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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-06 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

an old man who played bass viol. Early in the first act the light over the music the soldier and the old man were following went out; whereupon their playing did too. Between acts they got a new globe. Without a shade it was lighting up the whole house, until the soldier finally solved the difficulty by dropping his cap over it. The audience was made up largely of American officers and soldiers. This interested me. I couldn't fancy opera in a town of the same size at home, and I couldn't fancy it's being patronized much by the general type of fellows who were hearing it here. Ah, see what France is doing for them - Giving them culture, I thought. This think was somewhat changed this morning when I overheard a soldier describing the opera to another. "She was just going along soft and nice," he was saying, "and I was getting to sleep, when she lets out two awful shrieks and scared me till I couldn't

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an old man who played bass viol. Early in the first act the light over the music the soldier and the old man were following went out; whereupon their playing did too. Between acts they got a new globe. Without a shade it was lighting up the whole house, until the soldier finally solved the difficulty by dropping his cap over it. The audience was made up largely of American officers and soldiers. This interested me. I couldn't fancy opera in a town of the same size at home, and I couldn't fancy it's being patronized much by the general type of fellows who were hearing it here. Ah, see what France is doing for them - Giving them culture, I thought. This think was somewhat changed this morning when I overheard a soldier describing the opera to another. "She was just going along soft and nice," he was saying, "and I was getting to sleep, when she lets out two awful shrieks and scared me till I couldn't