Chapter 13

O’Brien, Sir Patrick,175

O’Connor, T. P.,123

Odell, E. J.,137

O’Donoghue:seeDunn, Dick

O’Donovan, Edmund,14,164

“Oh!  Why did she Leave her Jeremiah?” (song),225

“Oh!  Will you be my Saturday-to-Monday?” (song),286

O’Hagan Mr.,287

“Old Solomon” (tipster),161

Oliver:seeDe Leuville, Marquis

Olney (bookie),264

Olympic Theatre,276

Omar Khayyám,278

Once a Week,33

Orton, Arthur,179

Osborne, Bernal,175

—, Lady,175

O’Shea, John A.,14,62,167,202

“Othello,”103

Otto (waiter at Romano’s),136

“Our ’Armonic Club,”230

“Our Boys,”130,209

Owl,The,193

Oxenford, John,84–87

Oxford Music-Hall,223

“Pagan Poems,”195

Pagani’s,247,248,249

Paget, Lord Alfred,85–87

Palace Theatre,232

Paleologue,160

Pall Mall Gazette,20

Palmer, Minnie,276

Panton Street,247

Paravicini,247

Paris Mutuels,268–270

Park Lane (Barney Barnato’s house),119

— Theatre, Camden Town,237

Parnell, Charles Stewart,190

— Commission,188–191

“Partridge at the Play” (articles inThe Squire),187

Pask, Arthur T.,127

Paunceford (waiter at the Albion),29

Pavilion Music-Hall,223; Chevalier’s début,231

Painters:seeArtists

Peabody, andThe Hornet,201

Peach:seeSteele and Peach

Pearse, H. H. S.,14,73,148,169,186

Pelican,The,114,196

Pelican Club,108–110,114,159

Pellegrini (cartoonist),69,72,248

“Pendennis,”20

Persia, Shah of,237

Peters, Mrs.,141

“Petit Faust, Le,”96

Pettitt, Henry,87

Phelps, Samuel,208

Philharmonic, Islington,266

Philips, F. C.:seeFairlie

Phœnix,The,95,195

Photography, value in Press work,19

Piesse, George,250

Pigott, Richard,188–191

Pilotel (artist),252

Pink Un:see Sporting Times

Piracy:seePlagiarism

Pitteri, Mademoiselle,238

Plagiarism,30,281

“Poems and Parables,”41

Poet Laureateship,182

Poker, tabooed in Clubs,154

Pol, M.,23

Police Gazette,291

Pond, Christopher,62–63

Pope Alexander,291

—, Dr. Joseph,220

—, Sam,220

“Poppyland,” Clement Scott’s articles,57

Porter, John:see“Flying Baker”

Portland Club, taboos poker,154

Power, Frank,166

Powles, Mr. (barrister),157

“Practical John”:seeHollingshead, John

Practical joking,164–180

Press, the,9; artists’ attitude to,15; stage and,15,84; transition,292

Price, Julian,160

Prince of Wales’s Theatre,23–24

Princess’s Theatre,276–277

Prisons, newspapers in,258

Prize-Ring:seeBoxing

Proctor, John,199

Programme-sellers:seeTheatres

Prosser’s Restaurant,48

Prostitution, suppression of Haymarket night-houses,161

“Pseudonymuncule,”281

Punch,232; Burnand,102; Furniss,74; Hannay,280; Phil May,83; A. K. Moore,187; Sala,55

Puritan Sabbath:seeSunday

Purkiss, William,291

Purnell, Tom,14,202,280

Quaritch,278

Quarterly Review,164,280

Queen’s Theatre,63

Queensberry Marquis of,110

Racing,260–275

— Press:seeSporting Press

Radcliffe, John,158

Rainbow Tavern,28,245

Raleigh Club,160

Ranelagh, Lord,120

Rankin, Montgomerie,186

—, Peter,71

Ratcliff Highway (Jamrach’s),274

Rational Sunday:seeSunday

Reade, Charles,280

“Recreations of a Country Parson, The,” referred to,115

Reece, Valerie:seeMeux, Lady

Referee,The,62,268–271

Reform Club,150

Restaurants and taverns,60–66,240–259

Richardson, Frank, referred to,81,265

Richmond, Bloundelle Burton at,290

“Riperelle” (dance),97

“Robert the Devil” (race-horse),266

Roberts, Arthur,110,160

——, John,284

Robertson, Thomas W.,24,28,29; Bancroft management93,222; on critics,30

Robinson, Phil,58

Roche, Sir Boyle referred to,177

Rocket,The,127

Rockley’s wine bar,219–220

Rogers, “Johnny,”276

—, Samuel,171

Romano’s,135–136,247,250

“Romany Rye, The,”42

Rosebery Lord,50

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,46,290

Rossiter (jockey),267

Royal Academy (Trafalgar Square),23

“Royal Divorce, A,”276

“Royal Dustbin”:seePrince of Wales’s Theatre

Royalty Theatre,174

Royce, Edward W.,209

“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám,”278

Rule’s, Maiden Lane,159,221

Russell, Captain Fred,110,287

—, Henry,146

Russell’s club for ladies144–149

Ryder, John,62,212

St. Albans, Bingham-Cox’s brewery,126

St. Georgi,242

St. James’s Restaurant,236

—, Theatre,96

St. Petersburg, Labouchere’s mission to,76

St. Stephen’s Review,82,200

Sala, George Augustus,14,19,54,279; and “Bet Belmanor,”138; and “Cheshire Cheese,”64; and Parnell forgeries,190; and Clement Scott,57; on Sunday amusements,113

Salisbury, Lord,182

— Administration,182

Sampson, Henry,62,270

Sandow, Eugene,238

Sandys, Fred,253

Sanger, “Lord” George,167

Santley, Kate,237

Sara (dancer),238

“Sartor Resartus” referred to,290

“Satire and Satirists,”280

Saturday,54

Savage Club,49,138,151–159,205,218

“Savage Club Papers, The,”152

Savoy Hotel,251

Scasi, Miss,237

Schenk, General,154

“School,”23,29

School of Journalism,18

Scott, Clement,57,93,101,127,195,203

Seaman, Julia237

“Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The,”93

Serial story (in newspapers),296

“Silver King, The,”96

Shaftesbury Theatre,249

Shakers,273

Shakespeare, William,130

Shaw, Vero,186,202,285,289

Shepperton, journalists at,288,291

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,25,30,93–96

Shine, John L.,289

Simpson’s, Strand,245

Sims, George R.,93,124,215,271

“Singleton Fontenoy,”280

“Sir Hugo” (race-horse),266

“Sir Pertinax MacSycophant,”208

Sketch,50

Sketch,The,50

Skinner, Hilary,14

Smart Society,204

Smith, Madeline,59

Snelling, Alfred,284

Social Democratic Club,58

“Society,”29–30

Society journalism,68:see alsoPress

Soho,241

Soldene, Emily,266

Sothern, E. A.,154,170

Soutar, Robert,137,209

“South Sea Idylls,”39

“Spice of Life, The,”71

Spenser (poet),291

Spiers and Pond,62

“Spirit of the Times”:see“Sports of the Times”

“Spiritual Wives,”49

“Spooferies, The,”162

Sporting Press,271

Sporting Times(Pink Un),98,109,110,196,201

“Spy,”72

“Squire, The”:seeBaird, Abingdon

Squire,The,186–187

Stage,15,84–103,205et seq.:see alsoTheatresandMusic-Halls

Staines, actors at,288

Standard,The,62; Alfred Austin,182; Captain Hamber,197; O’Shea,168; Arthur Pask,128; Robert Williams,51

Stead, W. H. referred to,17

Steele:see“Flying Baker”

— and Peach,264

Steinitz, Carl F. von,246

Stephens, Pottinger,68,72,125,288

Straight, Sir Douglas,98

Strand Theatre,133,210,215,230,276

Strange, Frederick,236

Street characters,116et seq.

— performers,116et seq.

“Street of Adventure, The” (novel),9

Stretch, Mat,187

Stock-keeper,The,253

Stoddard, Charles Warren,38

Stoker, Bram,99,102

Stone’s chop-house,246

Sullivan, Barry,171

Sunbury, Bohemian colony,209,287

Sunday, observance of,104–115

— League,107

Sunday Times,32

Supper Club,162

Surrey Gardens,237

— Theatre,87,219

Sutton (owner of Alhambra),234

Swan, The (Ditton),286

Swanborough, Mrs,133

“Swears and Swells”:seeWells, Ernest

Swinburne, Algernon,36,278


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