Life — February 4, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE « 113 Mine brudder Dam. roose, he is not in it, eh? Py him, he gives der interpretatiousness of der Vogner motiveness, but py me is der Grand Opera itself, eh? Also I blay on der cash regisder, like Vogner, is it? Dot Committee, yot commits tings, come by der Irving Place Theatre vere vas I, un say for me to come un er people make tired py Vogner. Un I done it, ain’t it? Some tay py un py, maype alretty, who knows? der Sherman opera may der pack seat take, put not py me un Vogner. Ve stick py together closer dan a brudder, eh? un der people make so mooch more tired, I don’t think, I puff myselluf vith pride up, is it? un say all of it I know, vich is ME un Vogner, py Himmel. Who comes der Italian moosic for, py me un Vogner? Nopody vas I yesterday, put boom! boom! alretty to-day, - : ain't it? 2 are ME un Vogner to-day. Hooray! Py Jiminy ! * Also I lay on der cash regisder.” Heart to Heart Talks. By Cox Vocyentep. Tom Masson, ar Leetle Poys un Gyruls: Did you, alretty, hear of von leetle man, py name pronouncimus Vogner? Vell, Py Jiminy un Himmel, dot is ME. ME un Vogner, vos is almost like Vogner un me, only it is not so mooch alike as is, alretty. Iam myselluf, yon leetle Dootchman, un about me no one knows yesterday, I don’t think. But to-day, vich is of yesterday not the same, alretty de vorld knows mooch moro of mineself than of Vogner yesterday, eb? Yesterday, who vasI? I don’t know, yet, alretty, so mooch as to-day Iam Vogner is principally and also yet man vat I am, vic er py der Grand Opera. Yesterday I don’t amoont to mooch, is it? But to-day Parsifal un me have into " der vorld come together. Ve are, vat you call ‘em? twins, Parsifal un ime, eh? ‘steer No MopE! comicbooks.com