Very Disappointed with the Opera.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue IX, 1 September 1900, Page 385

Very Disappointed with the Opera.

The man sitting next to him noticed that the bald-headed person with the red necktie was getting decidedly nervous. Presently, in the middle of a magnificent quintet, the bald-headed man turned round and said: “I say!” “Well?” was the reply, accompanied by a hardly concealed frown. “What kind of a show is this?” “This? Why, this is ” The singing was so beautiful just then that he stopped and whispered “Hush! ’Sh!” The other went on: “Ain’t there no comic song coming along- presently?” For answer there was a shake of the head. “Nobody in a house on fire and escape by the skin of his teeth?” “No.” “No horse race?” “No.” “When does the song and dance aet. come on? What sort of artistes have they here? I come to London to-day and asked a fellar what was the best show in town, and he told me this was it. And I’ve been sitting here an hour, an’ they ain’t done a thing lint shout, and weep, and run about like beetles trying to turn right side up. ’Taint like any show ever I have seen! Whatever is it, anyway?” Hut the other man had moved away to where he could hear the music without interruption. The baldheaded man hailed an usher. “Any acrobatic performance in this?”' he asked. The usher shook his head. “Any clog-dancing?” ■ “No.” “Well, then,” said the bald-headed man, reaching for his hat, “I reckon I've been had,”