Somebody or other complained of my writing "GLU:CK" instead of "GLUCK," He
didn't like the two dots; one too many for the poor chap, already in his
dotage, so to relieve him and soothe him, I'll write it "GLUCK," and then
he can go to the proprietor of "DAVIDSON'S Libretto Books" and ask him to
take the dotlets off the "U:" in GLU:CK. I wonder if my
strongly-spectacle'd fault-finder writes the name of HANDEL correctly? I
dare say so correct a person never falls into any sort of error; or if he
does, never admits it. I like it done down to dots, as "HA:NDEL," myself;
it looks so uncommonly learned.
_Saturday._--_Tannhaeuser._ Full and appreciative house to welcome the
_rentree_ of Madame ALBANI, who was simply perfection and the perfection of
simplicity as the self-sacrificing heroine _Elizabeth_. From a certain
Wagnerian-moral point of view, no better impersonator,--dramatically at
least, if not operatically,--of the sensual Falstaffian Knight could be
found than Signer PEROTTI; and, from every point of view, no finer
representation of the Cyprian Venus than Mlle.
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