The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-20
Bill Nye at the opera.

MOST every one thinks that 1 don't
know much about music and the opera,
but this Is not the case. am very en-
thusiastic over this class of entertain
ment, and | will take the liberty to
trespass upon the time and patience of
your readers, for few moments, while
l speak briefly but graphically on this
subject. A few evenings ago had the
pleasure of listening to the rendition of
the "Bohemian Girl" by Emma Alb
bolt and her troupe at 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 witlfThaddeus. Thaddeus
was played by Brignoi. Brignoli was
named after a 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
BILE halls and kept a girl and had .
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 oack and swing
opposite lady to place, till would have
given LOCO shares paid-up non-assess-
able stock in the Boomerang if l could
have been Thad.
Brignoli, however, did not enter into
the spirit of the thing. He made me
mad, and if it hadn't been for EN-. l
would have put on my hat and gone
home. He looked like the man who first
discovered and introduced Book beer
into 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 bobolink,
and tell him how ALFRED glad she was
that he was still solid. couldn't help
thinking how small a salary l would be
willing to play Thaddeus for, but he
stood there like Eastwood man with
Tobias movement, and stuck his arms
out likes sore toe, and told her in F 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 1 am confident can
lick him with one hand tied behind me,
oh II IL,
him, he knows where l 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 a job on her to
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 Bastie. BY and by, however, he
catches sight of her arm and recognizes
her by large red Goddess of Liberty
tattooed on it, and he RENTS the fine and
charges up the costs to the county.
Her father wants her to marry a
newspaper man and live in aflluence,
but Airline still bankers for Thad, and
turns her back on to oriental msgnifi-
cence of life with a journalist. But
Thaddeus is poor. All he seems to have
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 to marry the newspaper man,
according to the wishes of her pa,
Thaddeus sails in with an appointment