Category: Humour
It was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have been seen standing, with other gentlemen, in a sombre dining-room brilliantly illuminated with one ce...
It was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have b...
2. CHAPTER II.As I was born in December, 1847, I was not five years old when I was taken to a house at the corner of Wellington Street, Strand, to see the funeral procession of the Duke of We...
3. CHAPTER III.For a period of twenty years I had the distinguished honour of being decidedly "well known to the police." When I between seventeen and eighteen years of age, and still at the N...
4. CHAPTER IV."What first put it into your head to give entertainments?" is a question I have been asked hundreds of times, and my reply has always been, "I'm sure I do not know." Nor do I kn...
5. Part II. will consist of Scenes from the _Merchant of Venice_,_Douglas_, _Pizarro_, _Macbeth_, _Richard III._, _Rolla_, and _Hamlet_. The Infant Roscius will, on the first night, go through the tent scene of _Richard III._ The scenes will...
6. CHAPTER V.I concluded my first long engagement at the Polytechnic in the summer of 1871, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul engaged me to join them for several weeks on a seaside tour. This was...
7. PART I.8. PART II.9. PART III.10. PART IV.The next of the above Entertainments will take place on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1873. LITERARY AND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT BY MR. GEO. GROSSMITH, JUN (Of the Royal Polytechnic, Lo...
11. CHAPTER VI.I played in comparatively few amateur theatrical performances--half a dozen, at the outside. I played John Chodd, jun., in _Society_, at the old Gallery of Illustration, in 1868...
12. CHAPTER VII.One dull day during the end of the year 1873, the Police Court having adjourned, I went into a ham and beef shop at the corner of Bow Street to get a sandwich. I generally did t...
13. CHAPTER VIII."In your book," said he, "do not fall into that diary mistake, characteristic of most autobiographers; and some autobiographers indulge in it very badly. I mean writing: 'May 14...