The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-04
SHEA and DOLLY
MEET In GAY
PAREE
b Catch Each Other in
r Act of Attending Grand
Opera.
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SY LIEUT. N. coYLE SHEA.
~ AIIo' G z. by mail.)-This lit
Ie war of ours Just over has made
Strange bedfellows Of us all, hut can
gou g anything more startling
I pss TINS: Dolly Stark at the L'Opera de
narIs. Admitting the fact that the sit
uhilon described is difficult TO believe
II Is the truth nevertheless, And worst
stuff. mat "9 HAes lhe
Here is how the discovery was made.
LAST night "Rigoletto" was scheduled
as complete a way to KIN a peTfacct1ISS
500 evening as any other. 1t was de-
clded TO look 1t over. Very well.
unless there is prior knowledge to
tnAl erect there is no way Of telling
the opera from the treasury building;
we IRE engine house or the mansion
Of the ex-barber to the king HayinT
mounted the imposing flight of stairs
1 tnat graceS the front Of the place one
' picks from the score Of doors staring
nhn oang IN the eye, the one through
which he chooses to enter.
AFTER tnat Is a corridor and the first
one 70 greet you Is a serious looking
frog with a wild mustaehe and n
IulI dress SUIT. He sits astride an ordi-
nary stool n looks over the man al
Tectlng you and emitting you as well
70 your sea within. 1t may be worth
Whlie stating. at the present time, that
/ unlike the retiring p~asteboards Of the
United States the theater checks here
gre as pig as h map Of the city and
eYery Dit as useless. Anyhow, this SOL
enn gent looks over the .ream of paper
ana gurgies something to his friend
SANDING below. The latter okays the
Iuea anu advises you to pass in.
The First Hunt.
Here Is where the trouble starts. II
Ii quite the custom to get rid of ones
~overcoat while attending a performance,
Dut over here it takes everything but
political pull to have the idea consum-
mated. There are any number of cloak
rooms lounglng around, but the job is
70 PICK out h right one. After striking
SIX or seven the American finally gets
the last, one listed and this is always
the one he wanted. Then an old lady
OF not more than $50, trips gayly to
your place and collects so confines from
ehch person thus escorted. Fifty cen-
times is equivalent to 10 cents in he
STATES and the custom here Is TO slip
the dame that amount or argue with
her for Is minutes, even though you
nave never been notified Of the fact
= hardly dreamed 1t was the rule
OF the country,
Opera Their Rendezvous.
All the o~ctogenarians and century
plants, barely able to pull on their buds,
make the opera their rendezvous. An
Client specimens Of the French race, wit
Messing the performance for the thou
andth time, applaud with the delight
ana enthusiasm of their youth and
@really mean 1t.
Now 1t is essentially Partisan to stroll
through the elaborate promenoir be-
tween acts at the opera so when the
first screech had died down and the
applause, too had subsidized to a low
murmur, TIE crowd pulled out for the
snort stroll. The Paris opera is rated
the most beautiful building for theatri-
AL purposes in the world and certain
~ deserves the high honor in every
way. The first idea is that some one
with a wild imagination, having moth
2g else to do, went out and collected
the appealing stones in the world,
IS having been accomplished he sat
and slapped them together. The
It is amazing to the eye, startling
ne higher senses and calculated 10
even more than an indelible, i'm
zion upon the memory,
md There Stood Dolly.
ell IN olya - Love -. ~