Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
Bill Nye at the Opera.

Most every one thinks that l don't
know much about music and the opera,
but this is not the case. am very en-
thusiastic over this class of entertain
mcnt, and / will take the liberty to
trespass upon the time and patience Of
your readers, for few moments, while
1 speak briefly but graphically on this
subject. A few evenings ago | had the
pleasure of listening to the rendition Of
the Bohemian Girln by Emma Abb
bott and her troupe mt the Grand Opera
House in Chicago. | was little late,
but the manager had saved me pleas
ant seat where | could alternately look
at the stage and out through the sky
light into the clear autumn sky.
The plot Of the play seems to be that
Airline, nice little chunk of girl, is
stolen by band of gypsies, owned and
operated by Devilshoff, who looks some
like OthellO and some like Sitting Bull.
Airline grows up among the gypsies and
falls in love with Thaddeus. Thaddeus
was played by Brignoli. Brignoli was
named after thoroughbred horse.
Airline falls asleep in the gypsy camp
and dreams large majOlica DREAM.
which she tells to Thaddeus. She says
that she dreamed that she dwelt in mar
ble halls and kept a girl and had II
pretty fly time generally, but after all
She said it tickled her more to know
that Thaddeus loved her still the same,
and she kept saying this to him in G,
and up on the upper register and down
on the second added line below, and
crescendo and diminuendo and deuo-
dessimo, forward and back and swing
opposite lady 10 place, till would have
given l,0O0 shares paid-up non-assess-
able stock in the Boomerang If | could
have been Thad.
Brignoli, however, did not enter into
the spirit of the thing. He made me
mad, and il II hadn't been for En-.
would have put on my hat and gone
home. He looked like the man who first
discovered and introduced Book beer
lnto the country. She would come and
put her sunny head up against his car,
.digan jacket and put one white arm on
each shoulder and sing like a bobolink,
and tell him how ALFRED glad she was
that no was still solid. / couldn't help
thinking how small salary would be
willing to play Thaddeus for, but he
stood there like q Eastwood man with
Tobias movement, and stuck his arms
out like sore toe, and told her in i that
he felt greatly honored by her attention,
and hoped some day to be able to retail
ate, or words to that effect,
don't want any trouble with Brig
nOli, of course, but am confident | can
lick him with one hand tied behind me,
and, although l seek no quarrel with
him, he knows where reside, and
can mop the North American continent
with his remains, and don't you for
get it.
After awhile the Gypsy Queen, who is
Jealous Of Airline, puts up job on her Ia
get her arrested, and she is brought be-
fore her father, who is Justice Of the
Peace for that precinct, and he gives
her S25 and trimmings or thirty days in
the Bdstile. By and by, however, he
catches sight Of her arm and recognizes
her by large red Goddess of Liberty
tattoOed on IL, and he RENTS the fine and
charges up the costs 10 the county.
Her father wants her 10 marry Q
newspaper man and live in ailluence
but airline still bankers for Thad, and
turns her back on TO oriental magnih
'eence of life with journalist. But
4N9ahNNo 10 NNRAs AL AN aNNAAAo W AfhNN
Is what he can gather from the com
munity after office hours, and the chick
ems begin to roost high and he Is de
spondent, apparently. just as airline
Is going 70 marry the newspaper man
according 10 the wishes of her pa
Thaddeus sails in with an appointment
as Notary Public bearing the Governor
big seal on it, and Airline pitches int,
the old man and plays it pretty fine ol
him TIL he relents and she marie
Thaddeus, and they go 10 housekeepin
over on the West Side, and he makes
lbushel Of money as Notary Public, an
everybody sings, and the band play
and she Is his'n and he is her'n.
Thore is a good deal of singing in tn
opera. Most everybody sings. l Ill
good singing myself
~ Emma Abbott certainly MARBLES firl
rate, aud her loYe-making takes II
back TO the halcyOn days when car
more for the forbidding future of Il
mou-tarhe and less for meal-time thar