Herr Snooker (Colonel Keyser) and his boy Jim (Lieut. Du Maurier)

Madras Weekly Mail, Saturday 12 September 1885

On Friday we wound up a series of concerts with a ‘variety’ which was not one whit less successful than its predecessors. Major Brookes Meare’s two songs, “Lasses and Lads” (old song 17th century) and Sullivan’s “Loot Chord” with harmonium accompaniment, were greatly admired; the former which was rapturously encored, taking the audience immensely “Don’t forget me, little darling’ (Mrs. Folkard) was enthusiastically received and encored, the fair singer being the recipient of a bouquet from an individual in the dress circle, at the conclusion of her song. Sergeant French was, as a matter of course, duly encored. A most pleasing portion of the programme was the “Grand National” Fantasia (Kappy) illustrating episodes in a soldier’s life, which the regimental Band, under the baton of Bandmaster Coleman, performed with great success. The evening concluded with a series of Waxwork Tableaux exhibited by Herr Snooker (Colonel Keyser) and his boy Jim (Lieut. Du Maurier). Herr Snooker, who was “got up” in the most itinerant showman style, commenced by emphatically assuring us that “his show was’nt the same as other shows,” “what did’nt move but stood like dummies, but that hie figures all moved, end that in one case he had actually discovered the invaluable secret of making a figure sing, &c &c.”