CHAPTER V

_THE ARMY AND THE STAGE_

Captain Robert Marshall—From the Ranks to the Stage—£10 for a Play—How Copyright is Retained—I. Zangwill as Actor—Copyright Performance—Three First Plays (Pinero, Grundy, Sims)—Cyril Maude at the Opera—_Mice and Men_—Sir Francis Burnand, _Punch_, Sir John Tenniel, and a Cartoon—Brandon Thomas and _Charley’s Aunt_—How that Play was Written—The Gaekwar of Baroda—Changes in London—Frederick Fenn at Clement’s Inn—James Welch on Audiences 92