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Updated: July 21, 2025
In the autumn of 1748 a company of Italian comic-opera singers came over to London; they brought an entirely new type of entertainment, and after their success Handelian opera was buried for ever. "What the English like is something that they can beat time to," said Handel to Gluck.
Many persons, not being able to take into the mind and analyze a character like Courtlandt's, sought the line of least resistance for their understanding, and built some precious exploits which included dusky island-princesses, diaphanous dancers, and comic-opera stars.
"Have it known," shouted the judge, "in this town and all over the county, and all over the Supreme Court district, as it would be in another week, that I had gone to John Culver and got a job in his hotel the hotel where I go myself, three times a day for a girl who got left behind by a stranded comic-opera company? Now can't you see? I'm coming up for re-election in two years."
He began again: "You know they are peasants, real, not sham, comic-opera peasants." She smiled. "I know it, you have told me often enough." "We shall be very uncomfortable. There is only a straw bed in my room; they do not know what hair mattresses are at Canteleu." She seemed delighted. "So much the better.
She lifted her calm eyes at them so haughtily that the one in front halted with sudden embarrassment and they all swerved to another table from which they stared at her surreptitiously. Perhaps she was mistaken for the comic-opera star whose brilliant picture she had seen on a bill board in front of the "opera house."
How well I remembered the last time that I had seen those gallant riders, the pick and flower of the Belgian army, their comic-opera uniforms yellow with dust, crouching behind the hedgerows on the road to Alost, a pitifully thin screen of them, holding off the Germans while their weary comrades tramped northward into Flanders on the great retreat.
The Marquess was very nice about it, and said he didn't want any of Dyckman's dirty money. But Kedzie thought of life in England with alarm, especially as she had the American comic-opera idea that all foreign peers are penniless. She dreaded to think what might happen in that three months' interregnum between husband II and husband III. Enough was happening in the rest of the world.
All the velvet was unconsciously out in Lilly's voice coping with the Dupree extravagance of manner. "Do you accept them as young as four weeks, Mrs. Dupree?" "Bless you, dearie, the three weeks' duckie darling of Cissie de Veaux is our youngest at present." "The comic-opera Cissie de Veaux?"
"Admiral Abeuchapeta, Sir Henry," interposed Kidd, fearing a further outbreak of hostilities "Admiral Abeuchapeta was the terror of the seas in the seventh century, and what he undertook to do he did, and his piratical enterprises were carried on on a scale of magnificence which is without parallel off the comic-opera stage.
The Bulgarians, in short, are simple, and what the Rumanians would call "serieux" you must abandon all notion of finding here anything like the little comic-opera kingdoms invented by some of our novelists. It was in Bulgaria, as I recall it, that Mr.
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