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Ford's JTuveuile Optra CotapMf.Mi Wachtel, who stood at the door of the opera house lust night and relieved the people of their tickets aa they crowded in ana filled alt the available room, performed his duties with unusual dignity and deliberation. 'There was nothing grim about him, but he seemed to realize his responsibilities, He appeared to feel that, as the step-father of tour dozen hoya and girls, the eyes of the public were npou him, and he conducted himself accordingly He glanced at the tickets m they were tendered os one who should «eh and say; MAh, well! you are very smalt and very cheap to entitle ajierson to see such an entertainment as my babies give *’Uls not-too much to say that this was the verdict of the audience aa the curtain fell;.for itruust be conceded by even the most captious that the performance last night was one of the moat remarkable ever given in Afciau ta. Its effect ia simply indescribable, It* the hands of the little cMltlroti the burlesque opera or Pinafore assumes an idvllfc force and fervor that is not down in the books, it is sty.1 burlfesque, but of a aort so infinitely fresh and dainty, »o exquisitely piquant and embodies such lyric grace and sweetnesses to come upon the audience in the nature of a revelation. How refreshing it was to the habitues of the theater to behold these children step out of their every-seise this frayed opera in their pink fingers and lift it with their 9Weet young voices into the fair fields of romance.
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Atlanta Daily Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wed, Oct 29, 1879
Page 7
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William S.
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