The Spike: or, Victoria College Review Capping Carnival 1921
Caste of Characters
Caste of Characters.
The Great i am (poet, painter, sculptor, musician, playwright and philosopher) | A. C. Mazengarb |
"Poor old Yorick. 'e was a good old cove."
— Shakespeare (from memory)
Alf Hill (of the Lower Rut) | R. Gapes |
";I would rather hear a dog when he bayed at the moon than this scrape on the belly of a kitten."
— Maxims—of Martin-Smith.
Chopin (a lost soul) | F. Warner |
"A wandering ministrel I........."
—Mr. J.J. Sullivan.
Verbrughen (a genius, Australian variety) | W. Pringle |
"Semitones and sodas! Fiddles and Fizz!
They put us in carriages and treated us
like a travelling circus."
—Extracts from letter to Bernard Page.
Wagner (a composer) | V. Ross |
"His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking."
—Rupert Brooke.
Theo. Tresize (A Terpsichorean treat) | A. Free |
"Beautiful star with the crimson mouth,
Oh moon with the brows of gold."
—Oscar Wilde.
Charles Wilson (a newspaper scribe) | L. A. Riddell |
"Give a man a pipe he can't smoke.
Give a man a meal he can't eat;
And his home he'll fright with his language bright,
Though the room be dull and neat."
—Stodart Walker
Siegfried Eicrelbaum (A Swiss milk chocolate) | C. G. Kirk |
"And since he's jolly company and knows
what good fare means,.
"Unless you give him Bacon you mustn't
give him beans."
—G. K. Chesterton.
Frank Morton (a wolf-scarer, Prince of Petone) | B. Egley |
"What can such needy wretches do but die
Standing against the purposes of Kings "
—John Masefield.
Thomas Bracken (a hayseed) | C. Moss |
"What will the harvest be"
—Psalm OVI.
Zora Cross (a Christian) | Miss M. Milesi |
"You loved me and you loved mo not,
A little, much, and overmuch."
—C. A. Swinburne
Oscar Wilde (a fleur-de-lys) |
He picks from our platters the plums for the puddings, he peddles in the provinces.
—James McNeil Whistler.
Fraulein Von Imit (the Kaiser's daughter). | Miss D. Bailey |
"Methinks she is a comely frau
Getting her trousseau God know's how."
—"Sayings of Walter Sheat."