OPERATIC REALISM.
The loyely prims donna addresses the itranger in larendar silk tights, gold and drab jacket, and Charles the second hat: " Speak, who art thou, Wanderer in these rustic haunts ? " The Granger, tbe gallant tenor, replies: "Listen, lady, I will tell thee," and then, turning from her, rushes forward, and, tossing his head upon one side, shoots to a man in the second tier of boxes: " I've been a rover over the sea, Far I've wandered wild arid free," and then, glancing down, he singles out and tells three ladi«s and two children in the parquet that he has also been a " ro-o-o-o-ver "oerthesee—oerthesee !—the see-e-ee," and, for fear-it may not be known, he "hollers" to a couple of newsboys who are jammed into the front row in the gallery that he has wandered 11 wild and free—wildan—free e-ee-e-e-e," with that long-sustained, high-tenor note, till you wonder if he were " bosun " or first mate, amid the applause which follows, and how the deuce he "ro»es" at sea in that gilt jacket and silk tights.— San Francisco News Letter.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3117, 13 February 1879, Page 3
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179OPERATIC REALISM. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3117, 13 February 1879, Page 3
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