Victoria University College. Capping Carnival "G.G.". A Musical Extravaganza. [1929]
Cast Out Caricatures
Cast Out Caricatures.
Bosun Bung: A Son of the Sea that was never raised on water. | A. H. Fear |
"And then he hitched his trousers tip, as is, I'm told, their use;
It's very odd that sailor men should wear those things so loose." —Barham.
"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt."
—Colossians.
Semolina, daughter of Captain Musselbound: A pearl of the Ooperzootic | Edna M. Purdie |
"A heart the fountain of sweet tears
And love, and thought, and joy." —Wordsworth.
Captain Musselbound, Commander H.M.V. Bottleship "Fillemup," born to command—barnacles | W. P. Rollings |
page 19"The noblest answer unto such
Is perfect stillness when they brawl." —Tennyson.
First Lieutenant | A. E. Hurley |
Worst Lieutenant | F. N. Hastings |
The luck of the Navy.
"Delicate spirits, pushed away
In the hot press of the noonday."
Gordy Groatz: White cargo | A. D. Priestley |
"Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows." —The Tempest.
Zane Grapejuice: A gunman from Rum Row. | G. R. Powles |
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness." —Emerson.
"'Tis grog, only grog,
Is his rudder, his cable, his log." —Didbin.
Bo | T. P. Rollings |
Buddy | D. Waters |
Gink | G. Richardson |
His side-kicks: Strong-arm boys from the I.O.U.S.A.
"True patriots we; for be it understood
We left our country for our country's good." —Barrington.
Bargain Sailors (from Auckland), Mermaids, Sea Serpents, Octopuses, Octopi, Octopodes, Crayfish, Whitebait, and thousands of others that brave the Bottle and the Breeze.