The sun., 1903-03-01
yOGNER IN THE FIRST ROUND.
The Taikattve Boarder Tells How He Went
to the Opera.

.Of course" said the talkative boarder
-this is a big town. lots Of people in 1t,
ard so you ought TO be able 10 get together
q big auience for anything here If You
c,uld anywhere and STILL will say, have
been surprised at the number OF people
who have turned out lately to hear Wagner,
or wogner, or Vogner, or whatever he
ought TO be called.
Il went myself the other night on one ~
the special-price Ring nights-it was
'Siegfried l heard-and sat in the top
gallery, and saw there, really, about th"
most intelligent theatre audience ever saw.
That's a big gallery in the Opera lou-e.
don't know how many it will seat, but it
is very large: and IL was full to the muzzle.
every seat taken, and with nosi apPre-
ciative and good-looking and altog 'th'r
Dress coats among the men comp1ra-
lively few. but ! don't suppose that w.,
,ltlse the men there hadn't got EN-, u.
because II Ia not the prevailing custom
10 wear them on that floor. The women
wsre not in evening dress, but many
Of them In light-colorsd gowns, and al
vcll-dressed A fine, discriminating aul-
ence OF which the major part was con-
poeed. az one might say. OF minor pHop.".
that Is 20 say az comparatively young
people ever delightful.
And this remarkable audience that "as
a revelation 10 me. that filed every s'lI
10 the remotest and highest at the back
had assembled TO hear the work OF IN 'h
over whom. not 80 many years ago, p'uh'
were, II not exactly fighting, di~pu'hS
very vigorously, AZ to whether he Va
not lust q crazy blacksmith, pounIiAS
on the worlds tin pans But nov you
all these people here devotci follow. y '
Wagner. and hanging on To every MOI
and | wish to say that Richard l. tlr man
for my money. too. On tins on" h"dI '''r
I'm for Wag-. Wog-. or NOgner. a. '"'
CASE may lie. every tiin"
Some Of our boarders here, who XII
more about music in a minute than h'
learned IA the wholc Of "A long but n"' w.
happy lifeliIne tell ins that WaEn"i t''
written many m.lodious aud h"au' 10 ID
things; and ] can easily imagine ihi- '' -
true for every nov and then, even lh go
Hing, OF In that part of u th,i haN" h.' '.
melody bubbles up. ar saenls about "a "'''
when uc.,ard X - IN promptly NJ
iIr. club and hats n on the head no l.''
Tor ooon songs Of prdty thinss in '"r
this ls business
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stsrnly ohok.d these IN. bui, col '.
hs knew what he Ma alsJu On" -'IHF
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