Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-08-19
The French Drama

One of the gallery gods of the Opera
House sends the APPEAL the following
as exemplifying his ideas on the French
drama as produced in Carson last
Wednesday evening:
Mister editor: | was one of the
mugs what took in the French play at
the the-a-ter last Wednesday,. The
Opera House folks has handed the peo-
pie Of this town many a warm pancake
in the last few years, but nothing quite
so near being fresh of the stove as
that. It was called ''The Dukes
NASH" or something of that kind,
and when | got home l told me mudder
that [ had been down to Bryson's
all the evening playin solo sixty [
was blushin so when I told her hat
she suspicioned I had been takin the
French show.
The Duke he makes a bet in the play
that he can capture anything in petit
cotes they can point out and urn the
trick inside Of twenty-four hours, and
he backs his Judgment Of himst5f with
his scads. / didn't like to hear Of
a man maxim 3 bet like that, but we
fellers on the back seats all agreed that
if his moral character wasn't Ill right
his nerve was good ana he vas a game
sport any how.
The first girl that shows up was from
the country, and when | saw her |
supposed the music to foller would be
Her Golden hair was hangin down
her back" but the orchestra over
looked it.
About that time the Duke, who had
been Twin happily with his wife, the
beautiful Aarkeese de Pry, had a fallin
out and he had the gall however to ask
her to help him collar the stakes and
she agreed, but later OF in the play
stood in with the girl and give the old
rascal the double cross in good shape.
She shut him cut of the house, but he
had a private pass key in case he came
home drunk, and he got in all the
h~hIC III Or 1--we ~ lis ONh
wife, had the gall to get out next day
and try and cash his pool tickets,
Then the girls young man got on deck
and wanted gore and lots OF it. but the
French Government thought that they
couldn't spare a man with the enter
prise of the duke and wanted the duel
settled by international agreement, or
some such thing that they knew would
never come off. and then the duke
found out he was sold and all pools
were declared off for the heat.
thought for a time there was goin to
be trouble but the stage managers ad-
Justed things SO that no body got hurt
and the girl came u all right and her
dad was about to get out of the cooler
when the curtain came down. l made
a bet with II of the boys who was
with me that Narkeese de Pry was the
wife of the Duke and he won't settle.
| bet they were married, cause he had
a pass key to the house, but be said
pass keys didn't count in Paris an
more, and | don't know how to settle
the bet. We agreed to leave it to your
valuable Judgement and if you decide
IN my favor you are in for half the bet.
| told me sister on the quiet that the
play was toe loud for her and would
make her blush going home for two
blocks. She said she hadn't blushed
for so long she might forget how and
she thought she'd go just to keep hel
cheek in. | saw her light out for the
Opera House next evenin with a fellel
what lives next door, and it was rainir
the worst | ever saw.
Yours.
A Boy on the Back Bench.