Cirrus@Austlit

'A Broil at the Cafe - that is the Cafe de Paris, [is] intended as a vehicle for the eccentricities of Mr. F. Younge, and the exhibition "for the first time on any stage" of certain other well-known individualities in Melbourne. Mr. F. Younge appears in his own person and gets absurdly jealous of his better half, whom he surprises with "a strange gentleman". In his wrath he rushes off to the cafe, and by his exceedingly wild behaviour excites a "broil" in that usually most correct and stylish establishment. Unltimately he discovers that the strange gentleman is his wife's brother, and so the fracas ends. Mr. Younge is perfectly at home in his role as may be easily imagined: and the appearance of Mr. Pond himself, in propria persona, raised the fun of the audience to the utmost.' (Argus, 22 September, 1860).