, 1905-02-21
ReeoIlections Of the Opera.

Most every one thinks that | don't
but this is not the case. l am very
enthusiastic over this class of enter
tainment, and l will take the liberty to
trespass upon the time and patience of
my readers for a few moments while
speak briefly but graphically OF this
subject. A few evening g l had h
pleasure Of listening to the rendition
of the Bohemian Girl" by Emma Alb
bot and her troupe at the Grand Opera
house. was a little late, but the
manager had saved me a pleasant seat
where l could alternately look at the
stage and out through the skylight in
to the clear autumn sky.
The plot of the play seems to be that
Airline a nice little chunk of a girl,
is stolen by a band of gypsies, owned
and operated by "D~evilshoof,' who
looks some like "Othel!o'' and some
like Sitting Bull. Airline grows up
among the gypsies and falls in love
with ~"Thaddeus." 'Thaddeus" was
played by Brignoli. Brignoli was nan.
ed after a thoroughbred horse.
airline" falls asleep in the gypsy
camp and dreams a large majolica
dream, which she tells to "Thaddeus.
She says that she dreamed that she
dwelt in marble halls and kept a girl
and had a pretty fly time generally but
after all she said it tickled her NOR 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 deuodessimo, forward and back
and swing opposite lady to place, till
would have given 900 shares paid'up
non assessable 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 if it hadn't been for EN-. |
would have put on my hat and gone
home. He looked like the man who
fist discovered and introduced Buck
beer into the country. She would come
and put her sunny head up against his
cardigan jacket and put one white arm
one each shoulder and sing like a bobo
link, and tell him how alfred glad she
was that he was still solid. | couldn't
help thinking how small a salary
would be willing to play 'Thaddeus'
for, but he stood there like a Eastwood
man with Tobias movement, and
stuck his arm out like a sore toe, and
told her in F that he felt greatly honor
ed by her attention, and hoped some
day to be able to ~retaliate. or words to
that effect.
| don't want any trouble with Brig.
noli of course, but l am confident I
can lick him with one hand tied be-
hind me. and although I seek no quar-
rel with him, he knows my post office
address, and l a mop the North
J American continent with his remains,
anu QOn you forget IL.
After awhile the Gypsy Queen"
who Is jealous of airline" puts up a
Job on her to get her arrested. and she
is brought up before her father, who
is a Justice Of the Peace for that pre-
cinct, and he gives her $25 and trim
mings. Or thirty days in the Bastile.
By and by, however, he catches sight
Of her arm, and recognizes her by a
large red Goddess of Liberty tattooed
on it, and RENTS the fine and charges
up the costs to the county.
Her father wants her to marry a
newspaper nan and live in %af1luence,
but airline" still bankers for "Thad.,"
and turns her back on the oriental
magnifcence of life with a journalist.
But "Thaddeus" is poor. All he seems
to have is what he can gather from the
community after office hours, and the
chickens begin to roost high and he is
respondent apparently. Just as car
line" is going to marry the newspaper
man, according to the wishes of her pa,
~"Thaddeus'' sails in with an appoint
ment as Notary Public, bearing the
Governors big seal upon it, and Ar
line pitches into the old man and
plays it pretty fine or him till he re-
Tents and she marrdes "Thaddeus,' and
they go to housekeeping over on he
west side and he makes q buShel of
mony as Notary Public, and everybody
sings, and the band plays, n she is
his'n, and he is her'n.-Bill Nye.