Life — March 17, 1921 — page 12: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Words and Music (Scene: At any performance of “ Pagliacci.”) “— JO sono il Prologo, Poiché in iscena ancor—” “don't understand how they do it. Why, Sam says every- bedy down in the Street knows that her husband hasn't made any money since last—” “—e,a voi di nw inviami. Ma non per divi come pria—” “—absolutely gray, the hairdresser told me so herself. She goes and has it done over every two weeks. She has to spend almost the whole day at the hairdresser’s, They leave the henna on for—” “—sol che artista ¢ un uomo e che per gli uomini scrivere—” “—never could find anything to admire in her type. Now I like a face that has something to it, I always say—” “—ed ei con vere lacrime sorisse, e i singhozzi il tempo—” “went to school with my sister-in-law’s sister (and she must be nearly forty) and was two or three classes ahead of her. So you can figure it out for—" “—wvedrete de I’ odio i tristi frutti—” —just baked potatoes and buttermilk, and took electrical ‘treatments, and reduced thirty pounds in two weeks. That’s what gave her that awfully drawn look around the—” “—pruttusto che le nostre povere gabbane d’ istrioni— “—heard some people simply rave about the way she dresses, but I've always felt, myself, that a woman ought to have a little more privacy—” “—poiché noi siam uomini di carne ¢ d’ ossa—" “—keep their motors in the same garage we do ours, and their chauffeur told Stevens that there wasn't a night but what he had to help her husband up to the front door and—” “—all pari do voi spiriamo l'aere—” “—as broad-minded as the next one, but I do think there is such a thing as going too far. For gocdness’ sake, when you tell this don’t tell who told you, but I was told by someone who happened to be right there at the time, that, last Fall at White Sulphur, she used to—” “—Andiamo, Incominciate!” Dorothy Parker. comicbooks.com