Mr. 0. Twist. 
 
 Dr. Faust {ABC, XYZ, etc., etc.. Pro- 
 
 
 fessor in Muddleherg University — 
 
 
 %cell read in black letter) . . . 
 
 Mr. J. Darting. 
 
 Mephistopheles (a cicaracter—withoid 
 
 
 one) 
 
 Mr. Tom Pierce. 
 
 Sybel (a simple yoidh, the current of 
 
 
 whose thoughts flow in the direction 
 
 
 of TSLS^h&riy jam) . . . . 
 
 Mr. E. Carts. 
 
 Gyppo {FausVs servant-of-all-woi-1c. 
 
 
 who is too busy to apypear onorc than 
 
 
 once this eve7iing) .... 
 
 Mr. H. Ochre. 
 
 Bandini (a gentleman in an official 
 
 
 capacity at Muddlcberg University) . 
 
 Mr. G. Host. 
 
 Barco {his attendants — belo7iging 
 
 M. A. L. Hamrra. 
 
 By to to the K9 division) . . 
 
 M. T. Illcave. 
 
 Pipo de Clayo {a sergeant in Alonzo s 
 
 
 company) ..... 
 
 Mr. E. Paulett. 
 
 Imogene {the Fair par excellence since 
 
 
 the one at Greenwich has becti 
 
 
 stopped) 
 
 Mr. T. HrcKEGS. 
 
Fifth Year— May Term, iSsg, 193 
 
 Dame Martha {Itnogenc's nurse and 
 guardian — a good specimen of an 
 ''Ugly") Mr. JiMBOLi. 
 
 Sailo7-s, Students, Aristocrats, talented Individiuils, distin- 
 guished Foreigners, Soldiers, Stokers, Ladies, Guests, Umbrellas, 
 Thunder, Lightning, and a splendidly appointed and Victm-ious 
 ARMY {incliuiing a drummer), by 
 
 Messrs. Tip, Top, Peter, Piper and Pecker, 
 
 who Jiave been engaged for Four Nights only, at an cnormotts 
 cy'pense. 
 
 Scene I.— FAUST'S LABORATORY. 
 {Painted by Mr. POWELL.) 
 The AVish ! The Tempter ! ! The Compact ! ! ! 
 
 Scene II.— ROOM IN IMOGENE'S HOUSE. 
 {Mr. E. GAGE.) 
 The Cake— The Nurse— T/w Vmo ll—Th^ Review {not the 
 '* Saturday") — Departure of Alonzo — 
 
 Scene III.— A GARDEN.-(3/r. Poiccll) 
 The meethig — 'Take now this ring' — Unpleasant position of 
 Sybel — Triumph of ^Mephistopheles. 
 
 Scene IV.— A ^yOOB.— {Jones.) 
 Halt of maimed Soldiei-s— Scenes of my childhood — Tlie plot. 
 
 Scene V.— BANQUET HALL IN FAUST'S CASTLE. 
 {Mr. POWELL and ASSISTANTS.) 
 The apparition ! — Glorious and astounding denouemeut ! ! 
 
 Books of ** Alonzo " may be liad in the room, fir ice One Shilling, 
 aiid of the ut/ier Pieces at Mr. T. II. Lacy^s, 89, Strand. 
 
 Acting JJnnager—Mr. J. DARTING. Stage Manager— Mr. POTILLE. 
 
 Chorus Master— Mr. K. ROTCHIT. Property Man— Mr. E. F. LEA. 
 
 I>res*eg Ity S. MAT, Bow Street, Corent Garden. 
 
 Perriiquler, Mr. CZARJlSON, Little Eussell Street, Covent Garden. 
 
 Tlie success of the burlesque was unquestionable ; it went 
 better than when it was first produced in 1857. Twiss was 
 first-rate as Alonzo y and *' Sally come up " was encored 
 twice ; but the hit of the evening was an ad captandum intro- 
 duction in the first scene, of Mr. Augustus Guest, dressed as a 
 proctor, accompanied by his two bulldogs, represented by E. 
 Hambro, six feet four, and F. Plowden, five feet eight. They 
 were inimitable. 
 
 The situation is this, Dr. Faust in his study hears a noise 
 of students without, and sends for the proctor to know what 
 
194 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.CT Camd, 
 
 is going on. The proctor and his two followers arrive, inform 
 Dr. Faust that Alonzo the student is giving a farewell supper 
 to his companions, and then, on being further questioned by 
 Dr. Faust, exclaims : — 
 
 Proctor (excitedly). Excuse me, Sir, I can no longer stay. 
 {Rushes to tvindoiv, to whiclt his attention has been already 
 directed by the bulldogs,) A man without his cap and gown ! 
 Away ! ! 
 
 Trio. 
 (Air. — " Begone dull care") 
 
 Six sliil-lings, a fourpence, a fourpenny piece, 
 By these things our revenues increase. 
 
 Solo. — Proctor. Second jpart. 
 
 Oh, while he laughs and while he sings, 
 
 We can no longer stay. 
 Oh, if he likes to do such things. 
 
 Of course he'll have to pay. 
 
 Trio akd Dance. 
 Six okil-liwjs, (Sec. 
 
 {^Exeunt Proctor and hulldogs dancing. 
 
 This was encored six times at least — the Proctor and 
 attendants becoming wilder and wilder in their antics. It was 
 without exception the funniest thing, of its kind, I ever saw 
 on the " A. D. C." stage, and, considering its appropriateness, 
 I am not prepared to say that it was not the most genuine 
 spontaneously funny thing I have ever seen on any stage. 
 The point would perhaps be lost on a mixed audience, and 
 when we played Alonzo away from the '* A. D. C." Theatre, 
 we invariably cut out the Proctor and Co. 
 
 Now-a-days, on the same principle that caused the Lord 
 Chamberlain to interdict the performance of The Plapi^y Land 
 at the Court Theatre when the actors made up as Messrs. 
 Gladstone, Ayrtou and Bob Lowe, and to issue the order that 
 
Fifth Year — May Term, iS^g, 195 
 
 Mr. Corri should alter his make-up as the Shah in my piece 
 oi Kissi-Kisslj so now the Proctor and his bulldogs would 
 not be permitted to appear on the " A. D. C." stage, out of 
 respect to the authorities. I don't think it did any harm 
 to a single undergraduate, and the proctors, unofficially, came 
 themselves to witness the performance. 
 
 In the Lent Term, 1860, H. W. Hoffman was elected 
 President, vice Lord Brecknock, and Augustus Guest, Auditor, 
 vice Hon. L. Ashley. And N. M. de Rothschild was elected 
 ** assistant stage manager " at the request of the stage 
 manager, who found he had too much work to do. 
 
 The first important step this term was to discharge the 
 debt to Mr. Scaly, which was forthwith done, and the next 
 was to conclude arrangements with Mr. Ekin for the larger 
 set of rooms at a rent of £75 per annum. 
 
 A subscription-list was opened to defray the expenses con- 
 sequent on the change, the subscriptions were increased to 
 i21 10s., not doubled as they were to have been by a former 
 rctjolution. The Club was increased to sixty members, and 
 Messrs. Everett, Smith, Marryat, Osborne, Eeathcrstone- 
 haugh, Evans, Heathcote, Gurdon, Leigh, and C. Barclay, 
 all of Trinity, and Willis, of King's, were elected. 
 
 No wonder that Mr. David Powell wanted an assistant 
 stage manager, as he had devoted himself entirely to the 
 scenery, and had painted the whole of what was required for 
 the burlesque in the previous term. 
 
 The subscription-list soon mounted up to well over a 
 hundred pounds, and on March 6, 1860, took place the first 
 performance on the new stage. Here is the bill, which in 
 shape and texture was a return to the old original style. 
 
 Barefaced Impostors was played instead of a burlesque, and 
 I regretted that I was unable to be present on this occasion. 
 At all events, I had played in the first and last performance 
 on the old stage, and it was due to the " fitness of things " 
 that a new generation should now appear on an entirely new 
 stage. 
 
 2 
 
1 96 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D, C, ' Lamb. 
 
 A« »« C« 
 
 NEW THEATRE. 
 
 On Tuesday, Maech 6th, will be Pekformed the cele- 
 BKATED Comedy, by TOM TAYLOE, Esq., entitled 
 
 STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. 
 
 Mr. Potter 
 
 Captain Hawkslcy 
 
 John ]\Iildmay . 
 
 Dunbilk 
 
 Langford . 
 
 Markham . 
 
 Jessop 
 
 Gimlet. 
 
 Mrs. Mildmay . 
 
 Mrs. Hector Sternhold . 
 
 Mr. Mural Foord. 
 
 Mr. Sylva. 
 
 Mr. Darting. 
 
 Mr. Hake. 
 
 Mr. OcifRE. 
 
 Mr. H. UsBAND. 
 
 Mr. Hawk. 
 
 ]\Ir. 0. Twist. 
 
 Mr. F. Huddaugiiter. 
 
 Mr. Ion Trant. 
 
 After which will be performed the grand 
 Zoological absurdity of 
 
 BAREFACED IMPOSTORS. 
 
 Hclialiabaham {a 2Mcha of 3 tails) 
 ]\Iustaplia {his Vizier) . . , . 
 Bill Stumps 1 i'li'^oiidam proprietors of 
 Jack Hocus \ ^if original muted 
 ) Happy Family) 
 
 Ali 
 
 Osman Khan {cliUf executioner) 
 Achmet Aga {an officer of tlie Sultan) 
 Mirza Hadji Baba {chief keeper of the 
 
 vionkeys) ..... 
 First Ferash ) {thrasJiers of the 
 Second ditto \ peojylc) . . . 
 ]5arikallah {keeper of the Harem) 
 Jacko {a blue-nosed baboon) . . . 
 Sambo {aAi ourang outang) 
 Ayesha {formerly Jemima StumpiSj 
 
 nov) first favourite of the Pasha) . 
 Fatimer {second favourite of tlw 
 
 Pasha) 
 
 Various Choice specimens of Zoology, Guards, Slaves, and 
 Attendants. 
 
 Mr. H. U.sBAND. 
 Mr. E. AcooN. 
 
 Mr. 0. Twist. 
 Mr. A. Host. 
 
 Mr. Ochre. 
 
 IMr. A. L. HambrA. 
 
 Mr. E. Mergency. 
 
 Mr. S. Mc MiAS. 
 jytr. Hare. 
 ]\Ir. Ion Trant. 
 Mr. Oldpound. 
 ]\lr. Mural Foord. 
 Mr. J. A.Huddaughter 
 
 Mr. T. Illcove. 
 
 Mr. A ldershot Big Ben. 
 
 The programme is wanting in details. No officials are 
 mentioned. 
 
Fifth Year — May Term, iS^g, 197 
 
 An address was written by G. 0. Trevelyan, which was de- 
 livered by Mr. Weguelin as acting manager. The somewhat 
 ironical allusion to *' Dido's great author" refers to my 
 having produced my first piece at the St. James's under the 
 management of Messrs. Willett and Chatterton in the early 
 part of the jTar. The Drum-major was Mr. Hambro, six feet 
 four in his stockings, who was so effective as a bulldog on 
 our stage. 
 
 "Monday week" alludes perspectively to the " little go," 
 and the " clotted gravy and bleeding beef," to the execrable 
 dinners then given in the Hall of Trinity College. 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 By G. 0. TREVELYAN, Esq. 
 
 ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE NEW "A. D. C." STAGE, 
 MARCH 6, ISGO. 
 
 Spoken by C. WEcrELiN, Esq., Actiituj 'Manager^ 
 
 Bring them in. Prompter ; all of them. Why, bless us ! 
 
 What a vast heap of Prologues and Addresses. 
 
 Is't f(5r my own or for my parent's crime 
 
 Tliat I must wade through all this mass of rhyme ? 
 
 I'll read 'em out, and you shall help me choose. 
 
 'Gad ! here's an invocation to the muse. 
 
 " Descend, Thalia, from yon heaven descend : 
 
 " Tlie inauguration of your shrine attend ; 
 
 " Melodious goddess." No, not if I know him ; 
 
 It's too nmcli like a Chancellor's prize poem. 
 
 Here's one in Latin, all about Cothurnum, 
 
 And Sophocleum ; take 'em off and bimi 'em. 
 
 This seems the best. Kind gentles, one and all, 
 
 AVhether from Jesus Lane, or Humphry's Hall, 
 
 On Magdalen's jovial towers, or pleasant Clare, 
 
 Or the lone waste of distant Downing's air ; 
 
 We'll give each one in our several parts, 
 
 A brave house-warming that shall cheer your hearts. 
 
198 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A,D.C'^ Camb, 
 
 Compare this spacious area witli the floor 
 
 Where once you jostled, laughed, perspired, and swore ; 
 
 Fitter for some old unwashed Cynic's tub 
 
 Than for the home of our Dramatic Club. 
 
 How can our actors now they've gro-\vn so tall 
 
 Within such puny limits strut and bawl ? 
 
 At the Queen's rifle levee I'll engage her 
 
 To see no sight so flne as our Drum-major ; 
 
 Yet not without one fond and loving sigh 
 
 We bid our ancient stage a long good-bye. 
 
 For there full oft, marred by no envious hiss, 
 
 Loud swelled the laugh that hailed each tone of Twiss. 
 
 There he whose name we proudly cherish still 
 
 Dido's great author fleshed his maiden quill. 
 
 Is there one here whose brains with Paley reek ? 
 
 Who shudders at the thought of Monday week ? 
 
 Let him to-night, while laughing till he hoarse is, 
 
 Forget the parallelogram of forces. 
 
 Ye sons of Trinity, lay by your grief. 
 
 The clotted gravy and the bleeding beef, 
 
 The greasy female waiters, hideous vision, 
 
 And the precarious fate of our petition. 
 
 Enjoy the passing moment as it flies. 
 
 We'll do our best to feast your ears and eyes : 
 
 Forgive our faults and recognize with glee. 
 
 In a new dress, your old friend, "A. D. C." 
 
 I was considerably astonished when on going up in the 
 following term I found the new rooms, of which I have given 
 a ground plan. 
 
 The green-room was where we, the original founders of the 
 Club, had been contented to play, and the space "B" beyond, 
 which had served for our old green-room, was now blocked up, 
 or used for storeage. 
 
 Beyond the auditorium, and not shown in the plan, is a 
 club-room and lavatory. The club-room walls are now 
 covered with photographs, chiefly coloured, of all the charac- 
 ters and tableaux in the pieces performed from the commence- 
 ment ; but our old ones are beginning to look very shady, and 
 represent a period which, to most of the present generation, 
 must be more or less mythical. 
 
Fifth Year— May Term, iS^g, 
 
 199 
 
 r/?// 
 
 2/.' y. ^/c /f7J//e^i^'(/e> 
 
 j 
 
 4^...qjo.. 
 
 I 
 
 -! ^yjj.".. 
 
 ->^ 
 
 ?A 
 
 Green-room was originally 
 33' 10" X 22' 2" and 14 ft. higli. 
 
 Pbesent plan of "A. D. C." Cambkidge, June 12, 1879. 
 
 A* Tliis was the room where the first stage was erected. 
 J5. "Was our Green-room, which no longer exists. 
 C'. Door into Hoop Yard (down a stair-case). 
 J), Door opening into Auditorium. 
 
 jE7. JEJ. JEJ. These were the old Hoop Billiard Rooms after The 
 Union Debating Club had given them up. 
 
200 Personal Reminiscences of the'' A, D,C'' Camb* 
 
 The stage is excellent, but unfortunately not on an incline, 
 and while the depth is sufficient for any scenic effect of dis- 
 tance, the narrowness of the opening cramps the acting, and 
 the small space at the wings prevents any perfect stage manage- 
 ment of crowds. The height from the floor is not more than 
 four feet, and though a trap is occasionally managed, it is no 
 great improvement on our old plan of walking down three 
 steps, resembling those of a bathing-machine, and then stoop- 
 ing down, as though expecting a wave, until we w^ere hidden 
 from the view of the audience. 
 
 The opening of the new theatre, while commencing a new 
 era in the "A. D. C.'s" history, brings to an end its fifth 
 year of existence. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 SIXTH YEAR. COMMENCING MAY TERM, 1860, TO LENT, 1861. 
 
 Mr. Weguelin was succeeded by Mr. Grove as stage- 
 manager, and Mr. Hambro took the place of assistant, 
 vacated by Mr. Kothschild. 
 
 The price of seats was fixed all round at five shillings. 
 The three- shilling back-row being abolished. 
 
 So little did the once almost secret society of the "A.D.C." 
 now dread publicity, that the question was discussed as to 
 whether they should begin to play in their own names. The 
 result, however, was to leave this as they found it, and the old 
 oioms cle theatre were still retained. 
 
 Elected Messrs. Hervey, N. A. Langham, and Scholefield. 
 
 This term I went up to play B.B., a farce that Montagu 
 Williams and myself had written for Robson on the occasion 
 of the Benicia Boy's (Heenan) visiting England to contest 
 the championship with Tom Sayers. Twiss was to take Rob- 
 son's part of Benjamin Bobbin. But there was more than 
 this to be done. It had been decided that a testimonial 
 should be presented by the Club to Mr. Quintin Twiss, in 
 recognition of his signal services to the Club, always coming 
 at their call, and putting aside other engagements to assist 
 thematthe"A. D. C." 
 
 ** On June the seventh,*^ Mr. J. T. Hamilton, the secretary, 
 mentions, in his farewell chronicle, *^a7i illigant entertainment 
 was given to Q. Twiss j Esq., in the audience part of the 
 
202 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A,D,C!' Camb, 
 
 theatre. About forty-three gentlemen were present ; many of 
 whom ivere guests. The chair was ably filled by the Presi- 
 dent, Mr. Hoffman, and the testimonial, a beautifidly chased 
 silver claret jug, teas presented to our very active member. 
 The company broke up shortly after twelve,'* 
 
 The performances of this term, which were over before 
 the dinner was given, had not been so successful as usual. 
 The Wondeiful Woman, B. B., and The Omnibus were com- 
 paratively failures, though Mr. Bourke distinguished himself 
 as Pat Kooney in the second piece — we were always fortunate 
 in our Irish representatives — and we once more discovered an 
 excellent impersonator of female character in Mr. Hoffman. 
 Benjamin Bobbin was pronounced to be not in Quintin 
 Twiss's line, and Mr. Grove was blamed for lacking that 
 energy and spirit which had " characterized his three first 
 terms' performance." Perhaps his reading for honours was 
 taking it out of him. He never omitted acting, and in 1861 
 came out in First Class Pol, 
 
 Lord Lovel was not to the taste of the present University 
 audience, which had seen such a strong cast in the more 
 modern version of Alonzo at the last performances. The only 
 success here was Mr. D. Powell's scenery. 
 
 The orchestra was becoming a difficulty. White-headed 
 Bob and talented assistants no longer sufficed ; their " vamp- 
 ing" was not up to the growing requirements of the Club, 
 and the services of Mr. Sippel had for some time past been 
 brought into requisition. I think he became conductor, and 
 that our white-headed friend and his merry men — the 
 Famp-ires — still remained under Sippel's direction. 
 
 I know burlesque singing had come to be a difficulty, and 
 that when any one on the stage wanting assistance, looked to- 
 wards Sippel to take up the cue, or to give him the note, or 
 whatever it might be, he would either be met by a blank stare 
 of astonishment, coming from over the rim of Sippel's 
 spectacles, or Mr. Sippel would be in conversation with 
 
Sixth Year. 203 
 
 another member of the band, perhaps asking what the next 
 cue might be, in which case he would look up, and seeing that 
 something was wanted, would say audibly, **0h, I beg your 
 pardon — I didn't see." And then he would tap the footlights 
 in front of him sharply and look round at his men, saying, 
 *' Now then !" as though the hiatus had been all their fault. 
 He was very trying, especially at rehearsals ; but, with a few 
 notable exceptions, he was generally '' all right at night." 
 
 However, in the October Term of 1860 the Club expressed 
 themselves of opinion that the music ought to be conducted 
 properly, and elected the orchestra manager on to the com- 
 mittee, which was thus constituted : — 
 
 President H. W. Hoffman. 
 
 Stage Manager D. Powell. 
 
 Acting Manager . . . . W. C. Grove. 
 
 Treasurer and Secretary . . . T. F. Kirby. 
 
 One of the most active secretaries and best business men the 
 Club ever had. 
 
 Prompter (vacant). 
 
 Property Manager . . . . F. Lee. 
 
 Assistant Acting Manager . . A. F. Guest. 
 
 Ditto Stage ditto . . . E. Hambro. 
 
 Orchestra Manager . . . F. W. Hudson. 
 
 The proposition for retaining their own names in the bills 
 had been negatived last term. The Hon. H. Bourke, with 
 the true gallantry of his nationality, asked for a " Ladies' 
 Night," when the county families should be admitted. 
 
 This was an inspiration from without. 
 
 But the secretary, Mr. Thomas Kirby, asserts, and signs it 
 with his own hand, that at the time a strong party existed 
 among the Dons unfavourable to the "A. D. C," "as they 
 are," he sarcastically writes, *Ho all harmless enjoyment.'^ 
 At the same time he very sensibly adds, that ladies would 
 detect faults in the female characters to which the ordinary 
 University audience was willingly blind. 
 
204 Personal Reminiscences of the ^*A,D.C'^ Camb. 
 
 Finally, tlie Rev. W. G. Clark, Public Orator, was con- 
 sulted, and, in consequence of his advice, the Club for the 
 present decided not only against the Ladies' Night, but also 
 that they would adhere most strictly to the old rule of not 
 admitting to the performances any but members of the Uni- 
 versity, unless they came provided with a ticket signed by 
 three members of the Committee. 
 
 The elections were — 
 
 K. C. JeLb .... 
 
 Trin. Coll. 
 
 E. H.Wynne .... 
 
 
 do. 
 
 Hon. C. Lyttleton . 
 
 
 do. 
 
 H.L.Wood .... 
 
 
 do. 
 
 J. W. Hawkesworth 
 
 
 do. 
 
 Hon. W. P. Bouverie . 
 
 
 do. 
 
 Lord J. Hervey .... 
 
 
 do. 
 
 Hon. J. M. Henniker-Major . 
 
 
 do. 
 
 D. H. C. Henniker . 
 
 
 do. 
 
 J. Hamilton .... 
 
 
 do. 
 
 Hon. — Fitzwilliam . 
 
 
 do. 
 
 C. J. Fletcher 
 
 
 do. 
 
 F. H. Whymper, M.A. . . . ' 
 
 rrin. 
 
 -i.. 
 
 C. T. Royds, B.A ( 
 
 Christ's ^fi^"°,^^^y 
 
 Hon. E. M. Harvey, B. A. . . ^ 
 
 Prin. 
 
 \ Members. 
 
 And 
 
 Then, on the proposition of D. Powell, they began to form 
 a library. There was some slight opposition to this on ac- 
 count of the extra subscription, but it was decided in the 
 affirmative by thirty to five. 
 
 The theatrical week commenced Nov. 20, and there were 
 four fixed performances and one extra night — Saturday. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 VACATIONS — THE 
 
 18G0. In the August of 1860 the " A. D. C." joined with 
 the Quidnunc Cricket Ckib, and, after the Quidnunc v, 
 Sussex match, gave a performance at the Theatre Koyal, 
 Brighton, then under the management of T. Nye Chart. The 
 pieces were Not a Bad JudfjCy with Weguehn for Lavater, 
 ZuQy Augustus Guest, Evelyn Ashley as the Marquis de 
 Trevalf and myself as the Burgomaster, The Thuminng 
 Legacy y with Quintin Twiss, and Merthyr Guest as Bamho- 
 getti. The burlesque oi Alonzo concluded the evening, with 
 Twiss as AlonzOf Weguelin as Faust, myself as Meplds- 
 tophcles, Hon. J. Leigh as Dame Martha, Miss R. Ranor as 
 Imogene, and an army composed of W. H. and Alec Baillie, 
 R. Fitzgerald, E. Drake, R. Forster, and Quidnuncs ad lib. 
 
 In 1861 the Club again played at Brighton. The Bachelor 
 of Arts, with Weguelin, Balfour, Whymper (who had been 
 elected an honorary member of the " A. D. C") Whltehait 
 at Greenwich, with Twiss, Weguelin, Hon. J. Leigh, Mrs. 
 Daly, and Miss Marion Daly. The Seventh Shot burlesque 
 by Messrs. Montagu Williams and F. C. Burnand, Rodolph 
 (Twiss), Caspar (Burnand), Agnes (Miss R. Ranor), Anne 
 (Miss Fanny Stirling), Kilian (Augustus Guest), Prince 
 Ottacar (Miss Pauline Burette). 
 
 In 1862, at Brighton, A Curious Case. F. Whymper as 
 Auhreij, Frank Marshall (Hon. Mem. of " A. D. C." as an 
 Oxford man, 2^^'o tern.) Charles TwigglctoUf Burnand, Mrs, 
 
2o6 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.C!' Camb. 
 
 Auhreyy Miss Booth. Quintin Twiss, Weguelin, and the 
 " Guest family " were absent. There was an interlude by 
 the corps de ballet of the Theatre, and afterwards was played 
 Alonzo the Brave (burlesque), with the following cast : 
 Alonzo, Miss Marion Daly ; Dame MartJia, Mrs. R. Soutar ; 
 Faust, Miss Ruth ; Imogcne, Miss Pauline Burette ; MepMs- 
 topheleSy F. C. Burnand ; Syhil, F. Marshall. The army by 
 Robt. Fitzgerald, M. C. C. as sergeant, W. H. Baillie, Alec 
 Baillie, Biron, E. Drake, Hoblyn (drummer) R. Forster. They 
 were excellent, and " Sally come up ! " was loudly encored. 
 
 In 1863, August 22. Another performance to a crowded 
 house. Two Bonnycastles, with Twiss in the principal role, 
 and the burlesque of Aladdmy with Twiss as Widow Twari- 
 kapy Hon. C. Carington as Aladdin, F. C. Burnand asAbana- 
 zar, Miss R. Ranoe as Pekoe, and P. Finch as Sidtan, 
 
 There was another performance in 1864, when we did the 
 Critic, with Mr. Brandram as Don Whiskerandos, but, I 
 think, in consequence of the difficulty of getting the team 
 together, this was the last of the " A. D. C." and Quidnuncs 
 at Brighton. 
 
 Mr. Brandram and Mr. F. A. Marshall, \Vho kindly gave 
 us their assistance, were never elected as regular honorary 
 members of the Cambridge "A. D. C." ; at least there is no 
 record of their election in the Club books. As Oxonians they 
 were eligible. 
 
CHAPTEE XVIII. 
 
 END OF SIXTH YEAR — EXTRACTS FROM THE KIRBY COLLECTION. 
 
 The following extract comes from the Annals j)?*o tcm., 
 as kept by the Club's most conscientious and energetic 
 Secretary, Mr. Kirby : — 
 
 *' Theatrical Week, February 2GTn, 27Tn, 28th, 
 March 1st, 2nd, 1861. 
 
 *' The performances this term were prepared with great 
 care and much cost, as it had been resolved that on Saturday, 
 March 2nd, on which evening the Prince of Wales attended, 
 ladies should be invited. It was a hazardous venture, and 
 one which received deep consideration, but it was attended 
 with great success. After reviewing the pieces which were 
 then acted shortly, a more detailed account of it shall be 
 given. 
 
 " The following plays were acted by the members : — 
 
 Not a Bad JiulgCy 
 A Thiimjnng Legacy, 
 Taming of a 'Tiger, 
 Retained for the Defence, and 
 The Fair Maid of Wajijnng, 
 
 a T.-P.-Cookical and romantlcal burlesque written for the 
 'A. D. C by Messrs. M. Williams and F. C. Burnand. 
 For the first time since the foundation of the Club the actors 
 played under their own names, and those ingenious sobriquets 
 
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 wliicli reflected so much credit on the ingenuity of their in- 
 ventors, and amused the audience while the scenes were heing 
 shifted, were now discarded. The reasons need not be parti- 
 cularised which led to the establishment of this time-honoured 
 custom, as they no longer exist ; but we cannot help thinking 
 that tMs custom, at any rate, might have been honoured by 
 observance, in a Club which, generally speaking, adheres so 
 closely to its old institutions." 
 
 The allusion is of course to our first state of existence as a 
 secret society, afraid. to let our names be known, and keeping 
 our whereabouts concealed from all but the initiated. 
 
 The new state of affairs, so different to what we had been 
 accustomed to only six years before, considerably astonished 
 our friends. F. C. "Wilson also reappeared, *' by particular 
 desire for this occasion only," to play in ISlot a Bad Judge and 
 A Thumjnng Legacy. 
 
 Here is the Secretary's account of it : — 
 
 " Mr. Becker, with his usual kindness, undertook the ser- 
 vant's part. 
 
 "Few here now recollect Mr. F. C. Wilson's triumphs in 
 St, George and the Dragon^ Still Waters, &c. ; but that 
 he has forgotten none of his old skill during an absence of 
 several years was soon clear. The vivacity united with pathos 
 displayed by him, as Louise, proved such a true picture of 
 woman's character as has not been seen since he last played 
 here. Our other actors of female parts limit themselves to 
 the beauty of repose, Mr. Wilson can delineate the finer feel- 
 ings of a woman's nature. His hands and action in general 
 are wonderfully correct, and his voice justly modulated. 
 
 *' Madame Bctman ]Jsiv. D. Henniker] looked the gay 
 matron all over, and played her part with some tact. 
 
 A THUMPING LEGACY 
 has been played twice before by the ' A. D. C.,' so needs 
 
End of Sixth Year. 209 
 
 few remarks now ; many of the performers now having played 
 
 in it on the last occasion. 
 
 Filippo Mr. "Weguelin. 
 
 Leoni Mr. Hawkesworth. 
 
 Bambogetti Mr. Steward. 
 
 Brigadier Mr. Guest. 
 
 Jerry Ominous Mr. Twiss. 
 
 Carbineers Lord Hervey and 
 
 Mr. Bankes. 
 
 Rosetta Mr. Wilson. 
 
 " The piece went well, better than any of the other pieces. 
 Indeed on the Saturday night it went without a fault. Mr. 
 Weguelin, Mr. Guest, and Mr. Twiss took the same charac- 
 ters as before, and played them very well. 
 
 *' Mr. Hawkesworth as Leoni was spirited, especially in the 
 quarrel with Bambogetti, His anger was most capitally 
 assumed, and the gradual rise of his wrath when induced by 
 Jerry Ominous to pick the quarrel with Bambogetti, was 
 artistically depicted. Mr. Steward made his d^but as Bam,- 
 bogetti, and showed great power of comic acting. Indeed he 
 shows as much promise as any who have lately appeared ; we 
 only hope that he will continue to study his part as carefully 
 as he has done. 
 
 " Eosetta [Mr. Wilson] added much to the success of this 
 piece by her spirited way of showing that she had a way of her 
 own. She drew the dagger as if she meant it, and we can 
 understand poor Jerry's alarm. 
 
 TAMING THE TIGER. 
 
 Charles Beeswing • ♦ . . Mr. Grove. 
 Mr. Chili Chutnee . « • • • Mr. Weguelin, 
 Jacob Mutter Mr. Steward. 
 
 " A very tolerable * first piece,' and that was all. Mr. 
 Grove was, we must confess, not as good as he might have 
 been in it. Mr. Weguelin, too, took the part of Chili Chut- 
 nee, at eight hours' notice, Mr. Usborne, our * first old man,' 
 having been seized by an attack of rheumatism. Under this 
 
2IO Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.d' Camb, 
 
 disadvantage all we can say is, that lie played as well as we 
 could expect. The only interest in the piece was centered in 
 Jacob Mutter, who was in look, voice, and gesture most 
 comic, and, we may say, saved the piece. What fun there 
 was in the play could be heard by every one, for, unlike some 
 whom we might name, all three actors spoke up through- 
 out." 
 
 The following speaks well for the proficiency of the scenic 
 artists, all Club members, and gives a fair account of the 
 burlesque : — 
 
 *' It was necessary to have the theatrical week early — 
 delays also took place in printing the piece ; consequently, 
 when it at last came down, only ten days remained for 
 rehearsing a piece of the most elaborate kind that has 
 ever been *put on' here. We were, however, lucky in 
 five painters, Messrs. Powell, Bouverie, Hambro, Hoffman, 
 and Woodroffe, who worked at the seven scenes with un- 
 tiring energy, as well as several others whose ambition 
 reached no higher than laying on the first coat of ground- 
 colour. Attendance at rehearsals, we are sorry to say, was 
 not kept with the same punctuality as during the last term. 
 Performers should always recollect that the absence of one 
 character for even ten minutes, keeps all the others waiting, 
 and when this is repeated, others lose confidence and become 
 also unpunctual. Therefore, on Tuesday night the piece 
 dragged its weary way along until 12 o'clock, and it became 
 evident that it must be compressed, and so we cut out. Then 
 it improved nightly, and latterly TNjas v^ry good. 
 
 " The incidents are of a tolerably stirring sort throughout; 
 no situations so strong as some* in The Seventh Shot, but 
 its end is far more powerful than the end of that play, which 
 was quite weak. 
 
 *' Scene 1st, Wapping, with a view of the Thames, ex- 
 tremely well painted by Powell. The imbecility of the water- 
 men made the beginning lame : a roar of laughter followed, 
 
End of Sixth Year, 2 1 1 
 
 when Billy rowed across the stage and danced in. He sings 
 a very good song * Did you ever hear of a jolly young water- 
 man,' and retires to prepare for the impending boat-race, for 
 which he is in strict training. Volhj enters and is followed 
 by BlackhroWf who in set terms declares his love, but is 
 rejected. The duet — 
 
 " * Ah ; my ear, your wit's a 
 
 Decidedly 
 
 high-deadly blow." 
 
 is a pretty one. Mr. Burnand was unable to sing in his 
 usually effective manner, having scarcely recovered from an 
 attack of bronchitis. Mr. Hudson sang it very fairly : it is 
 impossible to criticise a song like this where one of the per- 
 formers was incapacitated from singing, except with great 
 efforts ; otherwise it would have been very well received. 
 
 " Act II. A Carpenter's Scene. Blackhrow and Jonas 
 concert measures for vengeance. It is curious how different 
 Mr. Augustus Guest is in different characters and situations. 
 Single words and half lines he always gives with great effect, 
 and quite as they should be given, but he really quite spoilt 
 this very comic speech by a kind of hesitation that never 
 ought to beset him." 
 
 The next scene would have been utterly impracticable on 
 our old stage in the small room. 
 
 *' The shipwreck takes place. 
 
 ** It was most ably arranged by Messrs. Powell and 
 Hoffman. 
 
 ** Amid thunder and lightning the winged clouds, or clouds 
 from the wings, cover all the wretched victims, and a drop 
 painted by Mr. Hoffman is lowered, showing the crew on a 
 raft at sea. 
 
 " This was well done ; but as much had to be changed on 
 the first night, it was kept down twenty minutes, during 
 which thunder and lightning continued until, as one in the 
 audience was heard to say, ' flesh and blood could stand it 
 
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2 1 2 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb, 
 
 no longer.* On the subsequent nights, however, a species 
 of bearfight or horseplay of savages was introduced, which 
 served to amuse the audience (who could not in the least tell 
 what it was all about), until the drop rising disclosed — 
 
 " Scene YI. * The shores of Catchemalivica.' Too much 
 cannot be said in praise of the painting of this scene. If any 
 fault could be found, perhaps it was this, that the back drop 
 was a little too distinct. Had it been less so, perhaps a still 
 more effective illusion of distance might have been produced. 
 A member had walked through the gauze-drop before the 
 performance, which injured it slightly. But no doubt it was 
 * the ' scene of the play — the savage dance was both novel and 
 effective. Mr. Arthur Guest did his part exceeding well, 
 and his make-up was irresistible." 
 
 The County Night, March 2, 1861, was a novelty with a 
 vengeance : here is an account taken from a weekly journal, 
 then existing, called the Drawing Boom : — 
 
 " Amateur Theatricals at Cambridge. 
 
 " The * A. D. C Club, which, with the exception of one or 
 two honorary members — old Cantabs — consists of under- 
 graduates of the University, gave a series of performances 
 last week, and their efforts met with an unusual amount of 
 success. In addition to the resident undergraduates, Messrs. 
 Weguelin, Twiss, and Burnand, honorary members, kindly lent 
 their assistance on this occasion ; and a new burlesque from 
 the joint pens of Messrs. Montagu Williams and F. C. 
 Burnand, written expressly for the Club, was produced each 
 evening during the week. The house was crowded nightly, 
 but as the Prince of "Wales had signified his intention of being 
 present on Saturday evening, and the Heads of the University, 
 for the first time since the formation of the * A. D. C had 
 consented to allow ladies to be admitted, that was of course 
 ' the ' evening of the week, and the entertainments passed off 
 with the greatest possible ^claL As soon as the doors were 
 
End of Sixth Year. 2 1 3 
 
 opened, the theatre was at once filled with the members of the 
 University, and ladies and gentlemen from the county, and 
 several who had come expressly from London. Immediately 
 after the arrival of H.B.H. the Prince of Wales, the curtain 
 was raised, and the performance commenced with Planch^' s 
 comic drama of Not a Bad Judge, the characters in which 
 were sustained by Messrs. Weguelin, Grove, Hawkesworth, 
 Burnand, A. Guest, Grant, Becher and Henricher. The Lavater 
 of Mr. Weguelin, and the Betmaii of Mr. Burnand were admi- 
 rable performances ; the acting of the former reminding us 
 very much of Mr. A. Wigan. Mr. Hawkesworth, as Christian j 
 Mr. A. Guest, as Zug, and Mr. Wilson, as Louise, were all 
 that the most fastidious could desire. After the drama, 
 Maddison Morton's farce of A Thumping Legacy, was re- 
 ceived with roars of laughter, and we are bound to say that 
 the Jerry Ominous of Mr. Q. Twiss was the best piece of 
 amateur acting we have ever witnessed. He was ably sup- 
 ported by Messrs. Hawkesworth and Steward, as Leoni and 
 Bamhogetti, The performances concluded with an original 
 legitimately-nautical T.-P.-Cookical burlesque by Messrs. 
 Montagu Williams and Burnand, entitled The Fair Maid of 
 Wajunng, or The Tragical Tale of William Taylor, in which 
 Mr. Q. Twiss as Billy Taylor, Messrs. Burnand and Guest 
 as Blackhrow and Jonas, and Mr. F. Hudson as Polly the 
 Fair Maid of Wapping, fairly divided the honours. The 
 jokes and puns were as burlesque jokes ought to be — pain- 
 fully funny — and the music was well chosen, and admirably 
 sung. An immense amount of praise was decidedly due to 
 Messrs. Powell, Bouverie, and Hoffman, the principal scenic 
 artists, for the very great taste they displayed in painting the 
 scenery. The wreck of the ship, and the last scene, where 
 the audience is introduced to the King of the Cannibal 
 Islands, were as well done as any we have ever seen in any 
 of the London theatres ; in fact, no expense was spared to 
 ensure success, and the Committee of the Club and their 
 attentive Secretary, Mr. Kirby, may certainly congratulate 
 
2 1 4 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D, C^ Camb, 
 
 themselves on having achieved it. The Prince of Wales, ac- 
 companied by the Duke of St. Alban's, Colonel Bruce, and 
 suite, waited until the conclusion of the performances, and 
 his Royal Highness expressed himself highly pleased with 
 the evening's entertainment." 
 
 " Eea," March 9, 1861. 
 "Amateur Theatricals at Cambridge. 
 
 " On Saturday evening, March 2, 1861, an amateur perform- 
 ance was given at the Hoop Hotel, Cambridge, by the members 
 of the * A. D. C or Amateur Dramatic Club, before His Royal 
 Highness the Prince of Wales, and a numerous assembly 
 of ladies, and most of the distinguished luminaries of the 
 various colleges. The pieces selected for repi'esentation were 
 Mr. Planch^' s drama l<lot a Bad Judge y Mr. Maddison 
 Morton's farce A Thumping Legacy, and a new burlesque 
 extravaganza, called The Fair Maid of WajJjniig, or The 
 Tragical Tale of William Taylor, written expressly for the 
 occasion by Messrs. Montagu Williams and F. C. Burnand. 
 It is to the exertions of the latter gentleman that this club 
 owes its existence. The company consists entirely of 
 members of the University, and the system of management 
 is such as could only be attained after much practice by a 
 body of gentlemen of education. The undergraduates not 
 only act, but fill the menial offices — such for instance, as the 
 posts of scene-shifters, property-men, and the like. The 
 result is, as might be expected, a complete success. We do 
 not propose to enlarge upon the acting of any particular 
 individual on this occasion, it is rather our object to notice 
 the admirable manner in which the pieces are put upon the 
 stage. The credit of this is principally to be attributed to 
 Mr. David Powell, the chief scenic artist, who, with consum- 
 mate ingenuity, contrived to give a perfect representation of a 
 ship in full motion, a storm at sea, and a wreck, terminating 
 in the crew and passengers being cast on the shores of the 
 Cannibal Islands ; this last effort being a most exquisitely 
 
End 0/ Sixth Year, 2 1 5 
 
 painted tropical view, and almost worthy of Mr. William 
 Beverly himself. All this, it should bo observed, is 
 accomplished upon a stage about half the size of the Strand 
 Theatre. Another distinguishing feature of this club is, that 
 the female characters are sustained by men, and considering 
 the difficulties with which they have to contend — such as 
 voice, figure, and the like — the effect is remarkably good. 
 The representative of Polly in the burlesque, both looked 
 and acted his (her) part admirably. We understand that, in 
 consequence of the Prince of Wales having signified his 
 intention of honouring these performances with his presence, 
 the authorities of the University called a meeting of the 
 Senate, for the purpose of taking into consideration the 
 subject of the existence of the Club being officially recognised. 
 As the performance took place, it is to be presumed that the 
 decision was given in its favour; and we cannot but con- 
 gratulate the authorities upon their good sense in sanctioning 
 an amusement which, while it is harmless in itself, must, 
 from the time which must be consumed in arriving at any 
 pitch of perfection in it, to a great extent contribute towards 
 keeping its votaries out of harm's way. The principal 
 characters were sustained by Messrs. Weguelin, F. C. 
 Burnand, Arthur Guest, Augustus Guest, Grove, Jebb, 
 Hawkesworth, Steward, Wilson, Grant, F. W. Hudson, and 
 Quintin Twiss." 
 
 "Era," December 8, 1861. 
 
 *' Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club. 
 " On Saturday, November 30th, His Royal Highness the 
 Prince of Wales honoured the performance given by the 
 * University Amateur Dramatic Club' (A.D.C.) with his 
 presence. The theatre (which is an entirely private one, 
 belonging to the Club) was most tastefully decorated, 
 the front of the house presenting a very brilliant appear- 
 ance, crowded as it was by ladies, who had received 
 special invitations from the Committee — an exception to 
 
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 the general rule, which prohibits the presence of the fair 
 sex either before or behind the curtain, — all the female parts 
 in the performance being enacted by members of the 
 University. His Eoyal Highness, who is himself a member 
 of the Dramatic Club, visited the green-room, where the 
 principal performers were presented to him. The pieces played 
 on this occasion were Used-up; a new burlesque, specially 
 written for the occasion by Mr. F. C. Burnand, called 
 Alonzo the Brave, or Faust and the Fair Imogene ; and the 
 farce of To Paris and Bach for Five Pounds; in which 
 Mr. Q. Twiss played the hero Snozzle in a most amusing 
 manner. The scenery in the burlesque, w^hich was admirably 
 painted by Messrs. Powell and Bouverie, assisted by members 
 of the Club, elicited great applause from the audience. The 
 Prince quitted the rooms at the termination of the per- 
 formance, and expressed himself much pleased with the 
 entertainment, which seemed to have given general satis- 
 faction." 
 
 " The following persons had the honour of receiving invita- 
 tions to meet his Koyal Highness : — 
 
 Master of Trinity, and Lady Affleck, The Portmans. 
 Master of Sidney and Miss Phelps. 
 Provost of King's and Mrs. Okes. 
 The Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. Neville. 
 Colonel and Mrs. Baker. 
 Eev. and Mrs. Girdlestone. 
 Duke of Leeds and Ladies Osborne (3). 
 St. Quentens (4). 
 
 Earl of Hardwicke and Ladies Yorke (3). 
 Bishop of Worcester and Mrs. Philpott. 
 Master of St. John's and Mrs. Bateson. 
 Master of Downing. 
 Desboronghs (3). 
 
 Master of Christ's and Mrs. Cartwell. 
 Professor Sedgwick. 
 Mr. and Lady E. Adeane. 
 
 Messrs. Burn, Bright, Clark, W. G. Gunson, Mathison, Blore, 
 JLightfoot, Leapingwell. 
 
End of Sixth Year, 2 1 7 
 
 " Some of these declined — there were actually present Lord 
 F. Osborne and Ladies Osborne, Lady Affleck, Major-General 
 and Mrs. Bruce, Herbert Fisher, St. Quenten (4), Master of 
 Sidney and Mrs. Phelps, Eev. and Mrs. Girdlestone, Colonel 
 Baker, Messrs. Burn, Bright, Blore, Clark, Leapingwell, 
 Mathison, and sixty- seven friends of different members, who 
 paid for their tickets 10s. Qd. each. Refreshments, tea, 
 coffee, ices, &c., were provided by the * Hoop,' and served by 
 the servants of the members. The lavatory was made 
 a ladies' cloak-room. The ordinary benches were removed 
 from the dais in the audience room, and their places supplied 
 by settees covered witii crimson baize. The room thus held 
 100 comfortably." 
 
 The Master of Trinity, Dr. AVilliam Whewell, did not come, 
 but imagine his having been invited to meet His Royal High- 
 ness the Prince of Wales, the Master of Sidney, the Vice- 
 Chancellor, and other " Heads," by that very society which had 
 gradually developed itself out of the result of an unsatisfactory 
 visit paid by an undergraduate, in his first year, to the Vice- 
 Chancellor, in 1855, who would not sanction the proceedings 
 of the unfortunate Box and Cox, not Fellows of Trinity. 
 
 The next entry after this is, — 
 
 ** This day the extension of the stage was completed without 
 any expense to the Club, the donation of ^£10 from H.R.H. 
 the Prince of Wales being applied thereto, and the rest made 
 up by the generosity of Mr. Hambro. 
 
 "Another committee meeting was held on May 17th, in 
 Mr. Kirby's rooms, when 
 
 H.RH. The Prince of Wales 
 
 was elected an honorary member of the Club. Also the follow- 
 ing gentlemen : — 
 
 W. S. Sandes Trin. 
 
 J. M. Wells Trin! 
 
 were elected members. 
 
2 1 8 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D. C!' Camb, 
 
 ** It was agreed that the performances should take place on 
 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 23rd, 24th, 25th May, 
 heing first three days of the examinations for degrees.** 
 
 I copy the above verbatim, hut I have also seen the Prince's 
 name at the head of a contemporary list as " Honorary Pre- 
 sident." At all events it is to His Koyal Highness that the 
 Club owes its open recognition by the highest university 
 authorities. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 RUNNING ALONE IN 1862. LENT TERM. END OF 
 SEVENTH YEAR. 
 
 The following is an extract from Mr. Kirby, the secretary's 
 note : — 
 
 " Theatrical Week, March 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 1862. 
 
 "The 'A. D. C has passed through a severe trial, and 
 has triumphed. It has long been said that the Club depended 
 for its dramatic successes mainly on its founder, F. C. 
 Burnand, and old acting members, and that, should a time 
 come, as it must, when none of them could aid us, the Club 
 must inevitably fail to support its reputation. That these 
 opinions were unsound has been amply shown by the present 
 performances. Not a single old member, except Mr. Preston, 
 took a pai-t, and we did not fail. We may mention, however, 
 that the valuable assistance of Mr. J. Clarke, of the Strand 
 Theatre, was freely given, and in consequence the burlesque 
 was put on with more knowledge of the * business ' than the 
 actors generally show. A drop-scene by Calcott presented by 
 J. W. Clark, Trin. Coll., who became a member of the Club, 
 was greatly admired, and the lime-light introduced on our 
 stage for the first time increased the effect of Zerlina's bed- 
 room scene considerably. The elections of new members have 
 introduced several good actors to the Club, who promise to 
 sustain its present reputation in after-years — a contrast to 
 
2 20 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C" Camb. 
 
 some of our members who have never acted, sold tickets, 
 or done anj^thing to support the Club, except by subscrib- 
 ing one guinea, and occupying reserved seats at per- 
 formances. 
 
 *' In fine we have every reason to consider the Club in a 
 state of peace and prosperity. 
 
 ** The pieces played on this occasion were On and Off, Poor 
 Pillicoddy, Our Wife, Twice Killed, Fra Diavolo, 
 
 ON AND OFF. 
 
 Mr. Peter Dimducketty . . . Mr. "W. Everett. 
 
 Mr. Chas. Lanj^liton . . . Mr. Saumauez. 
 
 Mr. Alphonso de Pentonville . . Mr. Bigwood. 
 
 Three Musicians . . . . Messrs. Humberstox, 
 
 AcLAND, and Ashton. 
 
 Letitia Mr. Arbuthnot. 
 
 Mrs. Muffit Viscount Pollington. 
 
 Servant Viscount Amberley. 
 
 "A slight but laughable farce — the interest of which was 
 sustained throughout, Mr. W. Everett* playing with his 
 usual vivacity. Mr. Saumarez wants more vigour in his 
 style of playing- — having been used to act female characters, 
 he has not quite got over the mincing style he then employed 
 with effect. Mr. Bigwood as Alphonso was in make-up 
 inimitable, and his acting for the part good. He only wants a 
 little more courage ; his part was a thorough success. The 
 musicians were as good as any who earn a shilling a night on 
 the London boards. Letitia — Arbuthnot — very successful, 
 figure, dress, manner, and deportment all good. He will make 
 an excellent first lady — one hint only — to speak a little louder. 
 Viscount Pollington, as usual, thoroughly at home in his part, 
 and played it with good spirit. He has improved immensely, 
 simply from the great attention he pays to the words and 
 meaning of the author. 
 
 " Son of the American Minister, and author of On the Cam. 
 
Running alone hi 1862, 
 
 221 
 
 POOR PILLIGODDY. 
 
 Mr. Pillicoddy {Nurseryman) 
 
 Capt. O'Scuttle . 
 
 Mrs. Pillicoddy 
 
 Mi-s. O'Scuttle . 
 
 Sarah .... 
 
 Mr. Finch. 
 Mr. Aug. Guest. 
 Hon. C. Carington. 
 Mr. Wells. 
 
 Viscount POLLINGTON. 
 
 ** Thoroughly successful and received with roars of laughter. 
 Each actor had a part which suited him exactly. Mr, Pilli' 
 coddy is certainly one of Mr. Finch's happiest efforts. The 
 jealous nurseryman contrasted well with Capt. O'Scuttle. Mr. 
 Guest seldom shows that thorough knowledge of his part 
 which a captious critic might require — in this, however, he 
 was at home — the piece had been well rehearsed, which 
 tended greatly to its success, though we think that Messrs. 
 Finch and Guest between them, especially if aided by Mr. 
 Carington, could carry off any farce to the satisfaction of our 
 audiences. The latter gentleman was dressed with his usual 
 good taste, and acted well — Lord Pollington also played the 
 part of Sarah very well — the * chambermaid * line is about 
 his best, we think ; he plays these characters with suitable 
 vivacity, and attends to the stage business not the audience, a 
 point in which so many might copy him. Mrs. O'Scuttle 
 (Mr. Wells) was very fair, but still, as last term, shows some 
 of that uneasiness which men acting women-characters often 
 exhibit. He should also endeavour to throw out his voice 
 more than he does. 
 
 OUR WIFE. 
 
 Marquis de Ligny 
 Count de Brissac 
 Pomaret 
 Dumont . 
 First Officer 
 Second Officer 
 Messenger . 
 Rosine . 
 Mariette . 
 
 Mr. Hope Grant. 
 Hon. T. DE Grey. 
 Mr. Preston. 
 Mr. Edwards. 
 Mr, AclaNd. 
 Mr. Ix)NGfield. 
 Mr. Arbuthnot. 
 Hon. C. Carington. 
 Mr. Sanderson. 
 
 This piece was prepared at the request of Mr. Preston, who 
 
222 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C'^ Camb, 
 
 took the part of Pomaret. As the stage manager had quite 
 enough to do in preparing the four other pieces, and was not 
 engaged in this, and as Mr. Preston was in town until the 
 day before it was performed, the piece, though a regular two- 
 act comedy, was only once rehearsed, and a niiserable failure was 
 the result. Several of the actors did not know their parts at 
 all. The first Act was very fairly sustained, principally by 
 Mr. Preston, who showed all his old vigour in acting, matured 
 by several years of experience. The second act was noticeable 
 only for the exertions of Mr. Evans, our talented prompter, 
 who sustained an animated mono-polylogue throughout. 
 Hon. T. de Grey did not take the right view of the character 
 of Brissac, he woefully overplayed it, making the poor Count 
 seem a third-rate contortionist, rather than one of the ancient 
 noblesse. He has, however, clearly good powers, and a few 
 lessons from some professional would make him a very effec- 
 tive actor. We may add that Mr. Sanderson, unlike the rest, 
 did know his part." 
 
 This hint as to the beneficial effect of a little professional 
 coaching shows in what direction they were moving. In the 
 earlier days of the " A. D. C" such an idea would never have 
 entered into our heads. A professional would have overawed 
 us, and our originality would have been " nipped in the 
 bud." 
 
 I continue the Extract of Kirby : — 
 
 ** A screaming farce was produced on the Saturday night. 
 
 TWICE KILLED. 
 
 Mr. Euclid Facile 
 
 Mr. Ralph Reckless 
 
 Tom 
 
 Mr. Holdfast . 
 
 Mr, Fergus Fable 
 
 Robert 
 
 Mrs. Facile . 
 
 Miss Julia Flighty 
 
 Tawny Pepper 
 
 Mr. Finch. 
 Mr. Aug. Guest. 
 Mr. T. Edwards. 
 Mr. Saumancey. 
 Mr. Ai{THUR Guest. 
 Viscount Ambekley. 
 Mr. Sanderson. 
 Mr. Arbuthnot. 
 
 Viscount POLLINGTON. 
 
Running alone in 1862. 22 
 
 o 
 
 *' No one knew his part at all. Mr. Finch, whose character 
 was that of a pedantic old fellow who carries a work on 
 Hydrostatics about with him, very wisely carried a * Lacy ' 
 instead. The others were not so fortunate. We watched it 
 carefully, hut could ascertain nothing from the progress of the 
 piece, except that Mr. Euclid Facile thought that he had 
 thrown Reckless out of the window (who was really hidden 
 under the sofa). No other character but these two exhibited 
 the least individuality. Still as the piece is one which 
 depends mainly on the two low comedians, and leaves room 
 for unlimited * gag,' a luxury in which all largely indulged, 
 it went very well. We must compliment the ladies in parti- 
 cular : Mr. Sanderson * makes up ' well, acts carefully, and 
 promises to be a great acquisition to the Club, as does also 
 Mr. Arbuthnot when he conquers his timidity, which, how- 
 ever, sat on him well. Tom seems a good actor, and deserved 
 a better part." 
 
 Mr. Kirby was severe in his criticisms. When the mem- 
 bers subsequently got hold of the book, and like the Admiral 
 in the ballad of Billy Taylor, " came for to hear on it," they 
 w^ere not best pleased with the notices. 
 
 FRA DIAVOLO; 
 
 Or, the beauty AND THE BRIGANDS. 
 
 Lord AUcash Mr. Arthur Guest. 
 
 Era Diavolo A. de Rothschilt). 
 
 Matteo Hon. T. de Grey. 
 
 Lorenzo Mr. Aug. Guest. 
 
 ^^rP^ I Two Brigands i Mr. Finch 
 
 Giacomo ) ( Mr. Hope Grant. 
 
 Francisco Mr. Bigwood. 
 
 Antonio Mr. Acland. 
 
 Zerlina Hon. C. Carington. 
 
 Lady Allcash Viscount Pollington. 
 
 Carbineers, Villagers, Peasant Girls. 
 
 Here is the honest Secretary's opinion on this performance ; 
 he was evidently delighted at having secured the services of 
 
2 24 Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.CT Camb. 
 
 *' Johnny Clarke " as their professional coach. He seems to 
 have succeeded in bringing the " supers " up to something 
 above the usual happy-go-lucky-amateur super level. 
 
 " This burlesque owed its unqualified success to the exertions 
 of Messrs. Guest, Finch, &c., aided by Mr. J. Clarke of the 
 Strand Theatre. This gentleman, who once played Lorenzo in 
 the burlesque, came down three times, and gave his valuable 
 assistance in rendering every song and every situation in the 
 piece telling and effective. The scenery too, as superintended 
 by Messrs. Powell and Howard, was far more magnificent than 
 we have ever put on the stage. We never remember a better 
 disciplined or more numerous body of * supers.' The only 
 objection to the burlesque that we have heard is, that it is 
 deficient in plot. Besides which, if we remember that Alonzo 
 has two distinct plots, we may argue that the Cambridge 
 public is becoming hypercritical. 
 
 " The piece opened with a chorus of Carbineers, Messrs. 
 Acland, Chapman, Humberston, Ashton, and Pullen, who were 
 very well dressed by May — we may mention here that the 
 supers in general knew w^hen to come on, what to do when 
 on the stage, and when to go off far better than usual. Mr. 
 Guest acted the part of Lorenzo very well — we think it is his 
 happiest character, except perhaps that of Kilian, in The 
 Seventh Shot, His comic business in Scene 3, * Lorenzo in a 
 state of gin and water,' was particularly good, and showed 
 that he had studied his own part carefully, as well as rehears- 
 ing the piece in general. His two songs were well received 
 — * The Cork Leg ' and * Nelly Gray '—the latter of which, 
 though now out of date, was very funny, and the * sensation 
 tears ' was a capital bit of business. Both songs were encored 
 nightly — Mr. Guest, though, is still not so perfect in the 
 * words ' as he should be ; he has also a bad habit of craning 
 over the footlights, in order to see his audience, which throws 
 his own face into the shade. 
 
 ** The part of Fra Diavolo, generally so uninteresting (it 
 
. . Rtmning alone in 1862, 225 
 
 was played originally by Miss Swanborough), really became 
 quite interesting in the hands of Mr. A. de Eothschild. He 
 devoted great pains to dressing and rehearsing the words 
 and songs, which, added to a natural talent for acting, a 
 pleasing manner, and a good carriage on the stage, made his 
 cUhut perfectly successful. Though he has not a powerful 
 voice, he sang well, and his song, * I am a Simple Muleteer,' 
 was encored. In fact, ho was a most graceful Brigand, and 
 thoroughly realized the character. 
 
 *^ Matteo (Hon. T. do Grey) slightly overacted his part. 
 He promises well though, and has the stuff of a good actor in 
 him ; all he wants is experience. 
 
 *' Beppo (Mr. Finch), a most melodramatic scoundrel, was 
 perfection in make-up and in acting. Some men act well by 
 nature, others by careful study — he has clearly united both. 
 The fight in Scone 2 was most cleverly done, and his duet 
 with Glacomo took amazingly. * It is hard to put the hand ' 
 with appropriate action, being encored nightly. In all this 
 he was ably supported by Mr. Hope Grant as Giacomo. 
 All the scenes went so perfectly, that it was clear they had re- 
 hearsed them long and carefully, a point which all amateurs 
 should observe, as that only vrill or can make a scene * go ' as 
 it should. 
 
 *' We were certainly surprised and pleased with Mr. Car- 
 ington as Zerlina. We knew, of course, that he would 
 make-up well, especially with Mr. Sutherland's aid, but we 
 hardly thought he would prove as good in burlesque as he did 
 last year in comedy, or, that he would so soon prove a worthy 
 successor of Mr. F. Hudson. His songs were well sung, his 
 acting neat, and seems always able to dispose of his hands — 
 and in all his scenes, especially in Scene 3, that most difficult 
 one, he was always at his ease — so very hard for a man in 
 such a character to accomplish. 
 
 " Lord PoUington as Lady Allcash played with great 
 animation. He made it one of the best characters in the 
 piece. It was easy to see in his acting on this occasion what 
 
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226 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D. C" Camb, 
 
 we have said before, that he always seems to have thoiLght over 
 the part more than the other actors, his actions and language 
 being generally so appropriate. He was well supported by 
 Mr. Arthur Guest, as Lord Allcashy who took the part at 
 short notice, Mr. Currey being ill. 
 
 ^'Francesco (Mr. Bigwood) came on to be kicked off, 
 and was kicked off accordingly. We hope to see him soon in 
 a more important part, as his success in On and Off proves 
 him an actor. 
 
 " Antonio (Mr Acland) played his unimportant part with 
 skill and dexterity. From him we pass, by a very slight step, 
 to the ' supers,' who were a good lot, upon the whole. Mr. 
 Troyte gave valuable assistance on the stage. The changing 
 of scenes is greatly impeded by the members who crowd on 
 the stage during the performance. Some, it is true, offer 
 assistance, but, as they are usually ignorant of the principles 
 of the art of scene-shifting, they obstruct those whose business 
 it is. Not only that, but members bring friends on the stage, 
 even resident undergraduates. Surely it would be enough to show 
 the stage after the performance instead of during it ? Visitors 
 also flock into the dressing-room, often totally unacquainted 
 with the actors, but brought by their friends to see what they 
 can — a course which not only does away with scenic illusions, 
 which it is our object to produce, but annoys the men who are 
 dressing, several of whom have complained grievously about 
 it. It is perhaps not too much to hope that members will 
 prefer the good of the Club, and the wishes of some of its 
 members, to the private pleasure of patronising a friend." 
 
 It is instructive to remark the eagerness of the uninitiated 
 to take advantage of any opportunity of * going behind the 
 scenes,' even on the stage of an amateur club ; and the proud 
 position of any one who had the entree, 
 
 " The music was, upon the whole, better than usual. Sippel 
 exerted himself greatly, thanks to Mr. Bigwood. The 
 burlesque was improved by our hiring the original score 
 
Running alone in 1862. 
 
 227 
 
 copies from the Strand Theatre, while Mr. Charles led the 
 choruses with great ahility. Mr. T. Edwards deserves a 
 corner to himself, he danced so well and- so gracefully as to be 
 encored every night, and his dance was not only the success 
 of the scene, but one of the most admired jDoints in the whole 
 burlesque. 
 
 *' At a committee meeting on May 11th, 
 
 C. A. Ry croft . 
 R. Ileathcote 
 
 Trin. Hall. 
 Trill. Coll. 
 
 were elected members of the Club. 
 
 "At the ordinary general meeting of the Club, held in the 
 Rooms on June, 18G2, the following gentlemen were duly 
 elected by the Club to serve on the committee for the October 
 Term :— 
 
 W. A. Bankes . 
 
 Trin. Hall 
 
 . President. 
 
 Hon. C. Cariii^'tou 
 
 Trin. . 
 
 . Stage-Manager. 
 
 G. Howard . 
 
 . Trin. 
 
 . Superintendent of Scenery. 
 
 T. F. Kirby 
 
 . Trin. . 
 
 . Treasurer and Secretaiy. 
 
 E.H. Wynne. 
 
 . Trin. . 
 
 . Prompter. 
 
 A. de Rothscliikl 
 
 Trin. . 
 
 . Orcliestra-]\Ianager. 
 
 C. A. W. Troyte . 
 
 . Trin. 
 
 . Director of Machinery, 
 
 W. m. Currey . 
 
 . Trin. . 
 
 . Assistant Stage-Manager." 
 
 Nothing could please the old members more than the con- 
 tinued prosperity of a Club for which, in their time, they had 
 worked so hard, and to which they have all been so warmly 
 attached. 
 
 The secretaries who have kept the annals, have recorded 
 with what regi-et they have said farewell to the " old book," 
 and strong bonds of good-fellowship still unite those, who, 
 now separated from one another by the various duties of life, 
 can look back to their earlier time, when, in their little world, 
 they all put their shoulders to the same wheel, and went at it 
 heart and soul. 
 
 q2 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 
 EIGHTH YEAR. ANOTHER COUNTY NIGHT. 
 
 After this gratifying independent success, the Cluh com- 
 menced its eighth year by resting for a May Term, — which we 
 never did, as we preferred one performance to none at all, — 
 and the Secretary makes the following remarks and resume: — 
 
 " This Term was so short that no performance could be given. 
 A performance in the May Term is at best a losing concern, 
 and would have been particularly so upon this occasion, as 
 the degree examination succeeded the boat-races immediately. 
 
 *' There were ten nights of performance in the year 1861-62, 
 for which 1116 tickets were sold, producing an average 
 audience of 111*6 per night. For the previous year, 1860-61, 
 1183 tickets were sold for eighteen nights, an average of 91 
 per night ; but if we deduct as exceptional the three perform- 
 ances given in May 1861, it appears that the average in 1860- 
 61 was only lOO'S. 
 
 " Thus the audience have increased in the year by an average 
 of 11*1 per night. 
 
 " The following persons not being members of the University 
 have usually been invited to one performance by the Club : — 
 
 Mr. Metcalfe, onr Printer, giver of " The Cambridge Memorials." 
 
 Mr. Hoppett, Marker at Trinity College. 
 
 Mr. Ekin, our Landlord. 
 
 Sergt.-Major Cox,* of tlie the University Volunteers. 
 
 Mr. Bulstrode, our Upholder, Carpenter, &c. 
 
 Mr. Todd, his managing Clerk. 
 
 * I am so glad to observe this name historio in the annals of the A. D. C. 
 {vide Chapter I.— The First Step). But what has become of Box ? Has he 
 deserted ? And where is General Bouncer ? 
 
Eighth Year, 229 
 
 *' The tutors and deans of Trinity College are always invited, 
 and Mr. Mathison, senior tutor, has the entree to all the 
 performances, in return for his kindness to the Club on several 
 occasions. 
 
 • " Thos. T. KmBY, Seer ' 
 ***** 
 
 "About this time a new glass chandelier was presented to 
 the Club by Messrs. Bankes and Troyte. A clock for the 
 dressing-room, new fitted up, was given by Hon. C. Caring- 
 ton, stage-manager." 
 
 ***** 
 
 "Messrs. Bankes, Troyte, and Patrick deserve the thanks 
 of the Club for their beautiful present of a book for containing 
 photographs, in which members are invited to place their 
 * cartes de visite.' " 
 
 The Club at the commencement of its eighth year was 
 amassing treasure. The library was growing, and the 
 writing accommodation at this time really astonished me, 
 when I remembered how difficult it was in our primitive days 
 to get anything to write on, whether note-paper or table, and 
 anything to write with, in the rooms which served us for 
 stage, auditorium, green-room, dressing-room, and all. On 
 a ehange tout cela. 
 
 But the idea of the tutors and deans being always invited, 
 and the senior tutor having the right conferred on him by the ' 
 Club to wander at his own sweet will behind the scenes, all 
 over the Club, just wherever he choose, — how gratifying 
 this to the old original members, who met in fear and 
 secresy, who kept hidden the true meaning of the mystic 
 initials " A. D. C," and who had scouts placed, and a ladder 
 ready for escape over the roof of the adjoining brewery ! At 
 last the Club was recognized, and in those primitive days it 
 was recognition that we carefully avoided. 
 
 By the request of H.E.H. the Prince of Wales, on this 
 occasion a performance was given to which ladies were ad- 
 
230 Pa'sonal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C^ Camb, 
 
 mitted, similar to, but even more successful than, that of 
 March 2n(i. The pieces performed were — 
 
 Used, U}^, Alonzo the Brave, and To Paris and Back, 
 
 All of which were well received. The hits in the burlesque 
 all made as well as they had done on the ordinary nights, 
 which was considered a great triumph. The room was 
 crowded, but not to excess ; we might have sold fifty more 
 tickets had we been inclined to do so. The performances 
 commenced at 7.30 and concluded by 11.30. The company, 
 however, were not all clear of the rooms until twelve o'clock. 
 Kefreshments were provided by Miss Palmer and Litchfield. 
 The Club invited the following guests : — 
 
 Duke of Leeds, Lord and Ladies Osborne (3). 
 
 Eaii of Hardwicke and Countess, Lady Agnes Gorst. 
 
 Mr. and Lady E. Adeane. 
 
 Mr., Mrs., and Miss Portman. 
 
 Mr., Mrs., and Miss St. Quentens. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. G. Newton (of Croxton). 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Newton (of Tlie Downs). 
 
 Mr., Mrs., and Miss Daynell. 
 
 Lady Affleck and party (3). 
 
 Master of Magdalene, Mrs. Neville and party (3). 
 
 Provost of King's and Miss Okes (2). 
 
 Master of Sidney and Mrs. Phelps. 
 
 Professor Kingsley and Mrs. Kingsley. 
 
 Colonel and Mrs. Baker. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Girdlestone. 
 
 Mr., Mrs., and Miss Pemberton (of Newton). 
 
 Mr. Pemberton (of Trumpington). 
 
 Mr. Birbeck and the Greek Professor. 
 
 Messrs. Blue, Burn, Bright, Clark, W. G. Gunson, Mathison. 
 
 Mr. G. Sutherland (who painted the drop). 
 
 And seventy-eight friends of members were paid for. The 
 seats were arranged very well by Mr. Hambro, and 'the com- 
 pany, we have reason to believe, were generally pleased with 
 all the arrangements. H.K.H. the Prince of Wales arrived 
 punctually with his suite. 
 
Eighth Year. 231 
 
 The " Times," June m, 1864. 
 
 *' After a few hours of much needed rest last evening, 
 their Koyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 
 and the Duke of Cambridge, honoured the Vice-Chancellor 
 and Mrs. Cookson with their company at dinner in the hall 
 of St. Peter's College. At half-past eight the royal visitors 
 proceeded to the small private theatre in Jesus Lane, belong- 
 ing to the Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club, more gene- 
 rally, however, known by the abbreviated name of * A. D. C* 
 The building itself is calculated to contain about 100 
 visitors; and as considerably more than that number 
 obtained tickets of admission, the result was rather a packed 
 audience. The performances consisted of the burlesque of 
 Aladdin, or the Wonderful Scamj), and Wkitehait at Green- 
 ivicli. The talent displayed by the gentlemen forming the 
 Club, and who took part in the performance, seemed to be 
 highly appreciated by the select audience; and the Prince 
 and Princess of Wales, with the Duke of Cambridge, were 
 evidently as much delighted as the other visitors, for their 
 royal highnesses remained during the performance of both 
 pieces. A remarkable proof of the effects of perseverance 
 under difficulties is shown by the present position of this 
 Club. When founded it was necessary to have performances 
 almost by stealth, in order to avoid the hostility of the 
 proctors ; but it has flourished, notwithstanding, under the 
 protecting care of its founder, Mr. Burnand, and rejoices in 
 having the Prince of Wales as hon. president." 
 
 The *' Standakd," June ith, 
 
 *' At a few minutes before nine, the royal visitors, attended 
 by their suite, went to the little theatre belonging to the 
 Amateur Dramatic Club. This Club owns the * Hoop Inn,' 
 and has a room in it fitted up with a stage and scenery, a pit 
 in front, and over all a gallery. The seats for the royal 
 
232 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A .D.C" Camb. 
 
 party were riglit under the face of the gallery, the front of 
 which, as well as other parts of the room, were draped with 
 the flags of the various colleges; and the orchestra was 
 occupied by some members of the rifle band. The curtain 
 rose to a well-filled house on the farce of Whitebait at Green- 
 tvich, wherein every one of the actors did so uncommonly well 
 that it would be invidious to name any of them. The house 
 was in roars all the time the farce lasted, and at its close the 
 applause was unanimous, the Prince and the Duke of Cam- 
 bridge expressing as loudly as anyone their satisfaction, the 
 latter none the less that several allusions in the piece to the 
 commander-in-chief were pointed by the laughter of the 
 audience. 
 
 *' The second piece was Mr. Byron's burlesque, Aladdin, or 
 the Wonderful Seamp ; and here, as in the last piece, the 
 female characters were sustained by young undergrads in 
 such a way as left nothing to be desired, save, perhaps, a little 
 slenderness in the ankles. The acting was so thoroughly good 
 that the actors deserve to have their names in print. The follow- 
 ing was the cast : — 
 
 The Sultan Mr. Finch. 
 
 The Vizier . 
 
 Pekoe 
 
 Aladdin 
 
 Abanazar . 
 
 Te-to-tum 
 
 The Slave of the Lamp 
 
 The Genius of the lling 
 
 The "Widow Twankey 
 
 Princess Badroulboudour 
 
 Mr. C. Hall. 
 Hon. A. Stiiutt. 
 Plon. C. Cahixgton. 
 
 Mr. F. C. BURNAND. 
 Mr. MiCHELE. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan. 
 Mr. Floweh. 
 Mr. TwLss. 
 Mr. Seymour. 
 
 Maidens, mandarins, and the rest of the Chinese population 
 by Messrs. Pellew, Tottenham, Swaine, France, Kcwnian, Den- 
 man, Powlett, . Lowry-Corry, Stevenson, Usborne, Macnaghten, 
 Hood, and "Willes. 
 
 " The scenery was admirably managed, and one scene in 
 particular, showing the cave where the rubies and diamonds 
 grew, was superb. The dresses were rich, and indeed every- 
 thing was beyond criticism. It was emphatically the best 
 
Eighth Year. 233 
 
 amateur performance we ever attended, and it reflected tlie 
 utmost credit upon the president of the cluh, the Hon. A. 
 
 Strutt, and upon the stage manager, Mr. Williamson." 
 
 " Daily Telegraph," June ith. 
 
 *'Who or what may he meant by the *A. D. C. ?' is 
 possibly a question outside Cambridge ; but there is no pre- 
 vailing ignorance on the subject within the university. 
 Everybody here knows that the company of amateur histrionics 
 who last evening had the honour of entertaining the Priuco 
 and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and nearly 
 three hundred ladies and gentlemen beside, were formed 
 seven years ago by Mr. F. C. Burnand ; that for a time the 
 little troop played with closed doors, and in the fear of 
 proctors ; that they have now for their honorary president the 
 Prince of Wales himself, whose name on the list of members, 
 by-the-by, appears among the W's somewhat in this 
 fashion, — Watson, Adolphus ; Wales, Prince of; Walker, 
 John : and that, in short, there is no sounder institution 
 connected with the University of Cambridge than the * A. D. 
 C or Amateur Dramatic Company, whose performance on 
 the occasion of the royal visit was a notable point of the 
 entire programme. The members of the * A. D. C speak of 
 their old room, or theatre, as a small one, and it must have 
 been very small indeed if by comparison they consider their 
 present quarters large. The rooms which they now tenant 
 once formed part of the *Hoop Hotel,' from which they have 
 been cut off. They were, in fact, the old Union Rooms ; 
 then they were turned into billiard rooms; and then 
 they were taken in hand by the ' A. D. C who have 
 made them vdiat they are. And what they really are can 
 only be known by those who saw them filled by such a 
 company as that of last night. The auditorium is a square 
 chamber, with a gallery at the back. The ground space 
 
234 Personal Reminiscences of the ^' A, D.d' Camb, 
 
 between this gallery and the stage is occupied by four rows 
 of chairs — no more : but there are several other rows at the 
 back. The royal visitors last evening sat in the row just in front 
 of the gallery. In a line with them were the Duke of Devon- 
 shire, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Lady Spencer, 
 and Lady Morton. During the performance, which was 
 relished exceedingly, the Prince recognized and shook hands 
 with several old friends, and much hilarity was caused by 
 frequent mention of the * Commander-in-Chief,' on the part 
 of one Glimmer, in the farce, who has continual business to 
 transact with the Commander-in-Chief, and who opines that 
 there are many things which cannot be done in a day — the 
 Commander-in-Chief being one of them. Turning to the 
 Duke of Cambridge, the Prince was heard to say — or else 
 rumour was mistaken in the syllables — * You're catching it.' 
 The lady characters were played in a gentlemanly way ; and 
 it must have been remarked by nearly all present, that Mr. 
 Seymour, who enacted the Princess Badroulboudour, looked 
 wonderfully like his sister, Lady Spencer. The following is 
 a copy of the programme, which was emblazoned on white 
 satin, with a gold fringe, for the use of the royal party : — 
 
 "On Tliurstlay evening, June 2, 18G4, will be presented the scream- 
 ing farce, by T. Maddison Morton, Esq., entitled Whitebait at Greenicich. 
 ' John Small,' Mr. Twiss ; ' Mr. Bnzzard,' Mr. Finch ; * Mr. Glimmer,' 
 Mr. C. Hall ; 'Lncretia Buzzard,' Mr. Pulleine ; 'Sally,' Mr. Flower. 
 To conclude with a burlesque extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq., 
 entitled, Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Scamx). 'The Sultan,' Mr. Finch ; 
 ' The Yizier,' Mr. C. Hall ; ' Pekoe,' Hon. A. Strutt ; ' Aladdin,' Hon. 
 C. Carington ; ' Abanazar ' (a magician), Mr. F. C. Bumand ; * Te-to- 
 tum ' (an attendant), Mr. de Michele ; ' The Slave of the Lamp,' Mr. 
 Buchanan ; ' The Genius of the Eing,' Mr. Flower ; ' The Widow 
 Twankay ' (Aladdin's mother), Mr. Twiss ; ' Princess Badroulboudour,' 
 Mr. Seymour. Maidens, mandarins, and the rest of the Chinese popu- 
 lation, Messrs. Pellew, Tottenham, Swaine, France, Newman, Denman, 
 Lowry-Corry, Stevenson, Usborne, Macnaghten, Hood, and Willes." 
 
 " The dons, who, with the single exception of the most un- 
 popular man among them, countenance the pleasing labours 
 
Eighth Year, 235 
 
 of the * A. D. C.,' are surely taking a sensible course, for 
 there can be no more decided or mischievous folly than a 
 systematic opposition to harmless amusements, in college, or 
 anywhere else soever." 
 
 By this time I had become a member of the Dramatic 
 Authors' Society, and the a rg amentum ad jwcketum weighed 
 as cogently with me as with the " Elder Brethren " at the 
 office in King Street, Covent Garden, who now began to in- 
 quire into the nature of the performances at the **A. D. C," 
 Cambridge. 
 
 It was decided by the D. A. S. that the " A. D. C." was 
 ** in a parlous state," and I was deputed to act as inter- 
 mediary between the two secretaries representing the two 
 societies. Here is the result — 
 
 " The Dramatic Authors' Society " wrote through their 
 secretary, J. Stirling Coyne, Esq., to F. C. Burnand, thus — 
 
 "Dramatic Authors' Society, 
 "28, King Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 
 ^'January \ith, 1862, 
 
 **My dear Burnand, 
 
 " The Committee of this Society perceive that the 
 Cambridge University A. D. C. have been (inadvertently I am 
 sure) infringing on the rights of the Dramatic Authors by 
 playing their pieces without permission or payment of the 
 usual fee — viz., 10s. for each representation of a piece belong- 
 ing to any of our authors — I have taken some pains to learn 
 how these performances are conducted, and have no doubt 
 that they come under the Act 3 & 4 Will. IV. cap. 15, and 
 that we could recover penalties from the amateurs. We 
 prefer, however, an amicable arrangement. I therefore write 
 to you for the purpose of requesting you to make known to 
 the society of the A. D, C. the claims of this society." 
 
236 Personal Reminiscences of the ^'A.D.CP Camb. 
 
 *' Upon referring to the Act aforesaid, it appeared that we 
 were clearly liable. The words *' any place of dramatic enter- 
 tainment " being most comprehensive. Some correspondence 
 took place, and the secretary had an interview with Mr* 
 Stirling Coyne, at 28, King Street, Covent Garden, ending in 
 an agreement to pay the sum demanded. Montagu Williams, 
 Esq., a member of the Dramatic Authors' Committee, wrote 
 in the most handsome way giving us leave to play any of his 
 pieces without charge." 
 
 A general meeting was held in the Rooms on February 14th. 
 Mr. P. S. Trict was unanimously elected assistant stage- 
 manager. 
 
 Resolved — " Thai the suhscrlption for' the Term he raised to 
 £1 10s. to meet the unexpected claim of the Dramatic 
 Authors\Society,'' 
 
 At a Committee meeting previously held in Mr. PowelFs 
 rooms, 
 
 F. C. B. Acland . 
 
 Trin. Coll. 
 
 E. W. Chapman .... 
 
 do. 
 
 J. H. Humberston . . . 
 
 . Magd. Coll 
 
 W. A. Longfield .... 
 
 Trin. Coll. 
 
 Lord Amberley 
 
 do. 
 
 E. A. Catt 
 
 do. 
 
 Hon. A. Strutt 
 
 do. 
 
 were elected members of the *' A. D. C." 
 
CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 EIGHTH YEAR OCTOBER TERM, 18G2 — REMARKS ON THE 
 
 **A.D.C." AS A PROBABLE SCHOOL OF ART, AND OF THE 
 DUTIES OF THE STAGE MANAGER. 
 
 My last appearance, but one, on tliese boards. Here, too, 
 ceases almost entirely the record of the acting. If another has 
 been kept since, I have not seen it, and if it exists I leave to 
 other hands its publication. Aladdin was as big a success as 
 Alonzo had been. The diiference in the style of the two 
 burlesques — the latter being the outcome of the Robsonian 
 tradition, and the former the child of what was then the new 
 Strand company, with their dash-away, sparkling, dancing 
 fashion — marks an era. 
 
 The "A.D.C." had poor little Johnny Clarke to coach them. 
 Of this "coaching " I most thoroughly disapproved. The re- 
 sult, in my opinion, was not one whit more satisfactory than the 
 form oiAlonzo, VillUdns, Lord Lovel, Seventh Shot, Fair Maid 
 of Waj)pincj, Turkish Waters, Blue Beard, orBonihastes, when 
 we trusted to ourselves for stage management and for acting. 
 To employ "a coach " seems to me to be a lazy proceeding, 
 injurious to originality, both of conception and practical illus- 
 tration. That lectures on the dramatic art giving general 
 principles, with illustrations by historic examples, would be an 
 excellent thing, I am the first to admit, and I would be among 
 the first to propose and to assist in furthering such a scheme 
 at the University ; but that intelligent, well-educated young 
 men should be made into mere puppets, repeating what per- 
 haps a second-rate actor, or even a fair actor of limited re- 
 
238 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D.C." Camb, 
 
 sources, would tell them at secondhand, himself only copying 
 originals, is a system that should at once he discouraged. 
 
 Let pupils in the dramatic school note the general prin- 
 ciples of the art, and then apply them to particular instances. 
 Let them study the character they have to portray, master it 
 thoroughly, and then decide to the hest of their ahility how 
 such a character would behave in certain given circumstances. 
 Dramatic cause and effect would then be reasoned out, and 
 fixed on a sure basis. 
 
 As a rule, the ordinary professional actor would be unable 
 to give you the reason why he made an effect which, in 
 ninety-eight cases out of a hundred, would not be original 
 but traditional. 
 
 Unfortunately for the stage, the dramatic art has come to 
 be considered as something that any one can acquire in any 
 haphazard, rough-and-tumble way. It is called a *' self-edu- 
 cating profession," and, judging by the slip-slop pronuncia- 
 tion, the poor elocution, the frequent absence of aspirates, the 
 self-conscious attitudes, and the awkward bearing of so many, 
 it is evident the theatrical profession, left to itself for educa- 
 tion, is a very indifferent, if not an absolutely bad, school. 
 
 But to return to these performances of October Term, 
 1862. 
 
 Peeformances Nov. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th. 
 
 " The performances, as usual in this Term, were very suc- 
 cessful, and were remarkably so on this occasion, from the 
 unrivalled * cast ' which the stage manager was able to make of 
 every piece. 
 
 " The following pieces were acted — 
 
 Samuel in Search of Himself , 
 A Practical Man, 
 WJiitchait at Greemvich, 
 Box and Cox, 
 Aladdin {Burlesque), 
 
October Term, 1862, 239 
 
 *'It is a curious proof of the excellence of the acting, that 
 the house, which was thinner than usual on the Tuesday 
 and Wednesday, was, on the latter nights, crowded to excess. 
 The attendance on Friday night must have recalled to old 
 members present the memorable performance of Faast in 
 1859, when thirty visitors never got past the door. The 
 fiction of ' reserved seats ' can hardly have retained its credit. 
 
 " It is not to be wondered at that the room was so full, when 
 we think of the attractions which the very names of Burnand, 
 Finch, Twiss, and Weguelin have for the rising generation. 
 But the acting on this occasion was not like that which we 
 see in country theatres, which we have seen on our own stage 
 in past times, when two or three * stars ' from London are 
 feebly supported by the local talent: on the contrary, the 
 acting of the resident members (though not such practised 
 hands as our London friends) in spirit and evidence of careful 
 study and innate power, fully equalled that of the older 
 members. This is due to the care of the stage manager and 
 his assistant Lord Polliugton,, and to the rehearsal with Mr. 
 J. Clarke, of the R. S. T., whose services were secured to 
 * coach ' the burlesque/' 
 
 The fact is, they were allowing the office and work of a 
 stage manager — or, as we used to call it, acting manager, 
 meaning "manager of acting" — to become a mere sinecure. 
 There is no more interesting department of dramatic art than 
 that of stage manager. 
 
 The stage manager should be a host in himself; not a 
 great actor, but the cause of great acting in others. He 
 should be discriminating, appreciative, patient, forbearing, 
 clear-sighted, cool, courteous, determined. What should be 
 his qualifications can be best arrived at by an inquiry into his 
 duties. Let us suppose the piece chosen independently of the 
 stage manager. 
 
 The author should first of all read his piece to the stage 
 manager, who should then master as many of the important 
 
240 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D.d' Camb, 
 
 points as might be necessary to guide him in his own private 
 perusal, which would immediately follow the author's own 
 reading. 
 
 The stage manager having studied the piece carefully, 
 should then return to the author with his list of queries, 
 objections, and suggestions for the consideration of the 
 author, who might be less a practical dramatist than a good 
 writer of poetic or prose dialogue. 
 
 A consultation ensues between stage manager and author. 
 Dates are correctly ascertained, period of costumes settled, 
 &c., &c., the speeches are curtailed, the entrances and exits 
 are arranged, probabilities are discussed, and the best effects 
 are in a fair way of being obtained. 
 
 Again the stage manager retires with it to his study, where 
 he gradually masters the piece in the rough, makes his 
 ground-plan of scenes, and then calls in the scenic artist 
 alone, then with him the costumier, and these three should 
 argue the effects of colour combination ; the stage manager's 
 being, as it were, the casting vote, i)ro tern., until at their 
 next meeting, when the artist brings his perfect stage models 
 (to scale) of all the scenery, and the costumier his characters 
 of the piece (also to scale) coloured, the final decision can be 
 arrived at. 
 
 The stage manager now knows what is to be done with the 
 mise-en-scene of the piece on the stage. 
 
 He next sets to work with models and figures to play his 
 game of chess, scene by scene, act by act, until he knows 
 every movement of every character, and is prepared, without 
 the slightest hesitation, to give a good and sufficient reason 
 for every movement or change of position. 
 
 Then comes the consideration of properties, and hero the 
 scenic artist is again called in to deliberate. I assume 
 throughout that authorities are consulted. Then, lastly, the 
 chef d'orchestre is summoned, and he is consulted in his de- 
 partment by the stage manager, on whom the ultimate 
 responsibility in all cases must rest. 
 
October Term, 1862, 241 
 
 Then the piece is ready for the stage, scene by scene. No 
 time is lost by the actors in finding out where they come in, or 
 what they are doing, or why they do it. They are at once 
 told, and all they have to do is to hear, obey, and remember. 
 The stage manager's command must not be disputed for a 
 moment. Implicit obedience must be yielded to him by all 
 the trouj)e from the highest to the lowest. 
 
 Suppose an act rehearsed in this way three times, and all 
 having come nearly perfect in their words, are now perfect in 
 their words and ordinary situations, the next step will be for 
 the stage manager to invite the criticism of the principals on 
 his work. This leads to conversations, to suggestions, and to 
 trying and re-trying of effects, until the final decision is 
 either for what the stage manager had originally designed, or 
 for something much better ; but, in any case, the casting 
 vote is in his hands, the responsibility is on his shoulders, and 
 in all probability, under these conditions, the very best result 
 is pretty sure to be obtained. 
 
 Finally, when the stage manager's eye is accustomed to the 
 piece as a whole, and the actors are thoroughly at home in 
 their parts, then, for the last rehearsals, he must call in the 
 author to stamp the result with his approval. 
 
 The author and stage manager may here differ, and the 
 actors' opinions may be divided. Of two ways, when there 
 are admittedly more than one of doing the same thing, let 
 both be tried, and let the better survive. The author seeing 
 his work before him for the first time, may make some invalu- 
 able suggestion, arising out of the novel effect, that may solve 
 a doubtful or a difficult point : but as a rule, he will bow to 
 the judgment of a skilful, well -trained, and experienced stage 
 manager. 
 
 To my thinking, the stage manager should be the best 
 man in the theatre. He should never be the manager, nor an 
 actor in the company. His one duty should be to stage 
 manage, and he should be exempt from ever being called upon 
 to act. There should be an assistant stage manager to relieve 
 
242 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D.Cr Camb. 
 
 him of some of his work at night, and to help him, where 
 crowds have to he rehearsed during the day. 
 
 The stage manager should possess the power of " show- 
 ing" practically, by a mere sketch, what the action he requires 
 ought to be — a mere outline which the actor, whether of 
 exceptional creative genius, or of ordinary dramatic talents 
 with executive power, should be able to use as the design for 
 the picture which it is liis art to elaborate and carefully finish. 
 
 There are heaven-born editors and heaven-born statesmen, 
 but I have never yet come across a heaven-born stage manager. 
 Charles Dickens had this reputation, but he had few opportu- 
 nities of showing us what he could do, and I believe him to 
 have been too good an actor ever to have been excellent as a 
 stage manager. 
 
 The actor who is also stage manager neglects the whole for 
 the part, and the part is generally his own. 
 
 The manager- actor who is his own stage manager is guided 
 unconsciously by the principle of omne ignotum pro mag- 
 nifico — and again, the magnifico in question is himself. 
 
 If at the "A. D. C." one good piece were fixed two terms 
 in advance, and studied, on the above lines, by their stage 
 manager, the Club would soon be an invaluable school of art 
 for painting, antiquities, music, and drama. 
 
 The Secretary's record for this term continues thus : — 
 
 A PRACTICAL MAN. 
 
 Cloudesley Mr. Burnand. 
 
 Horton (a Mercliant) . . . Mr. Chapman. 
 
 Rockstone (a Solicitor) . . . Hon. A. Strutt. 
 
 Jennings ) ^, 7 \ Mr. Heathcote. 
 
 Biggs S ^"* • • i Mr. PULLEINE. 
 
 Mrs. Mildmay Mr. Buchanan. 
 
 *' We always thought Cloudesley Mr. Burnand's best 
 character ; he never acted better in it than on this occasion. 
 He was the life of the piece throughout, and all his ' business,' 
 the *Andnete at Banco' of the Italian 'bus cad, &c., went 
 swimmingly. 
 
October' Term, 1862. 243 
 
 " Chapman played Horton quietly and well, and with a 
 well-assumed voice. He made up as a middle-aged, well-to- 
 do merchant. 
 
 ** liockstone, a tedious ' feeding ' part throughout, was 
 well played hy Hon. A. Strutt, at short notice. He acted it 
 conscientiously, not attempting to get a * bit of fat '' for him- 
 self, but simply playing up to Cloudcslcy. 
 
 *' Mr. Heathcote suffered from timidity, and. had hardly 
 time in his short part to recover from it. 
 
 " Mr. Pulleine made the most of so small a part as that of 
 Biggs. 
 
 " Mr. Buchanan as Mrs, Milthnay was too inclined to 
 laugh for so romantic an elderly female as that lady. But we 
 expect much of Mr. Buchanan in future performances. 
 
 WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. 
 
 ** Though this piece was performed here in March, 1859, 
 with Messrs. Twiss and Weguelin in the same characters as 
 now, yet much cannot be gathered from Mr. Hamilton's some- 
 what fragmentary critique on page 51 of this book. 
 
 Mr. Benjamin Buzzard . . . Mr. Finch. 
 
 Mr. Glimtuer Mr. Weguelin. 
 
 John Small Mr. Twiss. 
 
 Miss Lucretia Buzzard . . . Lord Pollington. 
 
 Sally Hon. C. Carington. 
 
 ** Mr. Finch had a part which allowed full play to his 
 comic humour. 
 
 ** Mr. Weguelin played, as he usually does, with great 
 spirit, and was as successful in the character now as on the 
 former occasion of its production here. 
 
 " The same remark may be applied to Jolm Small. It is 
 one of the characters which first established his reputation on 
 our stage. 
 
 " Lord Pollington made one of his greatest * hits ' in the 
 character of Miss Buzzard. 
 
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244 Pei'sonal Reminiscences of the '^A^D.CT Camb. 
 
 " The comically pathetic part of Sallij was rendered with 
 great effect by Hon. C. Carington. 
 
 BOX AND COX. 
 
 " This perennial Romance of Real Life, as it is touchingly 
 styled by its author, Maddison Morton, was very successful. 
 The characters were : — 
 
 Box Mr. Q. Twiss. 
 
 Cox Mr. Finch. 
 
 Mrs. Bouncer .... Lord Amberley. 
 
 To Box and Cox no greater praise can be given than to say 
 that each tnew his part so well that they sat down, got up, 
 came in and went out, as the journeymen hatters and printers 
 of ordinary life maybe supposed to do. The tossing (" where's 
 my lucky sixpence ?") and the throwing of dice took well with 
 the audience. 
 
 " Lord Amberley as Mrs. Bouncer might have acted the 
 part with a little more fussiness and vivacity ; and he errs, 
 like almost all our young actors, in not speaking loud enough, 
 — but considering this was his dehut in a speaking part, he 
 succeeded very well, and we hope to see him establish a repu- 
 tation in characters of this kind. 
 
 ALADDIN 
 
 Is certainly one of Byron's best burlesques. It is a curious 
 fact that it was reproduced at the Strand Theatre on the 
 25th, the first day of our performance here. Our cast was a 
 strong one throughout. 
 
 The Sultan 
 
 The Vizier 
 
 Pekoe 
 
 Aladdin . 
 
 Abauazar . 
 
 Te-to-tura 
 
 The Slave of the Lamp 
 
 The Genius of the Ring 
 
 The Widow Twankay . 
 
 Mr. Finch. 
 
 Lord POLLTNGTON. 
 
 Mr. Hope Grant. 
 Hon. C. Carington. 
 
 Mr. F. C. BURNAND. 
 
 Mr. Blake Humphrey. 
 Mr. Buchanan. 
 Mr. Chapman. 
 Mr. Twiss, 
 
 Princess Badroulboudour . . Hon. A. Strutt. 
 
October Term, 1862. 245 
 
 "Mr. Finch, we need hardly say, was successful as the 
 Sultan. He dressed it well, and throughout preserved that 
 strong contrast to the Vizier which is so necessary to the 
 success of his scenes. His dance at the end of the conclud- 
 ing trio of Scene 1 was encored nightly, and certainly was a 
 fine hit of Terpsichorean display. Lovers of the Park Street 
 
 * Thalia,' will no doubt remember the furore which his dance 
 as Beppo in Fra Diavolo created last March (1862). 
 
 " Lord Pollington as the Vizier was also a most satisfac- 
 tory specimen of genuine acting. We are always glad to be 
 able to compliment him on a success, from the conviction 
 which we entertain that all his acting is the result of careful 
 study, and that, unlike, alas ! many others, he never comes 
 on the boards without a thorough and usually correct concep- 
 tion of his character. 
 
 " Mr. Grant as Pekoe , is rather an instance to the con- 
 trary. Possessed of great personal advantages, he yet seldom 
 learns his part sufficiently, the result being that he does not 
 seem quite at home on the stage. On this occasion, however, 
 much could not be expected, as he was reading for his 
 degree. 
 
 " Aladdin — Hon. C. Carington — was decidedly a very 
 
 * great success.' He looked the character all over. The care- 
 less young scapegrace, * chivying his mamma about the stairs,' 
 according to the widow's complaint, seemed a child of mis- 
 chief, and quite realized the character. His natural and 
 unaffected way of acting is highly to be commended. All his 
 songs and dances took tremendously. 
 
 *' The heavy and thankless part of ' Ahanazar ' was played 
 well by ^Ir. Burnand. We can hardly venture to comment 
 on the style of so finished an actor as he undoubtedly is. 
 Ahanazar labours under the disadvantage of appearing 
 very early in the piece — while his best scene is the last, in 
 which the actor is usually too tired to do his best. He made 
 the most of his part though throughout— his soliloquies, 
 which ordinarily are somewhat tedious, were improved by a 
 
246 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D, a Camb. 
 
 dexterous imitation of certain personages of note, such as 
 Frikell. We can hardly say of him as Pope said of Macklin, 
 * This is the Jew, that Shakespeare drew ; ' but he was a 
 good imitation of an ancient member of that once persecuted, 
 but now popular race. His ' Cachucha,' in the poisoning 
 scene, went famously, and was always applauded. 
 
 " Widow Twankay — Twiss — needs hardly any comment, 
 as he has been uniformly successful in every character 
 attempted by him on our stage. His voice, perhaps, was 
 never in better order — and he was happily induced to sing 
 the parody on ' My own, my guiding Star ' — which Mr. 
 James Rogers always omits — a capital song, notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 ** Mr. Buchanan made his debut as Slave of the Lamp. 
 He was well dressed for the character, and spoke out dis- 
 tinctly and well. 
 
 " Mr. Chapman, as Geniiis of the Ring, was at first 
 rather fidgety, and overacted his part. Dressed at first as a 
 harlequin, a costume that hardly suited his brawny shoulders 
 and breadth, after three nights' performance he came on as a 
 prize-fighter. The anachronism of a prize-fighter appearing 
 in a Chinese Palace perhaps injured the romance of a fairy 
 tale like that of ' Aladdin ' — but Mr. Chapman, perhaps from 
 feeling more at home in the new costume, toned down his 
 gesticulations, and made the part (a very difficult one) 
 successful. 
 
 *^ Te-to-tU7n — Mr. Blake Humfrey — made his salaam 
 nightly in a way that the most rigid of Mussulmen might 
 envy. 
 
 "Hon. A. Strutt made his debut on our stage as Princess 
 Badroulboudour. He sang well, danced well, and spoke his 
 words with unaffected ease, and, thanks to Clarkson, 
 seemed a worthy oh]ect of Aladdiii's somewhat hasty court- 
 ship. 
 
 "The Chorus went well enough, thanks to Pulleine in 
 front of the F.cenes find Ch{;rlcs behind them. 
 
October Term, 1S62. 247 
 
 " For the Scenery. — To this Messrs. Banks, Howard, Clark, 
 Patrick, and Troyte had directed their united efforts. The 
 ' North Western Gate of Pekin,' hy Mr. Howard, was admired, 
 and the cave by Mr. Clark was a chef d^oeuvre. The novelty 
 of the ' Willow Pattern ' as a background to the hall in the 
 Emperor's Palace was remarked by all spectators ; and the 
 sudden disappearance of the Palace in Scene 6 was well 
 arranged by the mechanical skill of Mr. Troyte. The blank 
 desolation of the * Desert of Sahara,' as seen in the last scene, 
 was depicted by the fertile pencil of our Superintendent of 
 Scenery, Mr. Howard. 
 
 ** In conclusion, the Club may, we think, congratulate 
 itself upon a very successful performance. The acting was 
 good throughout, and there was no breaks-down. There were 
 few rehearsals ; indeed, many could not be had, from the 
 absence of the chief actors ; but all went * merry as a mar- 
 riage bell ' from the first night until the fall of the curtain on 
 Saturday. We atoned for our failures on the first night last 
 March by a very scanty audience on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
 while on Thursday and Friday more were in the house than 
 have ever been before — showing the real merits of the pieces 
 chosen most decisively. The expenses, however, increase 
 each term ; and unless the present high character of the per- 
 formances is maintained, unless actors are carefully selected, 
 and pains taken by all engaged, the Club will some day col- 
 lapse by its own weight. May that day be distant ! " 
 
 I give one more extract as to " Another Ladies' Night." — 
 
 " THE LADIES' NIGHT. 
 
 " Saturday, November 29th, 1862. 
 
 *' The Ladies' Night seems to have become an established 
 fact in every week of performance. We are sure that its 
 arrival is looked forward to with some anxiety by many people 
 in and around Cambridge. The arrangements under the 
 supervision of Mr. Bankes, were exactly as they have hitherto 
 
248 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D.Cr Canib. 
 
 been. Of those who received invitations from the Club, the 
 following were present : — 
 
 Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and Lady Agneta Yorke. 
 
 Mr., Mrs. and Miss Wyndham Portman. 
 
 Mr., Mrs. and Misses (2) St. Quentens. 
 
 Mr., Mrs. and Miss Pemberton. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Townley. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Townley. 
 
 Master of Magdalene and Mrs. Neville. 
 
 Provost of King's College and Misses (3) Okes. 
 
 Mr, and Mrs. Charles Webster. 
 
 Master of Sidney and Mrs. Phelps, Miss Phelps, and 
 
 Miss Amy Thomas. 
 The Registrar and Mrs. Luard. 
 Colonel and Mrs. Baker. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Biiinpstead. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Girdlestone. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Leapingwell. 
 Professor Birbeck. 
 Professor Thompson. 
 The Public Orator. 
 Professor Liveing. 
 Mr. Stephen. 
 Mr. T. P. Hudson ; 
 
 besides friends of members : the number of the audience 
 being about 100. 
 
 " The room was not overcrowded, and general satisfaction 
 was expressed by the visitors on leaving." 
 
 It is to be noted how strongly the artists had come out in 
 the scenery. Alas ! poor Jones ! His name had vanished 
 from the bills, and most of his scenes had been painted out. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 END OF EIGHTH YEAR. — LENT TERM, 1863. 
 
 Extract from Annals, signed by Secretary Kirby : — 
 
 " The performances commenced this term on March 11th, 
 and were continued on three following nights. The pieces 
 performed were — 
 
 Ici on parle Frangais, 
 
 The Pacha of Pimlico, 
 
 A Turkish Bath, 
 
 llomeo and Juliet (Travestie), 
 
 *' As in the corresponding term of 1862, all the parts, with 
 one exception, were filled by native talent ; while, however, last 
 year, the piece in which the talented Richard Preston appeared 
 came to an unparalleled grief, on this occasion Mr. Arthur 
 Guest, our sole visitor, gave great strength to the burlesque 
 by his delineation of the apothecaiy. It is always satisfactory 
 in one sense to have no old members down, as in these cases 
 many new members come into notice, who might otherwise, 
 as * supers,' have ' wasted their sweetness on the desert 
 air.' " 
 
 This seems a very natural observation. But the effect of 
 the visits of the old members was to *' let the performances 
 down easy," and had contributed largely to the permanent 
 success of the Club. 
 
 In proof of the demand creating the supply, I quote the 
 following from the criticisms : — 
 
 ** Mr. Oliffe, on the second night, read his part at six 
 
250 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A.D. C. " Canib, 
 
 hours' notice. We can say no more. On the two following 
 nights his acting was extremely good; though his voice 
 was not powerful, he made it tell, and, in fact, gave success 
 to two or three trios and duets, which fell flat on the first 
 night, when Mr. Carrington could not sing. But what wo 
 admired particularly is his extremely unaffected style of 
 acting ; he made such a very lady-like Juliet. We do not 
 mind saying that his business of reading the * supper ' and 
 fainting off on the sofa, though simplicity itself, was the best 
 bit of lady acting we have seen since F. C. Wilson's days." 
 
 The Club has never yet failed in this respect, but latterly 
 adaptations of popular plays have been so ingeniously con- 
 trived as to omit the female characters. Mr. J. W. Clark, 
 Fellow of Trinity, did a version of Le Courricr de Lyon, in 
 which the dramatis personce were men only. The only per- 
 fectly pardonable liberty of this sort that I ever took, was 
 with Mrs. Bouncer in Box and Cox, whom I elevated to the 
 ranks as Sergeant Bouncer. Had the piece been French, she 
 might have been transformed into a vivandiere, as Mdlle. 
 Bouncer, La Fille du Regiment. 
 
 *' At a Committee meeting in Hon. C. Carington'^s rooms 
 on April 26f/i, the following gentlemen were duly elected mem- 
 bers of the Society — 
 
 Mr. — Williamson .... Jesus College 
 Mr. P. Candy Magd. Coll. 
 
 ** The general meeting took place on April 27th. 
 
 **Hon. C. Carington resigned his office of Stage Manager. 
 
 ** A. Patrick, that of Superintendent of Scenery. 
 
 *• Mr. PuUeine was elected Stage Manager. 
 
 " Hon. A. Strutt was elected Assistant Stage Manager. 
 
 " The office of Orchestra Manager, thereby vacated, was 
 filled by election of Mr. Oliffe. 
 
 "Mr. Troyte was elected to his old office of Superintendent 
 of Scenery upon his return to College. 
 
End of Eighth Year. 
 
 251 
 
 ** Mr. Everett then addressed the meeting and moved — 
 
 ** ' That the Critique Book, as kept by the Secretary, he 
 
 abolished,* 
 " Seconded hy Lord John Hervey, and carried. 
 
 ** Mr. Hope Grant then moved * That the critique on last 
 Tennis performances he erased.' We did not catch the name 
 of the seconder. 
 
 " The latter motion was lost. 
 ** The meeting then dispersed." 
 
 This hrought the eighth year to a conclusion. 
 The Committee after the election on April 27th — 
 
 W. A. Rankes, Esq. 
 I. J. PuUeine, Esq. 
 C. A. W. Troyte, Esq. 
 T. F. Kirl)y, Esq. . 
 I. F. Olitfe, Esq. . 
 J. T. M. Russell, Esq. 
 E. H. Wynne, Estj. 
 Hon. A. Stnitt . . 
 
 . Trin. Hall 
 . Trin. Coll. 
 . Trin. Hall 
 Sec. and Treas. 
 , Trin. Coll. 
 Trin. Coll. 
 . Tiin. Coll. 
 . Trin. ColL 
 
 President. 
 
 Stage Manager. 
 
 Supt. of Sceneiy. 
 
 Trin. ColL 
 
 Orchestra. 
 
 Director of Machinery. 
 
 Prompter. 
 
 Assistant Stage Manager. 
 
 A. D. C." — List of Members from 1855 to 18G3.* 
 
 F. C. Bumand (Pres.,Feb. 24,1858). 
 T. White. 
 
 F. C. Wilson. 
 Reginald Kelly. 
 Collins. 
 
 G. Lampson. 
 Tyrrell. 
 
 P. W. Freeman. 
 
 Murray. 
 
 C. E. Donne. 
 
 Woodmass. 
 
 R. L. Lomax. 
 
 R. Kelly (Pres., Dec. 12, 1855). 
 
 W. L. B. Cator. 
 
 G. Feilden. 
 
 J. S. Oliphant. 
 
 W. P. Lysaght. 
 
 C. R. 
 
 Simpson. 
 
 J. Graham. 
 
 F. Lutwidge. 
 
 * I am afraid this list is incomplete, and the spelling of some of the names 
 is not absolutely correct ; but I have been unable to verify it by the original. 
 
252 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A,D. C. " Camb. 
 
 L. T. Baines. 
 
 K HiU. 
 
 W. H. Baillie (Pres., Oct., 1856). 
 
 J. M. Wilson. 
 
 Lennox Conyngham. 
 
 T. R Polwhele. 
 
 Gerald Fitzgerald. 
 
 G. Harvey. 
 
 T. C. Wood. 
 
 Whitley. 
 
 H. Larapson. 
 
 H. Snow. 
 
 T. Thornhill. 
 
 Salter. 
 
 Ernwin, 
 
 Dalton. 
 
 J. Watt Gibson (Pres., Nov. 22, 
 
 1855). 
 T. Wilkinson. 
 Arboiiin. 
 E. Ashley. 
 
 E. O'Hara. 
 R. Wharton. 
 J. Foster. 
 R. Preston. 
 R. O. Lamb. 
 W. Evans. 
 
 G. R. Hassali. 
 C. Hall. 
 A. F. Scaly. 
 P. G Wynne. 
 H. W. Hoffman. 
 R. Hobart. 
 A. Cumberlege. 
 T. Utton. 
 P. Gorst. 
 
 F. Davy. 
 
 J. H. Robinson. 
 S. Saiindcrson. 
 Lord R. Grosvenor. 
 W. C. Streatfield. 
 T. A. Hudson. 
 Hon. J. Leigh, 
 R. Wingfield Digby. 
 C. Weguelin. 
 Knapp. 
 Lord Pel ham. 
 
 Hamilton. 
 
 M. N. R. Fitzgerald. 
 
 Lord Brecknock (Pre8.Dec.4,1858). 
 
 H. Thornhill. 
 
 G. de Robeck. 
 
 J. Rowley. 
 
 R. Tennant. 
 
 F. V. Wright. 
 
 F. Smith. 
 
 C. Grant. 
 
 H. Partridge. 
 
 G. Hawes. 
 
 G. H. Cockrane. 
 
 M. Guest. 
 
 H. Snow. 
 
 E. C. Clark. 
 
 Creswell Tayleur. 
 
 T. G. Pearse. 
 
 H. Ark Wright. 
 
 Hon. L. Ashley. 
 
 H. Dent. 
 
 Barnett. 
 
 Hon. E. O'Brien. 
 
 A. C. Lee (Pres. May Term, 1858). 
 
 MoncriefF. 
 
 S. A. Hankey. 
 
 A. E. M. Ashley. 
 
 A. E. Knox. 
 
 G. Walford. 
 
 D. Powell (President, Dec, 1860, 
 Oct., 1861). 
 
 N. Madan. 
 J. Hall. 
 J. Sankey. 
 Woodroffe. 
 J. B. Dyne. 
 H. M. G. Coore. 
 W. R. Phelips. 
 W. S. Sands. 
 Finch. 
 
 J. Chambers. 
 Hon. de Grey. 
 G. Howard. 
 C. Walsh. 
 L. D. Hall. 
 P. McNeile. 
 G. Charles. 
 
End of Eighth Year, 
 
 253 
 
 E. W. Chapman. 
 W. A. Longfield. 
 
 E. A. Catt. 
 
 F. G. Arbuthnot. 
 S. T. Ashton. 
 
 T. J. Sanderson. 
 
 C. A. W. Troyte. 
 
 W. A. Bankes (Pres., Apr. 4, 1862). 
 
 C. A. W. Rycroft. 
 
 H. T. Russell. 
 
 J. Manners-Sutton. 
 
 E. C. R. Ross. 
 
 P. F. Stewartt. 
 
 W. A. Bankes. 
 
 J. Begwood. 
 
 S. V. Saumarez. 
 
 Viscount Pollington. 
 
 W. A. Currey. 
 
 T. M. Wells. 
 
 Marriott. 
 
 Hawner. 
 
 G. O. Trevelyan. 
 A. H. Baillie. 
 
 A. de Rothschild. 
 Lieut. Butts. 
 F. C. B. Acland. 
 P. H. Hamberston. 
 Lord Amberley. 
 Hon. A. Strutt 
 
 F. PuUen. 
 T. Edwanls. 
 
 H. G. M. Kirby. 
 
 J. W. Clark. 
 
 Wells. 
 
 R. Heathcote. 
 
 R. Patrick. 
 
 G. Buxton. 
 Grove. 
 
 Hon. — Powys. 
 
 Augustus Campbell. 
 
 Percy Lee. 
 
 Newton. 
 
 Plowden. 
 
 F. W. Hudson. 
 
 Hon. — Strutt. 
 
 Everett.* 
 
 * Mr. William Everett, author of a pleasant, chatty, little book, entitled 
 On the Cam, a son of the fomous American orator, Edward Everett, well 
 known in England as the U.S. Minister in 1841. He was a clever Yankee, 
 with a considerable amount of dry, caustic humour. Ajeu de mot of his is 
 worth recording. The young republican was watching a game of whist, in 
 which the Duke of St. Albans, and a Cambridge man who had recently won 
 the Bell Scholarship, were opponents. A discussion arose as to some nice 
 point of the game, and the players, unable to settle it among themselves, 
 appealed to the bystandere, when Everett, quietly interposing, said to the 
 Duke ; "My dear fellow, it's not worth dispute, as the difference between you 
 is only a slight question of distinction." The disputants begged him to 
 explain his oraciUar pronouncement, which had been delivered in the hardest 
 American twang. With a sly twinkle in his eye, which prepared the listeners 
 for something worth hearing, he replied: "Well, don't you see, there can't 
 be much difference between you and St. Albans, as you're a Bell Scholar 
 and he's a Beau Clerk." Ecpiiuaiiiity was instantly restored ; the game pro- 
 ceeded amicably, and Mr. Everett, ** having scored," subsided quietly into an 
 arm-chair, and dozed. In his book On tlie Cam, he speaks of the "A. D. C." 
 as giving "excellent stage performances, open to all the University, for a few 
 nights in every term. It is fortunate in possessing some members of very 
 superior dramatic talent, who, though they have long ceased to be members 
 of the University, make a point of coming back to Cambridge to act, and to 
 assist in developing the rising dramatic talent. The acting is generally ex- 
 tremely good, and the society an agreeable one." 
 
2 54 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D.Cr Camb. 
 
 Usborne. 
 
 Evans. 
 
 Heathcote. 
 
 Leigh. 
 
 F. C. Grant. 
 
 J. Kirby. 
 
 Lord John Hervey. 
 
 Scholefield. 
 
 RC.Jebb. 
 
 Hon. C. Lyttelton. 
 
 J. W. Hawkesworth. 
 
 Lord J. Hervey. 
 
 C. C. Henniker. 
 
 Hon. Fitz William. 
 
 C. T. Royds. 
 
 R. M. Harvey. 
 
 H. Becher. 
 
 R. Doyne. 
 
 E. Hambro. 
 A. E. Guest. 
 Hon. H. Bourke. 
 S. Hoare. 
 
 Duke of St. Albans. 
 N. M. de Rothschild. 
 Smith Marryat. 
 Feath erstonehaugh. 
 Willis. 
 Gurdon. 
 C. Barclay. 
 Wilmot. 
 
 F. Holland. 
 
 N. A. Langham. 
 
 H. W. Holiman (Oct. Term, 1860). 
 
 E. H. Wynne. 
 
 H. L. Wood. 
 
 Hon. W. P. Bouverie. 
 
 Hon, J. M. Henniker. 
 
 J. Hamilton. 
 
 Hon. F. Whymper. 
 
 C. J. Fletcher. 
 
 Hon. H. Bourke. 
 
 G. Osborne. 
 
 E. Biiclianan. 
 
 T. F. Oliffe. 
 
 Chapman. 
 
 E. F. Wayne 
 
 J. H. Elwes. 
 
 Hon. A. C. Stanley 
 
 A. J. Clay. 
 
 H. J. Mealycott. 
 
 H. C. Russell. 
 
 S. C. Allsopp. 
 
 Williamson. 
 
 R. Denman. 
 
 H. Blake-Humfrey. 
 
 J. J. Pulleine. 
 
 Hon. E. F. Kenyon. 
 
 C. Hall. 
 
 P. T. Ralli. 
 
 T. Melvill. 
 
 Lord Aberdon. 
 
 A. H. Harrison. 
 
 Ramsbotham. 
 
 S. E. Buxton. 
 
 Melvill. 
 
 Ashton. 
 
 P. Candy. 
 
 [1863). 
 
 Hon. C. Carington (Pres. June 3, 
 
 Honorary President. 
 H.R.H. Prince op Wales. 
 
 Honorary Members. 
 
 Alfred Thompson . . . Trin. Coll. 
 
 Quintin Twiss . . . . . Ch. Ch. Oxon. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 NINTH YEAR — MAY TERM, 1863, TO LENT, 1864 — RULES OF 
 1870 AND 1871 — REMARKS, TOAST, AND SENTIMENT— CUR- 
 TAIN BLUE FIRE. 
 
 Performance Week, May 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th. 
 
 ** Tlie ijerformances took place on the above days, hit in 
 compliance with the 7'esolution passed at the general meeting 
 last April 27thy no account of them is preserved,'* 
 
 This is rather a change. It was the Secretary's last flicker. 
 Then he gracefully retires. 
 
 " The retiring secretary, after a senice of three years, begs 
 to add his regret that he cannot longer remain on a com- 
 mittee in acting on ivhich he has spent so many days of 
 amusement and satisfaction. 
 
 " Thos. F. Kirby, Secretary.'* 
 
 *' At a general meeting held on Wednesday, October 21st, 
 1863, a motion teas carried that a record of the performances 
 be icritten by the Stage Manager and revised by the Com- 
 mittee, be kept in the rooms, 
 
 *'E. W. Chapman, Hon. Sec.*' 
 
 May Term, 1863. 
 
 *' The performances this Term took place May 2Qth, 21th, 
 2Sth, 2dth. 
 
256 Personal Reminiscences of tite ''A,D. C. " Camb. 
 
 ** The first and third nights (Tuesday and Thursday) mere 
 ladies' nights, and were both well filled, Wednesday night 
 also brought a crowded audience. On Friday the number of 
 visitors was small." 
 
 " The pieces performed were — 
 
 A Nice Firm, 
 Twice Killed. 
 The Maid and the Magpie (Burlesque), 
 
 " On the first night the programme consisted of — 
 
 A Nice Firm, 
 and the burlesque. 
 
 " On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, all three pieces 
 were performed." 
 
 A NICE FIRM. 
 
 By TOM TAYLOR, Esq. 
 
 Mr Messiter \ of th^ firm of Messi- 
 Mr. Messiter } t^^^j^f^^n, Solicitors 
 Mr. Moon { andAttameys at Law 
 Mr. John Ripton 
 Mr. Richard Ripton 
 Mr. Duncuft Meazle . 
 Mr. Mumps, M.R.C.S. . 
 
 Ryder 
 
 Tottie 
 
 Miss Susannah Applejohn . 
 
 Mr. F. C. BURNAND. 
 
 Mr. C. Hall. 
 
 Mr. Elwes. 
 Mr. H. C. Russell. 
 Mr. Buxton. 
 Mr. Allsopp. 
 Mr. Melvill. 
 Mr. Williamson. 
 Mr. Arbuthnot. 
 
 TWICE KILLED. 
 
 By J. MADDISON MORTON, Esq. 
 
 Euclid Facile . 
 
 Reckless 
 
 Tom {EecHess's servant) 
 
 Mr. Holdfast . 
 
 Mr. Furgus Fahle . 
 
 Robert 
 
 Mrs. Facile . 
 
 Julia .... 
 
 Fanny . 
 
 Mr. PULLEINE. 
 
 Mr. C. Hall. 
 Mr. Elwes. 
 Mr. H. C. Russell. 
 Mr, Chapman. 
 Mr. OsBOKN. 
 Hon, A. Stanley. 
 Mr. Denman. 
 Mr. Oliffe. 
 
Ninth Year. 257 
 
 THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. 
 
 By H. J. BYRON, Esq. 
 
 Fabrizio .... 
 
 . Mr. Chapman. 
 
 Granetto .... 
 
 . . Mr. C. Hall. 
 
 Pippo .... 
 
 . Mr. Willi AMsox. 
 
 Fernando Yillabella . 
 
 . . Mr. Pulleine. 
 
 Isaac .... 
 
 . Mr. F. C. BuiiNAND 
 
 The Magistrate . 
 
 . . Mr. CURREY. 
 
 Ninette .... 
 
 . Iklr. Oliffe. 
 
 Dame Lucia 
 
 . . Mr. Sanderson. 
 
 Elvira ) . . . 
 
 . \ Mr. Denman. 
 
 Luisa \ . 
 
 . . \ Mr. Elwes. 
 
 I make this last extract from the book : 
 
 *' The usual critique on the performances ivas discontinued 
 for some time, either on account of the excellence of the 
 acting^ or the inefficiency of the various secretaries, or the 
 modesty of the actors.'' 
 
 The Mr. Melvill mentioned as playing the part of Ryder in 
 A Nice Firm is the gallant officer whose loss we have so 
 recently had to deplore, and who will ever be remembered by 
 his countiymen as the Hero of Isandula. 
 
 Mr. H. C. Kussell, who was cast for Mr. Richard Ripton, 
 is now the Vicar of Doncaster, and Charles Hall is the Prince 
 of Wales's Attorney- General for the Duchy of Cornwall. 
 
 The Nice Firm was what would nowadays be described as 
 " a Genuine Success," — "Charley" Hall being as good a Mr. 
 Moon as could be named, after Frank Matthews and the 
 others were all suited down to the ground. In the afterpiece 
 Twice Killed, Melvill was to have played Reckless, but he 
 had contrived to get himself " gated " by the authorities that 
 very evening, and conse(][uently was compelled to be back in 
 college by nine or ten o'clock, which, of course, prevented 
 him from appearing in the farce. In this difficulty Charley 
 Hall " kindly undertook the part at a moment's notice," and 
 the stage-manager went before the curtain, and by way of 
 apology, told the plain unvarnished tale of Melvill's being 
 " gated," which was received with great good-humour by a 
 
258 Personal Reiniiiisce7tces of the ''A.D.CT Cainb, 
 
 decidedly sympathetic audience. His substitute went on and 
 read the part from the book, and as the piece depended 
 mainly on the exertions of Messrs. Pulleine and Stanley, the 
 result was eminently satisfactory. 
 
 On the second night, being quite at home in A Nice Firm, 
 Messiter and Moon went in for an impromptu conversation, 
 chiefly relating to the latter's health, his walking exercise, 
 what he had for dinner, w^hen he was vaccinated, his opinion 
 on the topics of the day, and so forth ; which at last quite 
 upset Mr, Moons gravity, and . it was only by feigning a 
 violent fit of coughing — which produced further gratuitous 
 advice and offers of various ingenious remedies from Mr, 
 Messiter — that he managed to recover his characteristic 
 gravity and resume the piece where he had left off. 
 
 We — Charles Hall and myself — had done this sort of 
 thing, a very dangerous game by the way, before, on at least 
 one important occasion. A piece to fill up the evening was 
 wanted in consequence of some mishap somewhere, and Mr. 
 C. Hall undertook to play Sent to the Toicer with me. I was 
 in town at the time, but on receiving his letter I at once set 
 myself to work, studied Launcelot, but was unable to get 
 down to Cambridge until the very evening of the performance, 
 when Charles Hall met me at the station at five o'clock, and 
 we rehearsed as we drove to his rooms, when we continued 
 our rehearsal over the cutlets and claret. This was the 
 second time I had got up this piece in a hurried manner, and 
 I should not have consented had I not trusted to my memory 
 of the former performance being better than in the event it 
 turned out to be. I knew the chief situations, I knew the 
 plot, such as it is, and a good deal of the dialogue, but not 
 all. I knew that it was a sort of Box and Cox, only not so 
 good, and that one man had ' Bacon and Beans ' for dinner, 
 and the other * Beans and Bacon ' — but which had which I 
 hadn't time to get fixed in my head. So somehow when we 
 had once fairly got into the very middle of the farce, like 
 Laertes and Hamlet in the fencing scene changing rapiers, 
 
Ninth Year. 259 
 
 we suddenly changed parts. I was '*not Launcclot — but 
 another " — I took the words out of C. Hall's mouth, and he 
 took my words out of mine. The Prompter looked first at 
 one and then at the other, and vainly attempted to bring us 
 back to the right paths. But how was he to manage it? He 
 couldn't prompt Perkyn Puddifoot in the very speech which 
 by right belonged to him, but which had just been uttered by 
 Launcelot Banks , and it was clearly no use giving Launcclot 
 Banks the next speech which he ought to say, but which 
 was at that very moment issuing from the lips of Perkyn 
 Puddifoot. 
 
 There never was such a muddle. The Prompter shook his 
 head, whispered, pointed to the book, all to no purpose. He 
 waited patiently, following the dialogue and wondering whether 
 by accident we should each resume our original parts before 
 the piece came to an end, and be once more " as we were 
 before we were as we were." 
 
 No such luck. Finding that we were mistaken in our 
 characters, we made a desperate attempt to try back to the 
 l^oint of departure. It was hopeless. The Prompter gasped. 
 He too made a try back. Where iverc we going to ? We 
 heard the leaves rustle. We durst not stop, or we should 
 have exposed our utter incapacity to the audience. A happy 
 thought struck Launcclot ^ and in the hope that Perkyn 
 would remember how and where to go on, if he only had time 
 given him, Launcelot commenced an impromptu story. This 
 utterly staggered the Prompter who shut up the book, and 
 PerkyUy giving himself up for lost, quietly lighted a pipe, 
 listened to the story, threw in a few remarks, and finally 
 observed that when " Launcelot had quite done, it would 
 be as well if they went on regularly." Whereupon 
 Launcclot, at his wits' end, turned for the word to the 
 'Prompter. His book was closed on his knees, and he was 
 half asleep. Hearing his name called, he roused himself, and 
 to the hurriedly and anxiously whispered demand for " the 
 word," he replied by suddenly handing the book to Launcclot 
 
26o Personal Reminiscences of the '^A.D.C' Camb, 
 
 and whispering, audibly, " Just let me know what jpage 
 you've got to," 
 
 Fortunately at that moment the " Gaoler " was inspired to 
 come on, and as we had to take our cue from him we were 
 once more fairly started, and, with the help of the Prompter, 
 who had found the place by this time, we got safely to the 
 finish of Sent to the Toiver. 
 
 This brings me to the end of my personal recollections of 
 the " A. D. C." as far as I was actively concerned. 
 
 Since my day they have played She Stoops to Conquer, The 
 Bivals, and, I think, The School for Scaudal, Of this last I 
 am not so certain. We had one excellent performance of The 
 Critic, of which we gave both Acts, but the bill is missing 
 from my collection, and the exact cast from my recollection. 
 Quintin Twiss played Sir Walter Raleigh, and C.Weguelin was, 
 I fancy. Sir Fretful Plagiary, The undergraduate audience 
 was much tickled by the absurdities, but in allusion to the 
 premeditated mistakes of the sham Rehearsal, expressed its 
 opinion very generally that "It was a pity the fellows didn't know 
 their parts better," and "what a lot of trouble Burnand had 
 to keep 'em straight." I was playing Puff, The under- 
 graduate of that time was evidently not well up in his 
 Sheridan. 
 
 Considering the secrecy of our commencement, it was 
 amusing, within the last few years, to see the large handbills 
 — e.g., of November, 1876 — serving for University advertise- 
 ments, in which it stated that " Tickets 5s. each " could be 
 had " at Hart's, Trinity Street, and at the ' A. D. C.,' Park 
 Street." Park Street is a small turning out of Jesus Lane, 
 where the door of the old Billiard Rooms at the back of the 
 " Hoop " used to be. 
 
 In the previous year the Club had played Loudon 
 Assurance, and on its advertising handbill, publicly displayed, 
 the public was informed that, " Tuesday, November 23, and 
 Thursday, November 25, ivoidd be University Nights, and 
 Wednesday, November 24, ivoidd be the County Night. On 
 
Ninth Year, 261 
 
 Thursday the first four roics luill he reseirecl for Ladies, 
 Tickets Is. 6fZ." 
 
 The Tickets on University niglits at this time were five 
 shillings apiece, and on the County night half-a-sovereign, 
 and '*were to be obtained" (here was the old rule still in 
 force) " hy members of the University only " at Messrs. 
 Metcalfe & Son's, Trinity Street, or at the ' A. D. C " 
 
 In 1870 the Kules were revised, and remain as follows : — 
 
 ilatosJ of t\)t a* ©. €. 
 
 REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE, JUNE, 1870. 
 
 I. That this Club consists of Members and Honorary Members, the 
 former to be Resident Members in the University, the latter to have 
 had their names on the boards of one of the Colleges, or to have been 
 elected ad tundem Members of tlie University, or be Members of tlie 
 University of Oxford, or Garrick Club in London, That the number 
 of Resident Members be limited to 60, 
 
 II. That at the last meeting in each Term the Club shall elect a 
 Committee of eight for the next Term, consisting of a President, Stage- 
 Manager, Superintendent of Scenery, Treasurer and Secretary, Acting- 
 IManager, Librarian, Director of Machinery, Assistant Stage-Manager, 
 and at all nieetmgs the President take the Chair, and have the casting 
 vote. 
 
 III. That the Committee elect Members, at which Election not 
 more than two of the Committee may be absent, 
 
 IV. That all Members and Honorary Members shall pay an 
 entrance-fee of X2 2s., and shall pay a Subscription of £2 per term. All 
 Members in residence who have paid their Subscriptions for the current 
 Term shall have a right to vote at General Meetings. 
 
 V. That any Member having paid his Subscriptions for nine Terms 
 shall become a Life Member, and, as such, be allowed free use of the 
 Club. 
 
 VI. That any Member graduating or going out of residence, before 
 nine Terms, shall lie required, should he again enter into residence, to 
 pay Subscriptions for the use of the Club. 
 
 VII. Any Member whose Subscription or Fine remains unpaid 
 after it has been due a fortnigljt, Subscriptions bemg due on the first 
 day of residence, shall be fined Five Shillings, after due notice given by 
 the Secretary. 
 
262 Personal Reminiscences of the'' A. D,Cr Camb. 
 
 VIII. There sliall be a General Meeting at the end of every Term. 
 That any Member or Members can call a General Meeting provided 
 
 they have the sanction of the President. 
 
 IX. That due notice of Eehearsals shall be posted in the rooms : 
 that any Member being more than ten minutes late for a Rehearsal, 
 shall be lined 25. M. ; or more tlian fifteen minutes, 5s. That all 
 excuses must be sent in to the Stage-Manager in a written form. 
 
 N.B. — Members half-an-hour late shall be considered to have missed 
 the Rehearsal. 
 
 X. That no Acting Member or the Prompter be allowed to miss a 
 Rehearsal in the week previous to the Performances, on any considera- 
 tion whatever, unless notice be given to the Stage-Manager three days 
 previoush^ The fine for total absence is Ten Shillings. 
 
 XI. That none but Members perform on the A. D. C. stage, and 
 that none but Members of tlie University be admitted as spectators of 
 the performances, without the sanction of tlie Committee. 
 
 XII. That no Member take any Club property out of the rooms, 
 under a penalty of Five Shillings. 
 
 XIII. That no Member throw about Club property, or in any way 
 damage it, nnder a penalty of Five Shillings. 
 
 XIV. That if necessary it be at the option of the Committee to fine 
 any Member infringing Laws XII. and XIII. a sum not exceeding the 
 value of the property. 
 
 XV. That the Secretary and Treasurer shall keep minutes of the 
 Meetings, and correct accounts of all moneys received and paid during 
 the term of ofiice. 
 
 XVI. That the Committee have power to make Bye-Laws necessary 
 for the good of the Club. 
 
 XVII. Any Member breaking the Laws or Bye-Laws of the Club 
 shall be fined Two Shillings and Sixpence per week, after notice having 
 been given, until payment be made. 
 
 XVIII. That no Dogs be permitted in the rooms, under a penalty 
 of Five Shillings, which will be strictly enforced. 
 
 XIX. That money received for tickets shall be paid to Members of 
 the Committee from whom the tickets have been received, within a week 
 after performances, under a penalty of Ten Shillings . 
 
 XX. All Members during their first two terms in the Club shall 
 take supers' parts, if required to do so, under a penalty of Two Guineas, 
 unless they shall give a sufficient excuse to be approved as such by the 
 Committee. 
 
 XXI. That Strangers (not Members of this University) be allowed 
 the use of the Club rooms and property, provided that their stay at 
 Cambridge does not exceed a week, and that their names and the names 
 of their introducers be entered in a book provided for the purpose. 
 
 XXII. That any Member failing to pay his Subscription or Fines 
 
Ninth Year. 263 
 
 during the Term in which they become due, after notice given by the 
 Secretary, shall cease to be a Member of the Club. 
 
 XXIII. That any Member of the Committee have the power of 
 enforcing Fines. 
 
 SI. Q. C. 
 
 LIBR^AIIY RULES. 
 
 EEVISED FEBRUARY, 1872. 
 
 I. That every Member taking a Book out of the Library enter his 
 o^\-n Name and that of the Book, -with the date of its removal, and, on 
 the returning it, the date of its return, in a Book provided for that 
 purpose. 
 
 II. That Books may be kept out for any period not exceeding a 
 fortnight ; and that any Member keeping a Book out beyond the period 
 allowed be fined One Shilling. 
 
 III. That notice be sent by the Librarian to any Member who 
 infringes Rule II. ; and if after such notice sent the Book be not 
 returned at once, that an additional fine of Sixpence a day be imposed 
 till the Book be returned. 
 
 rV. That no Book be taken out again by the same Member until 
 one clear day has elapsed from the time of its return. 
 
 V. That no Member do take any of Lacys Acting Plays from the 
 Club Room without the written pei-mission of the Stage-Manager, or 
 Assistant Stage-Manager. 
 
 VI. That any Member who loses or injures a Book be required to 
 replace it. 
 
 VII. Tliat all Books be returned to tlie Library on or before a day 
 at the end of each term, of which a week's notice be given by the 
 Librarian. 
 
 VIII. That any Member removing a Newspaper or Periodical from 
 the Club Rooms be fined Ten Shillings. 
 
 IX. That any Member transgressing Rules I. IV. V. VII. be fined 
 Five Shillings. 
 
 X. That any Member of Committee have power to impose the 
 above fines. 
 
 XI. That notice of any fine be posted in the Club Rooms, and that 
 any Member refusing to pay a fine receive a notice from the Committee 
 that if the fine be not paid within tliree days, he will be expelled from 
 the Club. 
 
264 Personal Reminiscences of the ^^A.D,C" Cainb. 
 
 In the Library there is a very valuable edition of Hogarth's 
 works presented to the Club by Reginald Kelly of Kelly, 
 Devonshire, whose name is in the first list of members. 
 
 The Club possesses a very fair Dramatic Library, and its 
 walls are covered with photographs and sketches. 
 
 In 1871 the following Rules were accepted by the Club, 
 acting, I believe, under the advice of Mr. J. W. Clark, of 
 Trinity, who has on more than one occasion done the 
 "A. D. C." excellent service, and who is sincerely interested 
 in the Club's prosperity. 
 
 a* 13. C. 
 
 RULES ACCEPTED FROM TUTORS BY THE CLUB, 
 1871, OCTOBER TERM. 
 
 I. The performances are to take place in the Michaelmas Term only, 
 and in one week, and on three nights only, of which Saturday shall 
 not be one. 
 
 II. The performances are not to take place during the time of the 
 Previous, General, or Special B. A. Examinations. 
 
 III. There is to be no Town night. 
 
 IV. There is to be only one Ladies' night. 
 
 V. There is to be no Burlesque. 
 
 VI. The performances are not to begin earlier than 7.30, and are to 
 close at 10.30 o'clock. 
 
 VII. That those who take part in the performance undertake posi- 
 tively during that week to be in before 12 o'clock at night, and that all 
 Members of the A. D. C. will, as far as possible, discourage supper 
 parties after the performances. 
 
 VIII. The plays to be performed shall previously be submitted to 
 a Committee of Tutors of Colleges. 
 
 IX. The Performers shall be Resident Members of the University 
 only. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 1. The performances are limited to the October term only. 
 
 This rule ought to be of singular benefit to the Club, which 
 
 could be carefully preparing its work from the beginning of 
 
 the year. The scenery could be put in hand in the Lent 
 
Nz7itk Year. 265 
 
 term : rehearsals could be got on with by easy stages : and 
 all the details, all the mlse-enschie, could be most carefully 
 and artistically considered. 
 
 2. The second rule is also good. Years ago we had, to a 
 certain extent, adopted it. 
 
 3. This is decidedly right. The " A. D. C." was never 
 instituted for the Town, only for the Gown. The Town had 
 its own Dramatic Club and its own amusements. 
 
 4. The previous rule applies to the Gown, this to the 
 petticoats. 
 
 5. I have no fault to find with this, if exceptions are per- 
 mitted. Our old-fashioned friend BomhasteSy then the bur- 
 lesques of the Robsonian school, and certain extravagant 
 musical pieces (where both music and drama are combined — 
 as for instance. Trial hy Jury, and the Triumviretta of Cox 
 and Box, the latter so easily performed, and containing some 
 of the best music ever written by Arthur Sullivan, Mus.Doc), 
 might be occasionally played. At present there is a tendency 
 to heaviness in the"A. D. C." entertainments, which would 
 be vastly relieved by a song and dance. 
 
 6. Excellent. 
 
 7. Why " before 12," why not " at 12 ? " and why dis- 
 courage those cheery and social gatherings ? Englishmen, as a 
 rule, do not meet for any combined effort, without feeding 
 together, either before or after the event. Parliament has its 
 Greenwich dinner. The Royal Academy has its banquet. 
 After an evening's hard work on the stage, some sort of supper 
 is a necessity. Eating alone is bad for the digestion, and 
 supping together is harmless. Besides, if the performance 
 is over at 10.30 punctually — and if they begin punctually at 
 7.30 they could be finished by 10.15 or 10, — there are a 
 couple of clear hours for a quiet supper, whereat, all the 
 difficulties surmounted, all the behind-the-scenes contre- 
 temps will be discussed, and the heroes will fight their battles 
 over again, and finish by drinking a bumper at parting to the 
 success of the '*A. D. C." 
 
266 Personal Reminiscences of the ''A. D.Cy Camb. 
 
 8. No objection to this. But it would be still better were 
 there a Dramatic Professor, who would lecture on the Art, 
 and himself choose the plays for his students to perform. 
 Why should there not be one French night a year out of the 
 series of performances ? And why should not encouragement 
 be given to original dramatic and musical composition ? The 
 "A. D. C." stage could be written for by those who knew it 
 best, and the pieces, whether purely dramatic, or also 
 operatic, would form a perfect re'pertoire for amateurs every- 
 where. The pieces written specially for the ''A. D. C." 
 might be so ingeniously contrived as to omit the feminine 
 element entirely. 
 
 9. This excludes the old members, unless — having nothing 
 better to do — they choose to come up and go into residence. 
 Still, on the whole, it is a good rule. A great festival — such 
 as the celebration of the twenty-fifth year of the Club's 
 existence — might be admitted as an exception. 
 
 There remains nothing to add, except that in 1878 I 
 witnessed a capital performance of The Ticket of Leave Man. 
 This class of drama (in five Acts !) is too long and too heavy for 
 the place, and the farce was but small relief, — in fact on the 
 next night the latter was omitted. 
 
 We went in for lightness and music. Above all a Univer- 
 sity audience wants a good hearty laugh. Such was the 
 result of To Paris and Back, Alonzo the Brave, A Thump- 
 ing Legacy, The Goose with the Golden Eggs, Helping 
 Hands, Aladdin, The Jacobite, Used-up, The Seventh Shot 
 — and, of all these, not one ever caused so much amusement, 
 whenever it was played, as Alonzo. It was a burlesque of the 
 old school, specially written for the '* A. D. C." And none of 
 the modern burlesques, not even Aladdin, ever suited actors 
 and audience so well as this. I am convinced that some ab- 
 surdity of this sort, ivell and carefully done, is an essential of 
 success at the " A. D. C." The audience like it— tout est la. 
 
 The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, 
 Ami those who live to please, must please to live. 
 
Ninth Year. 267 
 
 No matter how short the eccentric afterpiece, If only lialf- 
 an-hour, so that it be full of sparkle, humour, practical fun, 
 good situations, laughable songs, and well-executed duetts, 
 trios, and concerted pieces, the audience, having to the full 
 appreciated the high art of the first piece — but withal a trifle 
 weary of it — will go away at the end of an Aristophanic extra- 
 vaganza, tickled with the * hits,' delighted with its brilliancy, 
 and in the greatest good-humour with the songs, music, 
 dances, and the scenery, which last should be a special feature. 
 The Committee of Tutors would be the first to enjoy such an 
 entertainment, and would amend the rule by * ' excepting 
 exceptions." 
 
 So finishes my labour of love, which I trust will not be 
 Love's labour lost. 
 
 Hcee olim meminisse juvabit. These are happy memories, 
 and to paraphrase Lord Houghton's sparkling epilogue of 
 fifty years ago, already quoted in the Preface — 
 
 But, as the present chronicle expires, 
 
 The writer asks one boon, and so retires ; 
 
 That on some pleasant evenings, when you're freed 
 
 From toil and care, and these brief records read, 
 
 In thought you will the path of life retrace, 
 
 And hear once more the voice, and see the face 
 
 Of many an old companion, then so young, 
 
 "With whom you've acted, laughed, and danced, and simg. 
 
 Then, as you watch the fragrant cloud ascend, 
 
 Distance enchantment to the view shall lend. 
 
 While, as you close the book, and cease to read. 
 
 You'll murmur, " Those were happy days indeed I " 
 
 The coffee finished, sip your Eau de vie^ 
 
 And, from your heart, cry, " Floreat * A, D. G. ! ' " 
 
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