Victoria University College. Capping Carnival "G.G.". A Musical Extravaganza. [1929]

Escapade Three

Escapade Three.

Scene:— The Soused Sea Islands. A Beach on Samboa.

Time:— Ragtime.

Cast Up Caricatures.

Tamfuli H. C. Read
Siliasa H. J. Bishop

Connoisseurs in "long pig."

"Dinner was made for eatin', not for talkin'." —Thackeray.

Guano, Chief of the Meeow: A Nuggeted Napoleon A. H. Fear

"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you . . ." —Merchant of Venice.

Cafe au Lait, daughter of the Chief: A tinted Venus Sinclair A. Breen

"Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair,

Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair." —Wordsworth.

Gordy Groatz: Flotsam and jetsam A. D. Priestley

"Never the time and the place

And the loved one all together." —Browning.

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

—Burke.

General Koffmikstcha Bootemoutski, of the Red Army: On Sacred Service Rona Munro

"Wheresoever she was, there was Eden." —Mark Twain.

Captain Musselbound, still Commander H.M.V. Bottleship "Fillemup." W. P. Rollings

"When men come to like a sea life they are not fit to live on land." —Johnson.

Semolina, his daughter: A painting after Groatz. EDNA M. Purdie

"Such a she who'll match for me

In flying or pursuing . . ." —Meredith.

Cannibals, Coconuts, Hula Hula Hussies, Ukeleles, Beersheviks, Jack Tars, Ichthyosaurus Beetles, Coral Palms, Copra Reefs, and millions of other Pacific problems.