A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . owed from an orderly. In passages where A Venetian Vignette did not awe the audience it at least amusedit. Owing to an eleventh-hour timidity onthe part of two of our Italians I had to touchthe light guitar and raise my voice in apparentsong, while off, Lieut. Calvi, with pianomuted with newspapers, and Lieut. Lazarri,with distended larynx, supplied the actuahties, 1and this with such success that the manynew-comers among the audience, knowingneither Joseph nor Lazarri, were deceived,and I receive
A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . owed from an orderly. In passages where A Venetian Vignette did not awe the audience it at least amusedit. Owing to an eleventh-hour timidity onthe part of two of our Italians I had to touchthe light guitar and raise my voice in apparentsong, while off, Lieut. Calvi, with pianomuted with newspapers, and Lieut. Lazarri,with distended larynx, supplied the actuahties, 1and this with such success that the manynew-comers among the audience, knowingneither Joseph nor Lazarri, were deceived,and I received a very ill-deserved ovation forToseUis Serenade. The Portuguese Captain Teixeira, whohad wonderful imitative faculties, so thattwice I have seen him hypnotize youngbirds to within a few inches of his hand, asa nightingale off, trilled with aU thepassion of all the love songs that have beensung since the world began —an interpola-tion made by the dramatist in his dialogueto permit of an effect so original! Noisesoff toUed the bell—^the great kitchenpoker—^which was intended to warn the. PADRE AS PLAYWRIGHT 71 lovers of the fleet passage of the hour, justabout five minutes behind time, making histhus tardy entry on the principle thatnothing be lost. Lieut. H., who had taken part in bull-fighting in Southern America, gave me thecoup de grace in his own fashion, betweenthe shoulder blades, and, judging by theforce, with a momentary forgetting of thefact that he was only in Southern a Mio Dio ! lo sono morto ! forthe sake of local colom^ing, I and the curtainfell almost simultaneously. The Secret: A Shudder in 3 Scenes,was probably most memorable from thesecret fact that it secured me a few inchesof forbidden candle, which I used in sur-reptitious reading after lights out forsome nights after. The Brigand : a MusicalAbsurdity, written by a versatile RomanCathohc padre, was apparently sufficientlyrealistic to procure me the first visit nextmorning from an officer
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