The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113763 Message #3270580
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Dec-11 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake (C F Horn)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake (C F Horn)
Found at Papers Past, a web site of the National Library of New Zealand:
1. From a column with the heading "The Dunedin Exhibition" in the Evening Post [of Wellingon, New Zealand], Volume XXXVI, Issue 112, 8 November 1888, Page 2:
The Epuni Football Club wound up the season last night with a concert and dance, which proved a decided success. The Lower Hutt Oddfellows' Hall, in which the affair was held, was comfortably filled, and the concert programme appeared to be thoroughly enjoyed. The programme was as follows:—Song, "On the ball," Mr. Wilford; song, "I canna sing the old songs," Miss Speedy (encored); recitation, "Kissing cups race," Mr. Adams (encored); quartette, "Tread softly the angels are calling," Misses Hooper, Hancox, Death, and Drummond (encored); song, "Many a mile away," Mr. W. J. Haybittle; song, "Later on," Mr. Wilford (encored); monologue, "The Reception," Mr. W. J. Haybittle (encored); song, "Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake," Mr. Jonax; duet, "Flow on, thou shining river," Misses Speedy and Graham; song, "Sailing," Mr. W. J. Haybittle; recitation, "Mrs. Jones' Pirate," Mr. Adams; song, "Ye Gallants of England," Mr. Wilford; song (comic), Mr. Jonax (encored). At the conclusion of the concert the hall was cleared, and the footballers and their "sisters, cousins, and aunts" danced till the small hours of the morning.
2. From a column with the heading Fun on the Bristol, in Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 41, 18 February 1891, Page 4:
"Mulligan's Homemade Pie" is one of his new songs. It reminds one somewhat of another Irish comic ditty, "Miss (Somebody's) Christmas Cake."
Do you suppose the reporter simply couldn't remember the title, and didn't bother to look it up? Or was he acknowledging that the title frequently changed?