One of the Critics
I hope the animal doesn’t pull any encore numbers that I don’t recognize. All of these people will buy the paper to-morrow morning just to find out what they have heard. It’s infernally embarrassing to have to ask the manager. The public expects a musical critic to be a sort of walking thematic catalogue. The public is an ass.
The Six Other Men
Oh, Lord! What a way to spend an afternoon!
A Hundred of the Women
I wonder if he’s as handsome as Paderewski.
Another Hundred of the Women
I wonder if he’s as gentlemanly as Josef Hofmann.
Still Another Hundred Women
I wonder if he’s as fascinating as De Pachmann.