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W CHAMBERS II INSTALMENT 4 48 To Latimer whimsical In Insistence in- in she finally was wae obliged to admit admit admit ad ad- mit that her reasons for not liking Richard Strauss were because she thought him ugly uninspired and disreputable disreputable dis dis- dis r reputable which unexpected truism 1 practically stunned that harmless dilettante dilettante Ulet- Ulet tante and so 0 delighted Neville th that he was obliged to disguise his mirth with witha a scowl directed at the ceiling Did I say anything very dreadful Kelly she whispered when opportunity opportunity opportunity offered N No you darling r I couldn't keep a civil faco face when you told the truth about Richard Strauss to that rickety old sensualist I dont don't really reany know enough o tb criticise else cise anything But Mr would make me answer and one must sa say something Olaf DennIson without preliminary sat down at the piano tossed aside his heavy hair and gave a minute five-minute to the second act of his new opera Yvonne of or Bannalec The opera might as well wel have been called Mamie of Hoboken for tor all the music signified to Neville Mrs Willet Hind leaning over the chair where Valerie was seated whispered whispered whis whis- fervently it graphic The music describes describes describes de de- de- de scribes an old Breton peasant going to market You can hear the very click of his sabots and the gurgle of the cider in his jUg jus And that queer little stick slap-stick noise is where hes he's ing palms wish another peasant bargaining bargaining bargaining bar bar- gaining for tor hi his cider But where does Yvonne come In Inquired Valerie in soft bewilderment lies Yvonne's father whispered Mrs Willet Hind The girl doesn't appear during the en entire lre opera Its It's a marvelously important advance beyond the tonal and graphic of Richard Strauss Other earp earnest est and worthy p people ople consumed consumed con con- on Intervals of five minutes minutes' pow now and then a dis whom use whom Nevill insisted on calling a disease said disease said a acoy coy and rather dirty little French poem poem directly at her audience leeringly assisted as as assisted by an sophisticated over-sophisticated piano accompaniment If that's modernity its it's certainly naked and nervous enough commented comment comment- ed Neville Its Its It's Its It's perfectly horrid horrid murmured murmured mur mur- inured Valerie Valeri Valerie the the blush still lingering lingering linger linger- ing on cheek check and brow I X cant can't understand understand un un- un- un how Intelligent people can even even- think about such things Modernity repeated Neville Hello Hell theres there's the young apostle of Bruant who makes such sucha a hit with the elect How Kelly Realism New Now York and th the th spade business business- He saw a sign on a Bowery Bowery Bow Bow- store Gents Gents Pants Half ery cry clothing store Off Today and he wrote a poem on onIt onIt onit It and all Manhattan sat up up- and welcomed welcomed wel wel- corned him as a peerless realist and dear old Dean Williams compared him to Tolstoy and Ed Harrigan and there was the deuce to pay artistically and generally Listen t to the Yankee Stein Stein- len In minute five-minute verse dear Carillo rose glanced carelessly at his typewritten manuscript and anno Its title unconcernedly Mutts In Madison Square Square- A sodd sodden n tramp sits its scratching scratching- bench The S S. 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