Excerpt from Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama

Most of the Punch artists of note have used their pencils on the theatre, with theatricals public and private none has done more that Du Maurier. All have made merry over the extravagances of melodrama and "problem" plays, the vanity and the mistakes of actors, actresses and dramatists, and the blunderings of the average playgoer.

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