Show Ins Inside i de Dope O On Z Aida A Aid ed Saturday Evening po roat oat t Story Gives Version of F Famous Famous Opera loper Inside dope on anthe the story Uia- Uia story and technique or of Aida Alda opera oper which will be produced on an the University of Utah campus campus' by tb the Musical se society so so- society clety Monday evening is la given In Inthe Inthe Inthe the story story Along ong Camp Ald Aida Alda by Sam Hellman In the Saturday Evening Post of February 13 13 The following extract Is reprinted reprint reprint- ed from that publication by cial permission of the editors The plots plot's not so easy to follow You start aut out In Egypt and the next thing yoU yon know the scene shifts to Memphis Tennessee and then across the river to Thebes Illinois One minute you got your toes In the Nile and the next you youre you're re wading In Inthe Inthe inthe the Mississippi The whole things thing's a kind klud of geographical lag Jag The story though I finds is is full ful of pash a couple of ot goofy gals tearing each others other's bobs out aut over overa a boy boy boyscout scout named Rhadames who's busy licking the with one hand band and singing duets with the other Like Hank told me the piece finishes up with Rhad and his sweetie Celeste being burled buried alive You just know they they're re being hurled burled alive aUve because they sing about It If It the stuff they pull In opera was to be carried out In real life a bimbo bim- bim bo with Inflammatory rheumatism would probably tell the world abo about t his sufferings by turning handsprings out aut on n the Ice In his hla birthday suit Besides the pelt of Aida Alda the book has a whole lot of hooey about how the piece come to be written by Gus Verdi and a discussion of the music In the pl play y comparing it with the work of Wagner Wagn r and an another and other big time tin and and Ivory bangers Most bf or it means means as much to me meas as as a wet fin does taa to ta toa toa a fish The scenes scene's opening in Memphis with a lot of soldiers and others sticking around like they were waiting waiting wait wait- ing for the it Robert bert E Lee I |