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y separately published work icon Farewell Address to the Twenty-Eighth Regiment on Their Departure to India single work   poetry   "To-night Mock Catalani reappears"
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'... the following farewell address ... is, we believe, the production of Mr. Nagel '

Source: 'Victoria Theatre', Australasian Chronicle (16 June 1842): 3
Issue Details: First known date: 1842... 1842 Farewell Address to the Twenty-Eighth Regiment on Their Departure to India
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  • At head of poem: Spoken at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, on the evening of the 14th June, 1842.
  • 'On Tuesday evening the Theatre was patronized by Colonel French and the officers of the 28th Regt., which leaves in a day or two for India, where, we are afraid, they will have less amusement than they had that night. ... The Colonial farce of "The Mock Catalani" was repeated with great eclat. Sydney Gazette, 16 June 1842, p. 2

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    y separately published work icon Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser vol. 40 no. 4456 16 June 1842 Z1637356 1842 newspaper issue 1842 pg. 2
      Sydney, New South Wales,: 1842 .
      Extent: 1 broadsidep.
      Note/s:
      • Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia; NK11798.
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Burletta (in one act).

The plot revolves around William (a music teacher) and Captain O'Leary (commander of the troops at Little Puddleton), who are both competing for the hand of the mayor's daughter, Fanny Dobbs. Against her father's preference, Fanny chooses William. The mayor and Captain O'Leary pledge that they will accept the situation only if it should happen that one day they both go down on their knees and kiss William's hand. A short time later, the mayor receives a letter informing him of the imminent visit to the town of Catalini, an Italian prima donna. Upon her arrival, the diva is naturally greeted in a most flattering manner, two of the most respectful being (naturally) Mayor Dobbs and Captain O'Leary, who both salute the diva's extended hand on their bended knees. At this point, Catalini throws off her wig and clothing to reveal herself as William. He and Fanny are forthwith married and 'so we conclude, at least live happily for the rest of their lives'. A theatre critic writing for the New South Wales Examiner proposed in his review that not only was the burletta's story 'its least recommendation', but also that the plot device concerning the pledge was 'most improbable' (11 May 1842, p.3).
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Victoria Theatre 1842 single work column
— Appears in: Australasian Chronicle , 16 June vol. 4 no. 407 1842; (p. 3)
Victoria Theatre 1842 single work column
— Appears in: Australasian Chronicle , 16 June vol. 4 no. 407 1842; (p. 3)
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