The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10
The BOHEMIAN GIRL,
AS Seen by a Bohemian at the
Theatre.


The Bohemian Girl, respected reader,
is the name of an opera and 1 have
been there.
would like to see more of her.
As vehicle by means of which the
soul is relieved of some of its yearings,
the heart of many of its painful throbs
and the mind freed from innumerable
anxieties. she is comprehensive, elab-
crate and finished, and 1 like her.
The story is easily told, otherwise
would not undertake to tell it. A
young Pole has been treei by his
Austrian enemies. Count Oruheim, the
father OF baby girl. which said girl
Is the party of the first part, herein re-
ferred to, later on. The Count wears
the scarlet kerchief and a white plug
hat of the Emperor of Austria and
takes no stock in those who be-
long to the other party, which
the said Pole Whose front
is Thaddeus) does. Well, finding
| himself cornered by lot of Austrian
deputy marshals, Thad. concludes to
join the gypsies who are in the neighbour
mood for the purpose of disguise, and
the deps. fail to drop on him until
toast To the Emperor is proposed, then
Ihad. hoists his yellow wooden goblet
over his shoulder with the ejaculation
" TO - with the Emperor" and this
creates a little CONSERVATION, for all
nands go to singing as if their hearts
would break. The leader of the gypsieS
is dark-visaged Republican, named
Devllshoof, and he gets even with the
Counts no-account proceedings by
stealing his little 6-year-old female kid.
The Count subsequently tells US how he
feels ABOUT the transaction by singing
ali alone song entitled The
Heart Boiled Down with Grease
and Tar" aud he sings it
right well, 100. In a few minutes the
scene chaC ges. 1t splits in the middle,
one half going toward t Hot Springs,
the other in the direction Of Sanpete
In this time the child has became a
young Gypsy maiden and Thaddeus is
If anything little younger than pre-
viously. And they are very decidedly
gone on each other, Circumstance
which makes the queen of the gang
jealous, as she is somewhat Thurman
lzed Cd the young man herself. and she
Wlckedly puts up job on poor Airline.
gold bracelet from Vienna dude, who
Is visiting in the neigh borhood, and
this she presents TO the girl. OF course
1t is noticed at once, the dude, who has
unsuccessfully tried to make an impress
sion on Airline, is also in quest of re-
venge, and he has her arrested aud
brought before the police court presided
over by the girls father, but neither of
them know of the relationship then.
The appearance of the police court was
so natural that | felt quite at home,
and was somewhat disappointed when
/ did not hear Ferguson say II object"
in those dulcet tones which have so
often startled the cows over Jordan.
Well, she is held to answer, but don't
propose to have it go that way. She
thereupon reaches for a sheet-iron dag
ger in her girdle and is about to insert
the weapon in her stomach by the most
direct route when Count Arnheim
blade, intimatlng at the same time
business and didn't mean 1t, that
he will use his influence with
the grand jury to have the charge
ignored, etc. She then reconsiders
and concludes to live. This was graft
Tying. because she warbIed so sWeetly
that she would lose something and the
world ga nothing by her going hence
too soon.
But those Gypsies! When they came
rushing upon the scene, they looked so
much like the real article that / in
stinctiVely reached for my Thurman
oandanna, which Charley johnson had
scented with some of his
choicest Valley ran remedies, but il was
not needed.
The Girl was well done, and the
Of which she was the
central figure, reflects a good deal of
credit upon all concerned. And the di-
'ector presides over the transaction
With much more of ability. OF impair
lality and desire to please those who
have a right to be pleased than YVES
he case at a recent opera or uproar in
Ogden, when q good many were out
aged, q few only satisfied, and one at
east came to the conclusion that some
people have lived long time only be-
,ause they haven't sense enough to
that they gain nothing and
other and better people lose something
because of their hanging on.
If Utah could only have more Bo-
lemian Girls and fewer mosaic antiqui-
les who have never had any legal use
or girls, we might be happy yet.
Yours Democratlcally and Opera
lcally, ESSAY CAIGH.