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Victoria University College Students' Association. Annual Extravaganza. Grand Opera House, 28th, 30th, 31st July, 1923. "LUV"
Caste of Characters
Caste of Characters.
Act I.—A Prehistoric Village in Gordzone Country.
Cast of Characters in the order of their appearance.
| Sheezastunna (Queen of Gordzone Country) | Mr. A. J. Mazengarb |
Paint the pretty face,
Dye the coral lip,
Emphasize the grace
Of her ladyship!
—Mikado.
| Wottabute | Miss F. Churchill |
The angels in pink and the angels in blue
In muslins and moires so lovely and new.
—Clough.
| Yourethewun | Miss T. Baldwin |
Subjected to your heavenly grace (Poetical phrase)
My brain is turned completely.
—Utopia Limited.
| Imeanother | Miss M. Pigou |
Attendants on Sheezastunna
A voice, whose every word and tone
Might make a thousand hearts its own.
—Prued.
| Bill Mushie | Mr. P. Martin-Smith |
A clever spouter
He'll sure turn out.
—R. A. Millikin.
| Tom Trillforth | Mr. I. H jorring |
"Love you?" said I, then I sighed, and then I gazed upon her sweetly—
For I think I do this sort of thing particularly neatly.
—Gilbert.
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Caste of Characters-(Continued)
| Hairy Harry | Mr. N. Whiteman |
Suitors of Sheezastunna
My mother bids me mind my hair.
—McCaw.
| Sir Robert | Spout Mr. S. E. Baume |
He was wonderfully active for so very stout a party.
Bab Ballads.—
| Princess Ivanellovanitch | Mr. K. L. Matthews |
Go away, madam;
I should say, madam,
You display, madam,
Shocking taste.
—Iolanthe.
| Mayor Fright | Mr. D. Veitch |
Oh, innocents, listen in time,
Avoid an existence of crime,
Or you'll be as ugly as Im.
—Gilbert.
| E. B. Takin | Mr. A. W. Lawn |
Prisoners up for Sentence
I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses,
But I don't care twopence halfpenny for any consequences.
—Ruddigore.
| Court Crier | Mr. J. L. McDuff |
With no language but a cry.
—Tennyson.
Cavemen, Women, etc., etc.
Act II.—Ancient Agypt.
| Nevatite (Queen of Egypt) | Miss M. Cooley |
| Tutankhamen (King of Egypt) | Mr. J. B. Yaldwyn |
He has an appointment particular very—
You'll find him, I think, in the town cemetery;
And that's how we came to be making so many.
—Gilbert.
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Caste of Characters-(Continued)
| Osis | Miss N. Glover |
In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar.
Don Juan—
| The Dancer | Miss T. Baldwin |
O among the dancers peerless,
Fleet of foot, and soft of eye!
—Calverley.
| Enos | Miss M. Pigou |
A timid tender
Feminine gender,
Prompt to coyly coo.
—The Grand Duke.
| Oris | Mr. A. W. Free |
Alan, whose "brow was shaded
By locks of glossiest jet,"
Whom almost any lady'd
Have given her eyes to get.
Calverley.
| Fanbearers | Miss Godfrey & Miss M. O'Shea |
Please look at us and you will see
What good young ladies ought to be!
—Utopia, Limited.
| The God Opah |
He never smiles and he never speaks;
He might go on like this for weeks.
—J. K. Stephen.
Attendants, Soldiers, Pallbearers, Dancers, etc., etc.
Act III.
| Queen Elizabeth | Mr. N. L. Knell |
Oh! 'tis a glorious thing, I ween,
To be a regular Royal Queen!
No half-and-half affair, I mean
But a right-down regular Royal Queen.
—Gondoliers.
| Bessie Throckmorton (Attendant on Queen) | Miss M. Morpeth |
Thus always it was ruled:
And when a woman smiled,
The strong man was a child,
The sage a noodle,
—Thackeray.
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| Sir Walter Raleigh | Mr. A. W. Free |
I thought 'twas Venus from her isle,
And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
—Praed.
| Earl of Essex | Mr. H. Adams |
A little, curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
—Byron.
| Innkeeper | Mr. Henderson |
Lo! with a voice unspeakably dramatic,
Lo! with a gesture, singularly fine.
—Stephen.
| Landlady | Miss G. Aplin |
Lords and Ladies in Waiting, Musicians, Villagers, etc., etc.
Act IV.
If you ask the special function
Of our never-ceasing motion,
We reply, without compunction,
That we haven't any notion.
—Iolanthe.
| Lady Miss | M. Morpeth |
| Gentleman | Mr. A. W. Free |
| Singer | Mr. W. Watkins |
| Dancer | Miss M. O'Shea |
| Dance Duo | Mr. W. Watkins & Miss G. Barnsdale |
Sheezastunna, Queen Elizabeth, Nevatite, Tutankhamen and other characters as for preceding acts.
P.J.G.S.: Alas! the general public is very apathetic about letters to the paper. Pearls before swine. You are treading the paths of bitterness already followed by Henry Bodley and Professor Hughie Mac.
P.M.S.: Yes, Jose is an awfully pretty name; but should you say so much about it?
S.F.: We presume this was the same Strephon of whom you wrote: "And though 'tis true in love and war, that men will all things dare,
Their means will surely not be foul, when led by Sergeant Fair"?
F.H.H.: No; it was not fair comment to say of you:
"H. was the next to arise; and he made us a crushing oration. Crushing, but pointless withal, like a seventy-ton hammer."
We agree that £500 would be hardly any solatium.