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AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS. CONJURING FOR AMATEURS. A Practical Book describing Useful Applinnr.es, Sleight of Hand, and How to Perform a number of Amusing Modern Tricks ; with a Chapter on Paper Folding (" Trouble Wit "). By PROFESSOR ELLIS STANYON, Author of " Conjuring with Cards." Fully Illustrated throughout. In paper, price 1/6, by post 1/8.
CONJURING WITH CARDS. How to Perform a Number of Modern Card Tricks—with and without Sleight of Hand, with and without Apparatus.A Companion Book to " Conjuring for Amateurs," and by the same Author, PROFESSOR ELLIS STANYON. Numerous Illustrations. In paper, price i/6, by post 1/8.
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35 Mr. Stoyan G. Mirkovich Z2 1714 Littlestone Road ••— Grosse Pointe 36, Michigan
BUNKUM ENTERTAINMENTS
THE
AUTHOR
AND
HIS
BUNKUM
PANORAMA.
BUNKUM ENTERTAINMENTS: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LAUGHABLE SKITS ON CONJURING, PHYSIOGNOMY, JUGGLING, PERFORMING FLEAS, WAXWORKS, PANORAMA, PHRENOLOGY, PHONOGRAPH, SECOND SIGHT, LIGHTNING CALCULATORS, VENTRILOQUISM, SPIRITUALISM, ETC. TO WHICH ARE ADDED
HUMOROUS SKETCHES, WHIMSICAL RECITALS, and DRAWING ROOM COMEDIES.
BY ROBERT GANTHONY, Authtr of the "Sfoffiris Sketches; " "Practical Ventriloquism ; " Amateur Entertainments, and How to Organise Them," Etc.
All Rights of Public Performance are Reserved, ™ Mr. Stoyan G. Mirkovich S '™Z 1714 Littlestone Road E ™ Grosse Pointe 36, Michigan —
LONDON : • "THE
BAZAAR,
EXCHANGE
1922
&
MART,"
OFFICE
Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold 6- Sons, Ltd., Norwich.
Mr. Stoyan G. Mirkovich 1714 Littlestone Road Grosse Pointe 36, Michigan
TO MY SISTER,
Iflellie (Bantbons, IN
MEMORY OF OUR MANY STAGE
WHILE
PRESENTING
THE
COURTSHIPS
COMEDIETTAS
CONTAINED,
THIS VOLUME IB AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
HERBIM
•5 Mr. Stoyan G. Mirkovich S 1714 Littlestone Road ~ Grosse Pointe 36, Michigan
PREFACE.
THE following collection of travestied or burlesque sketches are intended to offer to the amateur an opportunity of amusing his friends with a class of entertainment in which the fun created is a substitute for the genuine entertainment parodied, and an excuse for the humorous swindle perpetrated. The items being fresh and original, they are more valuable to laughter-makers than the hackneyed extracts from standard authors given in the numerous books of recitations. I reserve the rights of public performance because many of the items form part of my professional repertoire, and by so reserving them I am able to give the ancateur some of my best things wherewith to amuse his friends. If the amateur desire to give a public representation from this work, he can do so,
PREFAOB.
provided permission be obtained from the publisher or myself. In addition to the Bunkum Entertainments I have given a few miscellaneous pieces that I am constantly asked for, and which I feel sure will be useful, and some Drawing-room Comedies that I have given with my sister, Miss Kate MillB, and other actresses witn the greatest sucoess. I have had much pleasure in arranging this collection, and to those who have not the time to take up entertaining as a seritms study I hope this book will prove serviceable. ROBERT GANTHONY.
P5 Mr. Stoyan G. Mirkovich E 1714 Littlestone Road r™ Grosse Pointe 36, Michigan
CONTENTS. PART I.
Bunkums.
PiQa
CONJURING PHYSIOGNOMY JUGGLING PERFORMING FLEAS WAXWORKS PANORAMA SKITS PHRENOLOGY FUNNYGRAPH SECOND SIGHT LIGHTNING CALCULATOR VENTRILOQUISM T H E QUACK DENTIST T H E SOUL-STIRRING TRAGEDY HAMLET UP TO DATE SPIRITUALISM BULLET-PROOF CUIRASS HYPNOTISM THOUGHT-READING
2 11 24 31 35 40 50 56 62 70 75 82 87 100 108 113 120 126
PART II. TRAVESTIES
AND
ODDITIES.
T H E M A N WITH O N E H A I R M O N S I E U R J O U E 1 LA C R I C K E T T E T H E MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES OF A FOUR-WHEELER H A N S T H E BOOTS A N D T H E B R A N D Y . . . COMMON-SENSE C A S A B I A N C A T H E PHONOGRAPH T H E EDITORIAL GOAT PART DRAWING-ROOM
130 131 134 13s 142 143 145
III. COMEDIETTAS.
T H E P R O P O S A L (Monologue) L I K E M I S T R E S S , L I K E M A I D (Duologue) A R O M A N C E O F T H E P A S T (Triologue) -
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148 153 173