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"Then I can hum a fugue, of which I've heard the music's _din afore_, and whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, _Pinafore_. " _The Pirates of Penzance_.
I played in comparatively few amateur theatrical performances -- half a dozen, at the outside. I played John Chodd, jun., in _Society_, at the old Gallery of Illustration, in 1868; and, singularly enough, one of my critics was Mr. W. S. Gilbert, who, under the heading of "The Theatrical Lounger," in _The Illustrated Times_, said: "Mr. Grossmith has comic powers of no mean order; and his idea of John Chodd, carefully modelled on Mr. Clarke, had, nevertheless, an amusing originality of its own. " The after-piece was a burlesque on _No Thoroughfare_, written by my father, in which I danced and sang more than I acted. This performance was repeated once.