GRAND OPERA'S LIGHTER SIDE
■ The lighter side of grand opera provided Mr. Harrison Cook with an almost inexhaustible store of stories for the talk he gave today to Rotarians at their weekly luncheon. Stories concerning principals, critics; composers, and accidents kept his audience perpetually simmering. One which provoked most laughter was about a performance of "Faust." At the close of the opera a trap-door was supposed to lower Mephistopheles» and Faust gently into the nether regions (indicated by a plentiful supply of smoke and red light coming up through the trap). Unfortunately, when the trap had lowered them only a foot or two, it stuck and stuck firmly. A voice from the gallery: "Hurrah, boys! Hell's full," brought the house down.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 10
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121GRAND OPERA'S LIGHTER SIDE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 10
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