Show cheese brought the tears christine nilsson and S gnor tag lla pietra at one time member co of the grand opera company at the academy of music new york city figured in an episode a la 1 ambur ger says a writer in lippincott s most inappropriate in consideration of their nationalities ona evening faust as the opera scheduled to be given nilsson the marguerite the late del puente alter rating baritone the valentine and so on was off and had invited some german friends to a small and late at the then famous old restaurant in east four leeoth street As he dinner was drawing to a loae the singer found the feast jacking in what he consid ered the essential limburger cheese for his guests and ascer could noti supply them wath i rushed forth to an establish ment in the vicinity where heair chased a quantity and was returning therewith when he ran ined the arma of the impresario who was tearing about distractedly to find him come quickly tag del puente 1 as been taken ill he gasped the curtain is up and there Is ho one to finish the part of alentine from the proving vain he was obliged to hasten to the academy where depositing the cheese in a corner ol 01 his dress ing room he donned his costume and dispatching a note to his friends at the restaurant to keep it up until he was dead when he would rejoin tl em ie answered his call and went on the stage before api earing for his death scene bethought him of his purchase and to his dismay di covered that members of the chorus had demolished half of it during his abonce from the room at white heat of anger over the theft he seized what remained and before he could fand a sate hiding place for it his call came so jam ming the limburger within the breast of his doublet he rushed on during his death agonies marguer ite throws herself prone across her brothers body bending over branti cally to kiss him the audience said nilsson had never acted the part so realistically little dreaming when she raised herself so suddenly and faced them with that horrified expression and tear streaming eyes which they naturally ascribed to a passion of re morse were merely due to a too clasa contact with the baritones bary tones limburger cheese |