Life — February 11, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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*LIPE* 149 Grand Opera. PPHE initial performance of Bungtreiber’s opera, “Cromwell,” was a great artistic success. Herr Schuper in the title réle scored an instan- taneous hit. His bass solo, ** Paint in the Wart,’’ was greeted with frantic applause. Herr Blatwurst’s Milton left nothing to be desired. After the difficult scene, where the blind poet dictates fifteen hundred hexameter lines on one note without taking breath, Herr Blutwurst was called before the curtain, Signor Blimblambo sang King Charles. His execution was admirable. The orchestra of nine hundred players with forty-seven conductors did its part quite acceptably. The scenery and costumes cost three million dollars. An Amended Criticism. “ -JQINKS'S play good? Nonsense. Binks's play is nothing but a little old French farce warmed over,” said Criticus. “You don’t mean warmed over, do you?" qneried Puristicus. “Cooled off would be more descriptive."’ Relief in Sight. i es important inference from the fact of the Pasteur Institute in Paris having brought on lockjaw in mice, rabbits and guinea-pigs by the action of radium on the nerve centers is, of course, the inference that radium can be made to give persons lockjaw, as well. To be sure, radium is an immensely expensive article, but we are an im- mensely rich people. Is it too much to expect, in the light of the experiments of the Pasteur Insti- tute, that radium will ultimately be used instead of gunpowder in the celebration of the Fourth of July, and the intolera- ble noise thus done away with? pore “BUT 1 DON'T WANT TO LOOK DOWN ON you.” AN OLD DUTCH TILE. comicbooks.com