Punch,  31 (1856), 169.

Hopes for the Drama

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Animal Behaviour, Amusement


    Discussing novelty in theatres, observes that '"novelty, is after all, the true secret of public attraction", as the guinea pig at the Zoological Society Gardens with a new farrow every moon, squeaks contemptuously of the lioness with a single cub in "months and years"'.



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