The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-03-16
l CAN'T--CAN YOU?

! They blew into my house the other
night, six or seven of the towns lead
ing songsters-Doc. Clark and his
gang. They peeled off their hats and
coats, seated themselves and partook
of my hospitality-and then they
sprung it. And Friend Wife backed
them up. So I'm by way of being the
goat, as follows, to-wit:
You're to be- our publicity man
you know all those big words and so
we picked you for the job = " and
so on for quite a while. Took my
breath away. And when | got it back
and managed to get one word in edge
ways, and that word Nothing doing"
why, the subject had already been
changed six times and the Missus
thought | was refusing refreshments.
Or so she pretended, anyhow. And
so I'm still trying to convince them
Nothing doing" But that bunch are
the best little aggregation of single
handed, overlapping, non-interrupt-
able takers outside the legislature
and l am still publicity man.
"THE BOHEMIAN GIRL"-that's
what am to boost. l did CLEAN that
much information. Sounds interest
my tOO. w III lCl yOC hliOW lAkCI WIN
In it are really Bohemian. Also will
information to pass on next week.
Just now, however, Pm a long ways
behind. All l could get out of the
conversation the other highland /
did nothing but listen, there being no
opportunity to do otherwise-was the
hodge-podge appended. Try your luck
at figuring tout. That gang talked
too fast, too furious and consistently
for me. could get no sequence or
sense out of their remarks at all, ex-
cept that much Of it sounded kinda
Mr.. Conductor Director Farmer led
off land let me remark right here in
parenthesis that this man Farmer is
some Bear Cat, Brethren), Doc. Clark
and Charley Gamage seconded him
and the ladies took the floor and
mostly held it thenceforth till way
past poor non-musical mortaPs bed
time; and this is how it went:
Bohemian Girl-allegorical panto-
mine-wouderful pageant = gypsy
ostumes-Farner-u them for back
voice-wonderfu voice
echnique-execution- -execrable taste
voice placement-Geraldine Farrar
no figure-Vera Newcomer-clear
,one-Pavlowa-Mary Clark-ecstatic
lances-red hair-no, auburn hair
lureolic effect-spotlight-Miss APP
,el-queens-kings nobody seemed
o hold aces gypsy dances-knives
Gamage-Dukes-o
ration-Mary Garden-tights-veils
the symbolism of sound-pantomi-
nical allegorical another
,iece of cake, Doc?-you've had
nough, Fred!-more costumes cou
lie more veils-dances too stiffly-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - colorful-a
at neutrality-suspicious. again
1ou Burton - chromatic scales
harps when excited-a life spent be-
ng sensitive-tonics- night!"
What it all means l don't know, ex-
ept that around about the 5th day of
april, barring accidents and another
amendment, Emmett's
alented and other musicians (my law
er advises the qualification will
ender the allegorical pantomine en-
tiled "The Bohemian Grip, at the
liberty Theatre, before a large and
ppreclative audience of music lovers
Get set, folks, you don't want to
liss this. The management have al
sady decided that because of the high
ost of cosmetics, that no second rem
ition of this opera will be made for
lie benefit of the people so unlucky
8 not to be able to get in the theatre
IT the first and only performance So
ct 'em early.