San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13

; are not averse to the idea. The de,
spair Of the dead King upon finding
his punishment failure, is SO great
that he dies again. But Gurglehanser
cannot tarry with his bride, he must
be off to find the lost VOW. Believing
he will never return, she sings herself
to death. Just at the last verse Cur
glehansen returns, the vow in one
hand, a reprieve in the other and joins
his dying wife in one last close
agony, too late"
Well, this was a great help in un-
Outstanding the show that followed.
or would Of been If only we could of
told just whereabouts in the story we
had got to. First one would sing
and then another, but nothing much
seemed to happen, except the ladies'
wore old fashioned long white night
gowns, and the mems suits was made
up. or so it seemed, from the tinware
dept. of the Five and Dime store.
LOOKING THEM OVER.
So after a while / give up trying
to digest too much of it, and took to
looking at the performers through the
opera-glasses which We had brought in
order to appear perfectly familiar with
the customs of the higher forms of
entertainment. Not that really need
ed glasses in order to see them women
plain. Hot Bozo, they was plain
enough any ways you looked at them,
and large enough, zoo, to be perfectly
visible. But the glasses went well for
the tenor, he being Y portion, all but
the voice,
Well, we sat and sat and sat, and
the opera went on and on and on,
getting less grand by the minute SO
far as personally was concerned.
But at the price 1 was fully deter
mined to get all could out of it, and
1 had read somewheres that at the
opera a person should not alone listen
to the voices, they should also attend
carefully to the orchestra and try to
make out the separate instruments
and the sounds they was making. So
when was fed up with everything
else, it being too dark to read the
ads in the programme, why tried this
stunt and it sure worked great.
could make out the violins easy.
and the trumpets and the drums. Aft
er a little hard listening i could even
make out the sound of the flutes and
follow their tunes, but there was one
instrument which / couldn't make out
what it was. although could hear it
plain. 1t was n deep, steady sound,
very regular, keeping up persistently
under all the other noise. II had a
resonant kind of quality, and the fun
ny part Of it was that while I couldn't
at first place it. it was perfectly IA
miilar to me. / thought maybe it was
the bass viols, and cooked nv ear
to them. but no, was wrong again.
and then I turned to Geo. to ask
him what did he think it was, and as
/ done so placed the sound. 1t wa,
Geo. snoring.
ALL OVER But SHOUTING.
Well. when ii was all over. and we
come staggering out into the lobby,
who would we run into only Mrs.
Goofnah, the lady who was to blame
for all this.
Well, my dear. she says, how did
you like it, wasn't it wonderful? Yes
indeed my dear, says, wonderful is
certainly correct, such a marvellous
performance, it was a experience,
really.
Mrs. Goofnah beamed, and picked
onto George. And how did you feel
about it. Mr.. Jules? She says. My
dear lady, words cannot express my
feelings! says George. And Mrs. Goot-
nah beamed again. Well then, do
hope you are conner take a coupla
subscriptions for the season. She
says. Oh my dearl I says at once,
how / wisht we could afford it, but
that Is out Of the question. You see
and George are getting big new radio
set where we can get lot Of culture
at home and the dishes washed at the
same time. and we can't 30 in for any
thing more. For my part, from now or
I'm perfectly content to take my opera
sight unseenl
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