5/15 "If you will excuse me--" _Schenck_. "I will go behind the scenes and check him in his wild career." _Schenck_. "Poopen-arty ta-tarty-arty poopen-a-a-a-arty tat-tat-ta-tarty." Then _King John_ disappeared and a scuffle was heard, with some violent expressions in the German language. Ten minutes later a gentleman from the Fatherland might have been seen standing on the pavement in front of the theatre with a bugle under his arm and a handkerchief to his bleeding nose, wondering what on earth was the matter. |